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- As I add high resolution media affects transitions

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and all that kind of fun stuff to my project.

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Camtasia can begin to struggle to process

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all of that in real time.

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Making editing a tedious and hair-pulling experience.

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So let's check out a few ways to handle troublesome tracks

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and keep editing fun.

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My first tactic for dealing with this

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is to get my foundation editing done

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before I begin adding the shiny stuff.

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For this project that meant trimming up

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my live action video first.

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That's my bottom track here.

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My talking head video, my live action video

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whatever you want to call it.

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So I recommend starting there.

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Get your screencap, your talking head, your voiceover,

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whatever is your foundation track.

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Get that looking and sounding the way you want

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before adding call-outs, effects, graphics

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and all that kind of stuff.

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Because these can suck up a lot of processing power.

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Next trick is to simply disable a track.

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If my 4K video track is slowing things down,

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I can just click this little eyeball icon here

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and temporarily disable it.

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That way I can focus on these other tracks here.

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And I can, of course, reenable it at any time

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by clicking on the eyeball once again.

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Alternatively, I can solo a track

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by holding Alt on the keyboard

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while clicking the eyeball icon.

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If I want a solo track two,

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Alt on the keyboard, click the eyeball icon

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and now I can focus on just this one track.

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I can even solo multiple tracks

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while this sounds a tad counter-intuitive,

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you can do it.

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I can solo both this track.

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And if I repeat the process,

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Alt on the keyboard, eyeball icon,

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now just these two tracks are enabled.

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And when I'm ready, I can unsolo tracks

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by repeating the process,

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Alt on the keyboard, eyeball icon

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same deal with this track.

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You will of course want to make sure

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all of your tracks are enabled

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before rendering out your final project.

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So there are a couple of simple ways

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to handle troublesome tracks

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while you edit your project.