Camtasia: An Overview

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Camtasia An Overview
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Overview

• Capturing Web Navigation
• Importing PowerPoint Presentations
• Editing and Rendering Video
• More Features

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Camtasia Start new project

• Start out by choosing to start a new project.
• Click OK.

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Camtasia Selecting region
Click on region of the screen.
Drag the cursor over the page to select area to
be recorded.
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Camtasia Choose audio record
Choose audio format and post-recording
options. Then you are ready to record your web
navigation.
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Camtasia Recording

• You can tell that this is recording because of
  the framing tabs in the corners of the screen.
  For ease of recording, you can click F9 to start
  recording and F10 to stop.

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Camtasia Saving and dragging

• Make sure to save the video (.avi)

Drag the video into the movie timeline. Then
save the video as a project file.
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Camtasia Importing PowerPoint Overview

• Save power point presentation as individual
  JPEGs
• Start new Camtasia project by importing files
• Move JPEGs into the timeline
• Add audio narration, call outs, transitions, or
  Flash Hot Spots as needed
• Proceed to Rendering Process

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Camtasia Getting Started
Select Start a new project by importing media
files
Browse for files as necessary
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Camtasia Inserting Images
Once you have all the JPEGs of PowerPoint slides
in your clip bin, drag drop them into the
timeline
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Camtasia Adding Extras

• Once you have your powerpoint slide JPEGs in the
  timeline you can use Camtasia features to add
• callouts with text
• narration
• adjust transitions
• Flash Hot Spots

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Camtasia - Rendering

• Click on the disk/film combo to render the video.

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Camtasia Choose video type

• Flash, streaming, etc.

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Camtasia Select size of video
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Camtasia Choose watermark
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Camtasia Save
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Camtasia Render encode

• Depending on how long your video is, this could
  take awhile.

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Camtasia Video

• Now the video is complete!

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Homework

• Use your knowledge of Camtasia to create a movie
  from either web navigation or power point
  presentation.
• Post your final product to your blog
• HAVE FUN!