Render in Camtasia vs render in Vegas?

douglas_clark wrote on 5/23/2006, 1:03 PM

I'm producing an on-screen tutorial with Camtasia, as Flash video (.swf) but need to do some editing in Vegas. Is there a difference in quality of output if rendered to Flash in Camtasia vs rendering in Vegas?

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winrockpost wrote on 5/23/2006, 2:59 PM

Vegas doesn't render flash,, unless maybe 7 has been released and i missed it.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 5/23/2006, 3:22 PM

Your best bet is to capture with the TechSmith codec in Camtasia and then bring that into Vegas, edit it, and render back to the TechSmith codec to do your Flash output in Camtasia.

~jr

douglas_clark wrote on 5/26/2006, 12:06 PM

Thanks jr. I take it that Camtasia recording should be output as avi, for use in Vegas. (and I did realize after making that post that I couldn't render flash in Vegas...just slow today).

Although I have Camtasia installed, I don't find the TechSmith codec in Vegas Render as...

Does that require separate codec install to use it in Vegas?

What is the proper project properties for a Camtasia video in Vegas? I recorded 1024x768 screen capture, but the final flash output will be 560x495 Flash, probably 10 fps (to fit in client's web page frame). Should I keep the Vegas properties and/or render as 1024x768 and let Camtasia do the final size reduction? I may need to add some text and lower-thirds in Vegas.

I will need to do some zooming in to see screen details in the 560x495 flash window. Should I zoom in Camtasia before export to Vegas? Zoom (crop & pan) in Vegas, or wait til I get the Vegas edits back in Camtasia before doing the zooms?

Douglas

Nat wrote on 5/26/2006, 12:39 PM

What I personnaly do is record using Camtasia as AVI, import the AVI in Vegas (you might need to download the codec from techsmith's website). I work at 720X480 because I also use DV media. I found out that the techsmith codec prefers working at 30fps vs 29.97fps so I set the project at 30p. I render out as uncompressed AVI with those settings and then I encode to flash using the Flash 8 video encoder which gives better results than the Camtasia encoder. The resizing (to 540x360) is done by the flash encoder.

You can see some results here : http://infusionsystems.com/catalog/info_pages.php/pages_id/151?osCsid=219951ca0f5da8baefb6aebd97a79c5d