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.

Serious Magic Users Forum

Thanks to everyone on the Serious Magic Users Forum for all there help over the last 6 months helping me to get my video tutorials up and running. Things have improved a lot over the last few months with all your help. Posted by Jaron Fraser from www.problogtips.com

It was one of the last video’s that I made before business commitments elsewhere caused me to take a break.

You will start to see a difference in quality of the video clips uploaded after January 2009. By that time, I’d had a chance to improve my video production skills, and was also able to spend more time on this part of my web business.

Green Screen Setup

The lighting I use when creating my video tutorials consists of all daylight 5400K fluro sofboxs, backlights and hairlights. The camera is a Canon XH A1 with a Sony ECM 77B lapel mic plugged into the side via an XLR input.

Software of choice for doing the Chroma Keying is Ultra 2. Used Sony Vegas Platinum as the NLE together with Digital Juice Swipes and Jumpbacks.

This video clip was posted to Google on… 15th August 2007

You will notice that the aspect ratio is not correct… looks sqished, giving me an elongated head. Left this video clip as it is… to remind me not to make the same mistake again.