It's way too easy to move the video on the canvas and I keep messing stuff up.
When I'm putting callouts onto a video, I often end up clicking the wrong thing or accidentally lifting my finger off the mouse button and this results in me inadvertently moving the alignment of the video in relation to the canvas. I record my video with the same dimensions as my final production and I think i'm probably *never* going to adjust the alignment of the video on the canvas.
If I do this, it's not a big problem if I catch it right away. But if I don't notice it until much later, it's really hard to undo.
Feature request #1: I'd love a way to lock the video's alignment to the canvas so I can't unintentionally mess it up.
Feature request #2: Give me a way to recover from this problem. For example, I'd love a feature where I could say "make this video align with the canvas" and Camtasia would automatically snap the video to the same dimensions as the canvas.
BTW, I'm not sure why but I run in to this problem much more often when I'm using Camtasia for Mac.
When I'm putting callouts onto a video, I often end up clicking the wrong thing or accidentally lifting my finger off the mouse button and this results in me inadvertently moving the alignment of the video in relation to the canvas. I record my video with the same dimensions as my final production and I think i'm probably *never* going to adjust the alignment of the video on the canvas.
If I do this, it's not a big problem if I catch it right away. But if I don't notice it until much later, it's really hard to undo.
Feature request #1: I'd love a way to lock the video's alignment to the canvas so I can't unintentionally mess it up.
Feature request #2: Give me a way to recover from this problem. For example, I'd love a feature where I could say "make this video align with the canvas" and Camtasia would automatically snap the video to the same dimensions as the canvas.
BTW, I'm not sure why but I run in to this problem much more often when I'm using Camtasia for Mac.
Posted 6 months ago
kayakman, Champion
Benjamin Day
Dubie
Obviously it's been established that at this time there is no way to lock the background without locking the track.
I gave a vote for this idea. It would be really helpful to say the least.
As for your Feature request #2 that may (again at this time) be helpful is to...
1. Make sure your background is the same size as the canvas to start.
If you scale it up for instance make sure to crop off the areas outside of the canvas.
2. Now as you are working, if you move the background or think you may have than all you have to do is Right-Click on the background somewhere and chose "Scale to fit" from the popup menu.
That should Snap the background back inline with the canvas.
The one catch is don't do it if are working on a section of your video where you have zoomed in the background. Make sure the playhead is at a area that is the original size you started with.
It's the quickest way I have found and use to work around the issue since we can't lock the background .
:)
Joe Morgan
kayakman, Champion
I run into the issue you've addressed quite often, usually when trying to re-position/resize a callout I've just added; I also see the problem when callouts are stacked on top of other callouts;
however, since there can be multiple video tracks, or, video clips on tracks mixed in with other objects, I suspect that preventing the problem might not be so straight forward
I've advocated for a tangential solution to the issue for years; one approach I've often presented to the Camtasia team is a simple "lock all" function; then, a right click on the targeted object could perhaps selectively unlock it? or at least, one could unlock just the targeted track; of course, a "unlock all" function would also be appropriate
but I agree that if the issue could be designed out of the editor, that would be a good thing