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Contents
Unit 1: General Introduction
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Camtasia Studio
- What Is Camtasia Studio?
- Can Camtasia Studio be used for usability?
- Can Camtasia Studio be used to record games?
- Is Camtasia Studio only for Windows? What about other platforms like Mac and Linux, and mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad?
- Is Camtasia Studio spyware?
- What’s New in Camtasia Studio 8?
- Footage Editing
- Track Attack!
- The Library
- Object Editing
- Visual Effects
- Object Properties
- Production enhancements
- Pink-slipped legacy features
- Smart Player on computers
- Smart Player on iPhone
- Footage Editing
- What Other Hardware and Software Do You Need?
- System Requirements
- Other Helpful Software
- What Is Camtasia Studio?
- Chapter 2: About This Book
- What You Can Expect to Find in Each Chapter
- A New Digital Edition Brings New Benefits
- Full-color, pop-out images
- Easy Navigation
- Printing
- Quickcasts
- About the Screenshots in This Book
- About the Terminology in This Book
- Formatting Conventions
- Hotkeys
- Special Sections
- Emphasis
- What You Can Expect to Find in Each Chapter
Unit II – Prep Work: Before your first Recording
- Chapter 3: Quick and Dirty Curriculum Design
- General Guidelines
- Know Your Audience
- Determine All Technical Specs Ahead of Time
- Tips for Making a Top-Notch Training Video
- Why Train with a Screencast?
- Know Your Video’s Purpose
- Learn the Basic Principles of Educational Multimedia
- People learn better when information is presented in bite-sized chunks (segmentation principle).
- People learn better when information is presented in a conversational style rather than a formal one (personalization principle).
- People learn better when on-screen text is presented near any corresponding images (spatial contiguity principle).
- People learn better when any extraneous information is removed (coherence principle).
- People learn better from animation and narration than animation with explanatory on-screen text (modality principle).
- People learn better when animation and narration are synchronized than when they’re asynchronous (temporal contiguity principle).
- The design of multimedia presentations can have different effects on people based on their prior knowledge, visual literacy, and spacial aptitude (individual differences principle).
- Recording Techniques for Training Videos
- Make Liberal Use of Attention-Getters
- Slow It Down
- Don’t Get Mired in the Details
- Set Specific Goals
- Tips for Making a Masterful Marketing Video
- Why Sell with a Screencast?
- Know Your Video’s Purpose
- Address the Customer’s Need
- Remember to Ask for the Sale
- Tips for Making a Dynamite Demonstration Video
- Why Present with a Screencast?
- Determining the Video’s Purpose
- Finding Information about Your Audience
- Additional Reading
- Training Videos
- Marketing Videos
- Demonstration Videos
- Summary
- General Guidelines
- Chapter 4: Scripting and Storyboarding
- General Tips on Scripting
- Gathering All the Pieces
- Avoiding the “Blank Page” Syndrome
- What to Write: Form and Content
- Make the Wording Audience-Appropriate
- Be Consistent in Your Terminology
- Possible Scripting Techniques
- General Tips on Storyboarding
- Choose a Presentation Layout You’re Comfortable With
- Storyboard Flow
- Multiple Image/Video Tracks
- Summary
- General Tips on Scripting
Unit III – Recording With Camtasia Studio
- Chapter 5: Recording Your Screen
- Making Your First Recording
- Setting Up Your Recording
- On Consistency: Capture Area Selection Revisited
- Choosing Which Streams to Include
- Audio
- Webcam
- Markers
- The Camtasia Recorder User Interface
- Adjusting Your View
- The Menu Bar
- Recording Games
- Recorder Workflow Tips
- Work from a Script
- Take the Time to Set Up Your Shot
- Don’t Mess with Your Windows
- Timing Is Everything
- Avoid the Scroll Wheel
- Pause when Needed
- Split Things Up
- Summary
- Other Tips
- Exercises
- Chapter 6: Special Effects of the Camtasia Recorder
- Annotation Effects
- System Stamps
- Captions
- Cursor Effects
- Mouse click sounds
- ScreenDraw
- Summary
- Exercises
- Annotation Effects
- Chapter 7: Recorder Tools Options
- The General Tab
- Help Options
- Capture Options
- Saving
- The Inputs Tab
- Frame Rate
- Video settings
- So, What’s a Codec, Anyway?
- The Compression Quality Slider
- What’s a Key Frame?
- Specifying the Data Rate
- Other Compression Options
- Selecting an Input: Audio Devices and Sources
- Selecting an Output: Audio Settings
- Webcam settings
- The Hotkeys Tab
- The Program Tab
- Recording region
- Workflow
- Minimize
- Summary
- Exercises
- The General Tab
- Chapter 8: Recording Your PowerPoint Presentation
- Why Record Your PowerPoint Presentations?
- Almost as Good as Being There
- Audio and Video
- Ink Annotations
- Portability
- Better Playback Control
- Interactive Features
- Security
- Capture of Third-Party Applications
- Camtasia Studio Add-In Toolbar
- Add-In Options Dialog
- Program Options
- Video and Audio Options
- Picture-in-Picture Options
- Record Hotkey Options
- Watermark Options
- Recording Your Presentation
- Moving Your Project to Camtasia Studio
- Playing Camtasia Studio Screencasts within PowerPoint
- Linking to Camtasia Player
- Troubleshooting the Add-In
- What If the Add-In Doesn’t Open?
- Summary
- Exercises
- Why Record Your PowerPoint Presentations?
Unit IV – Editing Within Camtasia Studio
- Chapter 9: Working with Camtasia Studio
- The Camtasia Studio User Interface
- Importing and Using Your Media Clips in Camtasia Studio
- Importing from Google Drive
- Importing from your Smartphone
- Utilizing the Clip Bin
- Previewing Your Clips
- Adding a Clip to the Timeline
- Adjusting Your Editing Dimensions
- Editing on the Timeline
- Viewing Your Work on the Timeline
- Previewing Your Content
- Basic Timeline Editing
- Moving Clips Around on the Timeline
- Selecting Content for Editing
- Selecting Entire Clips
- Zooming In and Out on the Timeline
- Trimming Content from the Timeline: Method 1
- Trimming Content from the Timeline: Method 2
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- Splitting a Clip
- Extending a Video Clip
- The Multi-Track Layout
- Adding new tracks
- Renaming and Viewing Tracks
- Locking Your Tracks
- Grouping Track Contents
- Deleting tracks
- Fun with Markers
- Moving, Deleting, and Synching to Markers
- Splitting Up Your Timeline Using Markers
- Viewing Your Work on the Timeline
- Saving Your Work
- Saving a Project
- AutoSave
- Creating or Opening a Project
- Importing or Exporting a Project
- Saving an Individual Video Frame
- Saving Just the Audio
- The Library
- Using Library Assets in Your Project
- Adding Timeline Elements to Your Library
- Managing Your Library
- Removing Library Assets
- Exporting and Importing Your Library Assets
- Summary
- Exercises
- Chapter 10: Working with Other Media: Audio, Camera Video, and Graphics
- Working with Audio
- The Voice Narration Tool
- Basic Editing of Your Audio Tracks
- The Audio Tab
- Recording System Sound
- Technique 1: Using Your Sound Card
- Technique 2: Total Recorder
- Technique 3: Creative Cabling
- Technique 4: Miking the Speaker (Not Recommended)
- Testing Out Your Settings
- Recording Camera Video
- Graphics
- Adjusting Visual Properties
- Animating Visual Properties
- Working with Audio
- Chapter 11: Editing Effects
- Callouts and Flash Hotspots
- Defining the Callout’s Shape
- Callout Shape Tools
- Adding Text
- Adjusting the Callout’s Properties
- Fade in and Fade out
- Adding a Flash Hotspot
- Text Box
- Opaque Text
- Zoom-n-Pan Effects
- Zooming
- Panning
- Managing Your Zoom-n-Pan Effects
- SmartFocus
- Transitions
- Adding a Transition
- Changing Your Mind
- Cursor Effects
- Captions
- Paste-n-Sync
- Synchronizing Your Caption Content
- Manual Addition and Organization of Caption Points
- Speech-to-Text
- Importing Captions
- Captioning Options
- Formatting Tips for Captions
- Paste-n-Sync
- Quizzing
- Managing Quizzes
- Summary
- Exercises
- Callouts and Flash Hotspots
Unit VI – Sharing Your Work with Others
- Chapter 12: The Production Process
- Common Production Elements
- File Format and Encoding Options
- Video Size Options
- Video Options
- Video Info
- SCORM Reporting
- Watermarks
- HTML
- Marker Options
- Produce Video
- Production Preview
- The File Formats
- File Formats: The Condensed Version
- Flash/HTML5 Output (MP4)
- Windows Media Video (WMV)
- QuickTime Movie (MOV)
- Audio Video Interleave Video File (AVI)
- iPod, iPhone, iTunes Compatible Video (M4V)
- Audio Only (MP3)
- Animation File (GIF)
- Flash/HTML5 Output (MP4)
- Flash / HTML5 Player Options
- Marker Options
- Flash/HTML5 File Structure
- Windows Media Video (WMV)
- Windows Media Encoding Options
- QuickTime Movie (MOV)
- QuickTime Encoding Options
- Audio Video Interleave File (AVI)
- AVI Encoding Options
- Prepping Your Videos for DVD Output
- iPod, iPhone, iTunes Compatible Video (M4V)
- iPod Encoding Options
- Audio Only (MP3)
- MP3 Audio Encoding Options
- Animation File (GIF)
- Animated GIF Encoding Options
- File Formats: The Condensed Version
- Custom Production Presets
- Sharing to Online Services
- Screencast.com
- Google Drive
- YouTube
- Summary
- Exercises
- Common Production Elements
- Chapter 13: CD-based Videos with Camtasia MenuMaker
- Getting Started with a New Project
- MenuMaker’s Main User Interface
- Main Menu Properties
- General Properties Tab
- Cursor Properties Tab
- List Properties Tab
- Content Properties Tab
- Button Properties Tab
- Submenus and the Map View
- Viewing Your Menus in Map View
- Adding and Removing Submenus
- Moving Content between Menus
- Project Properties
- Project Preferences
- Display Preferences
- Resources Preferences
- Project and Template Files
- The Final Step: Testing and Creating Your Menu
- Menu Creation
- Summary
- Exercises
- Chapter 14: Other Output Considerations
- SmartPlayer technology
- SmartPlayer for iOS
- Batch Production
- Creating a Production Preset
- Using Your Presets to Batch Produce
- Camtasia Player
- The Camtasia Player Interface
- Camtasia Player’s Command Line Parameters
- Summary
- Exercises
- SmartPlayer technology
Appendices – Where to go from here
- Appendix A: Equipment Buyer’s Guide
- Buying the Right Mic
- Microphone Type
- Directionality
- Buying Tips
- Microphone Accessories
- Microphone Cable
- Microphone Stand
- Pop Filter
- Monitors
- Buying the Right Preamp
- Analog Preamps
- Audio Interface Devices
- USB Microphones
- The Basics of Acoustic Treatment
- Buying the Right Video Camera
- Buying the Right Mic
- Appendix B: Getting Additional Help
- The Screencaster
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