Posted by Luis Ortega on 10/24/06 08:48

Maybe I didn't explain myself well enough.
I'm sure most of you have seen those video training tutorials where you see
the desktop screen of an open software, say Premiere, and you can see the
mouse cursor moving around, pulling down menus, clicking on things, etc.,
while a voiceover explains what you need to do to perform some editing
action. Often they do show the resulting effect, such as applying a dissolve
between two clips on the timeline, as the video that appears in the
software's preview window. In short, what you se during the tutorial is
exactly what you would see yourself on your screen while using the software
itself. The only difference is that it all appears on a smaller window, and
that the tutorial view can move or change to show a smaller area of the
software screen if they want to show some detail in closeup.
Here's a link to what I mean. Once there, just click on the SWF option to
run the tutorial.
http://studio.adobe.com/us/search/content.jsp?lang=en&item=prp2it_transition
What do these tutorial producers use to create their presentations?
Thanks for all the responses.

"Quanta" <none@none.NET> wrote in message
> Camtasia is good but far from perfect or great. I find the videos of
> simple screen shots and movements quite good. However, if you play a
> video window or animation during your capture, it will be a nightmare to
> get it converted well. I own Camtasia and have also tried every shareware
> and freeware. All of these programs use a brute force method of capturing
> screen video changes and really cannot keep up with video or animation at
> ca. 30 fps at all. If that is your goal in your captures under Premiere,
> prepare to be very frustrated.
>
>

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