[Mike Velte]

Yup!

[Mike Velte]

To encode in Premiere or Encore results are the same. Exporting a 2 hours DV.avi from Premiere results in a 26 GB file. Exporting Mpeg 2 from Premiere results in a 4 GB file. Both apps use the same encoding engine.
I export Mpeg 2 for DVD elementary streams in Premiere for use in Encore.
File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder
Format= Mpeg 2 DVD
Range= Entire Sequence
Preset= Your choice
(can you calculate bitrate / time)?

[Mike Velte]

Which NLE really does not make much of a difference. Learning either one will shorten the learning curve on the other by 80%. The challenge is to make the most of your budget for hardware,software and instruction
.
Example; I recently was contracted to teach 14 high school teachers Premiere and camera basics (XL2). I was not consulted on purchases prior (done deal).
Hardware;
Dell dual Xeon 3.2, 4gb RAM, 1 TB HD space Media Centers.
DUAL Dell 23″ monitors!
Top of line work station bench
Canon XL2
Dazzle thingy @#$#@
Nice wireless mics
Addition shotgun mic
No extra batteries or tapes or discs

Software;
Adobe Production Studio
Big box of royalty free music and jump backs

Hardware and software= about $300K!
Instructor= $3K
Result;
Basics skills in using the XL2 and Premiere. No knowledge of Photoshop, Encore, After Effects, Audition, Flash, Camtasia, Dreamweaver.

It does not take much imagination to substitute a Sony FX1, a more generic PC, one 21″ monitor for a lot more instruction plus some supplies.

These teachers must spend their own money for chalk, erasers and construction paper and now who buys tape, discs, cables, connectors, etc?

[Mike Velte]

Are you previewing audio thru an external DV device? (Playback Settings)? What is it?

[Mike Velte]

Screen capture for the stills and then animate the cursor and scrolling text using Premiere titler is your best bet for limited use.

[Mike Velte]

Duh! Yes Blast, you are correct…no SSE with the M processors.

[Mike Velte]

[PeterM62] “On the other hand, if I invest in Camtasia I’ll be able to import animated screen captures into a project and they’ll look beautiful and be fully editable?”

No exactly. The .camrec files are not editable in Premiere either, although one could export from Camtasia as uncompressed, the end result will not be as good as using Camtasia alone.
Camtasia can import video files, so you could export from Premiere DV.avi files for use in Camtasia.
Camtasia is pretty powerful app, but you might describe your project and delivery mode {cd/dvd/web) before going on.

[Mike Velte]

Screen capture in Windows Media Encoder is the final product. Editing and then recompressing an already highly compressed file results in lousy stuff.
There is a workaround for straight cut editing into pieces using Windows Media File Editor (comes with the encoder) and then joining the pieces with a joiner tool like Rejump Movie Joiner that does not recompress things.

The solution of choice is Camtasia 4 for creating some really cool stuff. With the latest version you can export uncompressed video for use in DVD authoring.

[Mike Velte]

You are probably logged in as Administrator, but to check, go to Control Panel>User Accounts. Under the name of the account you are logged in as is the user type. If by chance it is not Computer Administrator then close Control Panel and go to Start> Log Off and then log in as Administrator.

By chance, what other software have you used to capture?

[Mike Velte]

Premiere Elements 3 can handle Mpeg files much better.