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Re: Web updates
[Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:33 AM]
Hi Russ,
>Have any examples you could share? I'm looking into this myself. Found
>www.articulate.com to be an excellent product, although a bit pricey.
>Looked at other products, but the visual quality was quite lacking.
http://www.icetips.com/videos/icetips_previewer.html
That's the only video that I have done and put up. Articulate looks
quite expensive and I'm not sure you get that much for it. I found
that Video Edit Magic works quite well, but it does not come with a
recorder, you can buy that separately. For $60 or $70 it is pretty
good value for money. Camtasia is pretty good, but I found VEM better
to do the raw editing of the recorded videos, then bring them into
Camtasia for editing and adding audio.
There is also RoboDemo but I didn't look at that, think that is in
similar price range as Articulate. Camtasia was about $300 if I
remember correctly. Well worth it IMO, but I'd still go with the two
other tools for video and audio editing. With these 3 you can get
pretty good results:)
Best regards,
Arnór Baldvinsson
Icetips Software
San Antonio, Texas, USA
www.icetips.com
arnor@icetips.com
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Re: Web updates
[Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:39 AM]
> It has a bit simpler
> interface than Camtasia, but more features in terms of transitions and
> effects. I used this to take the camtasia recorded videos in and edit
> out any garbage, make transitions etc. etc.
My understanding is that Camtasia's codec is what makes their video
files so small. If you edit the video in something else, you have to
render it again - don't you lose the high level of compression?
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Dave
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Re: Web updates
[Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:05 AM]
Hi David,
>My understanding is that Camtasia's codec is what makes their video
>files so small. If you edit the video in something else, you have to
>render it again - don't you lose the high level of compression?
I work with AVI files in Camtasia and VEM and then output from
Camtasia to SWF files. I record in Camtasia recorder to AVI files.
56 seconds of recorded AVI is 2,487,296 bytes. 2 minute, 25 second
video in SWF is 1,146,206 bytes.
My experience is that the audio is the important part. Adding audio
to the video increases the size considerably. Finding the balance
between relaticely good audio output and file size can be tricky.
Best regards,
Arnór Baldvinsson
Icetips Software
San Antonio, Texas, USA