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- [Instructor] I'm going to show you a super simple way

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to fix cursor jumps.

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Now, if you are not familiar with cursor jumps

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let me demonstrate here.

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What has happened here is I've cut out a section

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from this clip and edit

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and now my cursor jumps across the screen.

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Now, this is hardly an end of the world scenario

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but it's definitely a tad jarring

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and it's a clear signal that I've made an edit.

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I used to patch these up using a fake cursor

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and animating it which I thought was pretty slick

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but it was kind of a pain.

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Then I discovered there is a much easier way

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to remedy this eyesore.

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So let me show you that,

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I'm going to scrub here to just before the cut,

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about right here, a few frames a second,

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however much space you have, select the clip,

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S on the keyboard, same thing over here,

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just after the cut, select the clip, S on the keyboard.

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So I have isolated this section of the clip,

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it is essentially its own clip.

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Now I'm going to pop open the cursor effects tab,

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choose cursor smoothing, just drag it to just

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that section and watch what happens.

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Camtasia fills in the frames to create a smooth move

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and it hides my cut, pretty slick right?

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Now, in this case the default setting worked just fine

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and it usually does, but if you need to

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you can pop open the properties panel here,

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make sure cursor tab is selected and you can experiment

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with the settings here to get the look you want.

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And really that's it, my cursor jump has been remedied

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with just a few clicks and no one needs

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to know about the edit.