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Making it snap with magnetic tracks

Making it snap with magnetic tracks - Camtasia Tutorial

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Making it snap with magnetic tracks

- We're going to take a look at Camtasia's new magnetic tracks feature. Now magnetic tracks are both cool and a little bit dangerous, which is exactly how I like my tools to be. Now magnetic tracks are aptly named. If I enable magnetism on this track, watch what happens to my clips. It does exactly what it says and magnetizes all my clips so they snap together. Watch here. If I zoom out a bit and I can just drag this clip over here and pop, it goes right back where it was. All of my clips are magnetized. Now, in some cases, this is great. Let's say I want to edit my talking head here, I can enable magnetism and I'll zoom in so you can see what's going on. And as I edit, as I trim off the crust, Camtasia is just filling in the gaps. I can even split this track, Command + T, trim this off, trim this off, and I can save myself a step there. If I want to insert a clip into my track, let's go here to the media bin and…

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