Camtasia / Powerpoint into video post
by Gav Bott
on
Jul 25, 2008 at 5:33:01 am
I've seen a few posts giving Camtasia lots of thumbs up when trying to convert spoken + power point presentations into something more edit / video friendly.
I've just got my hands on a copy of Camtasia and I'm having troubles getting it to output in a format that anything else can understand.
Anybody shed some light on codex or settings that I should be using at one end or other?
Thanks
The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production - Brisbane Australia.
Re: Camtasia / Powerpoint into video post by John Rofrano on Jul 25, 2008 at 2:03:44 pm
It's not clear if you are talking about the capture files or the final output.
By default, the Camtasia capture program use it's own CAMREC format. That's easy to change. Open the Camtasia Recorder program. Go to Tools | Options | General and change the File options to Save as AVI. Camtasia will now record to AVI files using the TechSmith codec. These files can easily be edited in Vegas.
If you are talking about the final output there are options to output to Quicktime MOV, Windows WMV, DV AVI and a host of other common formats along with Flash which is primarily a delivery format for the web (i.e., not to be edited)
Re: Camtasia / Powerpoint into video post by Gav Bott on Jul 28, 2008 at 1:03:58 am
Sorry for not being clear, but you have solved my problem:-
"Open the Camtasia Recorder program. Go to Tools | Options | General and change the File options to Save as AVI. Camtasia will now record to AVI files using the TechSmith codec."
That's just what I needed to know.
Thanks
The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production - Brisbane Australia.
