Posted by Luis Ortega on 10/24/06 16:21

Thanks,
That's pretty close to the price of Camtasia, though.
I just downloaded the Windows Media encoder, and I found a version 3 of
Camtasia free on an old computer magazine disk, and I have been playing
around with them.
Both actually do the screen recording part that I need, although further
editing (trimming the captured clip) of the captured files is not as simple
as we are used to in video editors such as Premiere, and when I tried to
import the Camtasia captured file into Premiere to see if I could trim it
there (and later add audio), Premiere doesn't show the file as originally
captured, probably because the codec used in Camtasia is proprietary.
Has anyone actually used Camtasia 4, and does it have better editing
tool/interface than does Camtasia 3? Does it still use the proprietary
codec?
Tony, your suggestion at least uses a well known format, quicktime, so it
may be easier to use the captured files in other editing software that I am
more familiar with.
I guess I'll have to give the trial versions a go and see how I like the
interfaces and how they handle the editing workflow after the original
screen recording.
Thanks for all advice.

"Tony Morgan" <Tony@zen54488.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <Hrk%g.9332$76.6001@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>, Luis Ortega
> <lortega@ntlworld.com> writes
>>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?
>
> I'd suggest that they do what a lot of training video producers do:- use
> Camtasia, output as FLA or SWF (two of Camtasia's several output formats),
> then use Flash to produce the final product. Flash also provides
> ActionScript which allows advanced interaction (if required). And if the
> output is required in DVD form, then you can output your FLA master as
> either AVI or WMF for onward editing [1], then into DVD burning software.
> If you go the DVD route then naturally you'll lose any ActionScript
> interaction. You can also output (from Flash) your audio in WAV format (to
> be introduced as a layer (two for stereo) to introduce into your video
> editor.
>
> Some video editors allow you to introduce picture-in-picture to place
> high-res video in the required place(s). Premiere and Vegas have this
> facility, but I can't say for other video editors.
>
> [1] AVI and WMF only for Windows versions. The Mac version
> offers QuickTime (MOV) for both audio and video. I can't
> comment on the Mac environment.
>
> --
> Tony Morgan

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