Dynamic Captions: New in Camtasia 2024
Dynamic Captions is a highly anticipated feature in Camtasia 2024! I'm excited to show you this game-changing addition, perfect for enhancing your social media clips and video projects with eye-catching animated captions. In this video, I'll guide you through the entire process of using dynamic captions in Camtasia, from transcription to customization.
We start with a quick demo using a podcast clip with my friend Chris Menard. The first step is transcription, which Camtasia 2024 now handles automatically on your device with its built-in transcription engine. No need for cloud services! I'll show you how to add your video file to the timeline and switch your project to full HD.
Adding dynamic captions is straightforward. Navigate to the captions tab on the sidebar where you'll find a variety of animated caption styles. Simply drag a style to your timeline, and Camtasia transcribes the audio automatically, displaying the text on screen. You can then customize these captions extensively-adjust fonts, colors, transition styles, speeds, and placement.
If the automatic transcription isn't perfect, you can easily edit specific words. Just click on the audio file, and the transcription will appear in a box below. Select the word you want to change, click, type the correction, and hit enter. I also discuss some wishlist features, like importing pre-corrected transcriptions and having Camtasia align them automatically.
For customization, you can tweak various aspects of the captions. Change fonts, sizes, and colors, or highlight current words with different colors. You can even make past words less visible and future words more transparent. Adjust background colors, opacity, and corner radius for a polished look. Timing and transition effects add an extra layer of dynamism to your captions, making them slide or pop between words and lines.
Want to create and reuse a unique look? Save your customized caption style as a preset for future projects. This feature is perfect for maintaining a consistent style across all your videos. I demonstrate how to do this and even how to add multiple captions to different parts of your screen.
This new feature is a huge time-saver and a fantastic tool for anyone creating video content, especially for social media. Whether you're making vertical clips for Instagram or full-length KZread videos, dynamic captions can significantly enhance viewer engagement.
Let me know in the comments if you plan to use this feature for your social media clips-I know I will! Thanks for watching, and don't forget to subscribe for more Camtasia tips and tutorials.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro Dynamic Captions in Camtasia 2024
00:23 Setting Up Your Video for Captions
01:23 Adding and Customizing Dynamic Captions
02:34 Editing Transcriptions
03:54 Advanced Customization Options
08:20 Final Thoughts and Future Features
09:32 Conclusion
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Funny how exciting this is, lol. But it's very nice to be able to create presets for different purposes/projects/clients. Very good stuff my man! It's awesome that transcription is integrated and automatic!
@Graphicious
2 ай бұрын
Indeed! It seems it also auto-detects other languages. Requests I've seen since the launch: - allow editing and adding in missing words - exporting the transcript - changing to all caps
@issacsweb
2 ай бұрын
@@Graphicious Those requests make sense, especially the first two.
Thanks as always for a very easy to digest tutorial
@Graphicious
2 ай бұрын
Thank you, glad you find it easy to digest :D Was hoping it was not too long.
hey Cristi thank you so much for this review! is there support in dynamic text for Portuguese Brazil language? could you check this please? thanks in advance.
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
It seems it supports it by auto-detection. Try it!
I like the possibility of using this for lyric videos.
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
Sounds interesting but I wonder if the AI engine will be able to transcribe accurately when there's music present.
Thanks for this. Question: How do you screen record yourself working on Camtasia? Do you use another software?
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
I record with Camtasia and edit in Camtasia. It is possible to run the recorder and show stuff in Camtasia editor at the same time.
@drwride
Ай бұрын
@@Graphicious Thanks! I didn't know that was possible.
would you be able to export the captions. It would be great to take the captions from the video and put it into chat gpt, and create a summory, description or article of your video, using the captions as reference text.
@Graphicious
2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, it's not possible to export the transcribed captions at this point. Hoping that comes soon though, it's a question I tend to get right after mentioning the dynamic captions. I think Techsmith is careful to not make this compete with Audiate too much ;)
Have you found a way to add more words to the transcription window? It skips the first 4 words and will let me fix the later wrong words, but not add the missing.
@Graphicious
2 ай бұрын
No, I don't think it supports that at the moment. Even if you could somehow add the missing words, you'd need a way to align them to the audio properly, and Camtasia doesn't do re-alignment of words to audio like Descript does. I tried and it is possible to edit one word and type two words instead, if say, a word was missing somewhere, but it would end up just considering it one word and play it at the same time as that timestamp was there initially. For more advanced editing like this you'd probably need Audiate or something else.
HANK YOU VERY MUCH CRISTI ON YOUR GREAT VIDEOS. I LEARN FROM YOU SO MUCHT. I HAVE A GREAT ISSUE WITH THE CAMTASIA 2023 SCREEN RECORDER AND NOBODY IN THE SUPPORT SOLVED IT. I CERTAINLY THINK IT IS A BUG IN THE SCREEN RECORDER BECAUSE IN THE OLDER VERSION I HAD (IN CAMTASIA 9) EVERYTHING WAS GOOD. WHEN I RECORD MY WORK FROM ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR IT DOES THE WORK BUT WHEN I START EDITING IN THE FIRST MINUTE OF THE PLAYING IT DAMAGES ALL THE COLORS. MAYBE YOU CAN SOLVE IT? THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH. ILANA
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
Hi Ilana, that sounds like a challenging one, particularly if the support team couldn't solve it. When you say "damages all the colors", what do you mean, like they look washed out, or super saturated and broken? Maybe it's a GPU issue, do you have your drives up to date for your graphics adapter? I can't provide much more info without more background. Have you tried on a different computer?
@user-sv8jg4gg4o
Ай бұрын
@@Graphicious THANK YOU VERY MUCH ON YOUR RESPONSE THE COLOR COMES WHITE OR MUCH MORE BRIGHTER.THE DRIVER I UPDATED WITH THE SAME COMPUTER THE CAMTASIA 9 IS OK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
@user-sv8jg4gg4o a lot of things changed since Camtasia 9. The entire rendering and recording engine has been overhauled as far as I know. You can’t compare them. What computer and OS do you have?
@user-sv8jg4gg4o
Ай бұрын
@@Graphicious I INSTALLED CAMTASIA 24 AND EVERYTHING IS OK. I THINK IT IS A BUG IN THE SCREEN RECORDER OF CAMTASIA 23
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
@user-sv8jg4gg4o yeah they changed it in 2024 a lot. Glad it works
How to use another languages?
@Graphicious
2 ай бұрын
I am not sure, I have not tried it with other languages but I think it just assumes English for now. I will try to look into it.
@photoshopeandotv
2 ай бұрын
I tried it with spanish audio and it transcribed spanish words, so I guess it auto-detects the language somehow.
@Graphicious
2 ай бұрын
Interesting. I'll have to test this myself. I wonder if they have a list of languages somewhere.
Dear cristi, show step by step how to do this in other languages, I don't know how to use the language code, so please make a video and show me Please. my mother language is kannada so how to use this language? please help me
@Graphicious
12 күн бұрын
At the moment it's not possible to specify the language I think, it auto-detects it. Techsmith have confirmed that it detects the language and correctly transcribes in that language but I'm not sure if it supports kannada. It is whatever the "whisper ai" supports. Whisper is the engine that transcribes. Have you tested by adding an audio file in that language?
@ShivaramaGs
12 күн бұрын
@@Graphicious No
@Graphicious
12 күн бұрын
Well, you should test