Camtasia Studio is one of the most used applications by the majority of youtubers and content creators to create their videos, although in professional cases, other programs are used. Even so, it turns out to be a very useful and interesting program for the creation and editing of audiovisual media, even even for placing effects with the famous green screen.
You can download Camtasia Studio from the Internet in its free version or even buy the license to obtain the full version; today we will teach you how to produce Chroma Kay (or green screen) effects and remove them from your video.
How to easily and quickly install Camtasia Stuido 9 on my computer?
In order to use Camtasia Studio 9 it is necessary to have it installed on our PC, we can purchase it on the internet with a free version, which can make our projects have a watermark after exporting it and many functions are limited; the premium version, for its part, does have everything unlocked and, furthermore, it will not have the typical watermark of these free programs. The same is available for both Windows and MacOS computers.
Download and Install for PC
Firstly, we are going to explain the installation method on your Windows PC; Once you have the installer downloaded, look for it in the “Downloads” or “Downloads” folder. When you locate the installer, double click on it or left click and “Open”, this will start the Windows installer and follow the steps that the program tells you.
Make sure you have enough space on your computer and that you also meet the necessary requirements (this is valid for both Windows and Mac OS), since these video editing programs usually consume a lot of resources on our PCs. You can even remove noise from a video with Camtasia Studio in case of cell phone recordings.
Once you have configured the necessary settings, proceed to the installation of the program, wait a few minutes and then click “Finish”. When opening the program the first time, it will surely ask you to enter an ID key to validate the product, this serial will only be available if you bought the application, otherwise, you will be able to use it, but its free version; Once this is done, you will be able to use Camtasia Studio.
Use on a MAC computer
As we said, Camtasia Studio is also compatible with Mac OS, there are three ways to install it. The first way is by moving the program installer to the “Applications” folder, this will start the installation on your PC; the second way is using the App Store, so open it and look for the program in question, when you locate it click on its icon to start the installation (you will have to buy it previously).
The last method is the same as on Windows, i.e. double click on the Camtasia Studio installer to start the process. Once you have your program on your Windows or Mac OS PC, you are ready to work, edit, create, open and save a file or project in Camtasia.
How can I create the Chroma kay effect in Camtasia Studio 9?
The Chroma kay effect is the green background or green screen that is used to add special effects to videos, of course, we won’t get Hollywood-type effects, but we will make our projects look more attractive to our followers.
- You can find these effects already generated on YouTube, so look for one with a green background of the effect you want to add to your video and download it.
- Open Camtasia Studio and what we will do is import or open both your project and the green screen effect.
- We will left click on the Chroma Kay and then on the “Add to weather list” option.
- If the effect you downloaded is longer than your video is, on the same timeline, trim only the portion you need.
- After the adjustments, go to the left menu of Camtasia Studio and click on “More” and then on “Visual Effects” or press the keyboard shortcut “i”.
- Right next to it you will see several effects, we are interested in the one called “Remove a color”.
- Click on the option and hold down dragging to the Chroma Kay timeline.
- Then we click on “Properties” and from there we go to the “Color” box, we display the menu and double click on the dropper icon.
- We drag the mouse pointer that will now be the dropper and we take it to the central image of the green screen background and let go.
This will eliminate the green background of our video, but it will not remove the effect that we put on it, in addition to this you can also add background music to videos without copyright* to give it a more personal style and make them even more striking.
