Camtasia Studio 4: The Definitive Guide (Wordware Applications Library)

Up to now, the exercises have been rather general and not geared toward a specific goal. That’s about to change. We’re going to create an actual video project using prerecorded clips. Our project is a tutorial about Camtasia MenuMaker. Since this project will be continued in subsequent chapters, it’s important to save your work.

1. Open Camtasia Studio, and import the different media files from the Chapter 9 media folder on the CD into your Clip Bin. Double- click each one to preview it.

2. Drag the seven image/video clips to the Timeline from your Clip Bin, starting with the even-numbered clips, and then the odd-numbered ones. After all the clips are on the Timeline, put them in numerical order.

3. Check the duration of the image clip. Unless you’ve played with the settings, the image’s length should default to 5 seconds.

4. Change the duration of the image clip to 10 seconds.

5. Drag your  narration.wav audio clip onto the Timeline. Its duration should match that of your Video track pretty much exactly.

6. In the clip  03.avi, there is a disconcerting pause at the end of the clip where nothing is really happening. Trim it out, from both the audio and video tracks.

7. Place markers at the beginning of each video clip (the AVI and CAMREC files). Name them thusly:

   •  01.avi: Choosing a template.

   •  03.avi: Adding files.

   •  04.camrec: Main Menu properties.

   •  05.avi: Testing out your video.

   •  06.camrec: Creating your menu.

   •  07.avi: Copying your project to CD.

   1. Save your file as MyProject.camproj.