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Title Clips in Camtasia 8
Is everything a callout now? "Title Clip" is missing from my Camtasia 8 "Tools" menu. I had a library of Title Clips in 7.1. How can I accomplish the same thing in 8?
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Hey everyone,
There was a video on how to do a quick workaround that was posted above, but it got sort of buried so I thought I'd post it again! Here it is: http://www.screencast.com/t/ts3ierM3
Hope that helps everyone!
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3PLEASE bring back the Title Clips and Ripple as they are NOT callouts but a "standard part" of any animation or video editing program.
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3Having used Camtasia 8 for many hours over this past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that callouts turned into simple Title clips with an image background slow me down significantly as compared to Camtasia 7.
Here's my plea to please bring back the special case of callouts, the Title Clip, in the next release of Camtasia.
Many thanks!
Larry
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Hi Larry,
We did remove the Title Clips tab because everything they did can be achieved with the other features in CS8. However, you should have been given the option to migrate your library to CS8, which should automatically convert your title clips to the appropriate asset types in CS8.
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1Hey Larry,
Just another quick tip. Go over to the Library tab and check out some the assets that Camtasia Studio 8 comes with. There are several good examples of how you could achieve the same idea of a title clip, but in a way that makes your video look a lot more dynamic and interesting than just having a plain colored background with some text on it. Each "Theme" includes a version an Animated Title and a Basic Title. If you add them to your timeline hopefully you can see how easy it can be to make something like those yourself.
if you are looking to achieve the same look and feel as videos created in Camtasia Studio 7, then you can either use the "Simple Rectangle" callout or any image and then stretch it to fill the canvas. You can change the text in the callout view. An easy way to do that is double click on the callout or image, and it should set your focus right the text editor
Hope these tips were helpful.
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2Thanks for the quick reply.
First, no Randy, I was not given the option to migrate my old 7.1 library. I still see it when I open 7.1, however, so I will look into migrating it.
Second, Brandon, thanks for the tips on creating new Title clips. I will attempt to create one that looks like our old ones with the company logo on a white background and text in a callout.
My two cents, I think this is overcomplicated for those of us who just need simple Title Clips and more importantly, want to group the title clips together in projects for easy access. So it appears I'm trading my time for flexibility that I don't need or want without having a choice. This was one of the key speed of production elements that made me switch to Camtasia from a product that didn't "captivate" me in this area. Oh well...
Thanks again,
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AGREED! Not only is is bad not to have the title clips option, but there is absolutely nothing in the Camtasia 8 help menu on how to add them. It is bad design to take away a feature and not to let users know how to replicate the functionality.
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I'm watching the help video only to find as you say it is irrelevant to version 8 and I still don't know how to add a title clip to my videos!
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1Larry,
Thank you for your feedback! I agree that there was a bit of a sacrifice made for those who were used to the old Title Clips view in order to allow for more flexibility. Hopefully with some playing around with the new features, the flexibility aspect will grow on you or you'll find a way too accomplish your goal with just as much ease as before, but we will definitely take note of your concern for future releases.
Here's a video that you might find helpful that has a few tips about title clips that I didn't mention earlier http://www.screencast.com/t/MXeLbVjqt
Cheers
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Brandon, the problem with this is that the functionality was rmove - and perhaps replaced - but that there is NO GUIDANCE within the app to find this information. AT THE VERY LEAST this should be added to the help menu. Sorry for shouting, but I wasted 20 minutes clicking on EVERY menu option and checking the help menu using several variables before coming here. Can you at least see that something is added to the help menu?
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Now, in Camtasia Studio 8.0.3 you can change the duration of title clip or callout by right mouse click then choose Duration and press number of second you want or click on arrow to change time of duration. -
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Dear Camtasia,
This is an example to a stupid idea that needs to be corrected if you want to stay in business. Lets change the taste of coke so it taste like pepsi while we are at it.-
they added flexibility and some things that were automated are now manual but more potential, what's the big deal? I think it's going to be much better once I figure everything out, this new version is spectacular!
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Dear Camtasia,
No, I am retarded apparently. After I figured it out, I prefer you new way.
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Thanks Guys! Works fine and is just as simple. . . . . -
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For people who may have built up some Title Clips that they had liked to use in Camtasia 7 and would like a way use them again in Camtasia 8, one of way accomplishing this is by first adding them to your Library in Camtasia 7 (if you have not already done so) and then going through the steps of upgrading those library items from 7 to 8.
Here's a demo of how to do just that http://www.screencast.com/t/pu3pHLpp
Cheers
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Thanks for this demo....when I imported my library from Camtasia 7 though, the format and size of all of my callouts and title clips were significantly smaller. They appear to be useless in Camtasia 8 so I think I'll have to start from scratch to rebuild a new library in Camtasia 8. Bummer!
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I also used the video to import those title slides, thank you. Unfortunately, they come in very small, in fact the whole slide was only visible upon pulling the borders out to the production size of my video. It's almost like they were in a predetermined callout size and any print outside of that window size just was not visible. Once corrected, I tried to save it at the larger size, however, upon going to the saved resized copy in the library and dragging it into a project it was again the small window of the title and needed resizing...oh well
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This would be great in the media resource library had been created. My PCs not new but it's still just within spec. So now I can't even add a simple text title. Not great.-
*if the media resource....
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I'm not sure I understand. Is the library content missing or not working for you?
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I’m
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3Having used Camtasia 8 for many hours over this past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that callouts turned into simple Title clips with an image background slow me down significantly as compared to Camtasia 7.
Here's my plea to please bring back the special case of callouts, the Title Clip, in the next release of Camtasia.
Many thanks!
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I'm glad I did the trial before an upgrade, no title clip option is very unattractive to me, I'm not getting a clear picture on how to edit the intro's in the library, from the tutorials either? -
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1Just a thought here, but did TechSmith / Camtasia ever think of putting up a suggestion board so that all that are used to working with v7.0 / 7.1 and even more so, ASK "what it is that you would like to see improved or added / removed" as we are working on CS8 and let people vote with a poll type.
Yes I'm new to this really and learning as best I can, but after reading through a fair amount of concerns from other verteran CS users, it seems like and looks like that the user base was not given this option. IE: provide input for the new relrease of CS8, but now Techsmith / Camtasia is taking the concerns to heart just a bit.
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2Hey Guys. . . . easy. . . . I too am not thrilled to find out that they removed the "Title Clip" feature. But, there are ways around it that really are not that difficult to use.
In regards to listening to the customer. It's really hard to find a page on their website where they're not asking for feedback and info. TechSmith's products rock and I've only seem them get better and better over the years. They're easy to use, they product great results and their Tech Support is AWESOME!
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I agree, I just wish they hadn't messed with things that were not broken.
Rippling timeline
Titles that became callouts
Quizzing feedback
issues with converting files from past versions
and a bunch I haven't discovered because my version won't add an existing project file (even one made in 8) without crashing when I go to work with it. I have a work around for this issue, but, what a pain
We can find workarounds for just about anything, if we're willing
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2Kevin hit the nail right on the head. I now must remember to insert a Title Clip, er, "callout", at the beginning of my timeline as I start each project. If I don't remember, it's a royal pain to get everything on the timeline to move over, as several users have described here.
So yes, ripple the timeline is needed badly.
Although certainly the Title Clip is a callout from an engineering perspective, from a USER perspective, it's a special animal. I want to insert an image background, type my title, drag to insert in the timeline, and have them grouped together in my clip bin. I'm sure 99% of the users of Camtasia are looking for this as well. If I want fancy animations, I'll use a callout!
My final plea for a reversion back to Title Clip sanity in a future version... please?- view 2 more comments
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I will fourth that as well - PLEASE bring back the Title Clips as they are NOT calluots but a "standard part" of any animation or video editing program.
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Of course Title Clips should be included in 8. There is NO REASON not to! This is a case of design for design's sake. That is, at the creation end, someone wanted to do something different, so they did it. As long as there's a work around, they're happy. But as users, we want things to get better. Not different. There's a huge distinction there. None of the responses from TechSmith indicate any acceptance of mistake on their part. It's always OUR responsibility to learn how to do it the new way. New Coke was not not better. How did Coca-Cola find out? The customers shouted. And they didn't buy. Best to admit the mistake out loud, correct it, and make an immediate and free update available.
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2I agree on this one, too.
Another stupid move in Camtasia 8.
They did everything from an "internal engineering" perspective even though it makes the workflow WORSE for the user.
Title Screens on Version 7 is BETTER for my workflow than this "but it makes logical sense the new way if you are an engineer, right?" -
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I've been trying with support for 5 weeks now to get Camtasia to consistently work without crashing when I add any clip to the timeline or open an existing project file. I think we've narrowed it down to a specific program that causes trouble with Camtasia. Unfortunately, it is a program I have running all the time and that I am unwilling to give up.
The more I read about the missing stuff...title clips are huge to me, especially since I cannot add those separations after the video is cut and ready without the bother of moving things down the timeline...maybe, it's just as well it won't work for me.
I was sooooo happy to see multiple tracks, but, I guess we paid for it by losing some valuable functionality...see also converting problems bringing things over from Camtasia 7. During conversion of a file from 7, I had it fail because it could not find the title clip...ironic isn't it. -
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Please whatever it takes...add ripple
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It is hard remember something getting so much worse with a version change. Ever. What a waste of $100.
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So, I'm new to Camtasia 8, but I've used Windows Live Movie Maker 2011. What other features in CS8 can I use to create Titles and Credits?
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I believe that everything is now in the Library, either as a theme or title clips-
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Okay, then how do I move the other tracks to the right to make room for the title clip?
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Sorry, I didn't see the follow-up question
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Here's a video about moving things to make room; it was posted on another thread
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3PLEASE bring back the Title Clips and Ripple as they are NOT callouts but a "standard part" of any animation or video editing program.
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Agreed. Please bring back the dedicated Title Clips button. Titles are not call-outs.
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2Please bring back the dedicated Title Clips button! Titles are not call-outs!-
You are not alone, Boris. Hoping they will address this issue at some point in the future. Even if you do import the title clips, they come in at the wrong size and need to be corrected each time.
I've tried to save them, but, when I access them again, they come to the new project at the reduced size. haven't figured out how to fix it, but, I refuse to lose sleep over it.
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Yes, I noticed this too! When attempting to reuse my Title Clips, er, callouts, they are miniaturized and I have to start messing with them to get them to the right size again. More time wasting...
Man, do I miss the Title Clip feature.
Techsmith Developers, repeat after me, "Call outs do not a Title Clip make" Repeat until Title Clips are returned to Camtasia. Thank you. -
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stressed out by the lack of title clips
Where did the title clips go? It very inconvenient to have to go and make new ones in iMovie and then bring them in here.
Can you guys please put them back?
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Worse "improvement" ever.
I did't understand how to delete "auto transitions" between two "clips" or whatever they are or will be called in the future. I struggled to mark it with a cursor and finally deleted it by accident. Now I can't use a transition between a "callout" and a standard camtasia format video clip.
I usually welcome innovations but this is not intuitive and badly executed.
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1I hate not having dedicated title clips so much that I just reinstalled Camtasia 7. -
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1Susan,
I've also gone back to Camtasia 7. I've got my title clip library back, it's so much easier to move and insert clips, the audio cleanup is better... oh and did I mention I have my title clips back? This saves me 20-30 minutes per project "futzing" (a technical term ;-) with callouts to try and make simple "text and logo" screen size Title Clips.
C'mon Techsmith. This was a big step backwards. Can you admit your mistake, reinstate Title Clips, and we can move forward? -
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I have not figured out how to add a title to the beginning of my screencast recordings. It was easy with previous versions of Camtasia Studio, but not apparent with version 8.
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There is new ways of accomplishing this in Camtasia Studio 8.
I think the link is unnecessary that you put below as it has nothing to do with any type of screencasting product. Please remove it and thank you. -
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With CS8, instead of the boring static white text on a boring black background in CS7, you can create stunning title clips using the library resources in CS8, or use animated PowerPoints (Kelly Mullins of Techsmith has a demo on this), or you can use a product like Blufftitler:
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hi there. i've figured how to do a title clip in CS8. What I haven't figured out is how to make the blank black screen I get at the end of my Flash/HTML5 video to display the ending title clip. In other words, I want the last image in the video to be what is displayed when the end of the file is reached. I know I have some control over this with the Production Wizard but I seem to only be able to set the Start Thumbnail, and none of the behaviors in the After Video selection box seem to help. -
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Although it doesn't reproduce completely Title Clips, I think users might not realize the existence of the Insert Time command for the Timeline. This makes it much easier to move everything forward in time to make room for the Title Clip you wish to insert. (put the Green end of the Playhead at the moment in time where you want to make space, put the red end where the space should end, right click anywhere in the resultant blue rectangle on the timeline, and choose Insert Time).
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Note that you can also delete a section of time (thus moving everything past that point "to the left" by placing the green part of the playhead at the beginning of the section to delete, the red part at the end of that section, and then pressing the "cut" (little scissors icon) above the timeline. (Pressing the key on the keyboard doesn't work and right-clicking on the selected region of the timeline doesn't bring up a "delete time" choice analgous to the "insert time" command so you might not realize the "Cut" icon works).
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As a new beginner to CS 8, never having experience with CS7. I can echo the same desire to have a dedicated Titles button.
I don't even know Camtasia, but recognized its similarity to other NLEs and went immediately looking for Titles.. its just a natural thing to do.
Finding it in Callouts.. was quite frankly.. Bizzare
I can also agree with the notion that the product seems more programmer, engineer driven.. and the help seems skewed that way too.
The concepts of "connecting" with the industry or peoples familiar conceptions are missing in the help and the tutorials. It's definitely not something that cannot not be easily fixed.
For now the "hunt and peck" typist is how I feel.. now where did they "hide" something.
I'm torn with the idea that Camtasia may fall to the bottom of my toolbox and I'll just use it for creating capture content only and bailout to using a real NLE for producing movies. That makes Camtasia exorbitantly expensive. But if they only defend their design and do nothing to change it.. even if they win the argument.. I just won't use the Studio part. It will have failed me.. because I don't agree. -
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Hey everyone,
There was a video on how to do a quick workaround that was posted above, but it got sort of buried so I thought I'd post it again! Here it is: http://www.screencast.com/t/ts3ierM3
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Logan, we just don't get it. The clip you just posted was over 3 minutes long. Granted, some of that was setup, but you had so many extra steps in there, it was absurd. It seems as though, to "push" everything out of the way to add a title clip, you need to select tracks, groups them, rename them - twice - and then add the "callout" title. Do you know how long the same process takes in Cam 7? Seconds. When the outcry from the users is so much in favor of a dedicated title screen function, for the company to ignore this and come up elaborate work-arounds for simple title screens is just bad customer service.
Just because somebody in the company is in love with their little animated titles doesn't mean you should lose the dedicated title button option when repeatedly request by consumer. Don't be a Windows Vista, which left so much of its user base behind in Windows XP. -
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Logan's video does accomplish what he sets out to do.
However, it is much easier to simply use the new "insert time" command and not bother selecting everything as a group. -
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I think that video was posted prior to 803, which added the "insert time" workflow. Here's an updated example using "insert time": http://www.screencast.com/t/Sf9lqvHbq8
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This is just an observation about a similar product with similar challenges in the User Interface.
Sony Vegas Movie Studio - had, has, and does have a very similar User Interface.
It started as an Audio editing program that was purchase and then developed to also edit Video.
It started with a limited number of tracks and more tracks were added.
The User Interface to this day looks like a convergence with Camtasia 8's current user interface.
I didn't realize this until I happen to open them at the same time and realized why some features seemed to appearing and disappearing to me. It was because they were in Movie Studio but not in Camtasia or vice versa.
The pop-under "Tabs" for the Task window have a straighter "Edge" and slightly different labeling but they are present in both programs.
Camtasia appears to have evolved from a user "Need" for a quick Wizard "post processor" workflow and methodology that didn't address a lot of the detailed steps that a generic Non-Linear Editor lets a user cover.
Camtasia 8 is a huge step in the direction of becoming a generic Non-Linear Editor of the class of not only a Sony Movie Studio, but an Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere or Avid Media Composer.
Camtasia 7 had more in common with Apple iMovie or Windows Movie Maker - simpler with firmly restricted and defined task goals in mind. You captured your content and didn't really have to plan a "Project" you just went direct to Edit and Publish.. done.
To that end, Camtasia 7 is like a different product than Camtasia 8, a Camtasia "light".
Apple recently revamped their Final Cut Pro and abandoned the Professional market for the Consumer market. Causing a lot of unhappy customers. I believe it was based on the idea that there are more customers at the low end and that smooths revenue cycles.
It could be Camtasia is transitioning in the other direction, going from strictly Consumer market to the Professional market. And making similar waves.
Apple eventually relented and now offers both the new Consumer version and the old Professional version.. but did a lot of brand damage in the process.
I won't say Techsmith has made the same mistake, but they do let a Camtasia 8 license activate Camtasia 7.. so in that way, while not advertising they offer two different products.. they in fact do offer two different products.
For both Apple and Techsmith - the problem is Customer "doubt" in whether bug fixes and incremental features will continue to be developed for one or the other products. Final Cut Pro users on the Processional side are looking or adopting other tools, so that market is naturally eroding away - due to a lack of clear advice or guidance coming from Apple. I think a similar thing could happen with Camtasia. -
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"Missing title clips" really should be a non-issue - IMHO . The use of multiple tracks in CS 8 facilitates more impressive title clips than is possible in CS7.
If you want the "old look-and-feel" back - create a title page in Powerpoint and capture it with Snagit. Import it into the clip bin. -
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Yes, I want to have the title clips added back into Camtasia 8. There are times when I decided that I need to add a title card after the recording is done and I have already started editing.
Adding a "title card" as a "callout" is a royal pain. I can't add it into my timeline. EVERY clip now has to be moved manually.
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Note that you can position the playhead to the beginning of the timeline, hold down the key, and drag your mouse to the right to move all of the items to the right, making room for your title clip.
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Now is it just the extra step of having to go through the clip bin to add an image that you feel is a time waster, or are there other steps that you feel also take more time than before?
... to have to go all the way over to add the clip then drag it over to a new track size it and drop, etc. Oh. and not be able to crop the new frame is a problem too...
My function in life is currently editing already-recorded (by someone else), full-motion, full-screen, PIP with speech-to-text captions (each project with several video clips).
In Cam7, Title clips could be inserted at the play head, and they would neatly ripple the rest of the timeline forward that amount.
Having negotiated Caption and project conversion pitfalls, I have now (having come to this discussion several hours ago and yesterday, dreading this step based on the comments here), tried everything to get the "callout-title-clip-stand-ins" inserted without erasing the first fifteen seconds of the video.
I have tried to add a callout, and it goes in a new track overtop the beginning of the presentation. I can't figure out how to make room for it at the beginning of the video so that I can slide it into place.
I have tried "Select all media in track" and slid each track over to a 15-second Marker. No dice: first, the speech-to-text track is packed, and (probably therefore) takes forever to move.
No matter what I try, "select all media in track" erases the first 15 seconds of the video. I pasted in the video clip in question, copie dthe missing portion and attempted to add it in the gap, but really, why should I have to? Why doesn't "select ...all in track" do it?
So count me among the ranks of "not amused."
It's not that I don't want to learn enough about editing clips, though I really have no need to know that if I can just drop in title clips.
A few clicks to drop in three title slides in the beginning, and then a little more to fill them in ith content has become an (apparently) unattainable task unless I figure out a way to insert some blank space at the beginning without erasing the video.
I am on this project for the love of it, but were I a project manager paying someone to be me and to make progress on just the editing of speech-to-text and the addition of title slides and markers (for eventual hyperlink menus) I would be absolutely LIVID at what this would do to the project timeline
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I am happy to see tech support in here, and linking helpful info, but baffled at the decision to do away with title clips. Would like to know why, but more than that, if anyone will share a solution or an alternate workflow i can go on with Cam 8 - otherwise I may have to revert to Cam7
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Based on your description of the projects you're working on, my understanding is that you're typically working with a good number of video clips, a lot of captions, and mainly wanting to add title clips at the beginning and end of the timeline. If that's accurate, you can currently do that, but it is a little trickier than with CS 7. Here's a quick example: http://www.screencast.com/t/ts3ierM3 Considering it took three minutes of explanation though, it does seem like a bit of a workaround, ripple-insert would really help here. Sorry for the trouble!
Yes, ripple the timeline is a good description of what title clips did in Cam7 when I needed to just insert a title slide and a couple of other slides at the beginning.
I didn't even have to marquee-select and group as you showed - dragging a slide down "just worked" (the slide just peacefully bumped everything else over). The reason that's helpful is that it's so simple and intuitive for my case - where I an receiving a package that a video savvy SME has painstakingly put together and trying to get it back out the door, with text-to-speech cleaned up (a la ADA/508), a few callouts added where necessary to clarify, markers added to drive a hyperlink menu to subtopics, and into-outro slides added. Editing captions that much has its own challenges. Cam7 was sensitive about that, and Cam8 seems to be as well. Then clarifying the ad-llibbed track (no script) takes a lot of concentration. Grouping ism't difficult, but for someone who is just focusing on captioning for assistive reasons the ability to just make simple slides in the Clip bin and drag in copies that could be tweaked for an ending
In Cam8, it *looks* like it is almost that simple: right-clicking the head of a track (much like selecting an entire row of a spreadsheet to do something to the entire row) brings up a context menu that has an option to select all media in the track.
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- In response to 'selecting all media in the track,' the whole track changes color.
- I can drag the beginning of the track over 15 seconds, and it looks like that's "rippling" the whole track for captions (even though with non-stop speech-to-text on a 30 minute presentation that takes a good long while, not surprisingly :-) ), and also rippling the video, PIP and audio.
- but when I Play to check the effect, about 15 seconds of the video/audio/PIP/captioning is erased. (Sorry to be imprecise, but I was exhausted and just going by the captioning to tell where I needed to try and copy the missing chunk to try and reinsert it.)
The rest of the track move seems to work (the rest of the track elements seem to have moved - I replayed the end to check that out. Everything stayed in sync as well, I believe, though I didn't replay the entire half hour video.
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I had also tried "splitting" with the playhead at the zero point. Not surprisingly that didn't work (splitting wasn't an option at the zero point of the timeline).
I had done grouping, but not quite that way. I did it to try and create a group of slides, thinking that Cam8 might let me "drop" that in at the beginning of the timeline as I had with Cam7. I did not realize that marquee-select worked; I just control-clicked until I selected each of my little group of slides. then I copied them for the "outro" bunch.
Your simulation of the raw material I am working with was very thoughtful, and reasonably precise, though I have only a few callouts in one track: I have speech-to-text captions, video, PIP, and an audio track.
I was able to make this work, so thanks sincerely for the demo and the audio.
For any others used to Cam8 who were also just new to Cam7 and new to the interface for editing video as I was, It's really pretty essential to scale the Group to fit in the window prior to trying to drag it.
The reason I was not seeing the beginning of the video after I dragged was that unless I got the whole group in the window it seemed hard to drag the whole group - only the end of the group seemed movable. Moving only the end of the group just has the effect of making the first part of the video apparently disappear. Undoing the drag reveals the entire video, but then you have re-filled the gap you were trying to make with the drag in the first place. You have to make sure that you're grabbing the whole group (check the length of the video you're dragging - should NOT be decreasing as you drag.)
With a video this size, be prepared for a lag as you drag, even if you have a pretty beefy system (I have an Ivy Bridge I7 (3720M) CPU).
Couple of other observations:
I have pretty much basic black static slides, as in Kevin's demo. Most of the content changes in these from presentation to presentation in the series - not just the title. The only option for reusing the style and verbal framework together seems to be to put them in the Library. (It's not an option, apparently, to have them orbit in the clip bin for Cam8.)
I'm OK with grouping the first set, copying and pasting the set as the ending, as an alternative to copying the first set to the Clip Bin.
However, having given the Group/Copy/Paste a try, I am honestly still missing the ability to just position the playhead at the zero point, "add Clip to timeline," and have the space for the intro slide appear as the rest of the time line shifts.
Putting it another way: putting my hypothetical project manager hat on, with Cam8 I would now add a mini lesson in video editing such as Kevin's demo to training on editing Captions for a regular copyeditor that I might hypothetically hire for the purposes of making text-to-speech into readable, ADA-style Captions and adding intro and ending slides. With Title Clips a la Cam7, the only thing I would really have to make sure I trained on with respect to Titling was that it is essential to correctly position the playhead first, or else the Title Clip will go at some unintended place.
Thanks for listening. Hope this is helpful out there somewhere.