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The circular talking head effect is one of the most popular overlays in tutorials, presentations, and vlogs. Instead of a rectangular camera feed taking up screen space, your face appears inside a clean circle that can float over any background. In Camtasia, there are two ways to achieve this — both
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You can rotate a video in Camtasia either by dragging the rotation handle or by typing exact degree values in the Properties panel. Here's how both methods work. Watch the full tutorial: Rotate Manually with the Handle Place your video on the timeline and click it to select
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The Picture in Picture (PIP) effect lets you show two videos at the same time — a smaller overlay on top of a larger background clip. It is one of the most useful techniques in Camtasia for tutorials, presentations, and reaction-style videos. This post walks through how to set up PIP
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In this Camtasia tutorial, you'll learn how to create an animated Halloween-themed title sequence from scratch.
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How to make a round progress bar indicator in Camtasia. This simple and quick tip for Camtasia will show you how easy it is to create a circle progress indicator for your projects. It's useful if you want to show how much longer a clip or section of
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How to create monotone or contone photos (monochromatic colour with black) in Xara Designer Pro X. This is a simple procedure using colour in Xara that allows you to take any photo and convert it into a monotone or contone photo, regardless of what colour it is when you start.
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How to create the Star Wars Intro Titles text that scrolls into space at the beginning of Star Wars Movies? In this Camtasia tutorial I walk you through the whole process to create these iconic opening credits and make them look as realistic and close to the original as possible.
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Camtasia 2021 includes a redesigned screen recorder but you can still use the old recorder in Camtasia 2021, if you want to access the missing features. The new recorder has some options missing, such as the settings for recording location, format, framerate, file naming and more. Thankfully, Techsmith shipped the
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How to create easy, reusable bullet points with Quick Properties and Customisations in Camtasia 2021. In this new version of Camtasia, you can use quick properties to add customisable fields and options for your assets. In this Camtasia video tutorial we create some bullet points you can reuse in your
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Have you lost your audio in Camtasia? How to restore the audio that you silenced - three methods to bring back or unmute the audio stream on a clip that has been muted or that you have used 'Silence audio' on. In this quick tip video I show
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This is how you can play a video inside a mobile phone frame in Camtasia - use any image from the internet of a phone or device frame, to mask it and show a video playing inside it, using a feature that was added in Camtasia 2021: Media Matte. You
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How to blur faces in Camtasia. In this quick tutorial for Camtasia we look at how to hide faces or blur them in videos and also how to track the movement of the faces and move the blur along with the face to make sure the face stays hidden for