How to add video clip inside text in Camtasia | Camtasia 2020 Tutorial

hello this is Christie in today's episode I'm going to show you how you can put a video inside a text element in Camtasia to appear as if the video is playing inside a word or letters a few letters or a few words it doesn't matter so the function is using a new feature that was added in Camtasia 2020 called track mats so we will look at how this works I have a blank new project here and I'm going to drag a video clip in my library in my media bin and place it on the timeline just to show so I have this video playing here with seen from space now we want to put this inside a video so we want an inside a text so it plays inside letters so we will have to go to annotations and create a new text element we'll place this on the stage and of course we want to make it quite large and also we need to make room for it to resize on the canvas and then turn the size up if that's not enough we can do about it maybe 400 and also we want to choose kind of like a fat font so I'm going to select the font here and I'm gonna look for something quite quite thick maybe Arial black or even something else let's see maybe this one no that's not fast enough here okay so this is it up let me just make it even larger space in here okay and now how do we make this well it's quite easy we will have to select the text layer so I'm going to make this all stretch all the way here and we will use a feature that was added like I said in the track settings here you have three icons and one of them is to lock one of them is to turn on the magnetic link and then there is this eye icon here which turns the track on and off but if you right-click on this you can specify the track map mode for this track so in our case we want alpha so there you go the text is now visible it's now invisible but it's also keeping the video inside it so let's play this see if it works here we are and this is very nice because you can actually change the text and the mask will still apply I can even turn it down maybe 500 it's quite difficult to do this when it's turned on so I'm gonna just take it off for a second okay resizing the object works with control and wheel and let's turn on the truck mat again alpha and him yeah so now the video should be playing inside of the text now if you want to keep these things nice and together you know when you want to move if you want to move the text around or do other stuff with it then if you want that to stay with the video you can group these so you select both of the tracks and you right-click and say group right so now the effect is inside of the group so you may notice that everything disappeared because now the track above has no content which you know and we turn on the Alpha so in Camtasia when you group two layers like that two tracks one of them being the Alpha mat it will copy that track inside of the group and apply the same effect so because of that now the track that the file the text used to be on still has the effect applied to it but it's a duplicate and because it has no content there's nothing to see through so we need to turn off the track mat for that particular track so now everything is in my group which makes it very nice because I can now move together everything in this group because they've become like an object even resize and things are done you know the resizing proportionally so I can also add animation to this group so if I want to you know add a custom animation to the to this group I can go animations and add a custom animation and just you know make it kind of zoom in or something like that so let's do that hold down the control key to spay to scale proportionally so you know here we have the whole thing the text is growing and the video is still playing and scaling at the same time with this so this is quite a nice effect and also you know very easy to achieve so don't forget you know you enable the track maps on the top layer to the top track and it turned into alpha and then whatever is on the layer will be see-through and the rest will be opaque thank you for watching this tutorial I hope you enjoy my tutorials if you would like to get more please subscribe to my channel like it share it and comment see you next time you

Channel: Cristi Cotovan | Graphicious

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Length: 5min 53sec (353 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 22 2020