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Vegas and Camtasia — HELP PLEASE
I have Vegas 8 and am trying to work on a project for a local company. I have never dealt with screen capture software and am having major difficulties. I am dumping the Camtasia files out as AVI files, as I figure these would be the best to work with.
I have captured the screen image at 1024 and at 800 resolution to see which looks the best. No matter what I do, the rendered video looks very bad…almost blurry. The text on the screen is somewhat blocky and almost unreadable. The company wants to send out this demo to clients and it MUST look professional. I have rendered to a 3Mb WMV file (which they prefer) and to a MPG/DVD type file.
I would rather work with the 1024 size as it captures the whole screen better. Can someone please give me some pointers and help me with this? I really don’t know what else to do at this point.
EDIT: I also notice that when I open the AVI from the Camtasia capture in Windows Media Player, it opens nice and is very clear. It fills the whole player window. I just rendered the file using AVI and no compression (default). When viewed in WMP it is not as large and does not fill the screen. When I blow it up, it looks horrible.
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Read these past threads and see if they helps:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/882047#882060https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/867932#867986
Steve Rhoden
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“blow it up” using Pan/Crop instead of Track Motion and you’ll be MUCH happier.
Edward Troxel
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I have already viewed those two links. I am able to get a good AVI file from Camtasia, and I am using the “Reduce Flicker” option.
I watched a few tutorials on YouTube about Camtasia and Vegas…although they were more about creating videos using Camtasia for play on YouTube.
Playing around with the bit rate settings under the Custom menu seemed to help SOME. Can you guys tell me what would be the optimal settings for a Windows Media v9.2 file? Should I use CBR or VBR? 3Mb file or smaller?? There are lots of options there and I feel that this is where I am getting messed up with my poor looking rendered file.
Thanks for everyone’s help with this!
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I don’t understand the “blow it up” comment. You mean pan and crop the screen bigger than what it is? The AVI file already fills the screen in the preview window…
Please elaborate…I feel like a dummy right now and have used this software a long time.
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I do believe much of my issue is how my video is rendered. Can someone please share with my their render settings when creating a video that consists of screen capture (remember this will be Camtasia video of a software demo).
I would like to know all of your video settings…such as VBR or CBR, screen/video size, Mb…etc. This will help me greatly.
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“When viewed in WMP it is not as large and does not fill the screen. When I blow it up, it looks horrible.”
The above quote is from your first post. When you “blow it up” it looks horrible. Blow it up using Pan/Crop and it will look much better than when using Track Motion. When you zoom in on the video, use Pan/Crop.
Edward Troxel
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