1 00:00:00,005 --> 00:00:01,003 - [Presenter] I'm going to show you 2 00:00:01,003 --> 00:00:05,005 how to magically create a custom mask here in Camtasia. 3 00:00:05,005 --> 00:00:07,007 If you are unfamiliar with this term, 4 00:00:07,007 --> 00:00:10,006 a mask is basically a stencil that hides part 5 00:00:10,006 --> 00:00:13,007 of your image or video, like this. 6 00:00:13,007 --> 00:00:16,002 Now there are a lot of creative ways to use masks, 7 00:00:16,002 --> 00:00:18,003 this is one I use frequently. 8 00:00:18,003 --> 00:00:22,003 Some variation of a talking head on top of some B roll. 9 00:00:22,003 --> 00:00:25,004 Now a custom mask doesn't have to just be a circle, 10 00:00:25,004 --> 00:00:28,001 you can do it with pretty much any shape you want to. 11 00:00:28,001 --> 00:00:31,002 You could use an octagon or a triangle, 12 00:00:31,002 --> 00:00:34,001 whatever works for you. 13 00:00:34,001 --> 00:00:37,007 Okay, so the windows version of Camtasia 2020 14 00:00:37,007 --> 00:00:40,003 doesn't actually have a mask tool 15 00:00:40,003 --> 00:00:42,008 but it does have a track mat feature 16 00:00:42,008 --> 00:00:46,007 which works just dandy for creating masks. 17 00:00:46,007 --> 00:00:48,008 The steps I'm going to show you will work 18 00:00:48,008 --> 00:00:51,008 for both images and video. 19 00:00:51,008 --> 00:00:54,005 And I'm going to be using my talking head clip here 20 00:00:54,005 --> 00:00:57,004 from my demo video. 21 00:00:57,004 --> 00:01:00,001 So the first thing I need to do is choose my shape. 22 00:01:00,001 --> 00:01:04,000 I'm going to go up to annotations and then the shapes button 23 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,002 and I can choose any shape I want here. 24 00:01:06,002 --> 00:01:07,006 I'm going to go ahead and just go with circle 25 00:01:07,006 --> 00:01:11,002 that works for me, drag it right above my track, 26 00:01:11,002 --> 00:01:13,001 that part is really important 27 00:01:13,001 --> 00:01:16,003 that it's right above the clip you want to mask 28 00:01:16,003 --> 00:01:19,009 and I'm going to extend that for the duration of my clip. 29 00:01:19,009 --> 00:01:21,003 So they match up. 30 00:01:21,003 --> 00:01:23,006 Next, I'm going to reposition this. 31 00:01:23,006 --> 00:01:25,008 So I'm going to drag the handle here on the side 32 00:01:25,008 --> 00:01:28,006 and I'm going to hold down shift so that it stays a circle. 33 00:01:28,006 --> 00:01:31,007 If I let go of shift, I start to get this action. 34 00:01:31,007 --> 00:01:33,008 Hold down Shift, keep it a circle. 35 00:01:33,008 --> 00:01:36,004 And I'm going to reposition that right over my face. 36 00:01:36,004 --> 00:01:38,005 Now I can't really see what I'm doing here, 37 00:01:38,005 --> 00:01:39,005 I'm kind of guessing. 38 00:01:39,005 --> 00:01:43,002 So what I like to do is pop open the properties panel here, 39 00:01:43,002 --> 00:01:45,003 make sure my shape is selected 40 00:01:45,003 --> 00:01:48,004 and just temporarily turn down the opacity 41 00:01:48,004 --> 00:01:50,006 so I can see what I do in here. 42 00:01:50,006 --> 00:01:54,004 And I'm going to get that so it looks just right, 43 00:01:54,004 --> 00:01:58,005 looks good to me and then turn the opacity backup. 44 00:01:58,005 --> 00:02:01,003 All right, The next step is very important here. 45 00:02:01,003 --> 00:02:03,001 This is to create the mask. 46 00:02:03,001 --> 00:02:05,005 I'm going to go over here to my track 47 00:02:05,005 --> 00:02:09,001 and I'm going to mouse over the little eyeball icon, 48 00:02:09,001 --> 00:02:12,000 right-click and from track mat mode, 49 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 choose alpha and watch this. 50 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Kaching, I just created a custom mask around my face, 51 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,004 how cool is that? 52 00:02:20,004 --> 00:02:22,003 Now, that's not where I want that. 53 00:02:22,003 --> 00:02:24,002 So if I want to reposition it, 54 00:02:24,002 --> 00:02:26,004 I'm going to get this problem so I don't like that. 55 00:02:26,004 --> 00:02:28,000 So let me show you how to fix that. 56 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,003 I'm going to group these two clips here. 57 00:02:30,003 --> 00:02:35,002 I'm going to select both, right click and choose group. 58 00:02:35,002 --> 00:02:38,002 At which point it seems like I broke my mask. 59 00:02:38,002 --> 00:02:40,008 But what has happened is the track mat properties 60 00:02:40,008 --> 00:02:42,003 have been moved to the group 61 00:02:42,003 --> 00:02:45,009 but I still have a track mat enabled here on my timeline 62 00:02:45,009 --> 00:02:50,004 so basically I have a double track mat situation going on. 63 00:02:50,004 --> 00:02:53,004 I'm just going to go back here, right click the eyeball 64 00:02:53,004 --> 00:02:55,002 and choose none. 65 00:02:55,002 --> 00:02:57,000 And there's my mask video clip 66 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,009 and I can just move it around wherever I want. 67 00:02:59,009 --> 00:03:03,006 I can resize it however I want, reposition it. 68 00:03:03,006 --> 00:03:06,006 I can even still edit here if I need to trim this a bit, 69 00:03:06,006 --> 00:03:07,008 I can do that. 70 00:03:07,008 --> 00:03:12,005 All of the properties for my clip stay intact. 71 00:03:12,005 --> 00:03:14,004 And then from this point, if I want to, 72 00:03:14,004 --> 00:03:16,004 I could add some B roll underneath this. 73 00:03:16,004 --> 00:03:19,008 I'm going to go ahead and move this up to track tWo, 74 00:03:19,008 --> 00:03:21,009 pop open the library here 75 00:03:21,009 --> 00:03:25,005 and then I'm going to use one of these motion backgrounds. 76 00:03:25,005 --> 00:03:27,007 Let's go ahead and pretend I'm a stock analyst today. 77 00:03:27,007 --> 00:03:31,001 Drag that down here under my head 78 00:03:31,001 --> 00:03:35,003 and here are your stock tips for this morning. 79 00:03:35,003 --> 00:03:37,002 Buy low, sell high. 80 00:03:37,002 --> 00:03:40,006 All right, so now you know how to use the track mat feature 81 00:03:40,006 --> 00:03:43,007 to create custom mask. 82 00:03:43,007 --> 00:03:45,009 Go ahead and give it a try in the exercise file 83 00:03:45,009 --> 00:03:47,007 or a project of your own.