Re: Re: Camtasia, Captivate, and other commercial or freebies

[Abby Klemmer <aklemmer -at- factset -dot- com>]

Bob - 

Have you tried using Camtasia to record long pieces in several segments 
(chapters)? That's been our strategy, and it's worked very well for us. We 
then stitch all the chapters together using Camtasia Theater (included in 
Camtasia Studio), and all the chapters play automatically in sequence. 
This eliminates the "one huge file" problem.  It also has two added 
benefits: 

(a) Camtasia Theater creates a clickable table of contents so that users 
can navigate between chapters at will if they wish. This wasn't even in 
our original specs, but it's been a huge hit, and I suspect there would be 
riots if the feature were removed now.
(b) Working with smaller AVI files makes things simpler in the Camtasia 
Studio authoring environment -- for example, you can tweak one part and 
republish the SWF without having to re-publish everything.

Hope this is helpful!
Abby Klemmer
Knowledge Specialist
FactSet Research Systems Inc.

www.factset.com
 

Bob Doyle wrote:

> With Camtasia we have recorded presentations longer than an hour.  Last
> night David recorded a SecondLife meeting of DITA Users on the virtual 
DITA
> Island.
> 
> But then the files are huge. (80MB for an hour) So we are now trying to 
get
> the visuals track to just be a succession of Powerpoint slides. The 
trick is
> to get the timing of each slide change at the correct point in the 
audio.


 
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