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Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 Tutorials
Starting a Project / Importing and Organizing a Project
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I'm going to walk you through now how we Import our Assets into a Camtasia project and once our assets are in, then I'm going to look at how we organize them so that they display in this area here. Okay, let's get started. Now there are a couple of different ways of importing, here's one way. Come up to File and then roll down here to where it says Import Media, Control plus I being your shortcut. And this will naturally enough navigate you to a relevant folder where you will keep your different assets. Now if you want my advice, I would keep all my assets in one particular place, in one particular folder, rather than spread all over your hard drive. Having them in one place means that your PC, CPU doesn't have to work quite as hard as it would do, if all your assets were spread all over the place. Anyway as you can see, I've got this one folder here for this example and I'm going to bring in all of these six different types of assets. Now it's not necessary to do it any particular order but to start off, I'm going to bring in this first asset here, this AVI file, simple enough then, just select it and then come down here to Open. And now you'll see in this blank area here, where my assets will be collected, I've now added this one AVI file and automatically a Video Category has been created. I didn't have to create that, that was organized for me automatically by Camtasia. Camtasia recognizes that anything with a .AVI extension will of course, be a video and belongs in a Video Category. Right, another way to bring in our assets, click on the Import Media button just running along here to open up our same folder once more and this time rather than bringing an AVI file, I'll bring in a JPEG file, a photograph or a screenshot or an illustration, any static frame asset can be brought in too. So I'll click on this one and once more run down here and hit Open and as we would expect, there is our asset, this JPEG file and Camtasia has automatically organized and created a new category for me called Image. Right, let's go to Import Media once more and this time I'll go for this third file and this is a CAMREC Screen Recording, so this will be imported but neither as an image or a video file because it's a different type of asset. So I'll select it and hit Open and there it is and this time, categorized as Camtasia Recording File. Okay, so this is what happens when you import your assets into your Camtasia project. When you are looking at it in this view and we'll look at how we change this in a moment, but when we are looking at in the Thumbnail View, then Camtasia automatically organizes our assets for us, what a great time saver. Okay, let's hit Import Media once more and this time I'm going to bring in audio file, so I'll select this WAV file and hit Open and there it is, under a new category called Audio, here is my audio file, this Mono 002.WAV. In actual fact, this was one of the narrations files from an earlier tutorial. So one final time, let's go back up to Import Media and I'll select these 2 JPEG files and hit Open and as you can see, every time you bring in more assets then they'll either be brought in as a new category or if the category already exists, then they'll be inserted into the relevant category. Incidentally, if you want another way to import media, then just right-click in an empty area and there you'll see this pop-up and the top option there being Import Media. Well I haven't got any more assets to bring in for this example so I'll ignore it but it's there should you want it. From here, I want to show you something else that you can do to organize your project. If we look at our second option down, Remove Unused Clips. Well if I click on this and I will do in a moment, when I click on it, any assets that aren't being used within your project, get removed from within this Camtasia project. They don't get removed and deleted from your hard drive, they're just removed from this project. Now let me just differentiate between having assets here and having assets here and on our Timeline as part of a project. If we've not used them on a Timeline, building up a project, then they are still categorized as unused because they aren't as yet being used in your project. So because I haven't got any of these assets on my Timeline, all I've done is import them, then if I click here, Remove Unused Clips as I will now, then you'll see they all disappear from view. They've all been removed from this project. Let me bring them all back in again, I'll click on Import Media, I'll select the first one, the AVI file, I'll select the last one two, so that they all get selected and now I'll hit Open and as you can see, automatically they're brought in as they were a few moments ago. All categorized and organized within the relevant category. Now you might ask what is the purpose of this function, i.e. Removing Unused Media. Well it might well be that you've brought in 30, 40 different assets but only used half of them or rather than cluttering up your work area here with assets that you aren't actually using, then that is a great function to filter out, shall we say, removing anything you aren't using. Now as I alluded to a few moments ago, this is the Thumbnail View of our assets. If we want to change this, well right-click in an empty area and roll down to View and instead of having it selected at Thumbnails, come down and select the second option, Details. And this time, we still get the categories and we get our assets inside of our category, but rather than having a Thumbnail View, we'll just have a textual link and a list of what we've got involved in our project at the present time. If you want to take it back to the Thumbnail View, right-click again in an empty area, roll down to View and simply select Thumbnails once more. Finally, one last thing that I do want to look at, if you don't want to see your assets in categories, then right-click in an empty area once more and then roll down right to the bottom there, where it says Show in Groups, groups being Camtasia's word for categories. Then selecting it once more means all our assets, they still remain within our Project View here but they aren't categorized. I'm going to take it back to where we were, with a Thumbnail View, so I'll right-click in an empty area once more and then roll down to the bottom and select Show in Groups. Okay, so that's how we import our assets into our project and how we organize them, in fact, when I say we organize them, Camtasia does the organizing for us automatically. Right we'll leave it here and we'll move forward.
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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