Camtasia Studio 8 - Advanced Editing and Publishing Techniques -- Table of Contents -- Camtasia Studio 8 - Advanced Editing and Publishing Techniques -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Obtaining Quality Source Material -- Preparing for a recording -- Choosing the right dimensions -- Choosing the right frame rate -- Familiarizing yourself with the camera -- Preparing the studio -- Saving your project -- Recording the screen -- Planning a screen capture -- The best practice for screen captures -- How to record the screen -- Recording from a webcam -- Best practice for webcam captures -- Using a script -- How to record the webcam -- Importing media -- Types of files -- How to import media -- Editing contents -- Summary -- 2. Working with Audio -- Planning the audio -- The importance of consistency -- A note on background music -- Types of audio -- Preparing to record a voice-over -- The studio environment -- Using scripts -- Writing an effective script -- Recording equipment -- Choosing a microphone -- How to set up an external microphone -- Recording voice-over -- About audio formats -- How to choose the audio format -- How to record voice narration -- Editing our voice narration clips -- Trimming and syncing content -- Editing tools -- Volume leveling -- How to use volume leveling -- Noise removal -- How to use noise reduction -- Captions -- Working with captions -- Speech-to-text -- How to convert voice-overs to text -- Limitations of speech-to-text.

Adding background music -- Adding sound effects -- How to change the sound of a mouse click -- Summary -- 3. Enhancing, Editing, and Drawing the Eye -- Design and planning -- Getting started with design -- Planning for consistency -- Designing the canvas -- How to adjust the canvas color -- Callouts -- Types of callouts -- Customizing callouts -- Best-practice tips -- How to insert a callout -- How to make a callout hotspot -- Zoom and pan -- Best-practice tips -- How to insert a zoom -- Transitions -- Best-practice tips -- How to insert a transition -- Visual properties -- Best-practice tips -- How to edit visual properties -- How to animate an item on the canvas -- Cursor effects -- Best-practice tips -- How to add a cursor effect -- How to animate the cursor -- Summary -- 4. Creating More Complex Video Sequences -- Libraries -- Managing library content -- How to add an item to the library -- How to export a library -- How to import a library -- Advanced marker use -- Types of markers -- Using markers for navigation -- How to insert a marker -- Using markers to create a Table of Contents -- Building a TOC in the Production Wizard -- Snapping -- How to switch off snapping -- Grouping -- How to create a group -- How to ungroup -- Interactive quizzes -- Creating quizzes -- How to add a quiz -- Quiz questions -- About quiz scores -- Receiving scores via SCORM -- Receiving scores via e-mail reports -- Summary -- 5. Publishing Tips and Techniques -- Before we publish our video -- Production options -- Publishing to YouTube -- How to produce and publish a video to YouTube -- Publishing to Screencast.com -- How to produce and publish a video to Screencast.com -- Standard video -- When to use HD -- Video player or no video player? -- Custom publishing settings -- Output file formats -- How to create a publishing profile -- How to create a production preset.

Summary -- Index.