• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Does it worth to edit screen videos with Premiere Pro CS6 if speed is an issue?

  Posted by Balazs Frank on July 31, 2012 at 7:30 pm

  I would like to create great looking tutorial videos.

  I have just bought the CS6 Production Premium. Of course I am a bit envy of the Camtasia features, but this is not an option to buy another (expensive) software purely for screen video editing. Screenflow, iShowU HD Pro would be great with all those fancy zoomes, callouts, keystroke focus, etc. but I am on Win7.

  I have a basic screen recording software, all it does to record the area without drop frames.

  So I decided to assemble the recorded lossless compressed screen recording material in Premiere CS6. It seems that I have to use the Scale and Position parameters a lot while making zooms, etc. But would also like to simulate the effects of zoomes, callouts, keystroke focus, etc.

  Here is my question: I would like to create this effect: highlighting certain screen elements by making the surronding background black, hightlighting the focused area. E.g there is a beachball on the beach and would like to mask the beachball and while keepeing the rest of the image blurred, or darkened, etc. I know this can be easily made in After Effects, but I’d like to keep this whole thing simple, purely in Premiere (not sure how dynamic link work without restrictions).

  Is this someting I can make without tedious manual keyframing, without going forth-back between After EFfects and Premiere and long-long processing, as the main concern is speed and simplicity?

  Or… am I on the wrong track with Premiere on making screen videos easily?

  Balazs Frank replied 13 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  July 31, 2012 at 10:16 pm

  No Premiere just isn’t going to be ideal for that.

  The problem with tutorials is that they are almost never a money generator, so the time you would spend in After Effects or Premiere trying to make something look good just isn’t worth it, to me at least.

  Vince Becquiot

  Indigo Live
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Balazs Frank

  August 1, 2012 at 10:47 am

  Hi,

  thanks for the answer. In my case I am talking about free tutorials.

  Is there any good screen recording solution (I mean features with zoomes, callouts, keystroke focus, etc.) other than Camtasia on Win7?

  Thanks,
  B.
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  Dennis Radeke

  August 1, 2012 at 11:06 am

  There is Camtasia for Mac and of course Telestream’s Screenflow.
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  Balazs Frank

  August 1, 2012 at 11:47 am

  Thanks but as I asked for a possible Windows 7 app, not OS X.

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