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Importing Camtasia video into Storyline - Optimum settings?
Hi there
I have used Camtasia in the past for screen recordings and find it a great tool for really robust screen recording work. So far for my eLearning courses I have been using only Storyline but I've been missing some of the features from Camtasia so I'm trialling it to test out how it integrates with Storyline.
So far - it's great! I can do all the editing, callouts, zooms in Camtasia and it seems to be carrying them across beautifully to Storyline!
I was just wondering if anyone else has played around with Storyline/Camtasia integration and if you've found that there are optimum settings I should be using? Or any other useful tips with regards to this integration?
If anyone else is wanting to try Camtasia with Storyline, I'd highly recommend it so far. One of the things I like to do with my screen recordings is record the screen with no audio and then record the audio afterwards. I just find it is easier for me to edit it this way - lots of other people prefer doing audio and screen at the same time though - but I found this hard to do in Storyline (and in all the other authoring tools, so I thought I'd give the Camtasia a go). So if you also like doing your audio AFTER your screen recording, maybe give Camtasia a trial.
Thanks - any feedback will be great!
Anne
After further testing, index file is not necessary. For those that need to add interactive Camtasia videos, point Storyline via Web Object to the folder that contains the published video along with the "videoname_player.html" file. Seems to work great once the course is published and uploaded to the LMS.
Make sure there are no other .html files in the same folder.
Hi Anna:
In Camtasia, save as custom settings and chose FLV/MP4 with no player (if you save with a player, the player is a seperate file from Camtasia Studio).
Best Regards,
Dennis Hall
Does anyone have publishing (on Camtasia side) and importing (on Storyline side) recommendations for pulling in a Camtasia video successfully into Storyline but using Camtasia's video player with markers? I can't seem to achieve this successfully in Storyline and wondering what I might be doing wrong.
I'd also suggest recording, editing and publishing Camtasia files at the same resolution (or at least the same ratio) as your Storyline's "Story Size".
I found it visually distracting when I didn't maintain identical ratios, and liked the results best when everything matched dimension wise.
Hello, Anne.
I was just about to try that exact same thing. My question: After the Camtasia files are imported into Storyline, can the final product be published as HMTL5 and have the Camtasia interactions preserved?
Vicki Kunkel said:
Hello, Anne.
I was just about to try that exact same thing. My question: After the Camtasia files are imported into Storyline, can the final product be published as HMTL5 and have the Camtasia interactions preserved?
I'm wondering along the same lines - is it possible to import the Camtasia output, produced with their player (using 'Produce with controller' option), into a storyline slide? Inserting it as a web object perhaps (though there is no index.html file)?It would be great to be able to have their searchable video / table of contents features for example. Right now I have just used the standard insert video feature in Storyline.
Matt,
I've also been looking into this. However, as Dennis replied, I believe you can only import Camtasia as an MP4, which removes the TOC, closed captions (which are much more user-friendly to insert in Camtasia), quizzes, and hotspots. If I'm correct, this is very unfortunate, because the ease of inserting and editing cc in Camtasia is highly preferable. Additionally, being able to set the markers in Camtasia and keep those with the TOC would also be valuable. Dennis may, however, be implying that the player can be included, but imported separately...
Can Articulate staff confirm this limitation, meaning, only the Camtasia MP4 can be imported to Storyline?
Thanks!
Hi Trace! Importing Camtasia videos are your best bet. Importing the interactive content is untested and unsupported. If you want to try a past solution for another product and see if you can get it to work for Storyline, then maybe this will help you.
Another possibility could be to incorporate your Camtasia output into your Storyline project via a web object.
I'm also looking to import a Camtasia video that I have already added the closed captions to. Is there another way other than the web object option? I really would prefer to embed the video directly into the file so my client doesn't have to worry about hosting video somehow.
