How to create easy, reusable bullet points with Quick Properties and Customisations in Camtasia 2021

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Hello, this is Cristi from Graphicious.  In today's video with Camtasia, we're  going to work with Camtasia 2021,   and I would like to show you a little trick  with Camtasia, to create bullet points.  If you're trying to get away from PowerPoint  and you do a lot of presentations and you have   like bullet points to show and you want  those to be revealed in different times   and you want to keep the bullet points on screen  and you want to do this without PowerPoint,   this is a very easy video to follow. And we will be looking at a new feature   in Camtasia 2021 that's going to help speed  up that process. It's possible to use this   same thing in Camtasia 2020 or 2019 and previous  versions, but this new thing that was added   in 2021 is going to help you speed up the  process and make everything more reusable.  We're going to just go here in  Camtasia, I have a new project   open and I'm going to go to annotations. You can see my canvas here is all black and I   don't have any content on the screen at this time.  So, I'm going to use a simple text annotation,   I'm going to drag this onto the canvas here,  and this is going to be the text of a bullet.  So we want to do these bullet  points so they are reusable.  The first thing I'm going to make is more room for  this text in here and probably, I'm not going to   use the same size, so for bullet points, if you  want to have like 5 bullet points on the screen,   they have to be a bit smaller. Depending on the   amount of text you want to use in a bullet  point, you want to make this smaller, maybe   this size is fine - 66 points or let's say 60. And one tip you want to do, just so you know,   you want to make these bullet points probably  aligned to the left and also to the top.   The reason I'm saying this is because you never  know what bullet points you're going to need and   how much text is going to be in each bullet point.  So you want to make them all expandable from the   top-left, so that if you have multiple lines in  a bullet point, they will nicely wrap onto the   next line. So this is an example, this is a bullet  point, and it goes on to two lines or even three.  So you can see this bullet point has three  lines, and the idea is that in PowerPoint   when you have bullet points, they nicely align  to the left, and the actual bullet point stays   on the outside of them, so that's the reason we're  not going to include the actual bullet in here.  So I'm going to just leave this as it is, I'm  going to make it a bit wider. Let's suppose   this is the width of the bullet point. Now I  want to also create the bullet itself. I know   Camtasia doesn't create it for you so that's  the secret for having them aligned properly.  I'm going to go to the annotations again  and move to this tab here with the shapes   and I'm going to just grab one of these white  rectangles. I'm just going to keep it simple,   I'm going to make a white rectangle as a bullet  point. Just make it small like this. And the idea   is that it is a single line, so the bullet point  will have to be a single line of text. If you   want to resize it proportionally, hold down the  SHIFT key, or if not, you're good to go like this.  This is my bullet point. Let's make  it a bit smaller here, there you go.  So that is a simple bullet point with my text. Now, you can make the text bold if you like,   that's fine, up to you. It looks nicer like  this with bold. You can zoom in, of course,   and adjust the bullet point maybe it's a little  too large, like that, so there you go, that is it.  You have the bullet point and you have the text. Now how can we make this reusable?   So, the idea is that we will create a library  asset that we can reuse in our projects   when we need to have bullet points. So if we want  to have 3 bullet points, 5, 1, 2, 10, whatever,   we will reuse the same component over and over  again on the same screen, scene if you want,   we can have these appear at different times.  So another thing I want to do is, I want to   make the reveal of this text be interesting.  Maybe you can do like a fade in or whatever,   or you can go to behaviours and you can use one of  these behaviours that are pre-built with Camtasia.  So I do like this one that fades in from the left,  I can use this one or you can use the pulsating   one, depends how interesting you want this to  be. And of course, it can be replaced later.   I'm going to just use this fade, I'm just going  to drag it on top of the annotation or down in the   timeline, which I'm going to zoom in a bit now. So watch what happens with my bullet point.   This is how the bullet point appears. You can customise the in, during and out events,   for the duration of this, so in, it's going to  fade as you can see, for the in it fades in, and   then stays there for a second and then fades out. So if this is how you want to do it, that is fine,   or you can probably take out the  OUT event and just say NONE here   in the right. So right now it's going to just  fade in like this from the left nicely, and it's   just going to stay there until it runs out. So this allows you to make this bullet point   stay for as long as you like by changing  the duration at the end of the clip.  We have a bullet point, we  have a nice coming in, kind of   behaviour and we have the white bullet itself. You can make this interesting as well, maybe you   go to transitions and let's say we want to choose  like a glow and apply that to the shape here. So   while it's fading in, the bullet point kind of  glows, so look what happens. Like this. Maybe it's   more interesting or you can add a behaviour  to that one to make it bounce or whatever.  Keeping things simple, now we have the  bullet point, how do we reuse this,   because if I just select everything and just  copy and paste it, it's just going to make a   duplication of everything on my screen, and  that is fine, but then everything has to be   taken care of so it doesn't get lost and moved by  mistake, and you have to change your text as well.  So I'm going to delete my duplicated copy and show  you how to do this. We want to make a component   and in Camtasia, you can make a component from  anything and group it, or add it to your library   directly. So this is exactly what I'm going to  do here with this element, with the bullet point   attached to it. This is my text, I'm happy  with the font, I'm happy with the colour,   I'm happy with the size of the bullet and  everything, so all I have to do now is   just select them both on the timeline and group  them. You can press CTRL + G or you can select,   right-click here and Group. So this is my bullet  point now, it has moved into a group. I can now   move it anywhere on my screen because it's a  single unit. I can still go back in and open this   group and make any changes I like to it, including  double-clicking on it to change the text. When I'm   happy with this I can even rename this if I open  the group and click, double-click on the tab here,   I can call it Bullet point, like that. So I have a nice component, it's a group   and it's a bullet point with text in it. So what can I do now to reuse this? Well,   one of the things that Camtasia introduces is  access to Quick Properties. Before I add this   to my library, you can look in the right side here  and you can see that the bullet point properties,   this object that I have, has now this text  here, this is the text of the bullet point   and the callout and the colour and the font. So  before, in previous versions you could only access   these quick property fields from specially built  components that Camtasia was giving you in their   library packs or annotation packs or whatever. But now, this version introduces access to these.   By yourself you can create these yourself and  watch this, this text here, without even opening   the group, without double-clicking on it and  figuring out where it is, to type new text in,   I can just click in here in the text and say:  This is bullet point 1. Press ENTER and it updates   the text on your bullet point on the screen. So this makes it much easier to have access to   the content and the text and also makes it nicer  for these to be turned into shareable assets.  If you're happy with how your bullet point is  behaving, what you can do now is add it to your   library because these properties are available  here. So you can change even the colour of the   bullet point from here, look. They are customisable   beyond just having to double-click on  each of them kind of changing it inside.  I'm just going to leave it to white right now.  Let's do this, right-click on this group and say   Add to Library... I made a presentation library  which has nothing in it, and I'm going to just   use - you can use Canvas Size, which is going  to add this bullet point exactly in the place   it is now, so when you bring it in again, it's  going to place it in the exact same place,   because it records the canvas size,  or I can say: Use visible size,   so it's just going to save this object. When  you bring it in you can move it anywhere.  So I'm going to use visible size, click  OK and there it is, in my library.  Right now it shows you this icon on the left, that  it has customisable properties on it. Let's see,   I want to add two more bullet points. I'm just  in my library right now, let's suppose that the   first bullet point has been long until here, I'm  going to drag another one and place it right here.  So this is my second bullet point. Play that. And  it comes on, you can move it so it aligns with the   other one and why don't we just add another one  here, like that? Put it here. You can't see the   beginning of it because it has that behaviour on  it, when it comes in, so if you want to play with   them before you want to arrange them to where  they need to be, maybe take the behaviour off.  This is, three bullet points in my timeline. You  can see them here. So if I play my project now,   you can see the first bullet point comes in, the  second one, the third one. You may notice that my   blur animation here on one of the bullet  is getting cut off. That's because they are   in the group. What you can do to prevent  that is right-click on the group and say:   Resize Group - To Canvas Size. So that makes every  one of these bullets not be constrained by the   canvas, the actual little group canvas that's  created inside, you just say Resize Group - to   Canvas Size, and they all occupy, they all have  this same space available to them. Now they   don't get cut off anymore, watch what happens:  they all appear in a nice fashion like this.  This is a nice, cool thing. In  previous versions of Camtasia,   you could change the text by double-clicking on  the object to get inside of the group and then   double-click again on the annotation and 'bullet  point 2'. You can change the text like that. Well,   this is much easier to do now in Camtasia 2021,  because look, I'm clicking on the group itself and   automatically on the right side I have access  to that text, just like I showed you before.  Let's do the third one, bullet 3, just  click in there, bullet point 3. These   are the three bullet points and you're done. So this is much easier now. One other tip I have   for you: If you find yourself that you often use  two, three, five bullet points and you don't want   to have to manually add each one of them every  time you need to put five bullet points or three   bullet points, you can create an asset in your  library with three bullet points already built in.  So watch what happens, I am on my timeline and  I'm going to move all of them to start at the same   time, so you can see them all in there coming in,  all three like this. So watch what happens again.   You see that in the right side every time I click  on one of these, they are exposed the text that's   available inside of that particular bullet point.  But watch what happens: if I want to save an asset   that has 3 bullet points by default, I group these  together again, select all of them and CTRL + G,   and check this out: now, each one of them  inside of that group appears in the same screen.   So I can change all three bullets at the same  time, in one go. I have them all in here, so   when you bring your bullet points from PowerPoint,  you just bring this up in here, drag this three   bullet point asset onto your canvas, put the text  in here for each one of them and you're done.  One note though, you notice that only one of  them has the call out rectangle and colour   changeable. The reason is Camtasia thinks  that I didn't want to save that to the   library like that so you can do is, you can click  on this little icon, open quick property editor,   open that and you can see here the ability  to take out some of these properties and you   make them uneditable if you like. So if I want  the callout colour to not be changeable anymore,   I can just remove it from here. Or,  if I want to add the other ones in,   there are three callouts in here, I  can click plus on all three of them.  You can even change the order  of these fields like that.  So there you go. Each bullet point now has a  text that is customisable and a default, callout,   you can even change the label of this field. So  let's say Bullet Point Text, you just add a label   for them, so that you know exactly what you are  changing. I change that on all three and click   Save. So watch this, Bullet Point, Bullet Point,  Bullet Point. There may not be enough room for   me to show those in here but you get the point.  You can now customise all of these in one go,   just by grouping them together. So when you're happy with the way this   component behaves, why not right-click  and add it to library? So now I have   three-bullet point component, right? I'm going to use canvas size this time   because I don't want to have to expand  all those groups every time. Click OK   and now my library has a three bullet point. If somewhere in another presentation or in another   video I want to put in here a bullet point with  three points, I just drag that from the library   and here they are. And click on this and all  of the text fields are easy to customise.  So this is a much time-saving feature. You don't  actually have to manually create all these bullet   points, if you have a workflow like this where you  need to do a lot of these components and bullet   points and other assets coming in from PowerPoint,  it pays to actually create them the first time,   save in your library, create the proper fields  that you want to customise and just reuse them   anytime. And you still have access to move them  inside and out, left and right, get them to start   earlier or later, depending on your presentation,  just by opening this group here. So look,   I'm opening the group and now because all three  of them start at the same time, that's not very   interesting. But you can take one of them and just  move it to the side and make the other one start   later on and, just like that, you've created three  bullet points that come in at different times.  And you can expand this for your entire  presentation and just move them about.  And when they are about to come out, you  know, leave the screen, you can also do that,   you expand the group, you go inside and you say,  you know what, bullet nr. 1 has to disappear right   about here. So you can go in here, maybe go to  transitions, maybe add a fade out or whatever   you want to that particular bullet point, and  watch this, it's going to leave the screen   just by itself. So you are done with that one. So I hope this tutorial was useful, thank you for   watching, thanks for your time. If you find this  useful, subscribe to my channel, like it, comment   and if you have any questions or Camtasia tutorial  ideas, I'm actually looking for ideas right now.   If you haven't upgraded to Camtasia, there's a  link in the description for that, thank you again   for your support and thank you for your time. See you next time.
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Channel: Cristi Cotovan | Graphicious
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Length: 17min 39sec (1059 seconds)
Published: Thu May 06 2021
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