[Simon Roughan]

Youre all thinking “Terminator”.
Im thinking “Cherry 2000”.

[Simon Roughan]

thanks for the reply. Thats exactly what i ended up doing..

[Simon Roughan]

I do this all the time, as its my normal workflow. Export clips out of Avid as QT references, same as source. Render out of AE with Avid Meridian 1:1 codec, import into Avid 1:1.

[Simon Roughan]

Adding to the last response, just download the incredible “sure target” preset from aforementioned andrew kramer. All your camera positioning woes are history.

[Simon Roughan]

Have a look at “Truth in Advertising”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_VtqtxCHY

more or less the same thing, but funnier and better produced…

[Simon Roughan]

Thanks Aharon. I havnt tried rendering the files, cause like I explained, I need to do some basic editing with the file, which is impossible like it is. But will try the ensharpen codec out.
Thanks again for yout time and help.

[Simon Roughan]

Hi Aaron (Ive learned heaps from your Tuts, thanks…) and Dave,
a short explanation of what Im doing with this. We produce a magazine show for a big international corporation (who shall remain nameless) and in that magazine show is a segment on what their web page is doing. I get a text for the segment, and then surf around their website relevant to the text that will spoken. I capture this whole process with camtasia, then import the files into after effects. There they get a bit of fine tuning (cutting the crap out etc)and properly timed with the text. Then I drop the 1280×1024 comp into a normal PAL comp and fly a cmera around it to highlight the relevant points. Render out. Or in theory anyway.
So sometimes there are flash movies playing, sometimes pop-up windows, sometimes animations, page scrolling etc, but nothing too radical, I would of thought. But now since I have CS3, I have these problems. The workaround I have is to throw the AVIs into Squeeze, and make progressive QTimes in Animation codec. This works fine, but somewhat time consuming. I suppose I could make the AVIs with the lossless codec, but the files are so bloody huge… I dont like the look of the other codecs; Cinepak, Indeo, DivX etc.
So summing up, my captures are no more complicated than a AE tutorial. Tech Smith codec is set at highest quality, 25 fps. What can I do?
Thanks in advance
Simon

[Simon Roughan]

Hmmmm.
I am using the standard TechSmith Screen Capture codec. There’s not a huge selection of codecs to use in Camtasia. It used to work fine in AE 6.5.

[Simon Roughan]

Hey, thanks for the replies guys. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it)Im in Germany, which complicates matters. But I’ll drop Susan Phipps a mail, and see what she can do for me, if anything.
Again, thanks for the tips…
Simon

[Simon Roughan]

When Im getting coffee, the customer is paying for that too…