For an activity that my part of a video I find much to make a few problems. Here are some of the problems I found:
Smoothness Conditions
Audio Interference
Audio Quality
Audio dropout
WMV format is Essential Description and corrections:
Smoothness Conditions
Initially it is very difficult to make a smooth transition of verbal description of events. Do not despair! - Is this problem away enough to do an acceptable job. Here are some tips:
Itis worth writing an actual script, which clearly distinguishes between "director" and "narrative". Print this script, or, if possible, these then on a second monitor. The idea is not to notice you, the red script, but the details of the terminology that you want to use data set (eg the difference between "project" and "package") to ensure that your presentation has a good logical flow, and operations with the mouse in a clean way around, so you do not constantly changeback and forth between different windows in a manner that is confusing for the viewer.
This is a good job for programmers - it is no longer as we always try our algorithms!
Practice many times. If you do, you will notice that the job "takes you halfway." You will quickly notice the order of things that you want to explain, and you will find that you fill in the bits between on the fly, in your own words, in a way that sounds very natural and conversationalif you play it back. Expect to get your script a little bit after each attempt to change - especially the order of the mouse operations, which sometimes requires a reorganization of the logical flow of your statements.
Do not start talking at the moment you click the Camtasia record button, or press F10 (stop stop recording), the immediate word with you. It seems Camtasia take a few seconds to start and stop recording sure you click (or recording to stop talking), and silently count "one, two,three, "before you speak (or press F10 to start).
The F9 key is your friend. Press F9, and will pause the recording. Press F9 again to resume recording. Do not wait until you tonge tied and confused, before you press it - there is a strange kind of paralysis, the kicks and makes finding F9 hard. As you practice you will soon learn where the natural breaks where you can browse your script, take a deep breath, and in organizing your next paragraph in your mind.
Remember that everyone is going to oneGet to practice until you pass that you are satisfied. Also, remember that you can hear every little mistake - the question is, will the viewers noticed something? Go into a quiet and private place to practice, if you feel less self-conscious.Audio suppression
The capture Camtasia Recorder control (with the "select area" button) offers some interesting items:
Effects / cursor / highlight cursor is really good - he sees a yellow circle around the cursor in theproduce video that can be used as a pointer to the gesture of interesting things, as well as a practical aid to spotting where the cursor is. Turn this on (a black dot, the option appears).
Effects / Sound / mouse click sounds and effects / sound / keyboard sounds sound good, but really they are bad news. The problem is that clicking the generated created in a region of silence that is embedded on rules of narration from the microphone at a really important point. Use thisEffects!
Audio Quality
All available codecs, with the exception of "MPEG Layer-3 (TechSmith LAME) '
(hereinafter the "LAME") produce terrible audio quality in the finished product WMV. It is necessary to use LAME for recording.
In the Camtasia Recorder to capture control (with the "Select Area" button). Select "Tools / Options ..., click the Audio tab, click the Audio Format button and select format, such as LAME. Name should be left [untitled] - this seems to come with LAME.Press the OK button in the Audio Format window, and then click OK in the Options window.
Audio dropout
LAME codec is the only good, but it is a problem in itself. When recording sequences more than a few seconds, I found that the sound would suddenly disappear in the finished product. This does not happen in the Camtasia player that starts with the production, but in the final WMV file happened when I checked carefully. The others have audio codecs do not seem toProblem, however, produce insufficient quality.
Google finds many pages of Camtasia audio problems and a common proposal is to use a USB microphone instead of one, in the analog sound card connectors. This morning I plugged in a USB microphone and made a WMV with excellent sound quality, not the not disappear after a few seconds.
After Windows, the microphone is detected, it can be selected in the Camtasia Recorder Control window (with"Select the" add-button), Tools / Options ..., Audio tab, where the audio format key is found.
WMV format is Essential
The AVI format, requires Camtasia offered by a special codec to the playback machine be present. This constitutes an unnecessary barrier to entry that can be solved by playing the final product in the WMV format instead. The added advantage is that WMV output files to output about 60% of the size of AVI files, with no noticeable reduction in clarityfor example, his writings in the Eclipse Package Explorer or audio quality.
The Camtasia production assistant (which opens at the end of the recording, after you have saved your recording) and select "Custom production settings" and
Click Next>. Select "WMV" and click Next>. Then keep clicking on Next> to go on producing video in which you click Finish.
Rendering to WMV takes time and sometimes it is difficult ... Camtasia very often "accidentally" produce WMV filecontains only a portion of the video (in my case, only 3, 5, 8 minutes to 11), so it's better when rendered:
Close all applications
Disable the screen saver
Disconnect the cable network
do nothing and let Camtasia 100% of CPU! In the end, still playing the file in Windows Media Player and check that is entirely up to the last frame!
With regard to AVI files
AVI files will be problems when in Windows Media Player, the voice played at the beginning of affectedexist, they do not use it.
In relation to Flash files
I found no particular problems with Flash. Flv video files.
