Camtasia

Create Animated Brushstrokes in Camtasia

In this detailed Camtasia minicourse, I walk you through creating animated brushes in Camtasia. You will also learn how to use them as masks to reveal pictures, videos, titles, and other components.

Cristi Cotovan21 lessons46 min
Create Animated Brushstrokes in Camtasia

About this course

What's covered in this course

Throughout the course, I explain each step in detail, starting from how to source brushes through either creating them in Photoshop or downloading them from the internet. 

We'll then dive into detailed instructions on animating the brushes and assembling them with different colours and effects.

I do not leave anything out. I show you absolutely all the steps required, we go through creating guide arrows to manage the direction and speed of the brush animations. 

We look at a bug Camtasia has to do with the group geometry and how to work around that.

Lastly, I'll show you how to reveal assets underneath these animated brushes effectively. 

This minicourse is ideally suited for those looking to add an artistic touch to their videos, whether for personal projects, work presentations or YouTube content. 

You do not need super expensive or complicated software to achieve these animated brush strokes - just Camtasia and a little ingenuity.

Curriculum

2 modules · 21 lessons
Introduction
0 min
01 Find brushes online
1 min
02 Create brushes in Photoshop
2 min
03 Exporting Brushes as PNGs
1 min
04 Export the brushes from Photoshop
0 min
05 Import brushes to Camtasia
0 min
06 Create the animation
1 min
07 Using transitions for animation
3 min
08 Create a guide
3 min
09 Create different sized brushes
4 min
10 Adjusting Animation Start Time
1 min
11 Add Markers for Ease of Use
4 min
12 Add brushes to library
1 min
13 Dealing with Group Geometry Bug
0 min
14 Create Brush Area for Text
1 min
15 Create Brush Ensemble
5 min
16 The reveal with mask
6 min
17 Add drop shadows to brushes
1 min
18 Change Brush Stroke Colors
1 min
19 Closing remarks
0 min

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$9.99

This course includes

  • 21 lessons
  • 46 min of content
  • Full lifetime access
  • Certificate on completion

Lead Instructor

Cristi Cotovan

Cristi Cotovan

Cristi is a passionate video editor, graphic designer and developer. He loves training others on video editing, podcasting, identity design and has a knack for explaining workflows and processes.