From the course: Camtasia 3 for Mac Essential Training
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Using Cursor effects - Camtasia Tutorial
From the course: Camtasia 3 for Mac Essential Training
Using Cursor effects
- [Instructor] When creating screen casts, when you want your viewer to follow along with the movements of your cursor, it can be helpful to customize the look of the cursor or apply a cursor effect, to really emphasize your point. There are two cursor properties, scale and opacity that you can adjust for any clip recorded with Camtasia. Scale changes the size of the cursor and opacity makes the cursor visible or not. You can reset any of these parameters by clicking the reset button. Click on the cursor effects panel or press the u key, to quickly jump to it. Pressing the u key again will cycle through the other tabs on this panel. We'll get to these in a later movie. Cursor effects are applied by dragging the widget onto a clip recorded in Camtasia and they appear in the effects bars. Initially they are applied to the entire clip. But you can control the timing of the effect by trimming the ends of the effect or dragging it to another point in your timeline. Let's add all three…
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