atw: Re: Captivate or Camtasia?
- From: Evan Read <eread@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:06:13 +1000
Nice that both Camtasia and Captivate (very recently) are both available for
Mac. Mac availability would normally be the deciding factor for me. More often
a tech writer's tool would be Windows only.
Evan.
On 12/08/2010, at 12:40 PM, Peter G Martin wrote:
> On 12/08/2010 12:02 PM, Ngaire Eyers wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>> I am on a steep learing curve to create brief video training for
>> incorporation into our software, both new online product and 'Classic'
>> applications.
>> Camtasia or Captivate? .. or?
>> Any tips/tricks/advice/rules around posting these onto YouTube?
>> Thanks :-)
>> Ngaire
> Just finished two successive jobs creating stuff like this. First with
> Captivate, then with Camtasia.
> I have to say I think Captivate is more powerful and easier to use if you
> need mixed components (movie, still image, Power point). A nice but fairly
> hidden feature of Captivate is that if you incorporate your commentary /
> voice-over material into one track in the timeline sequence (I forget what
> they call it -- maybe accessibility?) it actually gives you reasonably
> accurate durations for the video sequences automatically (I assume it works
> off syllable or word counts or some such)... i.e., it "stretches" components
> to match to commentary. That can save a lot of fiddling time, although you
> probably will find you need to add in some suitable pause points according to
> context.
> And there's a feature then to display the commentary lines (bit like an
> autocue ?)if you want to record the voice over directly into the timeline.
>
> Camtasia's cheaper, (last I looked) and had some nice features but I just
> found it less powerful than Captivate.
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> Cheaper still -- you may be able to get the whole AVS4YOU suite if you hurry
> for $56 (US?) ... It's more "clunky" to use in some respects, but the audio
> editor turned out to be a godsend for me in getting rid of hum/hiss combos
> from a computer system/microphone that seemed to be lacking in sophistication
> (probably limitation of laptop's sound card??). There are evaluation offers
> sitting around.. the whole suite has a set of tools suitable for most things,
> but it's been a bit short on handling flash formats.
>
> Also look at the following free tools:
> Audacity for audio.... preferred for ease of editing use to most other tools,
> but also see Wavesaur and Wavepad
> Avidemux for avi videos etc.
> Video dub and
> FormatFactory (a very handy conversion tool of everything to everything).
> And in the flash area, look now at BBFlashback 2 Express for flv captures.
> Amongst that lot you should find some functions suitable for posting to
> YouTube, although I can't quite recall at present just where that function
> was incorporated.
>
> Good luck with all that.
>
> But +beware+ of Codec problems ! Check the limitations of your
> distribution systems' codecs before choosing a final release format.
>
> -Peter M
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