- [Instructor] Camtasia's animations feature
is an excellent option for adding a bit of interest
to pretty much any clip.
Let's take it a step further
and animate multiple clips simultaneously.
Like I have here with this phone animation
from my demo project.
Now, if I pop open this group,
what I actually have are two separate clips.
I have this screen cap from my phone,
and below that a blank smartphone template
so let's reconstruct this.
Over here I have my two separate clips
and I want them to move together.
So the first thing I'm going to do is group them,
select both, right click, and group.
Now a nice feature with groups
is a group can be renamed to help keep things organized.
I'm going to go ahead and do that,
right click the group, choose rename group
and name it something that makes sense to you.
I'm going to call this one phone,
and now it's time to add my animation.
I'm going to pop open the animations button here,
and I like custom animations
you can experiment with any of these.
It is drag and drop the animation to your clip.
Now, custom animation doesn't actually look
like it's doing anything,
you have to actually tell it what to do.
So, I'm going to click on the end of the animation
and I'm going to add a bit of a tilt here.
I'm going to click in the Y area
and use the arrows on the keyboard.
Now it's going up really slow by decimals,
but if I hold down Shift, I go up by whole number.
So let's add a tilt about like that looks pretty good,
let's go with 23 degrees
and next I want to scale it up a little bit.
Let's go to 150%, then let's just kind of reposition this.
So I've got that area right in the middle of my canvas
and let's see how that worked out.
Looks good, but it's a bit long
so what I'm going to do is shorten the duration
by grabbing the end of this animation
and just shortening that.
You can see the duration there is getting shorter.
I'm going to put it at about 12 frames.
I could adjust this to go wherever I want on my clip.
Put it about right here, that looks pretty good.
And then over here,
I did a tilt and then I did a slow pullout.
So let's recreate that over here
with another custom animation.
Drag and drop that just after my first animation,
so they tie together,
and I'm going to just kind of reverse my tilt a bit here.
Let's back it up with the arrows,
hold down Shift, and I'm going to back it up
maybe down to 20 or 19.
And then I want the animation
to write out the rest of the clip.
Let's see how that looks.
Let me scrub through that,
it played back a little bit jerky.
We've got the tilt in, and then we've got a slow pull-out.
Now this grouped animation is controlling two clips
but it doesn't really matter
how many clips are in the group,
the animation controls the entire group.
If I pop open this mega group here, there's a lot going on.
I've got a ton of different clips,
I've got a bunch of different animations.
I've got groups inside of groups here,
I've got a lot going on in my mega group,
but I can still control the entire group
with a single animation.
I'll just go ahead and use one of the presets here,
let's do tilt left, drag it to my clip and watch this.
All of these clips are controlled with this one animation.
So to sum it up,
to animate any number of clips at the same time,
just group the clips you want to animate
then apply your animation or animations to the entire group.