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Creating a mask

Creating a mask - Camtasia Tutorial

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Creating a mask

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- [Narrator] Let's take a look at creating a mask. Now, if you're familiar with photo editing this is kinda like cropping but with some definite advantages. I'm gonna demonstrate here with this first clip I pulled from my demo project. Let me play that for you. I'm just gonna tap the spacebar to play that. So basically I have this preview icon that appears to fly out from the effects tab, and I created that with a combination of using an animation and the masking, and I'm going to show you the masking part now. If I click on this clip and then disable this layer, over here in the properties panel you can see I have a rectangular mask applied to the clip. There's with the mask, no mask and I'll do command z to put the mask back. It's really just a screen capture of the effects tab with part of it hidden, or masked out the rest of the Media it's still there, you just can't see it. So, let's walk trough the steps to create a mask. Here is my original clip, alright? so I'm gonna go here…

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