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using premiere & camtasia
Hi guys,
I am having a problem getting camtasia and premiere to work together properly.I can screen capture just fine using camtasia, but when i import the capture and try to integrate it into premiere, the camtasia video loses quality.
I’m assuming that it has something to do with the capture settings matching the output settings in premiere, but the trial and error is getting out of control.
Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
Thanks
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3 Replies
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If you are working in a DV project, the preview will be DV (which is not a good compression for graphics), but that won’t affect your final export. If you want to keep the same quality in your previews, you will need to work in a desktop mode project, which will force a render to uncompressed.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Dave,
Yeah, Vince is right. The preview can be deceiving.
Also, you’ll want to check how Camtasia is compressing the video. I’ve found rendering out of Camtasia as an uncompressed AVI is generally easiest for Premiere to swallow (although it yields massive files). The proprietary Tech Smith codec Camtasia uses by default in rendering AVIs tends to cause problems working inside a DV project.
-Mike
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Hi,
to match a project to you source settings….
Import a camtasia clip, then check it’s properties…
then create a new project template that matches those settings….
then you should be good for working with camtasia source….
Alex
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