- [Instructor] Let's explore, punching up an image
or a video clip by using the color enhancement tools
in Camtasia.
My first recommendation for a quality image
or video clip is get things looking as good
as you can in camera.
Take the time to get your lighting,
framing, and camera settings right before you shoot.
You can find all kinds of tips
and tricks about that here
in the Learning library.
Color tools in Camtasia are pretty basic.
So if you're a phone or camera has a preset
or a filter that looks good, go ahead and use it.
All that said,
let's see what we can do to punch things
up a bit in post production.
The steps I'm going to show are identical
for both video and images,
and I'll be demonstrating using this steel frame
from my demo project.
I'm going to pop open the "Visual effects" tab here
and I'm going to choose "Color adjustment"
and just drag it to my clip.
And I'm honestly not sure why this apocalyptic
looking preset is the starting point.
So I'm going to just go ahead
and reset everything to zero here
so I have a nice starting point
that makes sense.
And we're back where I started.
Pop that back open, make sure the clip is selected
and the properties panel is open.
Now you can work through these parameters
in any order you want
but I usually start with contrast.
I'm just going to bump this up and take it easy.
If you go too far to the right
that obviously looks ridiculous. And if you go to the left,
you get this really washed out.
So I usually just go a little bit of contrast.
Let's go with like six or seven,
10 do what looks good to your eye.
Next, I'm going to add just a tad of saturation.
The reason I do this is I've noticed my videos
lose a bit of color when I render.
So adding just a touch of extra saturation here
can help combat that.
And maybe just a little bit of brightness.
It's really easy to ruin your image with brightness
so be careful here.
Now a really cool way to AB this and make sure you
like your changes is to pop open this
"Show Effects" box here.
And what I have here is an adjustment layer,
and wherever the layer is,
that's where the effect is applied.
It's not applied here, but it is applied here.
So you can kind of go back and forth and see
if you like your changes.
Just remember to reset this before you render
out your project.
Next, I'm going to add a bit of a color cast
using the colorize effect, just drag and drop it.
And once again, the starting point here
is a little extreme.
First off, this color obviously does not work
for my project.
I'm going to change this to,
let's just go with a nice yellow orange.
You can use any color you want.
Adjust a touch more orange,
and that's obviously way too much.
I'm going to back this way, way down.
Just a hint of warmness there.
And same thing,
you can AB things here with your adjustment layer.
There's with it off and on.
If you don't like it,
go back and tweak things a bit.
And remember to reset that.
Of course use any color you want here.
Sometimes blue or turquoise looks nice
if you want to cool things down.
Play around and see what looks good to you.
Like I said at the start, these are basic tools.
So get things looking as good
as you can in camera first
then use the color tools in Camtasia
to add just a bit of punch to your project.