Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 Tutorials
Getting Started with Camtasia / Camtasia Recorder
Subtitles of the Movie (Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 / Getting Started with Camtasia / Camtasia Recorder)
You'll appreciate that the first port of call when we want to create a Camtasia project focused on explaining aspects of software, such as Stylizer 5, the first port of call will, more than likely, be capturing your screen movements as you illustrate a specific function of the software. And of course, we do this by using Camtasia's Screen Recording Function, so that's what we'll look at during this tutorial. We'll have an overview look at the Recorder Function of Camtasia. Now one thing you're going to have to appreciate is, I'm not going to show you the Recorder in real time, well not all the time anyway, owing to the necessity to initially set it's parameters related to our project. Once you set the parameters specific to your screen capture, you have no way of adjusting them until you stop or pause the recording. So as a consequence this tutorial will comprise of a combination of various static screenshots, mixed in with some real screen recordings that I'll edit and enhance with Snagit 10 before bringing them back into Camtasia to deliver this tutorial to you concerning the Recorder. Confused? Imagine how I feel. Anyway let's get underway with our Recorder overview. You can open the Recorder a number of different ways, for example, you can do it right here, from within Camtasia by clicking on Tools and then rolling down to Studio Tools and then across to Camtasia Recorder okay? Perhaps that's the most obvious way. Alternatively, you can go down to your Start Button and navigate through your list of installed programs to the Camtasia Studio 7 folder, open it up and then inside, you'll find another folder called Applications. Well, if you open that one up, you can simply choose Camtasia Recorder and lastly the way I have my system set up, is by having just the Recorder pinned to my Task Bar down here, so that it's a simple click to fire it up when I want to record software. This has the advantage of not requiring you to open up Camtasia fully. Now this might be a consideration for you if you want to keep the CPU hit of your PC low and perhaps that's what I would suggest so that you get a clear, clean, jitter free screen recording. So once you have got it open, whichever way you have chosen, let's have an explore of the Camtasia Recorder and just so that we can see this clearly, without distraction, I've got the Recorder here open in isolation, simply recording a blank white screen. And seeing as this instance is recording this screen at present, you'll see under the Duration Area there, the amount of time it's been recording. Next to it is an Effects Section, where we can draw on the screen with ScreenDraw and next to that, is another option to Add Markers. These are 2 options we'll look at as we progress through the course. To the extreme right are 3 buttons to operate the Recorder, we have Delete and of course if it's clicked, everything recorded so far will be deleted. If you want to pause your screen capture, perhaps to have a gulp of coffee, then of course you would hit Pause and this retains all that you have recorded so far and once paused and subsequently restarted by clicking on the same button, the recording continues seamlessly. And the last button there, is the Stop Button, no doubt you can guess, clicking on there finishes your screen recording at that point and then making it available for you to take into your project. Notice across the top we have these Four Drop Reveal Menu Buttons, starting with Capture, where amongst other things, we have duplicated options such as Record, Stop and Delete as we've just spoken about. Note also at the bottom we can simply Record Audio should we just want to do that. Moving along we have the Effects Menu Drop Reveal Options and here we have the Annotation Area, Add System Stamp and Add Caption. Now essentially the Add System Stamp Function means you can add an overlay over the top of the screen recording that displays time and the date and date information and the elapsed recording time so far. You've probably seen this sort of thing on home movies, where you've got footage of your children running around the garden when they were two and you've got the date and the time embedded in the video. Well as you probably know, you can't remove that system stamp information from a video, in the same way, as you can't remove it once you've recorded it within Camtasia. So that's something to be aware of, you can't remove it afterwards. The Add Caption Option means you can do just that, add a caption to your screen recording at the time of recording, rather than afterwards. To be honest, the way I work, I prefer to add captions afterwards just in case something goes wrong with the screen recording and I don't want to have to do it all over again. Notice also that just underneath, if you want to artificially add the sound of your mouse clicking, you would click where it says Use Mouse Click Sounds. I tend to leave this off also but if you do want the sound of a mouse clicking artificially, then you would enable it there. Moving along to Tools, means we can choose to additionally open one of Camtasia's other functions, ie the Menumaker or Theater or Player or Screencast.com and right at the foot there, you can choose to display what Toolbars are viewable by clicking Recording Toolbars. Now as I said right at the beginning of this tutorial, it's tricky to show you these in action because when I choose any of these, the nature of the way the Screen Recorder operates, means it disappears from our screen recording, very frustrating. I'm trying to show you something about this Recorder but when I try to change anything, it disappears from view, as I say very frustrating when I'm trying to display this for you. Anyway, finally there's a Help Menu Drop Reveal at the end there which offers these Help Options. Okay, so that's a quick run through then, Camtasia's Recorder and the many functions that it offers.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 |
| Author: | Mark Struthers |
| SKU: | 34311 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-039-8 |
| Release Date: | 2012-03-31 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 92 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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