April 26, 2013
Pain Ripples Through My Fingers
Ripple delete has been a great feature, which disappeared with newer versions of Camtasia in the recent past.
Camtasia for Windows seems to have fixed it's ripple delete issues as per a getsatisfaction update from one of the employees. I tested the latest update for the mac (version 2.3.1) and the ripple delete remains elusive.
About 6 months ago, I had tried to raise the issue that ripple delete feature in the Mac version is either mis-labeled or badly programmed, or both. It does not work like ripple delete in standard non-liner editing software found in the industry.
Ripple delete should work like any program worth its salt. Ripple delete is useless if other tracks stay where they are, ruining any B-roll positioned carefully downstream on the timeline. Ripple delete is a sad misnomer in Camtasia for Mac
Posted by rdivecha at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)
March 23, 2011
Problems with video recorded at 29.97 frames per second and Camtasia
There are many instances where we need to retrofit video from sources like DVDs or web cams as picture-in-picture for screen captures. Screen captures are done at rounded frame rates like 5, 10, 12, 15, etc. NTSC Videos from traditional cameras, however, are not always recorded at such rounded figures.
When such video is brought into Camtasia studio, to be synchronized with a screen capture doing a lecture, these two elements of video will start going out of sync has the time progresses in the video presentation.
One solution is to rip the DVD at 15 frames per second, or some other rounded figure. This way the Camtasia production output will not be thrown out of synchronization when produced for the web. I use Handbrake for converting a DVD capture from rack-mounted DVRs like Grassvalley in the video lab, which performs quite well and gives all the twiddly knobs a geek can desire. It even works with DVD format folders containing VOB files, when one of our partners simply gives us the files only over the network.
Hope this will save you some hours of trial and error. While searching for help on this topic in Techsmith forums at the time of writing this blog post, one can only come across discussions that talk about exporting at 29.97 frames per second from Camtasia, but rarely a discussion about bringing in footage at this frame rate.
Posted by rdivecha at 11:18 PM | Comments (0)