[Jackknife]

Sorry, I am not trying to be difficult.

What I am doing is this:

Either using Camtasia (https://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp) on my windows machine, or iShowU (a wonderful screen capture device for mac) (https://shinywhitebox.com/index.html) on my mac, I am recording the screen while I go through the motions, showing the viewer how to do this or that, much like you see on many tutorials. The only difference is I am working on items that have a great deal of text instead of drawings or some other apps like FCP, Photoshop, and the like (which I do also and have not nearly the problems I am having with this text.)

Yes, this has to be available for download as a podcast AND in a watchable format on the schools website (Quicktime is to be used). So I need it to look good for both formats. The one I have finished is OK or podcast but I’d still like it to be better.

I have done many such projects directly in Camtasia without difficulty. It comes out pristine and I can convert into many formats. Unfortunately, I cannot use Camtasia for adding the audio because Camtasia only gives you one audio track and limited editing choices which I prefer to use FCP for.

The reason I export to Quicktime from Camtasia or iShowU is because that is what they allow you to do. Camtasia has more options, but not that will import into FCP.

In Camtasia and iShowU I output at the least compression allowed to get the best picture.

When I exported out of FCP, I used DV / NTSC48k output. But I can see the degradation the moment I put it in FCP.

I hope this helps more,

Thanks,

Robert

EGBOK. if you remember to back up youe data.

[Jackknife]

These are not stills. It is a quicktime movie of moving screen capture of the mouse moving pointing to this and that during a tutorial.

Not a still though

Thanks,

Robert

EGBOK. if you remember to back up youe data.

[Jackknife]

saving as Quicktime then bringing into FCP as quicktime. (no codec other than just Quicktime

[Jackknife]

Still poor image when canvas at 100%.

I am not sure why.

Also, when I exported to quicktime is is worse (verymuch unreadable) No compression added.

I did some trials this morning also, getting some more screen captures at various resolutins from 800×600, 1024×768, and 1680×1050 (all non-streched) on my macbook pro and I kept getting the same problem.

Very fustrating.

Thanks again.

EGBOK. if you remember to back up youe data.