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.

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Al Brassell wrote:
> Jeff and Craig,
>
> In my earlier post I stated that my output was being cropped on all 4 sides. I have realized that the reason for that was my source/output were not matched. I have now matched my source/output and I'm still getting slightly cropped on the left and right. All I wamt to do is output a video that will be 1024 x 768 and play in Windows Media Player on most corporate PCs. I'm guessing that the format should be .wmv as this is what I see in a lot of disc based training videos from such vendors as Total Training. The link to a screenshot of my dialog box is:
>
>
>
> I also have an Adobe Connect account if that will help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
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11 ?? Ss 0:01.15 /usr/sbin/DirectoryService
12 ?? Ss 0:01.16 /usr/sbin/notifyd
13 ?? Ss 0:00.19 /usr/sbin/syslogd
14 ?? Ss 0:00.15 /usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd
15 ?? Ss 0:02.08 /usr/libexec/configd
16 ?? Ss 0:01.65 /usr/sbin/distnoted
19 ?? Ss 0:00.54 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd
26 ?? Ss 0:00.19 /usr/sbin/securityd -i
31 ?? Ss 0:00.41 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /private/etc/ntp-restrict.conf -n
32 ?? Ss 0:00.06 /usr/sbin/cron
34 ?? Ss 0:00.07 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.frame
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227 ?? S 0:00.03 /Users/salexsaa/Library/Application Support/RealNetw
463 ?? S 0:41.93 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Mac
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> Maybe I should explain that when I do the screen
captures at first, my
> monitor
> is set at 1600X1200.
> Should I set it at 800X600 when doing the captures
first?
A screen capture captures whatever number of pixels you are
grabbing. If
your monitor is 1600x1200 and you capture the entire screen,
then the
resolution you have captures is 1600x1200.
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image than
what you started with.
> 1. Should I do the captures with the monitor set at
800X600 if the Flash
> stage
> is 800X600? If so, why?
That would make sense. Why? You can only show 800x600 pixels
in your final
presentation. What's the point of capturing more than that?
> 2. If the projector resolution is 800X600, can I set my
Flash stage at a
> higher size [resolution], say 1024X768? Will that
actually affect the
> resolution when the Flash movie is projected on a
projector with an
> 800X600
> resolution if the Flash movie stage is larger?
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resolution.
> 3. What affects the final resolution output of the BMP
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> Flash for a presentation like I am doing?
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> 4. What size should I capture the images at so I don't
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> in
> Flash?
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> WHAH! I just want this presentation to be successful.
It's a training
> session
> on educating folks on computer virus
prevention/protection from and ID
> theft,
> something this world is in dire need of!
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30 for screen shot instructions
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http://www.pixelmetrics.com/
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XSplit recorder http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1160940
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Dxtory http://forums.adobe.com/message/5172056
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Hauppauge MPEG-2 TS http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1285168
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Screen Capture Blurry After Transcode

This is probably a dumb question because I am not usually the one working with video, but I really need help! I am doing a demonstration on my computer and I need to make it into a DVD. I used Windows Media Encoder 3 to capture my screen and then save it as a wmv. This file looks fine. I edited the video in Premier CS4 and it still looks fine. But when I try making the Premier file into a DVD using Encore, it makes the quality look horrible. Pictures become really pixelated, and text just becomes big blobs. I tried to transcode using the highest setting, but this did not help. Is there something else I can do? Thanks for any help!

First, the screen capture to WMV will heavily compress the footage. WMV is a streaming media, delivery-only format, and is not meant to be edited - strike one. Now, PrPro, while it will Import WMV, will have to basically convert it to DV-AVI to allow for Frame-level editing. DV-AVI conversion, even at an internal basis, does a little bit of compression. Though nothing like the quality hit just going to WMV, there is a tiny hit there is some - strike 2 (well, probably really strike 1.25...). Then, you need to get to MPEG-2 for the DVD. That is another heavily compressed format. When starting with a DV-AVI, it does a nice job. When you start with a WMV, to though the process of converting it back to I-frame footage to edit, and then compress the heck out of it again - strike 3. This does not make THAT much difference whether you do the MPEG-2 conversion (Transcoding) in Encore, or from PrPro. The key word is "much." You might want to experiment with using a standalone encoder to create your MPEG-2, rather than either Encore, or PrPro. Some are better. The ones used by Hollywood with 10-pass encoding run into the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars, and are run by experts, who do nothing else all day, 5 days per week. Besides going to a stand-alone encoder, you will need to bit-budget to find out how much material vs the bit-rate, will fit your disc.
The better workflow would be to NOT use WMV, but instead an I-frame format/CODEC in the first place. DV-AVI (though slightly compressed) would be an ideal choice. Then, the ultimate quality to MPEG-2 would be to Export from PrPro is something like the Lagarith Lossless CODEC, and use a stand-alone encoder and bit-budgeting to get the ultimate 100% DVD-compliant MPEG-2. That would be Imported into Encore, and if not detected automatically should be set to Do Not Transcode.
Hope that this explains where the quality is going, and provides a workflow that would cut the losses.
Hunt

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