If you recorded your own webinar, you might be wondering how do you change up the recording and what do you change in the recording if anything. I want to tell you how to use Camtasia Studio to edit out mistakes, clip the beginning and the end, and insert intro music.
Camtasia is the best video editor for making quick and easy changes. I know there are other solutions such as Adobe Premier but everyone I know who've had tried this tell me that it takes an extremely long time to process the video. That's why you should record in Camtasia and edit in Camtasia.
Camtasia shows a timeline of your movie; you can easily select the portion and click on the scissor icon to delete part of your presentation. If you made any really bad mistakes, you can edit them but most of the time, the mistakes are okay; most of the time, your webinar can be posted with no changes to the middle of the content.
But what about at the beginning and end? If you took a while to get started or if you don't want to record yourself hitting the start button, you can select the beginning of the video and hit the scissor icon and delete it. Do the same with the end so as soon as the webinar's over, the video stops as well.
One thing I like to do when editing my videos is add intro music. Most people don't know how to properly add intro music. What you do is import an mp3 or wav file in the Camtasia and drag it under the timeline—not before, not to the left but underneath it—that way it adds the audio at a separate track. If you put an audio file to the left of your recording, it's going to play the audio for how many minutes until your presentation starts. That's not good. But if you drag it below, it will play the audio at the same time as your presentation.
You might notice that the background music is extremely loud in comparison to your recording. So what you do is you click on the lock button and lock the track; then click on the decrease volume icon 6 or 7 times so that the intro music has been decreased enough and the people can still hear what you're talking about. Just by adding this music at the beginning and end of your recording makes it seemed 10 times more professional.
You should edit your webinar recordings with Camtasia since it is the easiest tool to use to edit a video and it has presets for uploading for YouTube, putting on the web, putting on your blog and so on; use it to edit out your minor mistakes, clip off the beginning and end and add intro music.
Get extremely easy video tutorials on how to edit your webinar recordings and more right here at www.webinarcrusher.com.
