Now one very important feature that I want to dive into inside Visual Effects while drop shadow border colorized. And the color adjustment can be very detailed and it can take a lot of things and really portray the video or the frame very uniquely in different aspects. However, the interactive hotspot is something that I often get asked questions about. And I'm going to quickly cover it here because I just want to show you how interactive hotspots are created. The first thing that you're going to need to know is that in order for an interactive hotspot to work, which means something where it pauses the video or opens up a link, and people can click on the video even to continue it. You must upload HTML files that are included inside your Camtasia.
Render. That is what a smart player is or html5. If you simply upload this to a website or to any other place without these HTML files hosted as well beside it, then on Fortunately, you're not going to have the interactivity that you have pre programmed inside all of your videos. So again, the HTML is very important and that needs to be uploaded. So if you're doing this for YouTube, think twice, it's not like that. You can't just create a, you know, moment where the video stops.
And, you know, people can click links or opens up a new website. This is specifically for usually websites that are hosted by you, and you're keeping the video on your platform. Or you can custom add code to a page where the video is at. and that therefore allows you to add the HTML beside it. With that being said, What I like to do is I like to usually create a little line, we'll go ahead and do a black one. Something like this, and say we want people to, you know, click here and get started or click here, they'll click here and get started.
And what we're going to do is here's our shape, we're going to go back to visual effects, interactive hotspot, or I'm sorry, yeah, hotspot, and we see that the effect effect has been added. Now what we're going to do is go over here, pause, we're going to send them to a URL, we may want it to just be Google calm. And then all you're going to do is again, render this video and there's going to be an HTML file that comes along with this. And lets them know that when this shape pops up, they can click this, you know, maybe something where you're referring to it inside of your video, or whatever you're using, you can simply say, hey, the video is going to pause for a second. In that moment, you can actually click on the link that I'm going to be showing you in the video.
And that's going to allow you to open up this tab and send you right to this place without you having to type it in your browser or 100 other things or just you know, I'm going to pause the video give you a second to think about what the what you would say or what you would answer to this question I just posed. When you're ready, go ahead and click, and the video will continue right along, but it's going to pause and three to one. And then that's where this comes in, and that interactive hotspot. So you go ahead and test it, it's going to pop something up, there we go goes to Google. So we're good there. Again, we're going to share local file, we're going to want to render as an html5 right here.
As you see, that's an mp4 Smart player. So it's going to actually come with a few different files, and I'm going to render it real quick. And once you have those files inside your folder, you're going to upload that alongside your video, and that'll get your player going as a smart player that is interactive now. So that's how you actually fully render those videos because I know that when you try and upload them to other video sites or video sharing sites They're not interactive. That's been a big complaint. The reason why is that HTML file