How to create animations from videos using Camtasia software

Camtasia Studio software is a specialized software that supports the computer screen recording, video editing and editing professionally .

However, did you know that in Camtasia software there is also a pretty good function that is to create animations from videos, allowing you to create animations from any video on Youtube or videos you shoot extremely by yourself. simple.

If you do not know how to create animations from video with Camtasia, please follow my tutorial!

1. How to create animations from videos with Camtasia

// This article is done on Camtasia 2019, other versions you do completely similar.

To create animations from videos with Camtasia Studio software, you follow the steps below:

+ Step 1: Insert the video you want to create an animation for, by going to Media => selecting Import Media .

Note: You should only create animations from short videos only, if it's too long, usually people leave the video format, but few people create animations.

+ Step 2: After inserting the video into Camtasia software => next, right-click the video => then select Add to Timeline at Playhead to add the video to the Timeline bar.

If the video is too long, while you only want to take a short part of the video (about a few seconds), then you cut all the other clips and delete them all, keeping only the part of the video you want to animate. Come on!

If you do not know how to cut the video, please read this article again: Basic knowledge when using Camtasia Studio 2019, 2020 .

+ Step 3: After finishing processing the video then => next go to Share => choose to go to Local File .

+ Step 4: Select Custom production settings => and click Next.

+ Step 5: Since we are looking to create an animation, the format that we will need to choose is GiF - animation file => click Next to continue.

+ Step 6: Next is to choose how many frames per second, here I will choose at the highest level ie 30 frames per second. The higher the selection, the smoother the motion picture will be, but the heavier the capacity will be.

Note: If you use lower versions of Camtasia such as: Camtasia 8, Camtasia 9, then you should leave Automatic mode to let the software adjust itself for the best fit.

In addition, you can also preview how the exported animation will run by clicking on Preview current settings in the Preview section to preview it.

If you do not want to preview, you click Next to continue.

2. Resize the animation

+ Step 7: In this step, Camtasia software will automatically take the size of the video to make the size for the animation.

However, if you want to change the size of the animation, you can tick Custom => and then enter the size you want to change in Width and Height.

Also here I want to keep the size of the video, so I will choose Curent => and click Next to continue.

+ Step 8: If you want to add some information to the animation, choose the Option in the Video Info section.

Then enter the information in turn .

3. Copyright stamped animations

And if you want to copyright this animation, please check the box Include Watermark => then click on Option.

Next you choose the path to the image you want to copyright, if you want to edit the effect of the image, you can adjust it in the Effects, Image Scale…. => Then click OK to confirm.

If you do not want to edit the information, or you do not want to copyright your animation, click Next to continue.

+ Step 9: Name the animation in the Production name, and choose the location to save the image in Folder. After selecting, click Finish to export the image file.

Then your GIF animation will start to be rendered, wait until the rendering is complete, you go to the location to save the file to get the animation.

Yes, so in this article I have very detailed instructions show you how to create animations from videos using Camtasia Studio software. Hopefully this little trick can help your work. Hope you are succesful !

Note: In addition to this article, you can see the full series of manuals of Camtasia Studio if you want to understand more deeply about this software.

Kareem Winters

Update 06 April 2021