Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 Tutorials
Getting Started with Camtasia / Camtasia Player
Subtitles of the Movie (Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 / Getting Started with Camtasia / Camtasia Player)
In our last tutorial we saw how to present a Compilation Theatre project of more than one movie file and that's what Camtasia Theatre excels at. You could use it to display or present one movie but in my opinion, to do that would be unnecessary and moving towards overkill. It would be too much trouble when we simply want to view one movie. That doesn't mean we have no opportunity to play one movie, we do get the facility to play singular movies and that's by using Camtasia Player. We've already seen in an earlier tutorial how we open up all the different strands of the Camtasia Studio and we open up Camtasia Player using any of those methods that we've seen earlier from within Camtasia itself, then just go to the Tools Menu. Anyway, however you do open it up, when you do, it will display like this, once you have a movie open with it. Now here, rather confusingly, I've got the Menumaker tutorial that you saw earlier in this course and that tutorial is open within Camtasia Player. And the Camtasia Player as you can see, has quite a minimal User Interface, regardless of that, let's have a look around. Over at the top left, we can see these Navigation Buttons, Play, Pause, Stop, Beginning, Rewind, Forward and End. And just to the right there we've got a Timeline Indicator that displays where we are in terms of time along this duration line. It's easy enough to move it, I'll left-click it and drag to a new position, here for example or maybe here or even over here. Okay, easy enough to do. Notice over on the far right, we have some Volume Controls and to reveal these Volume Controls, we just simply click on the Speaker Icon and then we'll immediately see this vertical Volume Slider. When it's at the top, that means we are at full volume, when it's at the bottom and you move it to the bottom, left-click and drag it, when it is at the bottom, then that means the volume is set to silent. If you don't want to use the Volume Slider by the way, notice that Mute Checkbox there. If you click in it, then of course, you mute the audio. If I left-click and drag my Volume Slider right back up to the top, indicating that this would be full volume, then at the moment, despite this being set at full volume, we still wouldn't hear any playback, the playback would be silent owing to the checkbox there still being muted. So let's click in it again, once more, to uncheck it. Okay, now I'll just go back to the beginning by clicking on the Beginning Button here, now there aren't many other functions, but let's just go through what there is. We've got these Menu Buttons at the top, File, Play and Help. If I click on File, again, minimal amount of what we can do, but what we could do is we could Open up a File, we could Close a File that we've got open at the moment or Exit there, closes Camtasia Player down. If we click on the Play Menu Button, then we can see we have quite a number more options. For example, we've got Play stroke Pause, we've got Beginning, we've got Rewind, Forward and End. Clicking on any of those will take us to their namesake within your movie file. We've also got a Full Screen Option, we could Repeat and down at the bottom there, we've got a Volume Option and we could fly-out and choose to take the volume up, down or mute it. Lastly we've got the Help Menu Button, not much there, just the About Camtasia Player, clicking it displays this informational dialog about Camtasia Player. Okay. Have a good read through, once you're done, just click on OK to close it and its very simple to make Camtasia Player work of course, we just hit Play like this. -audio playing-. As I say, easy enough. You could also move the Time Indicator by left-clicking and dragging to another position -audio playing-. Okay, right well, that's pretty much it really about the Camtasia Player but it is a useful option when you simply want to play back one movie rather than going through the unnecessary trouble, if trouble is not too strong a word, by compiling a Theatre Project.
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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