- In another video, we looked at capturing high res media.
Now, let's take a look at some ways to take advantage
of those extra pixels to reframe your shot,
or even create a multi-camera sequence.
If I right click here in my canvas,
and choose project settings,
you can see I've got a standard 1920x1080 HD canvas.
Then up here in my media bin,
I've got this video clip I created
and I shot it in 4K.
I'll go ahead and drag that to the timeline.
Now over here in the properties panel,
Camtasia is letting me know that it has rescaled
this video clip down to 50%,
so that it fits on the canvas.
The 4K video clip is a much higher resolution
than my HD canvas.
Now what this means for me is I can scale this up
and create a new look.
Like that.
I could do it for the whole clop, or if I want to,
I can chop it up into sections
and create a multi-camera sequence.
So let me know you how to do that.
I'll reset this.
And I'm going to use this rule of thirds graphic
that I created to help me out.
I'll just drag that to the timeline,
extend it for the duration of the clip,
and then I'm going to lock it
so I don't accidentally move it around.
So let's create that multi-camera sequence.
I'm going to zoom in here a bit,
and let's start with a wide shot.
And then about right here,
I decide I want to do a nice tight shot.
I'm going to select the clip,
S on the keyboard to split it.
Let's go down a bit.
Select the clip, S on the keyboard to split it.
And for this section, I'm going to zoom in,
let's say to 75%.
Choose 75% here in the box, enter.
And I'm going to reframe this.
Now, the rule of thirds is really more of a guideline.
The idea is that you place your subject
either on one of these intersections,
or use the lines, and you can create
an eye pleasing composition.
Okay, so let's do another one here.
We've got our wide shot.
We've got a tighter shot,
and then we pop back to wide
and let's say down here a bit, let's create
a super tight shot.
I'm going to select the clip,
S on the keyboard.
Move the play head down a bit,
split it again,
and for this section I'm going to go ahead
and zoom this all the way up to 100%.
And reframe things.
I'm going to go ahead and put my face right here
in the middle, use those lines as a guideline
and let's see how that looks.
Now I don't really like that,
so I'm going to go ahead and move this down a little bit.
Like I said, it's a guideline not a rule.
Let's turn that off
and give it a look.
Okay, and then I would just lather, rinse, repeat
for the duration of our project,
creating a look that works for me.
Now there is nothing stopping me
from zooming in past 100% here.
If I select this clip, I can go all the way
up to 300% if I want to.
I can probably even go higher.
Let's put it up to 500%.
Camtasia's not going to stop me,
however you can see that it starts
to look really terrible here.
This looks like a garbagy, pixellated, terrible shot.
So whenever possible, I try not to go above 100%,
so I don't lose any of my resolution or sharpness.
So the key points here are,
shoot in a higher resolution than your project
whenever possible, and experiment with scaling
and reframing to create a look that works for your project.
And of course, if you use the rule of thirds
as a guideline, remember to turn off the layer
before rendering.
And that's how you reframe high res media.