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Distortion in captured clips
I cannot seem to bring screen captures that I captured with Camtasia into Premiere without noticable distortion occuring. Stills look fine but any scrolling looks terrible. Everything plays fine with Windows Media Player but not in Premiere. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
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2 Replies
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It could have to do with the compression settings you used in Camtasia. If your machine can handle uncompressed capture and still allow smooth onscreen functions, that’s your best bet. Otherwise, DV AVI would be the next best thing since it will be native in Premiere.
If you tell us your capture settings in Camtasia, that would be of great help for troubleshooting.
Vince
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If your target is the web or PC monitor, stick with editing and output in Camtasia.
If your target is DVD for TV…this is a real challenge to keep text clear. If your Camtasia capture area is larger than 640×480, that resolution will need to be reduced to fit on a TV. Even 640×480 is too large due to the surround cropping 5-10% of your video. That reduction does 2 nasty things…it makes small text even smaller and coupled with several generations of compression between there and the DVD makes things a bit fuzzy.
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