Using Camtasia Transitions as Animations

 

http://www.screencapturevideo.com/monthlycoach - an excerpt from my Screencast Video Coaching Webinars. In the full replay session, I covered 3 types of animations in Camtasia 9. 1. Transitions 2. Using Behaviors 3. Custom Animations with Key Frames Camtasia has some really excellent features for doing animations in our video work. You can do quick & easy pre-configured motion with Behaviors or even very complex custom animations using animation key frames and make objects move almost any way you want. But both of those options involve some degree of monkeying around with parameters, timing, and can be quite a bit of work to pull off. DID YOU KNOW: That you can use the Transition effects to give the appearance of movement or "animation"? In this tutorial, I'll show you some top tips & tricks on how to do just that! Most folks think of "transitions" as an effect that is only used between video clips to do something cool during that transition... Try playing around with using Transition effects at the beginning & ends of all kinds of assets on the time line from Annotations, shapes, images, even text boxes! They are the simplest form of making stuff visually interesting. Enjoy!