Camtasia 9 keys4/21/2024 ![]() ![]() I think this is a lesson learned from being a jazz pianist - for efficiency reasons, pick a hand position and stay there! Extra buttons on the Logitech MX Master mouse In short, wherever my right hand was, I wanted to be able to use it to do what I needed to do without having to keep moving back and forth. I also wanted to be able to do most of my editing moves directly from the keyboard. I wanted to be able to use those thumb controls on my mouse to do things in Camtasia so I could hopefully save myself a bunch of hand repositioning moves. My mouse is the Logitech MX Master and (in addition to the standard left button, right button, and scroll wheel) it also has a thumb wheel and two other thumb buttons. ![]() Repositioning my hands took time and broke my workflow…and I was doing it hundreds of times per day. One of my biggest frustrations while editing in Camtasia 9 was that I kept needing to lift my hands off the keyboard and mouse and vice versa. Repositioning My Hands to/from Mouse & Keyboard In my case, the application is Camtasia 9 and the scripts I wrote created new keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures in Camtasia that I could use to speed up editing my videos.ġ) Zooming the clip window in/out and scrolling the clip window right/leftĢ) Moving the edit head right/left and selecting right/left These scripts describe a series of actions that get played back against a target application. AutoHotKey lets you create scripts that you can attach to keyboard shortcuts. After some hunting around, I found a product called AutoHotKey. After a while, I started wishing for a way to automate some of the repetitive tasks that I was doing. With that much time spent in Camtasia, you probably won’t be surprised to find out that I found myself doing a handful of actions again and again and again and again. I easily spent at least 100 hours editing videos in Camtasia. In order to get a version of the videos that was clean enough to send to my video editor, I estimated that it took me 4 minutes of editing for each minute of raw footage. For my most recent course, I recorded more than 28 hours of raw video before editing that down to just under 9 hours of produced video. As a Pluralsight author, I spend a lot of time in Camtasia. ![]()
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