[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