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Titles, Zoom and Pan, and Other Features
Camtasia has many advanced features that can help you make your videos more clear and understandable. The most common are "titles", "callouts", which allow you to annotate your video with text and graphics, and the "zoom and pan" feature which lets you zoom in on a portion of the screen that you may be hard to see in a small video frame. These advanced features are applied **after** your initial recording, so you don't have to worry about them while you're recording.


 * 1. Let's get started by taking a quick look at adding a title to your movie**
 * [|Video: Adding Title Clips] (Length: 2:29)
 * [|Adding Callouts - The Basics] (Length: 3:22)
 * Try adding a title to the project file you created in the first lab this morning


 * 2. Next let's explore "Zoom and Pan" and "SmartFocus" (SmartFocus automatically applies zoom and pan to your video)**
 * [|Video: Smart Focus and Zoom and Pan Overview] (Length: 3:52)
 * Take a few minutes to adjust the zoom and pan keyframes in your project file


 * 3. You may have noticed that SmartFocus wasn't perfect. On many occasions you will want to add your own zoom and pan actions.**
 * Now try adding some zoom and pan keyframes of your own. You can use your existing project, or record a new one.

Note: These videos are for Camtasia 6.0 but TechSmith assures us the process is very much the same in version 7!
 * 4. Finally, let's look at Camtasia's Picture-in-Picture (or PIP) feature... Hold on to your hats!**


 * [|Video: Recording with your webcam in Camtasia] (Length: 3:14)
 * Now take a moment to record yourself... For example, you could walk through how you found your school using Google Maps.
 * [|Video: Picture-in-Picture Options and Settings] (Length: 4:29)
 * Try changing some of your PIP settings (e.g. add a border, Hide and Reveal the PIP, etc.)


 * Additional Features You May Be Interested In**


 * 1) [|Clip Speed] - Speed up or slow down the video/audio in your recording. This is helpful for slowing down examples and for speeding up lectures.
 * 2) Cursor Highlighting - highlighting the cursor typically works to highlight it for the entire duration of your movie. If you'd like to only highlight at certain points you need to make a keyframe when you start the highlight and then another when you want it to end. At the start choose the option you want for the highlight and at the end make sure that the option is set to None

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