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Having a boss who does not care how much it costs, just how much its worth has its good points.

I just went and got myself Zakworks 3D invigorator without an issue. Its done. Problem is that now all I seem to be able to do is do something with a ball.

Are there any tutorials out there that you guys know of?

Its great to learn, but this is pretty darn hard actually. Should I be getting another product in addition to the plug in?

Regards,

Walt Ellena

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Dear Colleagues,

I just jumped through some hoops and hurdles to get a trial version of ZakWorks on my box and I am not really impressed with it. It seems a lot more complicated than I really need.

Are there any other plug in that anybody could recommend. This one seems like its overpriced and the code itself seems a bit long in the tooth. I dont know. I just get a bad feeling. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, I am just not impressed with it and it looks like a beast to learn.

Does anybody know of something simpler that may be out there?

Regards,

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

Dear Colleagues,

I just jumped through some hoops and hurdles to get a trial version of ZakWorks on my box and I am not really impressed with it. It seems a lot more complicated than I really need.

Are there any other plug in that anybody could recommend. This one seems like its overpriced and the code itself seems a bit long in the tooth. I dont know. I just get a bad feeling. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, I am just not impressed with it and it looks like a beast to learn.

Does anybody know of something simpler that may be out there?

Regards,

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

Dear Tim,

Its worked like a charm thus far. I agree that this should be agnostic since, in my case, somebody not being able to play this training video would be tantamount to saying they could not be trained because they had to obtain a codec and even if I put that codec on the CD itself, they are still going to find issues.

Okay, so my only last issue is that the input and output in terms of Premier are set to 1024 x 768. So long as you have that screen resolution set on the target machine, you are good to go and the quality is good. The moment that you set your screen resolution higher or lower, the playback quality goes down.

Any suggestions on how I can get this agnostic wmv file to play with various screen resolutions set on the playing machine.

Advice is always appreciated.

Regards,

Walt Ellena

The dumbest question is the one that is never asked.

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Dear Tom,

Its just what the wise Cow ordered! Yes, the whole uncompressed bit seems to have done the trick in terms of bringing in footage and what not. Now, when I export it as uncompressed it takes a hell of a long time, but I figure that I can chomp that down by simply using a lower framerate when rendering. I am going to be experimenting with this a wee bit more, but I think that thanks to your advise I am on the right track.

Thanks for all.

Walt Ellena

The dumbest question is the one that is never asked.

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Okay, this is good information!

You say that you set up the Premier project screen size of the camtasia capture. So thats a custom project setting with the screen size to the same size as camtasia. I am a little sketchy on that. If you could elaborate I will name my first born after you.

Now the after editing part, about mastering out to some type of filetype that is framesize agnostic. Okay, uncompressed. I am still a wee bit confused as I am not completely familiar with that.

The last part I can understand (Duh), so thats when I would use the Windows Media Encoder to generate the final wmv file with little loss in quality. Now the part of using the export back to the techsmith codec? What and where do you do that?

Sorry for the dumb questions. Like I said earlier, I know how to edit and do all sorts of wonderful things, but this whole part about output sizes, etc., is what is driving me up the wall.

Advise is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Walt Ellena

The dumbest question is the one that is never asked.

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There is no doubt that camtasia is an easier product to master. My problem is that some of the richer features in terms of editing are not available in Camtasia and I know that its possible to create this with Adobe Premier.

If anybody out there has any pointers, or forumulas, it would be great. There was a chap here that wrote some dynamite Premier articles and had some rather impressive videos for training – do you guys think that he would be amicable to sharing the way he does it. If I have to buy his videos, so be it, the knowledge can only be used to improve my skills.

The funny thing is that if I capture DV video right through firewire from my DV Camera and do my edits, etc., the files that come out are crystal clear. So there is something here that I am missing. Its my blindspot and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Walt Ellena

The dumbest question is the one that is never asked.