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Editing Camtasia Videos
How to Edit and Enhance Your Videos in Camtasia Studio

Camtasia Studio has a ton of powerful ways to enhance your videos before you produce and share them with the world. 

In this department we'll show you step-by-step how to remove mistakes, adjust your audio and video, add graphics, title screens, transitions, zooming and panning, and a whole lot more.  It can seem daunting at first, but after watching these tutorials and practicing the techniques on your own projects, you'll quickly gain the skills to make polished videos with less effort!

Camtasia Fundamentals: The Camtasia Studio Tour
Chris Austin
Camtasia Fundamentals: The Camtasia Studio Tour
New to editing? There's no better place to start than at the beginning! This video will give you a solid overview of the Camtasia Studio application and the fundamentals of editing. You'll learn what file types can be used in Camtasia Studio and how to use them, what a project file is, how to assemble the pieces of your video, and all the areas of the Camtasia Studio interface. . . .
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Camtasia Fundamentals: Understanding the Timeline
Chris Austin
Camtasia Fundamentals: Understanding the Timeline
The timeline is where all the action happens... literally! In this video you'll learn about adding video, still pictures, music and more to your video and then how to manipulate those elements together or separately. You'll see how to use markers to assist in editing, keyboard shortcuts and more. . . .
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Camtasia Fundamentals: Cutting, Splitting, and Moving Things Around
Chris Austin
Camtasia Fundamentals: Cutting, Splitting, and Moving Things Around
One of the first editing skills to master is the fine art of cutting things from your video. In this video you'll learn how to do that in a variety of ways with a fine degree of precision. Among the not-so-obvious lessons will be how to cut certain elements from your video while leaving others intact at the same point in time. . . .
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Camtasia Fundamentals: Title Screens
Chris Austin
Camtasia Fundamentals: Title Screens
Title screens can do much more than just tell your viewers what's in your video. They can also be used for some simple special effects and to separate portions of your video. In this video you'll learn how to use the basic title screens, and how to customize them with your own logo or graphics. You'll even learn how to add special characters like copyright symbols to the text of your title screens. . . .
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Camtasia Fundamentals: Transitions
Chris Austin
Camtasia Fundamentals: Transitions
One of the easiest ways to add a professional feel to your videos is to use Transitions. In this video we'll take a look at how to use them, adjust them, and why they might not be showing up in your videos the way you might expect. . . .
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Camtasia Fundamentals: Create Sharper, More Engaging Videos with Zoom-n-Pan
Chris Austin
Camtasia Fundamentals: Create Sharper, More Engaging Videos with Zoom-n-Pan
Zoom-n-Pan is one feature that you simply must master to create professional quality videos. In this video you'll see how to use Zoom-n-Pan to maximum effect. However, there are some important considerations to keep in mind when using it, and there are even times when you want to avoid it altogether. . . .
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Camtasia Fundamentals: Callouts
Chris Austin
Camtasia Fundamentals: Callouts
Callouts give you the ability to put text and graphics on top of your video. This is one feature of Camtasia that has a ton of little details for you to be aware of to get the most from it. This video will show you the basics of callouts, then dive into some serious tips and tricks to help you create some interesting effects in your videos. . . .
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Create Interactive Videos with Clickable Hotspots
Chris Austin
Create Interactive Videos with Clickable Hotspots
One of the most powerful features of Camtasia is the ability to create clickable hotspots. In this video you'll see how to make your videos interactive and give your audience the ability to pull up web pages, navigate to a different part of your video, click a spot to continue the video and more. . . .
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Add Your Own Graphics to Your Videos with Custom Callouts
Chris Austin
Add Your Own Graphics to Your Videos with Custom Callouts
In this video you'll learn how to bring in your own graphics and lay them on top of your video. Know how and when to do this gives you some powerful editing capabilities that aren't immediately obvious, but are immediately useful. . . .
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Engage and Interact with Your Audience Using Flash Quizzes and Surveys
Chris Austin
Engage and Interact with Your Audience Using Flash Quizzes and Surveys
One of the best ways to keep the attention of your audience is to have them interact with your videos. Flash Quizzes and surveys give you a great way to do that. In this video you'll learn how to add quizzes and surveys to your videos and how to get the results returned to you. . . .
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How to Separate Your Audio and Video For Greater Editing Freedom

Normally your audio and video are directly linked to each other in Camtasia Studio. So if you want to adjust the timing of your audio, or eliminate some video while keeping the audio track, you'll have a hard time. In this video I'll show you how to solve that problem and enjoy some additional editing freedom. . . .
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How to Replace Your Video While Keeping Your Audio Intact
Chris Austin

Sometimes you want to replace the visual content of your project but keep the narration exactly the same. Unfortunately, it's not quite as easy as it sounds, and it's not very intuitive. In this video, I'll walk you through the process and show you how to do it. I'll even show you how to keep any callouts that you might have had in the video that you're replacing. . . .
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How to Crop and Resize Videos For Use in Other Projects
Chris Austin

Sometimes you want to capture just a portion of a video - like a person's face instead of their whole body - and then use it in another project. Camtasia doesn't have built-in tool for cropping videos. But that doesn't mean you can't do it! You just have to go through a few critical steps that I demonstrate in this video. If you're a fan of the Family Guy, you'll enjoy the sample video that I use, too. . . .
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Creating and Working with Picture-in-Picture Content in Camtasia Studio
Chris Austin

One of Camtasia's most powerful capabilities is it's ability to work with multiple videos simultaneously with it's Picture-in-Picture features. You can use it to create videos showing your presenter and the presentation side by side or one on top of the other. But that's just the beginning of what you can do. In this video you'll see how to use it, manipulate it, and produce it. It's a ton of fun, and extremely powerful. . . .
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Enhancing Your Audio: Fades, Noise Reduction, and More
Chris Austin

In a perfect world, every video would be recorded with pro quality audio equipment in a soundproof room. In my world, recordings often happen in classrooms, meeting rooms, over the phone with web meetings and so on. So I've come to love the audio enhancement tools that come with Camtasia. In this video you'll learn how to use them and other techniques to get better quality sound in your videos, even if your recording situation is less than ideal. . . .
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How to Add Closed Captions to Your Camtasia Video
Chris Austin

Closed Captions give you a great way to make your videos more accessible to a larger audience. It's also a great way to "localize" your videos for international usage, or in low bandwidth situations, do away with your audio track altogether. In this video I'll show you a neat technique that I use to make short transcription jobs easier, then how to add your transcript to your video for your viewers to read. . . .
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