Orientation to Camtasia
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Step1. Choose what to capture
Camtasia will “capture” anything that is on your
computer screen.
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PowerPoint presentations
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Web Sites
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Document
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Excel
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Pictures and graphics.
Camtasia cannot capture a streaming video.
Step 2. Prepare for Capture
Size your screens – if you are going to use several different screens,
size them before beginning capture.
Step 3. Script, or Narration?
Print your PowerPoint or other documents, and make notes or write your
script.
Step 4. Power
up Camtasia
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Choose “Start a New Project by Recording
the Screen”
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Select the Region to be captured.
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Select “Record Audio”
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Make sure your microphone has been found
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Adjust Audio
Step 5. Start
Recording
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Learn how to “Pause” – button or F9
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“Continue” when ready
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“Stop” when done.
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The video will automatically start.
Choose “save” to go on to editing, (see below) or “delete” to remove and
start over.
Step 6. Editing
When “save” is selected above, you will be asked to
select which folder you would like to use.
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Create a “new” folder on your desktop,
and call it “Camtasia Videos”
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Open that folder and create another “new”
folder and name it based on what the particular project is – “Chapter 1
Human Relations”, or “Welcome to BUSN125”.
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“Save” and you will see a dialog box that
asks if you would like to “edit” your video, or “produce” your video.
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Choose “edit” if you made a small audio
mistake that you wish to edit out, or if you want to split your video
into parts for easier viewing.
Step 7. Producing
To “produce” your video so you can post it to the
web, select “Produce Your Video” from the navigation bar on the left of
the “edit” screen.
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Use “Recommend My Production Settings”,
and select “Next” at the bottom.
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Select the radio button at the top that
you’d like to share your video on the web.
Note there are others ways to share your video, but we’ll talk
about those in future trainings.
Click “Next”.
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Select “Screen Recording” and “Voice
Narration”. Click “Next”.
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The next two screens determine the
quality of audio and video, and are preset with the slider controls to
the right of center, which is “better” quality.
This, however, is at the expenses of file size, so I usually put
the sliders dead center, and quality has been ok in my recordings.
Click “Next” in both screens after setting the slider controls.
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Skip the next screen by clicking “Next” –
we’ll use it some day if you want to add a picture-in-picture movie of
yourself talking, which greatly increases file size.
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In the next screen you name your video –
perhaps the same name you gave the un-edited version.
You also select the folder where you want it to be filed.
Remember you want to keep these files organized so you can find
them, even after you’ve created a hundred videos! Click “Finish”.
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You see a screen that gives you
information about your video.
Click “Next” and Camtasia will render your video and create the
required files.
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After the above has finished, you will
see a screen that asks if you want the files to be grouped in the
selected folder and opened following placement in the folder.
Click “Finish”.
Last updated:
September 03, 2009
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