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Using the Spotlight FX - Camtasia Tutorial
From the course: Camtasia 2 for Mac Essential Training
Using the Spotlight FX
- [Instructor] The spotlight effect creates a virtual light that you can place into your scenes and animate over time. Drag the spotlight widget onto a clip in your timeline to apply the effect. The spotlight effect is represented on the canvas by this line. At one end of the line, you have your light source. At the other end of the line, you have your light's target. Click and drag on the light source and target to create a sweeping lighting effect across your clip. Notice that since the spotlight effect was placed on the background of your clip, it's not interacting with our Explore California logo, which is placed on a higher layer in our timeline. In the properties inspector, you can change the color of the light cast on your clip. The default is white, but selecting a different color creates an effect as if you had lit your scene with a colored gel in front of the light. I'll change mine back to white light. Next, you can adjust the quality of the light by adjusting the…
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Understanding Video FX1m 55s
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Using the Color Adjustment FX2m 1s
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Using the Colorize FX2m 36s
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Using the Device Frame FX1m 50s
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Using the Drop Shadow FX1m 51s
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Using the Freeze Region FX1m 38s
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Using the Glow FX1m 22s
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Using the Keystroke FX1m 48s
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Using the Mask FX3m 21s
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Using the Reflection FX1m 29s
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Using the Remove a Color FX3m 26s
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Using the Sepia FX1m 27s
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Using the Spotlight FX2m 44s
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Using the Window Spotlight FX1m 2s
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Using the Interactive Hotspot FX4m 14s
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Using the Clip Speed FX2m 11s
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