Leverage PowerPoint Templates in Camtasia Studio

There are LOTS of great PowerPoint templates available today that we, as video creators, can use to help us crank out visually compelling video content.

We like using these templates because of their good graphical design, animations, story flow, etc. But one of the things many folks don’t make the connection to is:

There is also a TON of “stuff” we can use in many of these templates in Camtasia Studio!

Sure…we can use images (especially PNG’s) by right-clicking on them on a slide and Save As Picture, then bring them into Camtasia to use but let’s think “outside the box” a little and see if we can also leverage some of the design elements.

In this quick demo, Lon shows how to not only break some cool stuff in a template apart and add it to his Camtasia Library, but also how to recreate the animation effect so it is always available right inside Camtasia (as opposed to having to use PowerPoint to modify it and Export as a movie clip:

Pretty slick, eh?

Here are some of our favorite template resources that you can start leveraging too:

Enjoy!

– Lon Naylor

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Bob Moore Reply

Thanks, Lon, for sharing your innovative idea. Bob

    Lon Naylor Reply

    My pleasure Bob. Glad you liked it. I’ll be coming out with a lot more PowerPoint tools & tips soon.

John Reply

Hi Lon, Enjoyed the tutorial. Could you tell me which of the offers below contain the slides you were using in the demo? That was pretty cool. I have Camtasia 8.4 but I am just starting out and couldn’t Afford all three of the offers. It would help me if you could identify which offer contained those slides. Thanx for your tuition which is much appreciated and along the way, I will endevour to purchase some of your great recommendations .

    Lon Naylor Reply

    Hi John,
    Thanks! The actual slide deck I used for the demo is from the Levidio set and is called the Photography template. I believe that particular template is in the One-time Offer (OTO) upgraded pack you can get after the initial purchase.

Susan Reply

Hi,
I’m unclear as to how you were able to separate out the actual components of the slide. Did you cover this in a previous training ?
Thanks

    Lon Naylor Reply

    Hi Susan,
    It’s just creating a few new blank layout slides, and a Copy / Paste of individual elements onto the new slides (one element per slide). Then, right-click on the element and Save As Picture (make sure you save as PNG).

    I think I have a tutorial that might help a bit more:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciy8rpZVZRY

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