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Using the Interactive Hotspot effect

Using the Interactive Hotspot effect - Camtasia Tutorial

From the course: Camtasia 3 for Mac Essential Training

Using the Interactive Hotspot effect

- [Instructor] The interactive hotspot effect allows you to create dynamic links inside of your finished movie. Links are only functional if you share your movie as a webpage or via screencast.com. We'll look at each of these options in detail in a later movie. Interactive hotspots are active over the entire area that a clip appears on screen. Let's drag an interactive hotspot widget onto our Explore California logo bug, then, in the properties inspector, we can choose where we want our viewers to be taken to when they click on the logo. Click the option for URL and then enter in the URL for the page where you watch your viewers to go. I'll enter in http://explorecalifornia.org. I've created a basic movie navigation window on the right side of our project, and bundled the clips into a group. Double click the group's gray bar to open the group. Each line of text is a text call out that was created as its own clip, and all of the clips last for the duration of the project, ensuring that…

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