From the course: Camtasia 2 for Mac Essential Training
Unlock this course with a free trial
Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts.
Timeline overview - Camtasia Tutorial
From the course: Camtasia 2 for Mac Essential Training
Timeline overview
- [Instructor] Let's take a closer look at the timeline. The timeline looks like a ruler that's just above the clip tracks, and it's broken up into units of time. The playhead always displays the time code for the current frame. My playhead is currently parked at zero hours, zero minutes, 19 seconds, and 12 frames. Camtasia divides every second of real time into 30 frames, so a half second is the same as saying 15 frames. If you drag your playhead forward, notice that the last two numbers begin to increment up until you get to 29. The next frame is zero zero, and it begins counting up again. At the very bottom of the window, you can see the total length of your movie displayed in time code. My movie is 56 seconds and 14 frames long. Time code is extremely helpful while editing since it lets you find and talk about specific points in your movie. You can zoom into your timeline by dragging the slider at the bottom of your screen to the right. Notice that the divisions in your timeline…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.