Action Script 3.0 and Studio 13 development
May 01, 2013
I'm in the middle of a wrestling match with Presenter 9 right now involving flash movies that won't run. (limit of 3 per slide - what's with that??)
I am not using the Articulate video encoder. In the process of research I have contacted Techsmith and they confirm that the 7.1.1 version of Camtasia I am using for my flash files is based on ActionScript 2.0. So I should not be having this issue.
But regardless of that, they said that version Camtasia v8 uses version Action Script 3.0. Camtasia v8 is a real PITA and I do not intend to use it despite having bought the upgrade, so that's a bullet I can dodge for now.
But, the big point is that I don't like the encoder provided with Studio 9. The quality is poor and the output choices are too limited. Flash can, and needs to be better. I post my content internally and have the capabilty to stream 1280x720. I need that resolution and the Video Encoder can't provide it. I imagine you are outsourcing that application, but it's not good enough for what I'm doing. I need the capability to get crisp smooth images of application data entry screens.
I'll post the issue of movies not running over in the other section.
Thanks!
Pete Flynn
3 Replies
could you export as an mp4 from camtasia this way you do not need to run it through the encoder.
Regarding the quality doesn't really matter what quality you can stream as Presenter slide slide is limited to 720x540 which really should be the output you embed
Hi Phil,
What's a pm4?
Camtasia does not export in that format. I chose to avoid the embed option and am launching in another browser window to get it bigger. 720x540 is too small. I took the path of one movie per slide. I was able to get flv output from Camtasia in 1280x720 and embedded them right into the lesson. PPT/Articulate crashed on the largest file but after I rebooted my machine to clear the memory and only ran PPT it worked. The finished lesson zipped up to 500 meg, but distribution isn't my problem!
sorry mp4, camtasia should export as an MP4
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