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Camtasia settings?
I cant seem to come up with a high quality capture setting for a commercial that im in the process of. Does anyone have any settings they could share for high quality .avi output
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Camtasia records screen capture to a proprietary Tech-Smith codec with a .camrec file extension which can only be edited in Camtasia. While it looks fine, exporting from Camtasia involves recompressing to an output codec for local or web playback such as Flash or Windows Media, but no consideration for TV playback. Your best bet is to choose “Full Frames (Uncompressed)”. The file will be huge! Then recompress as Mpeg 2 for DVD or export to tape.
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Mike I have tried that and maybe im picky but its far from clear on the TV.
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What settings are you using?
Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/techtalk -
Best settings ive found so far are capture in uncompressed .avi 800×600
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With 30fps capture frame rate
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Cam,tasia and Powerpoint are not designed for TV. A generational loss occurs during screen capture, another during export as uncompressed and a third when recompressed as Mpeg. A larger problem is the font size…looks sharp at 1024 x 768 on a CRT but not at 720 x 480 on a TV. Unsafe colors buzz, worse is white and red. Safe areas…
For best results capture your screen as still bitmaps and apply motion and cursor in Premiere. -
I just did an edit with a Camtasia file. We created in Camtasia an AVI file that was 30fps, and used the native codec (Tech Smith) and made the file 720×480.
I then installed the Tech Smith codec onto my edit computer, and I was then able to use the file in PPro. I dropped it on the timeline, and it worked fine.
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