- [Presenter] I'm going to show you
how to take custom masking a step further
and create a cool zoomed in scene effect or like this.
Okay, so what I have here is a regular screen capture.
I'm going to pop open this group here.
On this bottom track,
I have a regular screen capture and on the track above it
what I have is a duplicate track
that has been masked and zoomed in.
Showing the mouse actions up close and personal.
So let's reconstruct this in this second section here.
If I disabled this bottom layer,
you can see I have an identical track
with a custom mask that I created earlier.
So I'm going to enhance this a bit.
I'm going to move it here to the middle of the screen
so it doesn't get the edges chopped off of it.
And now I'm going to add a colored stroke
around the mask to help separate it from the clip below.
I'm going to go to annotations,
choose shapes and I'm going to find a circle here,
any color is fine, I'm going to go with yellow.
Now, I need to resize the circle
to about the same size as my mask, a little bigger.
I'm going to drag the corner
but I'm going to hold down shift while I do it.
So it remains a circle.
If I don't hold Shift, it start to get this wonky circle.
So hold down Shift so it's a little bigger than my mask
and I'm going to reposition it over the mask.
Let's extend the duration of that shape to match the clip
and then I'm going to put my mask above the circle.
And that actually came out pretty good.
If I needed to, I could make it a little bigger
or smaller here and then reposition it
but that actually worked great.
So I'm just going to leave it as is.
Step one complete.
Now I'm going to group these two so that I'm able to work
with them as one single clips.
So I'm going to select both, right click and choose Group
and I may as well rename this to make my life easy
so I'm just going to right click the group,
choose rename group and I'll call it circle.
Let's just call it circle, how about that (laughs).
That works nice.
Okay, so now I can move this clip,
these two clips as a single clip.
The next thing I'm going to do is zoom
these two clips or group.
Let's go with about 200% for a nice zoomed in look.
Now in the past, you may have heard me say
I try to never scale up past 100%.
However, I found with screen captures,
I can get away with it even at 200%,
this clip still looks pretty good.
Okay, and let's turn on the layer beneath here
so we can see what's going on and I'm going to reposition
this group so I can see both the wide scene
and the zoomed in scene at the same time.
Now I don't actually want to see
the zoomed in scene the whole time,
I really just want it for this section right here.
So I'm going to trim the group from both sides, that's good.
And just for fun, let's add a bit of animation to it.
You could add it animation or behavior
or whatever it works for you,
I'm going to choose behaviors
and I'm going to go with a fly in behavior.
I'll just drag that to the group.
Go over here to my properties panel.
For the in you can change this if you want to.
I'm going to go with 95% for pretty quick fly in
and during I don't want anything
and for out, let's go with another quick fly out at 95%
and let's see how that looks.
All right, Camtasia is kind of having
a problem previewing that.
So I'll just grab through here for you slowly.
Okay, and now I'm going to take both of these
and reposition this track,
select both right-click and group
so that everything stays in sync.
So I've got my wide scene, pop up zoom scene
and then it flies out again.
Now there are a lot of creative ways you can use this trick.
It works for live action too.
For example, here's an instructional music video
I helped my wife create for her class.
And who says the mass cast has to be a circle?
If you go here to your annotations,
you could use any of these shapes.
You could use a star, a rectangle, pretty much any shape.
Do whatever works for you in your project.
So that's how you create a zoom within a wide scene.
See if you can find a use for this little trick
in your next project.