1024×768 Screencapture Test
This is a test to see if video can be displayed at sizes larger than 640×40. This test used a Camtasia Studio screencapture at 1024×768… a size that I like when viewing video tutorials. Video tutorials at 640×480 always appear too small for me to view properly.
Edited the clip in Vegas Pro 8. Exported file size was 12.7 MB, and goes for around 45 seconds.
If this test works then I will start displaying video tutorials at either 1024×768 or 800×600.
Also hosted this clip on my own web server, ( not Googles ) so the quality of the clip should be a lot better.
Used WMV file format for the video clip.
Cheers Jaron
Update # 1… Blog would not display the video at 1024×768. Not too sure why, but will look into it. Next I will try the basic 640×480 size and see how that goes. The display issue might be a problem with the custom field called “videolink” inside WordPress.
Update # 2… Blog will still not display video that is a direct link to the video on my website. Displays OK when linking to video hosted on Google Video, but not on mine. problem is more than likely an error by me when typing in the code… will check that next.
Update # 3… This update is using an flv flash file. This test worked. Seems that this Blog Template works better with Flash files.
Update # 4… The SWF flash format gives the best results in this test. Only problem is there are no player controls when using SWF files. I think that could be something I’ve done wrong.. will look into it further.
Update # 5… Have now been able to get the player controls to appear underneath the SWF movie clip. Exported from Camtasia Studio as an Express Show then uploaded the “folder” containing all the newly created files.
Update # 6… Finally worked out how to get a good quality screencapture using Camtasia, as you can see from the video clip. Did have a bit of a problem with the audio getting an annoying background noise… ended up being the microphone levels turned up too high.
Joined Bill Myers Website recently… should have gone there first. Found an excellent video on how to get great results using Camtasia. After that it was easy.