How to create a course using Camtasia studio 8

Camtasia studio 8

Camtasia studio is a tool useful to create tutorials. It’s main function is to create and edit screenrecording videos.

This course shows:How to create a screenrecording videoHow to edit a videoHow to add a testHow to export the learning object in scorm formatHow to upload the learning object on the LMSHow to check the reports on the LMS

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Camtasia user interface is divided into 3 parts:On the right (a) there is a library containing all the clips we are using in the project, in the

center (b) we can see the preview of our project and down (c) there is the timeline

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Let’s see how to record a video.Click the button“Record the screen” ed start recording.

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The recording tool is very easy to use.To start recording click Rec. From that moment each action made into the recording area will be recorded and turned into a video.

Example: we turned of the webcam, activated the audio and set a customized recording area

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What You have to do before start:1 Select the recording area (highlighted with a green rectangle)2 Decide if the audio is on or off3 Decide if the webcam is on or off

When the recording is completed, You can see a preview and decide to save and edit the

project or delete it.

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This time we have decided to save and start the editing.

Our video is into the prewiev area (or canvas).The timeline shows two tracks: video and audio.

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Now we are able to add videos and other

multimedial stuff like images, audio tracks, text

boxes or callout.

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We added an highlighting effect and a text box. Each

element is included into the timeline and can be moved before or after another one.

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Click the play button on the navigation bar of the video

to see a preview of the learning object.

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To complete the first part of the tutorial we have imported an image (1)

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Than we have added it into the timeline, before the video (2)

In the end we have used a transition effect to move from the image to the video (3)

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In the next lesson we’ll see how to add a test into a learning object

Camtasia studio 8