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Camtasia Studio & Premiere Pro CS3
Greetings from the UK,
I am very desperate and in need of your expertise.
I am working on a project for a client for online web delivery via flv. I have filmed a presenter giving a seminar on a sony HVRA1E in hdv mode in parallel to using camtasia studio to capture his on screen notes (word & pdf notes imported into windows journal) – Imported both into premiere pro cs3, edited and synchronised both video & audio with screen capture cutting back and forth from presenter to screen capture – output settings – (512 x 288, 1,000kbps on2vp6 codec)using adobe media encoder from the timeline.
The problem with the expoirted flv file is this: the cuts showing the presenter appears to be of pristine quality however the camtasia screen recording notes are unreadable. they appear severely pixelated and this is a major concern as around 70% of the video edit focuses on the camtasia studio screen recordings. I have experimented with bigger frame sizes and higher encoding bitrates but it still makes no difference. The Avi file exported from within camtasia is uncompressed and comes to 44gigs (1 hour)and plays back (windows media player) clear as day with the finest detail as one would expect. Why is this happening???
Thanks
PaulFreelance Event Videographer & NLE Editor
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4 Replies
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Scaling your text from 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600 to 512 x 288 will make it unreadable. Suggest you do all your work in Camtasia (640 x 480 Project setting) including the video editing and then export at 640 x 480.
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for responding to my post.
If my interpretation to your post is correct, it is not possible to import let alone edit hdv video footage in camtasia studio. The frame size isn’t the problem.
Thanks
PaulFreelance Event Videographer & NLE Editor
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Here is another thing that makes a big difference. When you export your video in Premiere Pro make sure that you use the Tech Smith Screen Capture Codec with a field type of “Upper First”. When I do just those two things alone… I’m able to get crystal clear video rendered from Premiere Pro CS4… here is a sample clip that I made.
https://www.ivanwatkins.com/standardvideo/proofofconcepts/ClarityCinePak30FlashTest/
Ivan
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Hi Paul Murphey,
Having the same problem that you had back in 08.
Did you end up getting your screen recording to look half decent after exporting from premiere (CS4)?
I am trying to get a 1280 x 1024 Camtasia AVI to export from prem as a an .FLV to look good.
The AVI from Camtasia looks fine when played in a media player, however it looks terrible after being exported from prem.
I have tried all types of combinations from 1920 x 1080 projects, high bit rate FLVs with no luck..
Any suggestions?
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