TUTORIAL: Transparency galore

[Xhris]

Incredible. Your video is actually crystal clear compared to most YouTube output. What codec did you use to produce the final edit? What settings?

I'm baffled as to how you can get an hour shoehorned into less than 100 mb and still retain any recognizable visuals at all. Well done.

I used the 30 day trial of Camtasia Studio 5 (which I may buy for half price after the recent thread about getting version 3 for free). It records the screen in it's own lossless .camrec format. On my slow laptop, I get 1280x1024 screen recording at a perfectly acceptable 10 fps. Camtasia then allows you to edit your recordings, where you can select regions of the whole screen to zoom into for clarity etc. It's all in the editing as they say. Then I exported the final edited video in Microsoft's excellent Windows Media Format at 480x360 (YouTube size), which is negligibly lossy and extremely small in filesize, and using only the default values for the other settings Camtasia Studio offers for that exporting route. This took hours to render on this laptop...and I had to do it twice after I exceeded the 100 Mb limit imposed by YouTube the first time, by 9 Mb. Then I uploaded the video to YouTube which compresses it extremely heavily and the quality drops terribly compared to the original. I think there are ways around the 100 Mb filesize limit, but I didn't investigate at the time. It would be nice if I've set a new trend in producing video tutorials; I did originally try to push video use on TG forums back in 2005 before YouTube came along. I'd been intending to do video tutorials for a while now, but never found the time/good software.

OK, this describes clearly how to upload videos greater than 100 mb in size...I'll upload the original video soon...