
Corner rounding (new in Camtasia 2021) – Smooth out object corners.Colorize – Adds a subtle color effect to the clip.Color tint – Applies a color overlay to the video.
Color adjustment – Adjust the brightness, contrast and saturation of the clip. Clip speed – Either speed up or slow down a piece of video. Border – Adds a border around the video clip. There are 13 different video effects that you can use in Camtasia, these are: I’ll now go over each of these effect types. EffectsĬamtasia has quite a lot of video, audio and text effects that can be easily dropped onto the piece of media on the track. Just simply tell Camtasia the shortcut you want. So, if you state to use a keyboard shortcut in your video, you can show the keys on the screen. These are a selection of arrows and shapes that automatically animate as if they were being drawn.įinally, there are keystroke callouts available. Sketch motions are the annotations I use the most when I create video tutorials with Camtasia. The blur and highlight capabilities are handy when you want to block out part of a screen, for example, if your video involves you entering your email address, you can easily blur this out. Shapes are exactly that a selection of different shapes, including rectangles, stars and triangles. These annotations are great to use when wanting to emphasize movement on-screen. There are different arrow and line styles to use. These are useful to add key messages onto videos and to highlight regions of interest. There are 6 categories of annotations to use:Ĭallouts are a selection of arrows and speech clouds that have text inside them. If you’re creating video tutorials, then annotations are really useful to use to make your videos easy to follow. Instead of making a super large GIF of the whole screen, I only capture what I need. I use this feature often when I want to create a GIF of something. You simply draw a grid around what you want to record and only the content inside the grid will be captured. Or, there is a selection of screen dimensions to choose from, including widescreen 1080p HD (1920×1080).Īlternatively, if you only want to record a selection of your screen, you can do so.
You can, of course, capture and record your full computer screen. Note, the Toolbar has been simplified even further in the latest version of Camtasia.Īll that is required is that you select the area you want to record and your recording inputs (camera, microphone and system audio). Recording in Camtasia is controlled with the simple Recording Toolbar, which pops out of the software. I’ll now go over each of the above features in a bit more detail.