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Scaling media

Scaling media - Camtasia Tutorial

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Scaling media

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- [Presenter] Let's take a look at scaling your media, for the best look in your project. So here I have this video clip that I shot at full HD 1920 by 1080. I'm gonna go ahead and drag that to the timeline. Let's find a nice frame that's in focus. Right about there look's pretty good. Now if you look over here in the properties panel, my video clip has been rescaled to about 67%. It's been scaled down to fit the 1280 by 720 canvas. Camtasia automatically resizes my video to match my project dimensions. Now if I want to, I can scale this up. I can go all the way up, to 100% without losing any sharpness. I can scale it here with the slider, or if I want to I can also scale it here on the canvas. Do which ever works better for you. I'm gonna put that to 100%, and I'm gonna zoom out of that here so you can see what's going on. Since my video is scaled up beyond the canvas dimensions, I can reframe things for a different look. If I want to, I can just create a tighter shot here, like…

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