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Camtasia cursor effect to simulate and indicate a mouse click

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This post describes how to add a Camtasia cursor effect to simulate and indicate a mouse click by making the mouse size change, similar to the effect seen in the Camtasia Tutorials. The effect can easily be created by using a simple animation. 1. Change the default cursor size to 150% across the entire clip 2. Add a Custom animation where you want to indicate a mouse click.  Shorten the animation length to about 0.1 seconds. 3. Set the cursor size to 100% after the animation 4. Add a second Custom animation and place this directly after the first animation 5. Set the cursor size back to 150% after the second animation 6. Fine tune the position of the animations if required.  The middle of the animation should be lined up with where you want to simulate a mouse click. Double click To simulate a double click, simply copy and paste the two animations above and put them all next to each other. Quickly apply elsewhere Once created, you can easily use the cursor effect in other part...

Camtasia Behaviors, Cursor, Audio and Visual Effects empty with no effects showing

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This post describes how to fix a problem in which Camtasia Behaviors, Cursor Effects, Audio Effects and Visual Affects are empty with no effects showing: This happened after I first installed Camtasia 2020. Resolution The resolution turned out to be quite easy.  I simply closed Camtasia then re-opened it.  The Behaviors, Cursor Effects, Audio Effects and Visual Affects now appeared as expected: Related Posts -  Camtasia cursor effect to simulate and indicate a mouse click -  Open camproj file in Camtasia 2020

Open camproj file in Camtasia 2020

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 This post describes how to open a .camproj file in Camtasia 2020. I was previously using Camtasia Studio 8, which saves projects as a .camproj file type. Camtasia 2020 saves projects as a .tscproj file type and cannot open .camproj files. Resolution Camtasia 2019 can open .camproj files and convert them to the new .tscproj format, which can then be opened in Camtasia 2020. Download Camtasia 2019 Camtasia 2019 can be downloaded here: https://www.techsmith.com/download/oldversions Open in Camtasia 2020 When you open the converted .tscproj file in Camtasia 2020, you get prompted to convert it again: You may need to fix some annotations:  For example, one of my annotations looked very squashed after the conversion: Related Posts -  Camtasia Behaviors, Cursor, Audio and Visual Effects empty with no effects showing -  Camtasia cursor effect to simulate and indicate a mouse click