Professional Educational Material Preparation
Recording, Editing, and Adding Explanation Tools
What you'll learn
- Record lectures by linking PowerPoint and Camtasia
- Carry out editing and export the video
- Sync picture and sound
- Add explanation aids, animation and cursor effects
- Add voice-over and sound and visual effects
- Create interactive lectures and add captions
- Design a motion graphics intro for lectures
- Create Whiteboard drawing explainers
- Process and clean audio with Premiere
About this course
This course teaches professional preparation of educational materials, from recording lectures to editing and adding explanation aids. It starts with recording lectures and linking PowerPoint with Camtasia, then editing, saving the project, exporting the video and syncing picture and sound. Next you learn how to add images and videos, adjust visual effects, work with the media library, add Annotations, animation, cursor effects and transitions between sections. Then you add voice-over, sound and visual effects, create interactive lectures and add Captions. The course also covers finding and editing explanation aids in Photoshop and Illustrator, designing a motion graphics intro, creating explainers with animation and with the Whiteboard drawing technique, converting text to voice-over, and processing audio with Premiere. It suits teachers, trainers and educational content creators, with no previous experience needed. Afterwards, you will be able to record a lecture, edit it and export it as a complete educational video.
Expected outcomes
- Master the creation and production of high-quality educational materials.
- Design educational videos using advanced editing tools.
- Add visual and audio effects to lectures to make them more engaging.
- Produce professional explanations using animations.
- Deliver a unique educational experience using modern techniques.
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Course content
1Introductions
5 lectures
- Recording Lectures and Linking PowerPoint with CamtasiaExplains recording the screen with voice commentary in Camtasia while presenting a PowerPoint, then seeing the recording on the timeline as separate video and audio tracks ready for editing.7:43
- Editing OperationsExplains editing in Camtasia: reading the speech and silence areas on the timeline, selecting unwanted parts and cutting them out to get a clean recording without mistakes and pauses.5:18
- Saving & RenderingExplains saving the project as an editable Camtasia file in its own folder, then exporting the final video as MP4 in high resolution, and why Camtasia output files are much smaller than other editors'.4:01
- Synchronizing Audio and VideoExplains syncing picture and audio in Camtasia when cutting, by splitting the tracks and moving segments with frame-by-frame precision, and removing pauses so speech matches the image.7:45
- Adding Images and Videos to Lectures and Adjusting Visual EffectsExplains adding images and videos to a lecture in Camtasia, controlling their entry and exit with Behavior effects, separating audio from video, collecting files into the project folder and exporting the video.10:55
2Basic Skills
4 lectures
- Media LibraryCovers the Media library in Camtasia for adding images, video and audio, working inside a group, replacing the logo, adjusting background music volume, and adding outros from the library.15:53
- AnnotationsExplains adding Annotations in Camtasia, such as arrows, shapes and animated callouts to highlight text or hide sensitive information, and saving frequently used tools to Favorites.16:20
- TransitionsExplains Transitions in Camtasia: applying fade in and fade out, adding a transition between two clips, changing its duration and style, removing it, and saving favorites.5:13
- AnimationsExplains Animations in Camtasia to emphasize part of the screen, using arrows on the timeline to set start and end points so an element moves, scales or changes color between them.9:57
3Advanced Skills
7 lectures
- Cursor EffectsExplains Cursor Effects in Camtasia, such as smoothing movement, magnifying the area, highlighting the pointer and click sounds and markers, which only work if the recording was made inside Camtasia itself.6:28
- Voice NarrationExplains adding voice narration in Camtasia to fix a misspoken word or sentence by re-recording it and replacing the old part, then filling the gap in the picture with a still frame using Export frame.5:40
- Audio EffectsCovers audio effects in Camtasia: evening out volume levels, marking the main voice over background music, adding fade in and fade out, reducing noise, and changing clip speed with Clip Speed.7:59
- Visual EffectsCovers Visual Effects in Camtasia: color adjustment and saturation, recoloring, rounded corners, placing video inside a device frame, shadow, motion blur, and removing a background color.9:24
- InteractivityExplains creating interactive lectures in Camtasia: adding a hotspot that controls play and pause, inserting a quiz during the video, exporting with the Smart Player, and using markers.12:15
- CaptionsExplains adding Captions to a video in Camtasia by placing them on the timeline, typing the text and adjusting their duration, appearing as a simple subtitle independent of the Smart Player.1:32
- Responding to Inquiries and QuestionsAnswers questions about Camtasia: applying animation to any element, not only video, drawing arrows and lines, reversing Arabic text direction, and changing the colors of intro and outro elements.2:37
4Professional Skills
8 lectures
- Editing visuals in Photoshop and IllustratorExplains getting illustration assets from sites like Freepik, cutting icon elements and editing them in Photoshop and Illustrator, saving as a background-free PNG, then replacing the media in Camtasia.14:48
- Adding explanatory videos to educational lecturesExplains getting explainer videos from a free stock site or from YouTube by screen-recording with Camtasia, then trimming the needed part and styling it with shadow and effects inside the lecture.6:07
- Adding interactive sequential explanation points on imagesExplains using Thinglink to turn an image into an interactive one with hotspots that reveal text or media when students click them, building a tour across scenes and embedding the code into the platform.17:06
- Designing a motion graphic intro for educational lecturesExplains designing a motion graphics intro for lectures using Renderforest, from creating an account and choosing a plan to designing the logo, font and music, exporting the video and adding it to the lecture.8:02
- 3D Explainer VideosExplains creating 3D animated explainer videos on an online tool: writing scenes in English, choosing characters, style, colors and music, recording voice narration, then exporting.5:53
- Whiteboard AnimationsExplains creating whiteboard animation videos with an online tool that supports Arabic: choosing scenarios and characters, writing text, selecting the moving-hand style, colors and music, then exporting.3:34
- Professional Male and Female Voiceover from Written TextExplains converting written text into a male or female voiceover inside an online video tool, adjusting speech speed, and adding diacritics so the text is pronounced exactly as written.1:31
- Audio Processing and Cleaning with PremiereExplains cleaning audio with Premiere: recording a silent sample of room noise before speaking, exporting from Camtasia, then denoising the dialogue in Premiere and trimming the sample for clean sound at a small file size.5:54
Instructor
Ahmed Hassan Khamis
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