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hey everyone its Marcus brownie and welcome to another HD tutorial and in this video I'll be showing you the easy way that I use to make call-outs in Camtasia Studio 6 so I'll be going over a number of the Camtasia Studio 6 features here but first of all I'm going to open up contageous video and this is the interface itself here we go in order to add a call-out first of all you need to have some media here so I'm just going to inter drag in two Clips here just to make sure videos that I've done nothing special and I'm going to take them and drag them onto the timeline dragging down here they'll be added now you're going to have to choose a preset and I do I put all my videos in HD so if you want to know how exactly I get my HD preset go ahead and watch that video so I'm gonna hit OK and these two clips are officially on the timeline and I can go and preview them or edit them at my will now if I'm if I come to a certain point where I want to add an annotation or sorry a call-out which is basically a campaign you're studio 6 version of an annotation or learning to do is go over here to the edit button and go over it hit be sorry go however it hit the call-outs button and the co-op's button is basically the call-outs are basically little text boxes or different things that you can put over a video they won't slant with your video but they'll they'll work very very well and make your video look professional and you have very good video editing so first of all you have to choose the type of annotation and there are entrusting a lot of types of annotations that you can add here first of all there's the arrow and you will always see by the way the annotation that you're doing in the top in the preview window so you can see you editing your own call-out here adjust the dimensions of it and you can always put text in it so you could say look look here so there it'll show up in your preview window live as you type it so what I like to do you can also do I'll just go through these a two-sided arrow just basically looks like that and our books lights and indented arrow a blurred colon can be used for like blurring personal information so if I don't want you to see something you can put several layers of a blur call-out on top of something you don't want to see I do use that occasionally in my tutorials but no big deal next I'll show you it be highlighter call-out is actually what you can use to highlight text now won't work very well with this with this particular clip here because there's no text in it but if I was doing the screencast and I didn't want to use an arrow or a spotlight which I'll show you in a second and I'll use a little a little yellow highlighter just to show you guys the exact text I want to show you so next oh and you can also choose the fill color of the highlighter next you can choose a highlight rectangle which doesn't do much just kind of brightens the brightens what you have there you can change the color obviously the fill color of a lot of these different highlighters and just hit OK to actually change it now we're going to keep going down to a transparent hotspot I never really use because it doesn't work in YouTube okay this just works for PowerPoint presentations so if you want to see the PowerPoint presentations video go ahead and look at that there's a little integration with Camtasia Studio 6 and powerpoints you can do a notepad one which gets looks like this I have used this one for a while partly I have used this once in a while you can choose what side the note tab is on not a very big deal on me to change obviously the fill color and the opacity of it and I do use these all pretty much all these call-outs won't allow and I'll show you samples obviously as I go through these here next is a bubble call-out explainer call-out which is a I think I believe transparent then the spotlight call-out which I do use kind of often it Gray's out everything in the photo except for what you put the spotlight over so if I want to spotlight certain thing I just drag it and I hit the finish button and it is it is actually spotlighting it for that particular length on the timeline let's keep going down here you can have a filled rectangle around and rectangle a little speech bubble rectangle and it text call-out now the text column is what I use the most it's just a simple text overlay you can obviously change the font here I'll change it to Calibri favorite font and change the size to be a little bigger and there you see I'm going out in the preview window it says look here and there's the text so I do use these coops quite a bit in my videos I don't know you guys have asked so there you go that's how you use the text color now custom calls this is really fun you can add or edit a custom color now I'm going to remove these custom call-outs but on basically if I want to show you guys say a picture of something I would go onto the internet and find a picture and use that as a custom color or maybe just a straight job so let's go ahead and open up the snip tool in Windows Vista and just take a little snip of what we want to show everyone in our video we want to show everyone this little time this little toolbar up here I'm just going to snip that and there is my file I'm going to hit save and I'm gonna save it as a call-out file in my picture so it's my pictures pala file save it and you can just exit out if this is a JPEG image so now when we say we want a custom call-out we're going to go to add / edit custom and again remove these customs and we're going to select a new custom call-out which is where we actually go into our pictures here and whether we've saved one from the internet or we've created a screenshot or whatever we're going to find that picture and here is the call-out file I'll just hit open and here it is in the preview window that's exactly what we're looking for you can change the dimensions we can also obviously do that in a preview window so I'm just gonna okay and then we're going to actually have to select it so just go to select that custom column and there it is now there's still text overlay so I'll just delete that text and here is what we wanted to show people there it is we can obviously uh we can make it bigger so people can see it better we can make it smaller so people don't doesn't draw too much attention but what I like to do if I hit finish here and I go to zoom and pan I like to tail the video to one side and have the call-out on the other side so I talk to the video to that side I'll have a call-out drag it over here to the other side it's an extreme example it doesn't obviously fit very well that's that's what I like to do so yeah that's how I add call-outs you can obviously add text to any to any call-out you'd like it does you can change the font I obviously showed you guys where you get fonts anywhere you like and a down the timeline you can obviously change how long the color lasts so if it's a spotlight and you happen to zoom away you don't have to uh you don't have to have the spotlight still on while you send away from what you wanted to highlight so that's very good so yeah that's basically the general introduction of call-outs in Camtasia Studio six I will have more a lot more Camtasia Studio six what's the call tutorials coming outside whether it has to do with audio with video editing and I'm trying to make a music video so I can check me that's very but anyway that is how you do cause in Camtasia Studio six I hope you found this video helpful and if you do have any other video tutorials or requests just PM me or send me a message and in here are subscribe building requests video I'll show you guys exactly how I do is kind of stuff and I'll put your link in the description some people gonna check out your channel so thanks for watching this video subscribe for more and I hope you like this tutorial and all the rest to come so thanks for watching peace