1 00:00:00,005 --> 00:00:03,009 - In another video, we looked at capturing high res media. 2 00:00:03,009 --> 00:00:06,006 Now, let's take a look at some ways to take advantage 3 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:09,006 of those extra pixels to reframe your shot, 4 00:00:09,006 --> 00:00:13,001 or even create a multi-camera sequence. 5 00:00:13,001 --> 00:00:15,005 If I right click here in my canvas, 6 00:00:15,005 --> 00:00:17,002 and choose project settings, 7 00:00:17,002 --> 00:00:23,006 you can see I've got a standard 1920x1080 HD canvas. 8 00:00:23,006 --> 00:00:24,009 Then up here in my media bin, 9 00:00:24,009 --> 00:00:27,001 I've got this video clip I created 10 00:00:27,001 --> 00:00:29,000 and I shot it in 4K. 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,001 I'll go ahead and drag that to the timeline. 12 00:00:32,001 --> 00:00:34,000 Now over here in the properties panel, 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,002 Camtasia is letting me know that it has rescaled 14 00:00:37,002 --> 00:00:39,005 this video clip down to 50%, 15 00:00:39,005 --> 00:00:41,004 so that it fits on the canvas. 16 00:00:41,004 --> 00:00:44,008 The 4K video clip is a much higher resolution 17 00:00:44,008 --> 00:00:46,007 than my HD canvas. 18 00:00:46,007 --> 00:00:50,007 Now what this means for me is I can scale this up 19 00:00:50,007 --> 00:00:52,008 and create a new look. 20 00:00:52,008 --> 00:00:53,006 Like that. 21 00:00:53,006 --> 00:00:56,006 I could do it for the whole clop, or if I want to, 22 00:00:56,006 --> 00:00:58,001 I can chop it up into sections 23 00:00:58,001 --> 00:01:00,005 and create a multi-camera sequence. 24 00:01:00,005 --> 00:01:01,008 So let me know you how to do that. 25 00:01:01,008 --> 00:01:03,006 I'll reset this. 26 00:01:03,006 --> 00:01:06,000 And I'm going to use this rule of thirds graphic 27 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,004 that I created to help me out. 28 00:01:07,004 --> 00:01:09,007 I'll just drag that to the timeline, 29 00:01:09,007 --> 00:01:11,006 extend it for the duration of the clip, 30 00:01:11,006 --> 00:01:12,006 and then I'm going to lock it 31 00:01:12,006 --> 00:01:15,006 so I don't accidentally move it around. 32 00:01:15,006 --> 00:01:18,006 So let's create that multi-camera sequence. 33 00:01:18,006 --> 00:01:20,005 I'm going to zoom in here a bit, 34 00:01:20,005 --> 00:01:23,003 and let's start with a wide shot. 35 00:01:23,003 --> 00:01:24,004 And then about right here, 36 00:01:24,004 --> 00:01:27,000 I decide I want to do a nice tight shot. 37 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,008 I'm going to select the clip, 38 00:01:28,008 --> 00:01:31,009 S on the keyboard to split it. 39 00:01:31,009 --> 00:01:33,006 Let's go down a bit. 40 00:01:33,006 --> 00:01:36,003 Select the clip, S on the keyboard to split it. 41 00:01:36,003 --> 00:01:38,007 And for this section, I'm going to zoom in, 42 00:01:38,007 --> 00:01:41,003 let's say to 75%. 43 00:01:41,003 --> 00:01:44,005 Choose 75% here in the box, enter. 44 00:01:44,005 --> 00:01:46,000 And I'm going to reframe this. 45 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,005 Now, the rule of thirds is really more of a guideline. 46 00:01:50,005 --> 00:01:52,007 The idea is that you place your subject 47 00:01:52,007 --> 00:01:54,004 either on one of these intersections, 48 00:01:54,004 --> 00:01:56,005 or use the lines, and you can create 49 00:01:56,005 --> 00:01:59,002 an eye pleasing composition. 50 00:01:59,002 --> 00:02:01,000 Okay, so let's do another one here. 51 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:06,003 We've got our wide shot. 52 00:02:06,003 --> 00:02:07,003 We've got a tighter shot, 53 00:02:07,003 --> 00:02:09,000 and then we pop back to wide 54 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,008 and let's say down here a bit, let's create 55 00:02:10,008 --> 00:02:12,002 a super tight shot. 56 00:02:12,002 --> 00:02:14,000 I'm going to select the clip, 57 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,006 S on the keyboard. 58 00:02:16,006 --> 00:02:19,001 Move the play head down a bit, 59 00:02:19,001 --> 00:02:20,000 split it again, 60 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,005 and for this section I'm going to go ahead 61 00:02:21,005 --> 00:02:24,009 and zoom this all the way up to 100%. 62 00:02:24,009 --> 00:02:25,007 And reframe things. 63 00:02:25,007 --> 00:02:27,004 I'm going to go ahead and put my face right here 64 00:02:27,004 --> 00:02:30,002 in the middle, use those lines as a guideline 65 00:02:30,002 --> 00:02:34,009 and let's see how that looks. 66 00:02:34,009 --> 00:02:36,000 Now I don't really like that, 67 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 so I'm going to go ahead and move this down a little bit. 68 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,009 Like I said, it's a guideline not a rule. 69 00:02:41,009 --> 00:02:43,003 Let's turn that off 70 00:02:43,003 --> 00:02:49,005 and give it a look. 71 00:02:49,005 --> 00:02:51,008 Okay, and then I would just lather, rinse, repeat 72 00:02:51,008 --> 00:02:53,007 for the duration of our project, 73 00:02:53,007 --> 00:02:57,001 creating a look that works for me. 74 00:02:57,001 --> 00:02:59,001 Now there is nothing stopping me 75 00:02:59,001 --> 00:03:01,004 from zooming in past 100% here. 76 00:03:01,004 --> 00:03:04,000 If I select this clip, I can go all the way 77 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,003 up to 300% if I want to. 78 00:03:05,003 --> 00:03:06,008 I can probably even go higher. 79 00:03:06,008 --> 00:03:09,001 Let's put it up to 500%. 80 00:03:09,001 --> 00:03:10,008 Camtasia's not going to stop me, 81 00:03:10,008 --> 00:03:12,002 however you can see that it starts 82 00:03:12,002 --> 00:03:13,008 to look really terrible here. 83 00:03:13,008 --> 00:03:17,001 This looks like a garbagy, pixellated, terrible shot. 84 00:03:17,001 --> 00:03:21,004 So whenever possible, I try not to go above 100%, 85 00:03:21,004 --> 00:03:26,008 so I don't lose any of my resolution or sharpness. 86 00:03:26,008 --> 00:03:28,008 So the key points here are, 87 00:03:28,008 --> 00:03:31,004 shoot in a higher resolution than your project 88 00:03:31,004 --> 00:03:33,009 whenever possible, and experiment with scaling 89 00:03:33,009 --> 00:03:37,007 and reframing to create a look that works for your project. 90 00:03:37,007 --> 00:03:40,000 And of course, if you use the rule of thirds 91 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,001 as a guideline, remember to turn off the layer 92 00:03:43,001 --> 00:03:44,004 before rendering. 93 00:03:44,004 --> 00:03:47,000 And that's how you reframe high res media.