How to create OUTLINE text in Camtasia Natively | Camtasia Outline Text Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- How to add text with outline in Camtasia and without fill? This tutorial shows a workaround to a problem that is not yet solved in Camtasia: creating text with outline effect, and no fill so that you can see through it, use it on top of other assets and allow them to be visible inside the text. The method shown here is a little workaround, but it is native to Camtasia and you don't need to import any text from outside, no transparent PNGs or other files are needed.
The text you create with this method can also be customised, you can create quick properties from it, save it to your library and reuse it in your projects without changes. You can also customise the font, the colour, the size, etc.
This effect involves using a new feature added in Camtasia 2021: Media Mattes. If you have Camtasia 2020, you can still achieve this using Track Mattes, pretty much the same way, so instead of adding the Media Matte effect to the main text, you add it to the track that contains the main text. That is the only difference.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:56 Preparing the text
01:59 How to achieve the effect
03:35 Duplicating the text
06:34 Filling the corners
09:35 Creating the outline effect
12:16 Creating a customisable asset
14:20 Customising the font
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Thank you, I use 2022 version. But glad that Camtasia would implement this, a bit late but always welcome.
Nice job, Cristi. "C'mon, Techsmith! Just give us a proper stroke function!!!"...in addition to all the other requested functions. 😄
Brilliant! You're a genius :)
Thank you! Cheers!
It's just sad that Camtasia hasn't implemented this incredibly basic feature by now.
yeah, it's a popular request. Maybe in a future update.
Love your vids Cristi!! I realize now that you can really can be creative. you just have to try stuff. The fact you can do all the complicated things just once and save them to your library makes it worth doing. Thanks to you , i am trying out some things and saving them to use again. I appreciate your efforts. Thank you,
Thank you so much!! Feels great to hear your feedback! Let me know if you have any things you're struggling with and I will check if I can find a solution ;)
Thank you very much Cristi, excellent video. 👍
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this video.
I know have a terrific new asset in my Camtasia library.
Glad to help. Now Camtasia includes stroke tool built in. Have you seen it?
@@Graphicious yes, I have!
It took them long enough, right? 😆
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks a lot. That's what we call a long but short way to achieve something locally. 👍😎
(by the way, you can enlarge the text, even more, than 500, by using the scale slider.)
Awesome, thank you!
Nice!! 👍 thank you 🙏
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Awesome !!!!
Thanks!!
Another great video.
Thank you!
this is the most creative thing I have seen in editing
Thank you very much! I appreciate your feedback and glad you enjoyed it.
omg, thank you so much!!!
You're welcome!
Great videos as usual. Question, do you have any videos on how to play backwards the handwritten-type annotations? Thank you in advance
Thank you! Do you mean the annotations that come with Camtasia? I don't think you can play those backwards.
@@Graphicious 😔 got it. Thank you!
Really nice. Can you do a video in the future that alters this so that there is color inside the outline? Thank you
Not sure that's possible, do you mean having a triple outline - white and a different color inside the outline itself?
@@Graphicious actually, I found a suitable option by simply putting the Visual Effect Outline Edges on. all good : )
What is this version of camtasia? Im doing everything until 12:16 my version camtasia 9 dont have this feature :(
This is Camtasia 2021+ . There are several things used in this tutorial that do not work in Camtasia 9. Time for an upgrade? 2023 is out: cotovan.com/camtasia
Hi, Goog tutorial, but, this is not possible with Camtasia 9? The 8 copies yes, but the transparent?
You're correct, Camtasia 9 doesn't have masking, it was introduced in Camtasia 2020 I believe.
can you please add keyboard buttons as a caption when you press them!!!!!! thanks
Sorry, I'll try to remember to add them from now on, but Camtasia doesn't really record all of them.
Has anyone been able to do this on a Mac? I haven't been able to get the corners aligned properly in Camtasia 2021 mac.
Could it be your canvas snapping hindering you? You can use the arrows to move the duplicated clips left, right, down and up, or you can use precise controls on the properties panel to slightly nudge them all by the same X or Y value.
I cannot zoom in to the left upper corner of the "T" with your explanation. When I attempt this the whole track expands. How is this done?
Make sure you are not pressing CTRL when you move the mouse wheel. That will resize the object instead of zooming in.
Thanks for your efforts my friend, but it's not so practical for me especially when I use my text as a subtitle that keeps changing every few seconds. So why not use the drop shadow from visual efects(locate in center, 100% opacity and little blur), That would be easier I guess for a dynamic text.Thanks again
Yes, you're right. This is not good for very small texts or very long ones. Let's hope Techsmith implements the text outline soon.
how to use Text Border. Kindly
The only way is as shown in this video. Camtasia doesn't have border control at the moment for text.
Way too difficult for no reason. Camtasia is so behind.
Yeah, this seems like an oversight. Maybe on the next version, eh?
Its a creative workaround, but far,far,far to much work and invested/wasted time for to little reward. I can create a flawless PDF/Vector text online for free or in another program in just a couple of minutes. Or, add standard text be productive. Time is money.
I agree, this should be a function that's built into the program, I seriously don't understand why it's not yet... maybe something to do with varying, uncertain font geometry?
But in any case, creating it in external programs is an option. The method shown here, while laborious the first time, gives you a reusable asset that you can change the font, color, text on. Easier than having to go to external programs every time. I think you save more time like that... Thanks for watching and for your feedback!