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How to get 1280 x 1024 Screen Capture Video on the web
I need to take a video screen capture taken at 1280 x 1024 and posted on the web. What would be the best way. If I scale it down the quality goes way down and you can’t read any of the text, but if I leave it at it’s full size the file is too big for the web.
Any ideas?
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6 Replies
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You might want to look up “Camtasia”; it’s made for just that sort of thing.
-jeff
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But Camtasia’s made for screen recording. What I need to do is scale down a screen recording that I already have, but keep image quality. Anyone have any tips or tricks?
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If you can recapture it at 800×600 as a jpeg or gif that work would best.
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If it is a .jpg or .gif, just post a link to it. Folks will need to scroll to see it all.
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Sorry, I misunderstood. You say it’s a video file, so I presume there are moving elements? That will be a tricky one. Any compression that makes it a manageable size will smear the small text, as you’ve found. If I were to advise a client on such an issue, I’d suggest re-creating the screen(s) and doing Flash animation for the moving elements. Which would require considerably more time (money). That’s my thoughts…
-jeff
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Video screen grabs usually don’t have much motion so if you keep it at 15fps you should be able to reduce the files size quite a bit. Use QuickTime H.264, possibly from Compressor or other high-quality encoder, with a keyframe setting of 45, quality just above medium and it should get down to a reasonable size. How long is the video?
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Paolo Ciccone https://www.paolociccone.com
Hellriser Digital
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You might want to try SheerVideo, for screen captures they have great compression and it’s lossless at 100% Quality so text is just as easy to read as if you were looking at the original screen.
https://www.bitjazz.com/en/products/sheervideo/
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