Options you have an hour to click on decide and then you get to decide if you want to start your recording in camtasia a new audio recording or a snagit image capture audiate is a separate paid.
Service but you get to try it for free for a few days so you can test it out and i'm going to cover it in a bit more detail later on so make sure you check that out to see if it's for you or not.
Snagit has been a part of techsmith for a while it's been a separate tool but you can access it now from here as well down here you get to see your recent projects and some templates that are.
Available for you take your time take a look at some of these because aside from these being templates they are mini projects that you can learn from now let's talk about one of the major.
See everything is organized by category and inside the categories you have a lot of different options here's an example of a fully adjustable animated callout you also get 33 new title templates like.
This one you can customize the text obviously to fit your tutorial now just to give you an idea on how some of these work let's test some of them out let's go to cursor animations and notice we.
Have a lot of different options our double click single click hand closed and so on if i open one of these let's go with arrow single click we get a different category for mac and windows.
Because the mouse icon looks different on a mac than on a window there are so many different effects you can choose from here's a very dramatic one so let's go and see how this looks i'm just going.
To click and drag this on my timeline it's giving a message about the frame rate i want to keep the project at 30 frames per second so i'm just going to go and continue on my timeline i already.
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Notice the mouse here didn't get captured properly and i really want to emphasize that the people should click on this icon.So i'm going to put this on top here but obviously i want it to be on this side and i don't need it to be so dramatically huge so let's scale this down.
And place it here now let's just play this to see how it looks that makes it really obvious what part people should click on let's do another.
Example this time we're going to take a look at setting up a device frame so if you scroll down and go to ui kit let's open that up we get devices and here we can choose.
From different types of devices i'm going to just select the first one for the laptop and drag it down here on the side here under properties i get a lot of different options for setting the.
Color and this is just a placeholder for my image or my track i'm gonna right click on it to import my file then select the file that i want and click on open it's going to.
Automatically place it on top of this device frame now obviously you might need to adjust the length of this as you see fit fits i'm just going to open this up this is the media that i added i can.
Drag this so that it's as long as i want or i can drag the entire grouped object to get everything to be the length that i need now aside from devices you have many different cool ui kits you can use.
Here's an example of my favorite one you might be wondering how to set this up it's super easy to do so let's quickly do it together i've just added a green board to my timeline i'm gonna go to.
Library scroll down to get to ui kit and
If you scroll down a bit more you're gonna see the notification box i'm gonna go with dark just click it and drag it and put it on top of my timeline i want.This to be the same size as the board so let's make the adjustment here under properties we get to adjust the text i'm just going to leave that as messages let's change this to my name and let's.
Also update this message as well i'm just going to leave the time as now let's click and drag this up so that it shows up on top but right now there is.
No effect i want it to slide in and out so i'm going to go to behaviors go to sliding click and drag and drop it on this notification box now the default of sliding is that it comes in from the.
Side i want to adjust that so let's go back to properties for in i want it to come from the top for during i don't need any special animation here so i'm going to go with none and for out it.
Should also go out from the top so this is how it looks the message comes on then the message goes out now here's a tip for pros if you want to make this even more cooler you can add motion blur.
To this go to visual effects scroll down to get to motion blur click and drop it here and this gives you a nice blurry motion effect like this one with camtasia 2022 you get to add.
Animated mouse movements to anything you want even still images so here for example i have a png i'm just going to drag and drop it here there is no mouse icon on this but what i want to do is to.
Add a mouse icon that points to get data up here and goes all the way down to the web we can do that with cursor effects let me just make this one a bit bigger.
So we can see everything better now we're going to jump over to cursor effects up here you see cursor path that's what we need we're going to click and drag and drop this on our timeline.
By default it already added something it added a mouse icon and it added this path now this line is not visible when i play this this is how it's going to look now we want something similar but we.
Want the path to start from here and end down here to adjust this click on the effect down here now it's activated and notice we see there is a point at the beginning and at the end these are the.
Yellow points that we see on the ends of these lines so we can click and just drag this up here so i want the first point to be under get data and for the second one.
I'm just going to click and click again so i can just move the end and the second one to be here now you have the ability to adjust this as you want let's say if i go like this and i press.
Play this is how it's going to look now i don't want this to be so curved and so weird so let's see the other options that we have if we select this under.
Properties we can adjust the line type we could make this straight and then if i play this that's how it's going to be now if you want it a bit more natural you can click anywhere inside so notice.
I'm on the timeline in the middle i see this icon that i click on and i can adjust it as i need i can also just go here directly on the cursor path right mouse click and add a cursor point and.
Adjust this as i need now if i click to decide and select everything i can change the entire path to become more curved so if i click on play.
That's how it's going to be now this is not really that natural but it's probably my natural way of moving down here you also have the options of how you want the cursor to ease so.
You have ease both in out and none some of these make the movement a bit more natural so just play around and see what works for you in addition to this you have the ability to make the icon a.
Lot bigger so notice the scaling is a two to five but you can go as big as you want and the great thing is it doesn't get pixelated because it's using a high vector graphic so when i press play this.
Is how it's going to look all of these cursor effects work with screencasts as well so here i have a screencast recording with all of my crazy mouse movements and i want to.
Optimize these movements i'm just going to right mouse click on my media and edit the cursor path i get the ability to either simplify the existing path or create a brand new one i'm just going to.
Go and simplify the existing one and click on continue now i can see the cursor pads all added here i get the ability to adjust these as i want to delete points to delete.
Entire cursor paths just select them and press the delete button and optimize these movements as i need you can see all my crazy mouse movements up here optimizing these allows my audience to.
Have a better experience and avoid them from getting unintentionally hypnotized with blend mode you get to create cinematic effects and really unforgettable tutorials here i have a.
Footage of a mysterious forest and i want to make it even more mysterious by adding some smoke to it so i have smoke recorded separately but it has a black background how can i mix these two.
Together to get the effect that i have in my head well let's try it out if i drag and drop my forest footage here this is how the forest footage looks if i grab smoke and put it on top of it.
This is what i get because my smoke footage has a black background it's blocking my forest footage i want to blend these two together so i'm going to go to visual effects go to blend mode.