Animate moving objects along a circle path in
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Camtasia doesn't have a circle path animation or any animation along a path. In this Camtasia tutorial, I'm using a simple animation trick to make an object move in a circular motion. This is not a rotate around its own axis, but moving the object/clip on screen in a round shape.
You can then replace the simple shape in the tutorial with a clip of your own and create some cool effects. Learn how to combine animations and groups to achieve this moving clip in a circle fashion animation in Camtasia.
I'd love your comments and feedback and if you have any questions on the techniques or anything to do with Camtasia, don't hesitate to ask. I know the final product is not perfect but it illustrates that it is possible to do it.
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version 2021 is not coming out. may have overlooked. I will try again. thanks for the lesson!
You are welcome! Hope you figured it out.
Thanks dude. Exactly what I was looking for. you just saved me a bunch of time. Also, 3 years, hundreds of videos, and I didn't know you could right click animations and change the movement. Liked and Subscribed with notifications!
Glad I could help! Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it! Let me know if there are other things you struggle with. I publish Camtasia videos every week and also have a Facebook Group where I provide one-on-one support for Camtasia: cotovan.com/group -- maybe I'll see you there?
you are a genius!
Not really, but thanks!
Great video, thanks for sharing. In some ways I like the limitations of Camtasia because of the speed at which you can get things done. Nice to know animation such as this can be done without heading back to After Effects etc too.
Very true! Camtasia is no AfterEffects... but then, it doesn't try to (or have to) be! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for your guidance.
You're most welcome!
Thank you so much.
You're welcome!
Nice one! I was playing with it and think I found an even simpler & little more elegant technique. Create the guide shape and the circle shape to animate like you do to start. Snap the circle to the top of the circle guide as you do. Add a rectangle shape and size / snap the top of it to the top of the circle. Then, move the circle to the bottom of the guide circle, and size the rectangle shape to snap to the sides and bottom of the circle. Set the opacity of the rectangle to zero. Group the circle and rectangle. Now you can just use a Rotation on the Z axis animation of 360 (or -360 to rotate clockwise) on the group and it will animate in a perfect circle. Delete the guide shape. What do you think? Thanks for the inspiration!
That sounds like the clip you want to animate would also be turned upside down during the rotation, no? Unless I’m misunderstanding what you propose, that is not what I am after in this case. While I did animate a circle, imagine the circle were a video clip.
@@Graphicious Yep, you're right. Works great for a circle but other objects (even a different shape like a star) will rotate. Still not a bad effect for shapes. I tried to offset it with a counter rotation on the shape but the timing is off because the objects are different sizes. I'll keep playing with it. Thanks.
Rotate the inner clip in the opposite direction inside the group. That way it'll stay upright as it rotates around the outer edge of the grouped shape. Outer group - rotate to 359 degrees, inner clip, rotate to -359 degrees.
Here's a suggestion. After you group, pop open the group, move to the start of the group and remove the internal animations. Now you have a big group and the circle is at one end of the group. So if you just rotate the group around it's center that little circle on the edge will rotate perfectly around in a circle since the distance from the center of the group to the center of the circle that is in the group remains constant.
Thanks! I know what you're saying but imagine if the circle wasn't a circle, but a video clip. It would turn upside down. But with the method in this video, the clip would always stay vertical AND move in a circle motion. I guess my example was not very fortunate, since I chose a circle, but the idea is to make anything go around in a circle and maintain its orientation.
Beautiful! Elegant use of the inherent properties!
BTW, I created a spiral variation by combining position and scale.
That’s cool, thank you!
Man, you are amazing
Thanks a lot! I appreciate it.
@@Graphicious how to do a count up? For example, $ moving from 0 to 1000 or to million ?
@@shortnotes1904 you need the dynamic counters as detailed in this video: czcams.com/video/6L9PuEKa_oM/video.html
Very Nice! Thanks a million!
Thank you too!
I wish Camtasia would allow objects to follow a curved path that you specify. Not only in 2d, but in 3D as well. Is this possible in the latest version of Camtasia?
WoW
Thank you for watching!
This is very useful. Thank you for this demo (the sound is much better too! :)
Glad to hear that!
Very Helpful
Glad it helped
Thank you Cristian very much.
You are welcome!
i like it
Really enjoyed your teaching style and this video. Would be interesting to know if we can use an Alpha channel to show a circle video rotating round. I saw a video showing how to make webcam footage in a circle at the corner of your screen while screen recording.. Anyway just random thoughts.. just subbed
Yes you can! You can create the circle video effect first, then GROUP it, and animate the group just like the circle in this video. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
@@Graphicious thanks.. itll be a bit like james bond films opening sequence
Nice tehchnic, but I think it would be easier if had put four same objects at the corner of circle and then making those 5 five objects, including bigger circle, a group. If you rotate this group around y axis then all four objects will return around the circle. Remove three of them if you need only one.
It's possible, although with some limitations. The group creates its own 'scene' and if an object is then animated and would come out of this area, it would get cut off. Also, I am not sure if the group, once you remove the three circles, it would rotate the same way. I'd have to test it. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
@@Graphicious thanks I haven't known this scene issue for groups. The idea of other three circle is about the making the center of the group at the bigger circle. So, deleting them after grouping should not change the center. Loved your videos on the hand, thanks again :)
Your method might work when you JUST work with circles. But if you want to have a different clip or shape, such as a video clip, spin in a circle like this, you can't do it with your method because it would rotate the actual clip upside-down. With the method in this video you can have any object spin in a circle, no matter the size or shape.
Thanks! This was most helpful :)
Glad it helped!
Excellent 👍👍👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
@@Graphicious is there a way to rotate continuously? I made several copies to keep it rotating continuously till the end of the clip Is there another way?
Not really, a video in Camtasia is a finite project, and individual clips and animations only run from start to end. Camtasia doesn't support expressions and loops like AfterEffects yet.
@@Graphicious 👍👍
How about just using an annotation shape with 4x the size of the object and placing the object at the very end and group it.
This would make the anchor point of the group in the centre and you can just rotate the group to get the same circle path effect!
Yes, but your object would rotate when you rotate your group. If you have a video clip of a person, and you are trying to make it move in a circle, it will turn them upside down and so on. Rotating a group doesn't keep the contents of the group vertical.
@@Graphicious Even in that scenario, I would do the same thing. Just use clockwise rotation on the group & anti-clockwise rotation on the object.
Here is a quick sample I made: imgur.com/gallery/k0Px22M
That is cool, I didn't think of that. Yes, it works that way too. The problem I can see with that off the bat is that the two animations need to be perfectly synchronised. Good one!
@@Graphicious Liked your approach too. It's a bit complicated but out of the box thinking 😁
Thanks. Yours is more elegant, with less steps. I should probably make a video with this approach as well. I'll give you credit, of course!
Nice. 👍
Thanks 👍
Well thats a clever hack thank you
Thanks for watching! Glad you find it useful.
thanks
No problem. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
I would love to be able to do this with text. Is that possible?
I don't see why not. The principle is the same, just instead, run all the animations on the text.
How to create a hollow circle in Camtasia? (meaning, just round borders should be displayed)
You can use the annotations section, to to the top of the panel and choose to show 'All' annotations. There should be a circle one. Add it to your canvas and then on the right side properties panel, change its outline and fill.
@@Graphicious But, I found a solution. Just by giving an outline, say, with thickness 7, and changing the Opacity to 0% for the Shape, gives a hollow circle.
Sorry Cristian but I've got a question regarding this, please. I was wondering if you could show us how to make two slightly merged, different colour circles (i.e. a ven diagram) revovle around each other fast until they merge into one circle and change colour so it's a blend of both circle colours? Thanks again.
Hey Ahmed, I think I understood your question and I think you don't need the effect shown in this video for what you want to achieve. I've recorded a tutorial specially for you, showing how to achieve what I think you want. Let me know if it helps: czcams.com/video/eFNM25yy5Wg/video.html
Did it help?
Greatly tbh. Thank u very much.
I love it tbh.
I know I'm being greedy but is there anything in Camtasia that reverses animations? I've come across one video by the Camtasia ppl but it was a bit complicated for me tbh 😀.
It's very hard and very lezy prosess..but I kno very fast and easy step..
You do?
@@Graphicious yes
@@SreedhamSreeangon OK, let's hear it.
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cant group them #Clip section clicking on mouse 2 and #group is not available
What version of Camtasia are you using?
I cant group my animation!
What version of Camtasia are you using?