Clip Stitching and Pasting Visual Properties
When Camtasia Studio 8 came out, a lot of dedicated were (perhaps justifiably) upset by the fact that the ability to copy and paste zoom points were suddenly gone without explanation.
When you come to rely on a  particular feature, and it becomes an integral part of your workflow, its sudden absence can be a little traumatizing.
This was compounded by the fact that cutting footage in version 8 actually split your clip into multiple ones. Suddenly, if you wanted to globally zoom in on the clip, you had to do it for every single tiny segment, with no copy & paste to help you out. This is a helpful little tute I created with the help of our super-bright boot campers, to show how the re-implemented copy & paste work in concert with the brand new clip stitching feature to make the laborious field-by-field editing of a clip’s visual properties a thing of the past.
Are there features or general screencasting processes you’d like help on? Drop a note in the comments, and perhaps it’ll be included in a future how-to tutorial…
July 17, 2013 @ 3:34 pm
Hi Daniel,
Great clip. Many thanks. Found that the background music was a bit too loud and interfered with what you had to say. Suggest that if you find background music a nice touch, please keep it further in the background.
Cheers,
Jim
July 17, 2013 @ 4:36 pm
Hi Jim, many thanks for the response. I don’t typically include background music in tutorials at all, but I was in the middle of the advanced boot camp and opted for a teaching moment. I actually polled the class on the volume of the music, and we then added audio points at the beginning and end to ratchet the audio down and up to coincide with the introduction and end of the narration. The level of the music was at 28% of its original volume throughout all the narrated segments. The level of the narration was kept at 100%.
Observe:
http://www.screencast.com/t/jzE3xXjBwFg
July 28, 2013 @ 1:01 pm
Daniel,
That was great thank you. Probably the most useful information I have seen on the upgrade delivered in such a short clip. Learned something on a couple of different levels. I wish I was in that class!
Patrick
July 30, 2013 @ 5:51 pm
Hi Patrick, thanks so much for the kind words. FYI, I just announced a half-off special for the next Boot Camp sessions in Irvine. But it’s only for the first five people to sign up. If you wanted to get into a class, now’s the time! -d.
October 8, 2013 @ 9:21 am
It would be really good if you could make some of the camrec files you use to make these teaching videos available for download. I learn best from studying how somebody did something…. the truth is in the camrec… and I can absorb it and tinker with it at my own pace until I understand how it got done….
Daniel…. you need to figure out how to offer on line classes…. segments no longer than an hour that teach some specific function. The technology is there… the payment system is there…. make it happen.
October 8, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
Hi Dustin:
I’m on it.
Creating my first for-sale training module as we speak. Can’t guarantee it’ll clock in under an hour, but I can promise that unlike a lot of other tech-books-in-video-form, it’ll be tightly scripted and won’t waste your time.
I’ll update the Screencaster list as it’s approaching availability.
November 18, 2013 @ 9:27 am
I just received this reducing time tidbit (which, by the way, enjoyed very much). I loved the background music as well. I also found it to be too loud. I realize you addressed this earlier with Jim Baird on July 17th of this year, I wanted to let you know I second his emotion. Thank you for the Screencaster tips.
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