Jeff Pulera
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With CS5, you can save ALL the applied effects as a Preset.
In Effects window, right-click “Video Effects” at top and choose “Select All”, then right-click again and choose “Save Preset”. You can name and save the preset and should then find it in the Presets folder.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Emma,
What format are you exporting? DV, HDV?
The tape should have some black recorded on the first few minutes, if using a blank DV tape, export to tape may not start up at all.
Jeff Pulera
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Can Amazon burn a data CD and deliver? That would be an option if creating Camtasia MenuMaker content for delivery.
Regarding Precomposed, I recently spent many, many hours downloading and installing and configuring all the shareware bits and pieces, and after much frustration, had to give up. I don’t doubt that the methods work as advertised, but I couldn’t get it to work myself.
But again, this won’t help with converting a computer screen – this method is for improved HD to SD VIDEO, a whole different subject
Jeff
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OK, we have two different threads going, so to make sure we’re on the same page, I’m talking about getting computer screens (applications tutorials with text) onto DVD – looks horrible! NTSC is not able to duplicate the display quality of a PC screen, better off delivering natively for computer viewing rather than NTSC DVD
Jeff Pulera
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No such thing as copy protection on a home-burned disc, even though the authoring software may show the option, that is only valid when creating a digital file or DLT for a replication house, not your own burner.
The disc may not be up to spec (was not properly authored to begin with) or is scratched or something. Make sure there are no smudges, wipe gently with damp tissue if need be. If you can’t simply copy the disc, try something like DVD Shrink to see if you can rip the contents to your hard drive, or use MPEG StreamClip to pull the original .m2v and .wav files from disc and re-author using those assets if you can.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Mike,
Camtasia has a MenuMaker utility for creating self-contained programs, consisting of a customized menu from which the user can view any of the video segments. The program can be played back on any PC – the viewer is self contained and included an .exe file to run the program. I don’t know if the menu player works on Macs or not, as I use PC.
As I finished each segment in Camtasia editor, I simply exported as Windows Media, letting Camtasia determine the quality, but Flash is certainly an option. I used .wmv because it has worked well in the past for me for PC presentations of this sort. Pretty economical too, under 400mb for almost 4 hours of training! Not bad for customer to download.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Todd,
I’d suggest moving this request to the Matrox COW forum, as native Adobe users may not be able to help if this issue is Matrox-specific.
I can’t look at your issue at the moment as I just moved the MXO2 hardware from PC over to our new Mac demo machine for a road test, sorry
Jeff Pulera
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The real problem is the NTSC format – it will never work well for computer graphics. Whatever text you can read in the original video file from Camtasia will turn to mush as soon as converted to NTSC video.
If possible, talk your friend out of doing DVD, and into making a computer-friendly presentation. Camtasia comes with a MenuMaker program that allows you to create a presentation with a custom menu that plays only on the PC (not DVD player). This way, the quality you captured from Camtasia will be the same quality and clarity that the viewer sees on their PC.
This resulting program can be played from CD, or as a digital file on the hard drive. Safe Harbor creates tutorials at 1024×768 and offers them as a digital download to customers, quality is great that way. Had tried DVD in the past, horrible results with screen captures.
Jeff Pulera
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Well that changes things then….
Sorry to hear that. Was tape recorded on the same camera? If not, get the camera it was recorded with. Either is an odd format not supported by this camera, or tape alignment was out of whack during recording, hope footage is not lost
Jeff