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Exploring the timeline

Exploring the timeline - Camtasia Tutorial

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Exploring the timeline

Let's take a few minutes to explore the timeline for Camtasia Studio. To begin, let's orient ourselves to the major components of the timeline itself. Starting at the top-left, we have our Zoom and basic editing controls and then we have our Undo, and Redo buttons; Cutting, Splitting, Copying, and Pasting buttons. Below these tools, we see the timeline itself. And the most important tool available to you, the playhead. By clicking-and-dragging the playhead back-and- forth along the timeline, we're able to quickly skim through our video to find a specific location to edit. The small green widget on the left side of the playhead allows us to select an In point by clicking-and-dragging that location to our desired In point. The small red widget to the right of the playhead allows us to set an Out point, and we can click-and-drag that to its location. By pressing the Spacebar on our keyboard, we can preview the section of video that we've selected. Press the Spacebar as many times as we…

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