Re: video on Presentations by Williams and Park
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- Subject: [mg102501] Re: video on Presentations by Williams and Park
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:06:07 -0400 (EDT)
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divisor wrote: > Thanks for this information. These codec and driver issues always trip > me up. > > I used Camtasia 4 to record this. The WMV version is 36MB. When I > created the QT version from Camtasia it was 383MB. I found out from a > newsgroup that this is a known Camtasia problem. So I bought a copy of > QT Pro ($30). Then I rendered in AVI, opened it in QT Pro and saved > it. The resulting MOV file was 75MB. I could not imagine that a QT Pro- > created MOV file would not work on the Mac. > > I don't have a Mac to test this on. Maybe I will go to Kinkos to test > this out. > > I am grateful for the attempts by the people above to help me figure > out how to do this correctly. I've been using Camtasia to make Mathematica screencast videos with an inset of my talking head. I save them directly out of Camtasia as MP4, post them on my department website, and link to them with a direct URL (rather than embedding them in a webpage). My students don't have any problems playing them on Windows or Mac. -- Helen Read University of Vermont