From the course: Camtasia Essential Training: Advanced Techniques

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Exploring live-action capture options

Exploring live-action capture options

- [Instructor] Just in case you didn't know Camtasia isn't just for screen capture. I'm going to show you a few ways to include live action video in your project. Let's start with the webcam. I'm going to treat this like any other screen capture. I'm going to click Record, Enable my screen capture and then hear from the camera dropdown, I'm going to choose my best webcam you may just have the one and I can preview myself there. Now, while we're here, I want to show you another thing. If I click on this again, I've got options. I like to choose the highest dimension available and I usually stick with 30 frames per second, I've had good luck with this and then click OK. And then of course just run through the rest of the options, enabling my microphone, system audio, whatever you need for your project. Hit Record, wait for the countdown and do my thing. Now if I want to shoot something other than my face in front of my…

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