- [Instructor] I'm going to show you a super simple way
to fix cursor jumps.
Now, if you are not familiar with cursor jumps
let me demonstrate here.
What has happened here is I've cut out a section
from this clip and edit
and now my cursor jumps across the screen.
Now, this is hardly an end of the world scenario
but it's definitely a tad jarring
and it's a clear signal that I've made an edit.
I used to patch these up using a fake cursor
and animating it which I thought was pretty slick
but it was kind of a pain.
Then I discovered there is a much easier way
to remedy this eyesore.
So let me show you that,
I'm going to scrub here to just before the cut,
about right here, a few frames a second,
however much space you have, select the clip,
S on the keyboard, same thing over here,
just after the cut, select the clip, S on the keyboard.
So I have isolated this section of the clip,
it is essentially its own clip.
Now I'm going to pop open the cursor effects tab,
choose cursor smoothing, just drag it to just
that section and watch what happens.
Camtasia fills in the frames to create a smooth move
and it hides my cut, pretty slick right?
Now, in this case the default setting worked just fine
and it usually does, but if you need to
you can pop open the properties panel here,
make sure cursor tab is selected and you can experiment
with the settings here to get the look you want.
And really that's it, my cursor jump has been remedied
with just a few clicks and no one needs
to know about the edit.