HANDS-ON ACTIVITY2

The intension of this folder, is to provide you with different projects for you to “play with” and try the different things that Camtasia offers without having to start from scratch.

There are 3 folders on the file that was sent to you. They are:

Queretaro 1, 2 and 3. They are the same project but with a little improvement each one of them. You have a small description of each one of them below.

There’s also a small description of the activities for what they can be useful for.

queretaro1.camproj

1.       It has just the images and the audio file on the Clip Bin

The Clip Bin holding the images and the audio for the project


Queretaro2.camproj

It has the audio and video files already in the timeline.

Camtasia's editor with the media files already on the timeline

If you play the video, you will listen a small bell chime every time that an image changes.

Activity Objective

Teaching you how to delete an existing audio clip

Outcome: Finish with a video without bell chimes

1.        Zoom in about 50%

2.       Start the video

3.       Pay attention to the audio track to locate the bell chime clip

4.       Select it by clicking on it

5.       To delete the clip, press the delete key on your keyboard or click on the scissors on the timeline toolbar

6.       After deleting the clip, select the clip on the left to align it with the one on the right.

7.       Repeat the same thing with the rest of them.

8.       Play the video to be sure that everything is ok


EXTRA Activity

Grab the script-qro.txt file that’s on the hands-on2 folder and do the captions.

Try the different options for doing them

Produce the video.

Queretaro3.camproj

This is the final project. It has no bell chimes on the audio. The captions are completed.

Camtasia's editor showing the porject with audio, video and captions

You can use it to understand something that is not clear for you.

To play to produce the video on different formats,

It can be useful to produce the video with the different caption options

To add callouts or keyframes,  among other things.