Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 Tutorials
Starting a Project / Using Your Assets
Subtitles of the Movie (Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 / Starting a Project / Using Your Assets)
What I've done is, I've made a couple of screen recordings of the Form Builder program we looked at earlier on in this tutorial and I'm also going to bring in a JPEG still image of the VTC logo. Now do bear in mind that what I'm about to bring in, doesn't really exist on VTC's website, I'm only using this as an example. So don't go hunting around VTC's website, looking for a course on Form Builder, because at present it doesn't exist. It might well do in the future, but at the moment, at the time of authoring these tutorials for you, Form Builder as a course, does not exist on VTC's website. So that all said, let's bring in our assets, so I'll click on my Import Media Button and with my Assets Folder, there are my 2 screen recordings, the .CAMREC extensions there and also that VTC.JPEG. So if I select them all and then click on Open, then of course, there you'll see my 2 Camtasia recordings at the top in their category and the VTC JPEG in the Image Category. So I'll start of by bringing in the VTC JPEG file and one of the ways to do this is simply left-click on it and drag and drop down onto this area down here and this is the Timeline. So if I drag and drop there at the beginning and let go, then it does get placed on my Timeline, however, with this being the first asset that we bring into a brand new project, you are going to see this Editing Dimensions Dialog Box. And you are asked what size do you want your video to be? Essentially this is asking you when you have finished your project and you've got every asset in and you've trimmed and cut and added and whatever else you do, then once you produce the final video, what size do you want it to output at? Well, I want my dimensions to be 1024 by 768, so in the Drop Reveal there, then you'll see at the top, one of the options is 1024 by 768, i.e. the recording dimensions and that simply means Camtasia has analyzed this image file and found it to be 1024 by 768 dimensions. Therefore do you want to use that size? Well I do, alternatively, you'll see another category just underneath, Most Recent. Well the last project I ran through Camtasia was the same size, coincidentally, so I could choose any of those and once I do choose, then just to confirm, we can see my width is 1024 and my height is 768. So I'll simply click on OK and so now my image, this VTC screenshot is placed on the Timeline at the Editing Dimensions of 1024 by 768. Let me just zoom in, I'll click on the Zoom Button here and what I want to do now, is I want to bring in one of the screen recordings, Capture number 1. So I'll go to the end of my JPEG file, I'll click the Navigation Button over here to take me right to the end and then I'll come up to the Camtasia Recording File Section, simply left-click on my chosen file and drag down to the Timeline and let go. And instantly it snaps up against, without leaving a gap, it snaps up against the previous clip, in our case it was a JPEG. Okay. Let's bring in the other screen recording, so the same principle. I'll hit the Navigation Button here to go right to the end and this time, let me show you a different method. I'll right-click on the screen recording and choose the top option there, Add to Timeline and because my cursor is right at the end of my first screen recording, it's at that position it will be placed. So here goes, now you might have noticed in the Preview Area that this screen recording, Capture Number 2 doesn't seem to fill our screen in the same way as the JPEG and the Capture Number 1 screen recording did. If I navigate by clicking this button to go to the beginning of Capture number 1, you'll see what I mean. Well the reason is because I used the screen recordings size for Capture number 1 of 1024 by 768 and we can see this, if we come up to my Zoom-n-Pan Button here, click on there. Let me just scroll down a little bit, then here in my Scale Area, you'll see I'm zoomed in at 100 percent, i.e. actual size. And if I scroll down a little bit more, then you'll see actual size at 100 percent equates to a width of 1024 by a height of 768. However, if I use the Navigation and move to our second clip and then select it, then you'll see my scale size here is set to 70 percent, so I'm not quite at three quarters resolution. So if I zoom in to actual size, by changing this from 70 percent to 100 percent then you'll see the bounding box in the Preview over here on the left, the bounding box does zoom in accurately at the top and the bottom but at the sides we don't see the whole screen. This was done intentionally because my first clip, Screen Recording number 1, I wanted an overview so that we see the whole of the Form Builder program. However when we move to the second clip and I would have to use a Transition I think on the Timeline to make it look smooth, but on my second clip, I wanted to focus in on a certain area and the area is the area on the right. So let me move our bounding box over to the right, I'll left-click on it and drag it as far as it will go to the right, owing to the fact that I did this by hand. Then I will have to change my Y co-ordinate at the bottom here to 0, otherwise my bounding box will be creeping down at the bottom, showing a black strip, which is not really what I want. So by changing my Y co-ordinate here to 0, then I snap to the edges, let me just drag back up here again so that we can see this better and now if I look at my Preview Area over here on the right, then you can see that essentially, what appears to be happening is, I've zoomed in on a certain part of our Form Builder program okay? So let me just click on my Clip Bin Button once more, I don't need to see the Zoom-n-Pan any longer, so now just to see this in action, if I move my CTI here and the end of the first screen recording, then as you can see, once we render this out to be a finished movie, at this position, we see the whole of the Form Builder screen. Whereas when I drag over to the right and move onto the second screen recording, then it gives the impression of having zoomed in, but as I said a few moments ago, we would have to use a Transition to make this look smooth. Okay. So that's how we bring in our assets and how we use them when we start creating a project. Now if you are just starting Camtasia, rather than capturing areas of a screen, you're probably better simply to record at a 100 percent the whole program that you want to record. Okay. This way, as you are getting used to the program, you don't have to worry about zooming in and changing the percentage so that you can see it at a 100 percent. Right, I'm going to leave it here, so I'll see you in a moment or two.
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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