Expression Encoder Won't Screen Capture Sims 4

The program works, because my recording shows everything happening on my screen until I hit the icon to start Sims 4. After that point, I just have a large, blank, white window, with a white cursor moving around through the blankness. What's
going on? Why won't it record what I am doing in Sims 4?

Noondaywitch, I created a test account and screen capture of windows worked correctly in it. Thank you!
So now I need to look for something about my account. I'm going to try disabling all startup items and see what happens.
UPDATE: Disabling all startup items and rebooting fixed the problem. The window capture function now works in my user account. Now I can put startup items back one by one to see which one might have caused the issue.
Thanks to all who gave advice.

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Screen Capture won't capture window

Hello, I'm using Snow Leopard on a Mac Mini with a single monitor. When using the screen capture keyboard commands, I can do everything except for capturing a window. I'm supposed to be able to hit command+shift+4, and then spacebar, and the pointer will change into a camera that will capture only the window I click with it. I recall being able to do this a long time ago, before I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I also use a widget called Screenshot Plus that acts as a front-end to those keyboard functions.
When I try these days, the cursor changes into a camera, but the entire screen is highlighted as if it will be selected. When I click, what gets captured is a blank white area the full size of my screen. The Screenshot Pro widget produces the same incorrect result.
I've seen another discussion about this topic, but it seemed to center on the Grab utility. On my system, Grab works correctly, including the window capture function. So I have a way to get the results I want, but I would be interested in a solution that allows me to use the keyboard method again. Thank you.
Mike

Noondaywitch, I created a test account and screen capture of windows worked correctly in it. Thank you!
So now I need to look for something about my account. I'm going to try disabling all startup items and see what happens.
UPDATE: Disabling all startup items and rebooting fixed the problem. The window capture function now works in my user account. Now I can put startup items back one by one to see which one might have caused the issue.
Thanks to all who gave advice.

Trying to increase the sound of recorded screen captures

Hi. I'm making screen capture movies with Snapz PRo 2 and they are being saved as QT movies on my desktop. When I open them in QT and try to increase the sound volume, the setting don't stick if I try to raise the volume over 0db. I read somewhere that QT won't let you save volume over 0db, is that true?
If so, does anyone know how I can increase the gain on the movies without having to load them into Final Cut or iMovie? Is there some program that will let me just edit the sound of a QT movie?
Thanks in advance.
Antonio

Hey, thanks for the tips. But... I don't think I'm making myself clear here.
I don't want to spend ANY time in post with these tutorial screencasts that I'm making. If I did, I'd just whip out my Sennheiser and my mixer and take the whole shebang into FCP and cut it and sweeten audio there.
What I'm doing is using Snapz to capture screen actions that I'm recording as tutorials for my students. I'm using either a Blue Snowball USB mic or my Logitech 250 USB headset with mic to record my voice as I demo apps on the Mac. Snapz is using the Apple animation codec to make the movies. But, what Snapz is not doing and cannot do is help me boost the audio a bit. If it did, then I'd have a finished movie right there. As it is, I have to wait a long time for Snapz to finalize the flick. What I don't want to do is load the film up in FCP (takes time) and then export it (also takes time) and be done. I want to package these things up fast. All I need to do is boost the audio a little and everything would be great. If Quicktime Pro allowed me to do that, that would be great because it would not have to re-encode the movie again.
Maybe there is no way to do what I'm asking without doing it in FCP. If that's the case then that's what I'll do.
THe whole point of this is that I want to keep it as simple and as past as possible because I am not making any money doing this (but I am teaching for money). I offer it to my students as a value added addition to their classes.
Thanks,
Antonio

Expression Encoder crashes when connecing to live source video device under Server 2012

I have setup Axis Streaming Assistant as a video device for Expression Encoder 4 every time I try and select any video device either this one or the screen capture source, I get a "has stopped working" window and then
it closes expression encoder. I have installed this on a server 2012 standard server with all of it updates loaded. The only things I have installed extra are the Axis Streaming assistant, IIS Media Services 4.1 and the Expressions Encoders 4 SP
2. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

For anyone else looking for the alternatives to xv, it looks like some good answers can be found here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133682

Win7 Screen Capture - PluralEyes - FCPX

I work in Automation Controls thereby I'm forced to use software that exclusively runs on Win7. I am producing some product demo videos for which I need to perform screen capture in the Win7 environment.
I need to record the screen and the computer mic audio, so that subsequently I can sync the audio to that which was recorded on my Zoom H4N. Today, I tried (3) separate screen captures on WIN7 (LiteCAM, CamStudio, and Microsoft's own Expression Encoder Screen Recorder). I can't seem to export anything from these applications that is suitable for PluralEyes, and subsequently, FCPX.
Some of you must be doing something similar here: Screen capture on PC, export file to mac, sync in plural eyes (mac edition), and import into FCPX or iMovie.
Please help me by telling me which screen capture software to use and what workflow to use!
sincerely,
ben

Here are a couple of links to help...free tutorials.
http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G2Lf0mSxQA&index=6&list=PLb-hTulrlr2gpWamIVuET4W PvT6bSXu6P
Though fcpx has many ways to get things done as one can just sync clips or use the multicam options. I found both the Izzy tutorials, and everything from Ripple training to be gentle to my less than genius brain.
And here is what Apple says works for fcpx including what codecs work...look down on the list.
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.6/#ver2833f855
Hugh

Error Message When Importing Quicktime Screen Capture to FCE

As I said in the subject I'm having issues importing a Quicktime Screen Capture into Final Cut Express. I keep getting this message.
File Error: 1 file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown
I figure it has to be a quick fix for this simple problem. And it's probably just my first time.
Thanking you in advance
Neo
Message was edited by: Neo Dot Com

QuickTime Screen Recordings are H.264 video files. You need to convert this to +QuickTime Apple Intermediate Codec+ in order to use it in FCE. MPEG Streamclip (free) can do this for you.

Poor quality export from imported mp4 screen capture

My video source is an mp4 file created from a screen capture of a unix app running on a PC. Quicktime plays the mp4 file fine (lots of detail, dark blacks, ...), but the resulting movie (Share > Export Movie > HD 720p) is faded. When shown on a large screen, the movie is pixelated and faded (grey blacks, etc.).
I imported the mp4 file into iMovie (File > Import > Movies) with Fit in Frame, Optimize video unchecked, Widescreen (16/9), and 30 fps NTSC.
I have tried various combinations of import and export settings and the above is the best I get.
I'm guessing the import is throwing half the information away (hence the faded appearance). Whatever the cause, is there a way to import mp4 files into iMovie and get the same quality on the export? I tried exporting the entire import and got a file about half the size.

Your description of the problem - a 'comb' effect - sounds as if the "fields" which make up the resultant picture have been put together in reverse.
(..You don't normally see 'interlaced' video in iMovie's playback window - you normally see just a single field of the two, to make the picture clearer and simpler to display..)
[..A video picture's generally made up of two "fields" which each comprise half the number of lines down the screen: one field comprises the odd-numbered lines, and the other the even-numbered ones. Your exported video should be encoded with the lower (2nd) field first ..as described in this Apple document ..and the problem's mentioned here as well..]
However ..you said in your first post that "..I am using a Sony HDR-HC1 and trying to export at the highest possible settings.."
This is an HDV camcorder, and you didn't say if the original footage which you shot was HDV or normal DV. (HDV is recorded differently from normal DV, as it's recorded in a more compressed format, and it has to be automatically 'unscrambled' by Apple's Intermediate Codec while you're importing it into iMovie HD.)
It seems as if somewhere along the chain of importing>editing>exporting, the fields are being reversed, so that you get this jumpiness on replay when QuickTime tries to deliver a "highest quality" interleaved replay of both fields:
Ah ..sudden thought: you mentioned that you exported thro' iDVD: "..I have used iDVD by dropping it into a DVD theme and it seems to work ok, although the playback is a little jumpy, not quite as good I would have expected.."
You may have left the iDVD settings at their default 'NTSC' instead of switching them to PAL.
Check your iDVD Preferences ..that may be the problem.

Screen capture of the front panel automatically

I've got a VI that analyzes a data file and outputs a graph, some numbers/notes, and a pass/fail message to the front panel each time we run it. I want to be able to automatically save all that data into one easy-to-access file (no html) after running it, and ideally this would be accomplished by just capturing the screen of the front panel and saving it as a .jpg.
I've looked up how to do this on the forums and searching the web, but no solutions have come up. I've looked at the "Get Image" method, but that only lets me get the image of one object in the front panel, and not the entire front panel screen. I read something about referencing the front panel as an global, and inputting that into the "Get Image" method, but I can't get that to work and don't know if that's possible.
Is there a way to make a straightforward automatic screen capture of the VI front panel? How can I program that? (Manually using the "pinrt screen" function off the keyboard and copying and pasting it won't be feasible for this application).
-- Thanks for the guidance

No sure why you couldn't find a reference to it but there is the VI method Get Panel Image.
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Advice on compressing screen capture movies for web ?

Hello everyone,
I just am curious about what is the best way to go for compressing screen captures so that they maintain the best clarity for text. I've gone back and forth between MP4 (improved) and quicktime movies set to h.264... I am just curious what the general opinion here of what is best to use? It seems that MP4 improved produces larger files with less quality... Also it was a little confusing to see that compressor's h264 option is for "apple devices" or "dvd studio pro" and thus doesn't offer streaming as an option as it does with mp4-- so the only way to properly produce h264 files for web is to use the quicktime option and select h264 as it's compression type? Is this correct?
-patrick

What is the frame size of your source clip, and what frame size have you chosen for your output?
Exactly what settings have you tried so far? Please share some details
I would recommend using the Apple > Other Workflows > Web > Download > QuickTime 7 compatible > H.264 LAN as a starting point.
Set a frame size (i.e. 1280x800, 1024x768 or 768x480, if you have a widescreen computer display) and adjust the video bitrate accordingly. The frame size you choose, should be divisible by 16, 8 or 4, for best quality. Have a look at this article for more info on that: http://www.flashsupport.com/books/fvst/files/tools/video_sizes.html
For more info about H.246 and macroblocks, have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
For more details on getting the most out of H.264, have a look at the Apple tutorial Creating Amazing Video Content with H.264.
1. Find the frame size you would like to end up with
2. Adjust the video bitrate accordingly (set the keyframe interval to automatic)
3. Enable Frame Controls in the Inspector window, and set the Resize Filter to Better or Best (gives you much better quality on downscaling, than without frame controls - do a test and see for your self)
An other good tip, is to set an in/out point in the Preview window in Compressor, with a duration of maybe about 10 secs. That way you do not need to encode the whole clip just to test your settings. Add multiple settings, before you submit the batch. When it is done, see which one you think looks the best compared to file size.

Imported screen capture avi looks pixely in pp2 cs3

Okay this is my first post on here so please bear with me, I will try to make this any easy one.
I am using Adobe Premiere Pro cs3 and I have been trying like mad to get a usable screen capture incorporated into my videos. I work for an internet company and I am charged with the task of creating tutorial dvds for training new employees and new website owners how to use our software. I am a professional, but I have never had to use so many screen captured elements, to be truthful, I have not used any until recently.
I have tried importing flash files of the content I need into premiere, which as far as I can tell is impossible and not the way to go about this. I then aquired a program called Hypercam that allows me to screen capture directly to AVI which I thought was wonderful until I brought the avi movies into premiere. What I am seeing is the source go from looking near perfect when not in motion in the source window, then the instant I hit play, the pixels turn to crap and it looks terrible, unusable for my purposes as smaller text gets completely obscured. The same is true if the avi file is brought into the timeline, no matter if it's rendered or not.
Upon closer inspection it appears that the pixels become wider and blurred when the video is played than when it is at rest.
The AVI files default properties copied directly from what premiere is telling me are as follows:
Type: AVI Movie
File Size: 22.6 MB
Image Size: 1280 x 1024
Pixel Depth: 1280
Frame Rate: 10.00
Total Duration: 00;00;17;17
Average Data Rate: 1.3 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
Depth is 16 bits.
Compressor: 'CRAM', Microsoft Video 1
My project settings are:
720x480
dv ntsc PAR .9
29.97 fps
My system is a Dell XPS 710 Quad core with Nvidia 768mb 8800 GTX card and dual monitor set up.
I have read through the other thread dealing with this and as far as I can tell, it is either a PAR issue or a problem with using an AVi in premiere. I need help friends, and I guess the questions I need answered would be one or many of the following.
1. How do I screen capture into a usable format for Premiere with no loss of quality?
2. How can I use/convert my existing files so that I may edit them without loss of quality?
I will continue looking and I will be monitoring this thread until I get something that works. I'm not afraid to spend money to do this right so any and all suggestions are welcome. Please HELP!

So I have been doing some more homework and I took Harm's suggestion to get Camtasia. Thank you for that, I love it. It is quite versatile and looks great(It should for $300). So now I am able to produce a screen captured video that is workable though I am having a couple of issues still. The Dv/NTSC standard of 720x480 PAR .9 is not the easiest to match up. I have output my camtasia video as an AVI, 640x480 with a PAR of 1 and set it to 30fps, I also set my premiere project to 30 fps. The AVI file I created is about 14 gigs as the movie is 9 minutes long. I tried importing it but only the first 2 minutes of the video come into the project which makes no sense to me. I am getting low on Hard Drive Space ~30 gigs left of 320, so maybe there are safeguards in the machine or program which won't let me use the whole file as it would bring me too close to the limit(don't worry, I'm getting a 1TB external drive later today). So now I am pondering my options and again asking for help.
My first question is why would a 9 minute avi cut itself off to 2 minutes when imported into premiere and how can I get it to import properly?
Second question, perhaps I am approaching this the wrong way, is there a better way to make a tutorial video with the screen captured AVi that I now have? I want to do some fancy stuff with AE an PP to make it shine but neither seem very willing to comply. What I'm considering is just producing an intro and ending separately and then importing the finished videos back into Camtasia, even though their transitions are kind of basic, it would work I think.
I am going to be using this alot as I have 12 different lessons to create so if Harm or anyone else wants to offer suggestions on the best way to approach this and/or fix my importing/compatibility issues, I would greatly appreciate it.

Screen Capture avi - HELP!!!!!!!!

Hello All.
Please someone out there must know the best answer to my
problem:
I need to create a presentation to be used as a trainning
guide.
I am flexible (to a degree) on how to do this, although the
tools in my bag mean that i have used SnagIt to capture the screen
in an .avi format. this looks great when played no probs.
When I add this avi to a flash file (basic, which has a
control for the film and a frame etc) I can publish this to a swf
file, again all seems well, I can then embedd this into a
powerpoint presentation ok.
This all works ok, except for a blur between screen changes
and new windows, they seem to start blurred and then scharpen up.
My real problem is the Screen Resolution when playing this
presentation back on different P.C's.
As we all know every user has diferent seetings. So how can I
cater for them all????
I read somewhere that it is best to capture the film at the
lowest possible screen res and it will destort going up, although
not as bad as he reverse.
So please can anyone gide me through this???
As I say the video contains lots of test which is simply
unreadable using the process above.
i have played with changing the codec which just made the
film Super Size........
Many thanks in advance
Andrew

So I have been doing some more homework and I took Harm's suggestion to get Camtasia. Thank you for that, I love it. It is quite versatile and looks great(It should for $300). So now I am able to produce a screen captured video that is workable though I am having a couple of issues still. The Dv/NTSC standard of 720x480 PAR .9 is not the easiest to match up. I have output my camtasia video as an AVI, 640x480 with a PAR of 1 and set it to 30fps, I also set my premiere project to 30 fps. The AVI file I created is about 14 gigs as the movie is 9 minutes long. I tried importing it but only the first 2 minutes of the video come into the project which makes no sense to me. I am getting low on Hard Drive Space ~30 gigs left of 320, so maybe there are safeguards in the machine or program which won't let me use the whole file as it would bring me too close to the limit(don't worry, I'm getting a 1TB external drive later today). So now I am pondering my options and again asking for help.
My first question is why would a 9 minute avi cut itself off to 2 minutes when imported into premiere and how can I get it to import properly?
Second question, perhaps I am approaching this the wrong way, is there a better way to make a tutorial video with the screen captured AVi that I now have? I want to do some fancy stuff with AE an PP to make it shine but neither seem very willing to comply. What I'm considering is just producing an intro and ending separately and then importing the finished videos back into Camtasia, even though their transitions are kind of basic, it would work I think.
I am going to be using this alot as I have 12 different lessons to create so if Harm or anyone else wants to offer suggestions on the best way to approach this and/or fix my importing/compatibility issues, I would greatly appreciate it.

Restore screen captures from Preview app

I have had to wipe my drive clean and re-install the OS. Before it was re-installed, I had quite a few Preview screen captures that I forgot to save to the drive. When I would quit the app, they would re-appear, so they were being retained somewhere. Is there any way to restore those images from my backup? I can't restore the app as the software won't allow it, and I can't open the backup in Time Machine. Is there any way to get those images back? TIA,

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Screen Captures Exposed

This thread attempts to tackle the issue of screen captures in FrameMaker.
Please post questions about screen captures to the FrameMaker forum outside the FAQ thread using Add Topic. http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.ee6b312
Please, post corrections and suggestions to the FAQ Corrections and Suggestions thread:
DorothyK "FAQ Suggestions and Corrections" 5/9/01 7:12am.
Screen captures are a basic part of technical writing and even non-technical writers, who use FrameMaker to write about software, will more than likely end up using screen captures.
This thread attempts to clarify issues about screen captures. This thread concerns itself primarily with screen captures of software, not the screen capture of things like photographs.
Please post questions about screen captures to the FrameMaker forum outside the FAQ thread!http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.ee6b312

Dov Isaacs on Screen Captures Dov Isaacs had this to write about screen captures: *************** Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:23:22 -0700 From: "Dov Isaacs" <[email protected]> Subject: Imported / Placed Images - MORE (You Asked for It!) All: Some additional issues were raised yesterday both on-list and in some private emails to me about me postings with regards to screen capture images specifically and images in general. Issue #1 - UNIX =============== UNIX is not my specialty and Adobe no longer provides a version of Photoshop for any flavour of UNIX. Thus, my advice for UNIX users of FrameMaker are effectively to capture the raw image as TIFF, process the image on Windows or Macintosh to obtain the EPS file with the image interpolation option, and then move the resultant EPS file back to your UNIX-based system for use with FrameMaker. Issue #2 - File Size - Screen Captures ====================================== There is no question that the binary EPS files that result from the procedures I outlined yesterday are somewhat bloated compared to other files holding the same content. The resultant PDF files at the end of the process, though, are exceptionally compact. To show what is going on, I captured an image showing one of the PSCRIPT driver dialog windows. I saved the resultant RGB image in a number of different formats. The following are the files, sizes, and explanations: Printer Properties.bmp - 899 KBytes RGB and K only, no CMYK option, no compression option, no display/print-time interpolation, limited cross-platform interoperability, application/driver resampling problems Printer Properties.gif - 20 KBytes RGB only, no CMYK option, 24 bit color reduced to 8 bit color, no display/print-time interpolation, application/driver resampling problems Printer Properties.tif - 61 KBytes no display/print-time interpolation, application/driver resampling problems Printer Properties Direct ASCII.eps - 2735 KBytes no compression, enormous size (includes TIFF preview) Printer Properties Direct Binary.eps - 1462 KBytes no compression, large size (includes TIFF preview) care must be taken in setting Windows PostScript printer driver to correct binary option (most often TBCP if not AppleTalk printer) Clearly, you are indeed paying an on-host penalty in file size by using the EPS approach that I outlined. The resultant PDF generated from this content most often is SMALLER than the PDF generated from TIFF equivalents and has higher quality, but you will pay in terms file size of the on-host "content" files with the images. (You may ask "why are the EPS files from Photoshop so bloated?" The answer is two-fold. Part of the problem comes from the fact that Photoshop does not have a compression option for non-JPEG EPS export, although it has a ZIP compression option for non-JPEG PDF export. The other part of the problem is the TIFF preview header, which surprising enough, takes at least as much space as the "base" uncompressed image in PostScript. Yucck!) But alas, I did find a way of fixing this problem enough to be quite a bit more tolerable. (If local disk space is not a problem, then you need not worry about trying this stuff out!) Instead of saving the image as EPS with the interpolation option in either Photoshop 6 or Photoshop Elements 1, save the image as Photoshop PDF with the interpolation option and ZIP compression (not JPEG!!) using either one of those programs. THEN, in Acrobat 5, save the PDF file as binary EPS, TIFF header, language level 3. (In Acrobat 4.05a, export the PDF file similarly!) Resultant files (both ASCII and binary flavours): Printer Properties.pdf - 23 KBytes Most compact format for this image type Not appropriate for FrameMaker import/placement. Printer Properties from Acro5 ASCII.eps - 400 KBytes Slightly larger than binary equivalent, much larger in the general case, though (includes TIFF preview) Printer Properties from Acro5 Binary.eps - 396 KBytes Slightly smaller than ASCII equivalent, much smaller in the general case, though (includes TIFF preview) care must be taken in setting Windows PostScript printer driver to correct binary option (most often TBCP if not AppleTalk printer) With the replacement step of generating PDF instead of EPS and then the extra steps of running Acrobat and saving/exporting PDF, you save over two thirds of the disk space for the EPS files. There is no quality loss in this process. The savings in disk space is due to the fact that unlike non-JPEG EPS export from Photoshop/Photoshop Elements, PDF export from the same program can ZIP compress images as well. Screen captures do exceptionally well with non-lossy ZIP compression. The EPS save/export from Acrobat maintains the images' ZIP compression. The remaining "bloat" in these Acrobat-generated EPS files is the result of Acrobat's PostScript procedures in the EPS file as well as the TIFF header. Bottom line is that I think the extra steps are worth it if you want to conserve disk space. If you want to re-edit THESE EPS files in Photoshop, unlike the EPS files directly saved from Photoshop, extreme care must be taken in opening them to avoid weird resampling. Issue #3 - Non-Screen Capture Images ==================================== I would still recommend EPS as a better means of importing/placing images into FrameMaker such that resampling does not occur in the application or driver. Likewise, I would not recommend ever resampling any such images to a higher resolution. Turn on the image interpolation option and let either Acrobat or the ultimate PostScript printing device do the hard lifting for you. You gain nothing by carrying around the extra data which really contains no real new data. This is most likely contrary to what your service bureaus and printers will tell you as gospel and what their pre-flight software will advise you to "correct," but resampling here buys nothing at all. (If they still don't believe you, have them contact me!) I have revised the recommendations from yesterday based on the above ... - Dov ======================================================================== Based on our experience at Adobe, there is one way that easily yields the highest quality computer screen shots for both display and printing. (1) Grab the image with whatever your favorite tool is. Under Windows, the easiest thing to do is Alt-PrintScrn which puts the RGB bits onto the pasteboard. On the Mac, Shift-Command-4 followed by CapsLock yields an image file. (2a) Under Windows with Photoshop 6, create a new document. It will automatically be the size of the image on the pasteboard. CTRL-V will then paste the screen capture into that new image. Then, flatten that image. (2b) Under MacOS with Photoshop 6, open the generated image file (a PICT file with a name of the form "Picture x" where "x" is an integer). (3) Convert the screen shot image to CMYK or grayscale to suit your needs. Not all service bureaus require CMYK! If you are displaying the PDF file and printing to laser printers, CMYK buys you nothing other than potentially a larger file. (4) Flatten the image. Layers buy you nothing here and may cause problems later in saving the file. (5) Do not resize or change resolution of the image!!!!!! (Why? Because you generally don't know at this time exactly what the magnifications and resolutions are that you will be viewing and printing with! In fact, zooming in and out with Acrobat or Acrobat Reader changes those requirements on the fly. Better to simply just have the captured data. Upsampling or downsampling at time of need to exact specifications yields much better results than multiple such transformations!) (6a) Re-editable by Photoshop, but "bloated" EPS file size option! Save the image using File=>Save As using the "Photoshop EPS" option. In the "EPS options" screen, you should use the TIFF (8bits/pixel) preview option (yields an EPS file that can be used both on Mac and Windows), Encoding "binary" (ASCII can be twice the size and JPEG is totally inappropriate for screen shots). Check "PostScript color management" if you are using color management in your workflow. The key though is that you MUST check "Image Interpolation". This sets a image dictionary key that Adobe PostScript Level 2, Adobe PostScript 3, Acrobat, and Acrobat Reader use to do very high quality image interpolation and/or downsampling appropriate to the device's actual resolution and technology at the time the image is viewed or printed. (Distiller passes this key along from PostScript or EPS in a PostScript stream into the equivalent PDF image key!) Close Photoshop 6. OR (6b) Compact EPS file size option! (i) Save the image using File=>Save As using the "Photoshop PDF" option. In the "PDF options" screen, you should use the ZIP encoding (lossless compression) option. The key though is that you MUST check "Image Interpolation". This sets a image dictionary key that Adobe PostScript Level 2, Adobe PostScript 3, Acrobat, and Acrobat Reader use to do very high quality image interpolation and/or downsampling appropriate to the device's actual resolution and technology at the time the image is viewed or printed. (Distiller passes this key along from PostScript or EPS in a PostScript stream into the equivalent PDF image key!) (ii) Close Photoshop 6. (iii) Open the resultant PDF file in Acrobat 5 or 4.05a. Save the PDF file as an EPS file using the export function in Acrobat 4.05a or the Save As function in Acrobat 5. Set the options for binary EPS, TIFF header, and language level 3. (iv) Close Acrobat. (7) Import the resultant EPS file into whatever application you have in which you wish to include the screen print. Obviously you will only see the EPS preview in those applications (except for InDesign), but your resultant printed output (via PostScript or PostScript=>PDF) or display via Acrobat / Acrobat Reader will be of exceptionally high quality. During distillation, do not downsample any of these images. Downsampling of the screen shots can be avoided by having a high enough threshold for downsampling; 300dpi or higher will do! Working on a budget? It turns out that you can replace Adobe Photoshop 6 with Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0 if you do not need to convert to CMYK and don't need any other advanced image handling. This could save you $500 a copy if your image handling needs are more limited. 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Also, note that for purposes of placing other images in FrameMaker or similar applications, EPS with the image interpolation also is the preferred means of image placement for exactly the same reasons. In terms of image resolution, you may choose to leave as-is and let the Distiller do the heavy lifting, if necessary or downsample in Photoshop if the original image is grossly over-endowed, so to speak. Remember, you cannot later reconstruct what you downsample now. With regards to the "resolution" that you set the Acrobat Distiller printer to, that resolution primarily affects non-EPS image handling. As long as you set the resolution to 600 dpi or greater, character and vector artwork placement will be fine and not affected. You don't need to use the resolution of the final device (in fact, don't go over 1200 dpi under Windows or you might hit a nasty bug in FrameMaker's interface with the driver). For distillation job options, always use "compress text and line art". This is non-lossy compression and you gain nothing by not using it other than a larger PDF file size. I know that this information is very much at odds with what your service bureaus, printers, or Kinkos will tell you, but it is authoritative and Adobe Systems Incorporated stands behind it completely when used in conjunction with Adobe Acrobat and RIPs with Adobe PostScript Level 2 or Adobe PostScript 3.

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I am working on a video which includes screen captures (.mov's) the videos look great when viewed in the viewer but when i put them into a sequence they look awful. I know that the canvas is not full quality, but when i put the video on a dvd (compressor:best quality) you cannot harldy understand the screen shots.I really need help. **also this video is mostly intended for viewing on a computer. thanks

i need to put it on dvd. which format would best suit. i need the least compression, it is intended mostly for viewing on a computer. thnaks i alot you guys are helping the new guy out A LOT! < </div>
Yeah, Shane's great at this stuff.
You don't need Compressor, just export a reference movie (or a self-contained movie using your current sequence settings) and drop the movie into DVDSP or iDVD and let the DVD app handle the encoding to MPEG2.
There are many things that can still go wrong or mess up your stuff. Give yourself a few practice burns and be ready to tell us what goes wrong. the first thing you may have to deal with is interlacing. Since your primary viewing will be on a computer's DVD playing application, you want to remove interlacing. There are a few different places you can do that and, frankly, you should read up on them carefully while you have the manual for DVDSP open. There is no best practice for every situation.
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I have no problem importing regular pictures from the iPhone camera roll into Aperture. All software is the latest version. However I cannot import screen captures from the iPhone. In Aperture's import window, there is a dotted line in a square shape outlining where the screenshot should be, but no image appears and the box can't be selected.

Actually the box can be selected, but you won't be able to see it. I have the iPod touch and the operations are pretty much identical. Any images in that Saved Images folder on the touch or iPhone can be imported into an Aperture Library.
Bring them all in, then delete what you don't need. Then, on the iPhone, go into the folder and delete all of the images, otherwise the next time, they will all be available and, if imported, you will have duplicates.
I guess the way to think about it might be to imagine what a roll of film was like: we could not see the photos, but had a fair idea (on a single roll -- not a major shoot) what we had on there.

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