Dynamic Captions: New in Camtasia 2024

Dynamic Captions is a highly anticipated feature in Camtasia 2024! I'm excited to show you this game-changing addition, perfect for enhancing your social media clips and video projects with eye-catching animated captions. In this video, I'll guide you through the entire process of using dynamic captions in Camtasia, from transcription to customization.

We start with a quick demo using a podcast clip with my friend Chris Menard. The first step is transcription, which Camtasia 2024 now handles automatically on your device with its built-in transcription engine. No need for cloud services! I'll show you how to add your video file to the timeline and switch your project to full HD.

Adding dynamic captions is straightforward. Navigate to the captions tab on the sidebar where you'll find a variety of animated caption styles. Simply drag a style to your timeline, and Camtasia transcribes the audio automatically, displaying the text on screen. You can then customize these captions extensively—adjust fonts, colors, transition styles, speeds, and placement.

If the automatic transcription isn't perfect, you can easily edit specific words. Just click on the audio file, and the transcription will appear in a box below. Select the word you want to change, click, type the correction, and hit enter. I also discuss some wishlist features, like importing pre-corrected transcriptions and having Camtasia align them automatically.

For customization, you can tweak various aspects of the captions. Change fonts, sizes, and colors, or highlight current words with different colors. You can even make past words less visible and future words more transparent. Adjust background colors, opacity, and corner radius for a polished look. Timing and transition effects add an extra layer of dynamism to your captions, making them slide or pop between words and lines.

Want to create and reuse a unique look? Save your customized caption style as a preset for future projects. This feature is perfect for maintaining a consistent style across all your videos. I demonstrate how to do this and even how to add multiple captions to different parts of your screen.

This new feature is a huge time-saver and a fantastic tool for anyone creating video content, especially for social media. Whether you're making vertical clips for Instagram or full-length YouTube videos, dynamic captions can significantly enhance viewer engagement.

Let me know in the comments if you plan to use this feature for your social media clips—I know I will! Thanks for watching, and don't forget to subscribe for more Camtasia tips and tutorials.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro Dynamic Captions in Camtasia 2024
00:23 Setting Up Your Video for Captions
01:23 Adding and Customizing Dynamic Captions
02:34 Editing Transcriptions
03:54 Advanced Customization Options
08:20 Final Thoughts and Future Features
09:32 Conclusion

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[coach.b]

Thanks as always for a very easy to digest tutorial

[marciopetry]

hey Cristi thank you so much for this review! is there support in dynamic text for Portuguese Brazil language? could you check this please? thanks in advance.

[issacsweb]

Funny how exciting this is, lol.

But it's very nice to be able to create presets for different purposes/projects/clients.

Very good stuff my man!

It's awesome that transcription is integrated and automatic!

[drwride]

Thanks for this. Question: How do you screen record yourself working on Camtasia? Do you use another software?

[KidmuseBethandScott]

I like the possibility of using this for lyric videos.

[Gronvoll]

would you be able to export the captions. It would be great to take the captions from the video and put it into chat gpt, and create a summory, description or article of your video, using the captions as reference text.

[bhgemini]

Have you found a way to add more words to the transcription window? It skips the first 4 words and will let me fix the later wrong words, but not add the missing.

[לימודיתפירהותדמיתנותברעננה-איל]

HANK YOU VERY MUCH CRISTI ON YOUR GREAT VIDEOS. I LEARN FROM YOU SO MUCHT.
I HAVE A GREAT ISSUE WITH THE CAMTASIA 2023 SCREEN RECORDER AND NOBODY IN THE SUPPORT SOLVED IT. I CERTAINLY THINK IT IS A BUG IN THE SCREEN RECORDER BECAUSE IN THE OLDER VERSION I HAD (IN CAMTASIA 9) EVERYTHING WAS GOOD.
WHEN I RECORD MY WORK FROM ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR IT DOES THE WORK BUT WHEN I START EDITING IN THE FIRST MINUTE OF THE PLAYING IT DAMAGES ALL THE COLORS.
MAYBE YOU CAN SOLVE IT?
THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH. ILANA

[ShivaramaGs]

Dear cristi, show step by step how to do this in other languages, I don't know how to use the language code, so please make a video and show me Please. my mother language is kannada so how to use this language? please help me