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- [Instructor] Camtasia provides a whole box of tools

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to help draw your viewer's eye to a specific spot

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or action on the screen.

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I'm going to show you a few of my favorites.

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I'm going to start simple here.

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Sometimes making the cursor larger is all you need.

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So I'm going to select my clip, pop open my properties panel

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select the cursor button or tab, whatever you want to call it

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and I can scale this up all the way to 500%

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and that makes it really easy to see my cursor.

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Now 500% starts to look a little pixely,

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I usually go somewhere in the two to 300 realm.

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Do what looks good for your project.

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Let's take a look at some sketch motion call-outs.

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Click on the annotations button

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and sketch motion call-outs tab.

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That's this little squiggly line.

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You can try out any of these.

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I really liked the square one that works well for me.

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I'm going to drag it over my clip here.

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Now, I only want this sketch motion call-out

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to be for this particular section of the clip

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where I show the UHD 3840 by 2160

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so I can adjust the duration, just like any clip,

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going to reposition it and resize it using the handles

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and I can even take it a step further here

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in the properties panel, I could bump up the thickness maybe

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can change the color to anything I want.

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Let's go with purple, that's fun.

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I can also adjust the draw time,

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right now it has a one second draw time

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to me that seems a bit on the slow side.

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So I'm going to pull this down to about a third of a second.

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Now there is one thing I don't like here,

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it just kind of drops off when it's done.

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I like things to be a little more subtle

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so you can always add a transition

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to any of your sketch motion calls.

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Let's just go with a quick 10 frame fade out.

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So we've got a draw in then it just fades out.

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Let's go back to the annotations button

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and let's try the special tab here.

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Let's go with a blur.

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I'll pull that over this clip here.

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Now this may seem a tad counter intuitive.

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It's actually blurring things out, not what I want at all

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but over here in the properties panel, I can invert that.

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So it blurs out everything except this little square here.

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I can re size that and reposition it.

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Let's adjust the duration here on the timeline

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so it's just blurring it out for this section here.

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Now, once again, it's a little abrupt.

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It's off then it's on.

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So I could once again, add a transition to it.

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I'll just go with fade that works well,

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adjust those ten-ish frames.

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So we've got a slow in,

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there's my eye-catching blur and a fade out,

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and let's do one more here.

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I'm going to show you the spotlight effect.

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Once again drag it over your clip

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and it creates a spotlight.

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Once again I'm going to adjust the duration of the spotlight.

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I'm going to resize it here and reposition it.

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I could adjust the intensity here in the properties panel.

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I could go complete black, just a subtle gray,

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somewhere in the middle, usually as well works great.

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But once again, it doesn't have any sort of transition.

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So if you don't like that

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go ahead and add whatever you like.

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Fade usually works well for me.

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So there's the spotlight effect.

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Let's look at some cursor effects, you know,

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pop open the cursor effects button here,

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and let's start with magnify.

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Now cursor effects are a little different.

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You don't drag them above the clip.

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You actually drag them to the clip

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and I get this magnify effect.

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In the properties panel I can adjust all kinds of things.

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I can scale it up so it's a bigger area.

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I could adjust the zoom,

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somewhere in the 150% looks pretty good to me.

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I could change the shadow if I wanted to,

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I can adjust the softness

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so it adds a little bit of a feather to the magnify.

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I don't like that, I like a nice sharp edge.

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Now I've got this over the whole clip

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so I don't really like that.

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I'm going to change a couple of things here.

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If I click this little show effects button down here

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I can adjust the duration of the magnify effect.

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I'm going to adjust that so it's just over this section here

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and I can even add a transition to it.

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I don't need to use the transitions,

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it has its own built in transition.

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Ease in and ease out.

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Let's go with 0.3 seconds again, I like that.

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0.3 seconds in, 0.3 seconds out.

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So I've got no magnify then the magnify kind of swells up

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shows what I want it to show and then goes out.

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Now a key point with this here

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you don't have control over where it's magnifying.

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It follows the cursor.

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Let me adjust that here so you can see that.

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The magnify just follows your cursor wherever it goes

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so keep that in mind when you choose this effect.

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And last but not least let's give spotlight a try.

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Same deal, drag it to my clip.

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I can adjust my parameters here

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let's make it a little bigger.

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I like a nice sharp edge.

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I can adjust the opacity

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so I'm completely darkening my background

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or somewhere in the middle looks good to me.

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I can even blur the part that's not in the spotlight

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if I want to.

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Same deal, if I pop this open

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I can adjust where the spotlight is affecting the clip.

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Just over this section is what I want

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and I'm going to give it an ease in 0.3 seconds.

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Do looks good to your eye, 0.3 seconds out.

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So I have no spotlight then here comes the spotlight,

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shows my area and then it fades out.

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So those are a few of my favorites.

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There are of course, other effects to choose from.

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There's really no right or wrong way

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to draw attention to an area.

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If it works, it works.

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So take a bit of time, play around and find the method

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that works for you and your project.