Monday, May 4, 2009
1 Minute Screencast Test: Looking for Your Feedback
I am trying out a new screencast recorder called CamStudio. If you have time, please give me some feedback on the audio and video quality of the presentation. Don’t worry about the content… that was just a quick answer to a question Eric asked on Twitter.
So how does this look and sound…
Looks and sounds great! Equivalent to Camtasia.
If you didn’t preface it was with a differnt platform, I wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference. A brief audio hiccup at 54 seconds, not sure what that was about.
I created the original .avi recording with CamStudio and then used it as a media file in Camtasia so I can get all the bells and whistle.
Now all of the contributing authors can create recordings and send them to Natasha for encoding. Sounds like it will work for everyone.
I didn’t get a hiccup, but thought it was good.
sounds great and looks good too!
No hiccups, video or audio, on my end. I did notice that when maximized to full screen the video is clearly upscaled from a lower resolution, leaving the images pretty “chunky” and the smaller text nearly unreadable.
Bill – When I encode it for the site, I take the original file and encode it to 515 pixels to fit in the column. Fullscreen mode will be fuzzy because the original resolution is distroyed by the encoding. Saves me bandwith and size…
Thanks for the feedback.
Mark
Mark, wouldn’t have known any difference if you hadn’t mentioned it. I had to go back and watch one of the old screencasts for a comparison. Both looked fine to me, maybe audio a little clearer on the new one? All good whatever
Looks great Mark. Can’t tell the difference.
Rick Black
Better than YouTube reference linking… Many companies block that. I like the magnifying effects.
Hi Mark,
I thought the Audio was a little better. The video quality was about the same but I thought there was more’snap’ to it. Maybe just because I was looking harder?
Out of interest – what were you using before? I’ve only ever used Captivate.
Simon – I use Camtasia Studio 6. However, I have a group of contributing authors who need an alternative to a $300.00 piece of proprietary software.
CamStudio is something that is useful for them. They can create a raw, .avi file that my assistant can use as a media file in Camtasia,using all the tips and tricks available.
Essentially, we use Camtasia as a production studio for independent producers who need to have their projects refined and encoded.
Mark
No issues. Zoom was readable, audio was fine.
Looks great.
Question. I am trying embed a flash video in my SharePoint site, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to locate the thumb .png (jpg) file in a location other than where the “html” page is located. In other words, I can’t use full server paths. The only way I can get it to work is if the .png file is located in the same directory as the html file itself, and I call it using a relative path (e.g. “thumb=FirstFrame.png”).
Any ideas?