Re: Best Video Capture for Tutorials? by Richard Baim on Feb 29, 2008 at 10:18:40 pm
Take a look at the Dec 07-Jan 08 Streaming Media magazine. Ron Miller talks about Captivate 3 on pages 82-84 and Jan Ozer talks about Camtasia Studio 5 on pages 86-91. I am using Camtasia 5 and outputting Flash for web delivery- it works great so far. SmartFocus automatically adds zooms and pans depending on the position of the cursor.
Re: Best Video Capture for Tutorials? by Jon Edwards on Mar 1, 2008 at 6:48:51 pm
I just finished a project using Camtasia 5 and I must say I love it.
When importing the footage into premiere you might need to change the codec as otherwise it comes out all pixelated. I changed it to H.264 and Quicktime and it worked great. I turned down the screen colour depth to 16 bit as well which seemed to help.
Believe me I searched around for hours trying to get it to work, I almost bought a tutorial DVD I was in such a panic..
If there is an area of the screen you need to pay attention to, be sure to zoom in on it as capturing the whole screen did not give the clarity when highlighting particular items, in our case menu buttons..
When you export to DV-AVI, it will seem all juddery but once you have encoded it to your delivery format it will be fine..
