Camtasia: Advanced Elearning Editing

2h 42mAdvanced2018-05-08

Authors

Corbin Anderson

Multimedia Producer and avid Videographer and Photographer

Course details

Camtasia offers specific editing tools for educators, trainers, and any elearning creator, allowing you to make and edit professional quality videos. In this course, take your editing skills to the next level by learning advanced techniques, including how to apply transitions, work with green screen footage, and create advanced animation. Editing audio is also covered, including how to fix background noise and make the volume level. Additionally, find out how to polish the color of the video, add closed captioning, and publish your final project.

Learning objectives
Adding transitions
Changing speed after recording
Removing or replacing a green screen
Reframing a shot
Creating advanced animations
Fixing audio gaps with room tone
Removing noise
Leveling volume
Including music
Adjusting color
Adding closed captioning
Publishing closed captions
Archiving an entire project

Skills covered

CamtasiaTechsmithE-Learning SoftwareTraining and EducationDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files
03 - The final project

1. Getting Ready to Edit

04 - Optimizing Camtasia
05 - Creating easy-to-edit copies
06 - Choosing preferences
07 - Hitting hotkeys
08 - Organizing assets
09 - Challenge - 1
10 - Solution 1

2. Editing Deep Dive 1

11 - Transitions best practices
12 - Animating blurs for privacy
13 - Bending the blur tool
14 - Making speed changes
15 - Creating a Camtasia-friendly cursor
16 - Animating the cursor
17 - Challenge 2
18 - Solution 2

3. Editing Deep Dive 2

19 - Removing a green screen
20 - Replacing a green screen
21 - Reframing a shot
22 - Creating advanced animations
23 - Saving library assets
24 - Drawing attention to an area
25 - Challenge 3
26 - Solution 3

4. Working with Audio

27 - Capturing room tone
28 - Fixing audio gaps with room tone
29 - Advanced noise removal
30 - Looking at loudness
31 - Advanced volume leveling
32 - Exporting audio to a third-party editor
33 - Making music work
34 - Challenge 4
35 - Solution 4

5. Polishing

36 - Adjusting color
37 - Gaining perspective
38 - Adding closed captioning
39 - Challenge 5
40 - Solution 5

6. Publishing

41 - Publishing closed captions
42 - Exploring publishing options
43 - Creating a custom production preset
44 - Batch production
45 - Archiving an entire project
46 - Challenge 6
47 - Solution 6

Conclusion

48 - Next steps