Posted by Tony Morgan on 10/24/06 13:22

In message <65l%g.46474$6C2.6940@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>, G Hardy
<gareth.hardy1@ntlwrold.com> writes
>"Quanta" <none@none.NET> wrote in message
>news:ehjqu0$gu9$1@daisy.noc.ucla.edu...
>
>
>> I did try the latest version, and it does, sort of, capture. The audio is
>> non existant and the video is absolutely horrible for a window displaying
>> mpeg video...or anything with motion.
>
>But that's not what the OP wants: Moving mouse and separate voiceover, I'd
>guess.
>
>To be honest, I'd be surprised if anything can record good-quality screen
>captures of MPEG output, partly because (for perfomance) it's displayed in
>an overlay window, but mostly because the CPU is already busting a bollock
>decoding the MPEG, and you've given it the task of encoding video at the
>same time. It's probably a lot better with dualies, and if your source and
>saved video data are coming down two different channels.
>
>I'm not entirely sure why you'd even want to screencap an MPEG. It's already
>in digital format. Just drop it on the timeline. ;o)
>
Indeed. It's at the very least foolish to expect a program to do
something that it's not intended to do. Quanta, I notice, doesn't say
how he "post-processed" his dynamic screen captures. Did he use the TCC
codec and use the Camtasia Player, or did he use a video editor? And did
he (as recommended by Techsmith) use a higher sample-rate?

It's so very easy to rubbish an application when it hasn't been used
properly. The very fact that he tried to capture screen-displayed video
suggests that he hasn't bothered to read the manual or any of
Techsmith's tutorials or forums. It also appears that he hasn't even
bothered to read what's written on the box :-)

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Tony Morgan

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