So what we can do, let’s say you want to create a circular video.įor example, for this particular video, we can just go to annotations, and then select the shape you want, we can go with a bold shape, we can get a good circle.Īnd then we can just drag and drop it inside here. The next method is using our new functionality inside Camtasia 2020– using the alpha channels, and for this to work, we might potentially use a shape. So let’s go back to the default without the crop on any image or video. That’s the first method of how you can crop a video or image in Camtasia. So if we just wanted to crop it out, let’s say up to there– up to there.Īnd then you can just pull this down here– looks good.Īnd I think it was all across the board in a square almost a square shape. We can just come back now to the video and it’s already in the mode that we wanted to the crop mode. That’s how you can easily do it to an image or even a video. So let’s say we just wanted to crop this into something like vertical or a rectangle that we can easily adjust and put maybe somewhere here and maybe some text on the side. Inside the edit mode, you have rounded sections where you can adjust these the way you want.īut once you click on the crop mode, these changes into a box.Īnd when you pull it, it results in cropping of that particular image or video. We are right now inside the edit mode where we only have the cursor to work with.īut when you click on the crop mode here, you’ll notice that when you click when you click on an image or a video, the handles change. So, the default or the easy way to crop an image or a video is using the crop function that you can select from this particular section. So I have my images and video in the media bin, and we can just add this particular image to the timeline.Īnd then we can just drag and drop the video as well to the timeline. Welcome to this video and follow along, it’s pretty simple. Hi, my name is David and in this video, I’ll show you how you can crop a video or image in Camtasia in two easy ways. I hope this video is of value if you’re interested in cropping videos or images in Camtasia. In Camtasia 2020, Techsmith introduced Track Mattes and with Track Mattes you can crop an image or video into a circle. This is limited in that you can only crop an image or video into a rectangle or square. 3 Customize the hotspot.Camtasia has a crop mode built into the Camtasia Editor which does the job pretty well. From the tools panel, click and drag the hotspot effect to an object on the timeline or canvas. The hotspot feature in Camtasia is an effect that is applied to visual objects, such as videos, images, and annotations. How to add a hotspot to a video In Camtasia?ġ Interactive hotspots. To split media on all of your tracks and move them at the same time, press and hold Shift and then drag the playhead. Select a clip on each track and then hold Shift while simultaneously dragging. You can also ripple move media on multiple tracks. Hold Shift, then click and drag a clip on the timeline. How do you ripple move media on Camtasia? Everything on all the tracks to the right of the playhead moves to the right to make room. Right click on the shaded area that results and choose Insert Time. Drag out the red playhead marker to the right to the extent you would like the freeze frame to stretch to. Place the playhead where you want to extended (freeze? hold?) the frame. How to freeze a video frame In Camtasia 3?ġ.