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I'm using Camtasia........ to do screen capture demos, I have previously uploaded them to my own web site because they looked terrible on YouTube and Google.

I have been saving an AVI file to Viddler, and the quality is absolutely brilliant! Just what I am looking for. However! There's always an however isn't there!

The only formats that I can see I can save in a match in both places are AVI and MOV which one should I use? I have tried AVI, quality brilliant but it is rather a big upload. Would I get better results with MOV?

One very minor thing, by default the video appears in a window on your website, alternatively I can have a URL and show it in full screen mode, however I don't like either! I would really prefer a URL which pops the video up in its "actual size". I'm talking about AVI format now. I'm losing definition in the small window size, and the full screen size, and the "actual size" option, selectable I know manually, but it would be very handy if it was selectable via a URL. You know what people are like.
Finally! Is there a search facility with this forum? I did try searching it with the Google advanced search feature, that didn't work.

BTW I'm going to try the MOV format now, any recommendations on default settings for this format?

Cheers Tony.

TonyHine: From a video perspective the settings are on this forum in this thread. But from a screencast scenario the variables are much different. The size of the video, etc. I would say use the default output for much of the software that you are encoding with, try that, and tweak based on results.

Anyone else have some suggestions for Tony?

PS. Search for this forum coming soon!

I tried saving my last camtasia effort in MOV format, but I didn't gain anything, the file size was still at large, larger than when I saved it as AVI.

Hi
I would also like to use this service for uploading screencasts, but the issue with screencasts is that any resizing makes the video look bad.
A video size of 800*600 pixels is what I really need. I already host a bunch of such on my own site, for example :
http://www.kalmstrom.nu/products/outlook/pfhelpdesk/demonstrations/

But of course, my own site lacks so many of the nice features that viddler has.
Is this something that Viddler is thinking about supporting?

The reason I am responding in this thread is that I too am using Camtasia. For me, uploading in flv format works well but the resizing makes it bad anyway. Of course Techsmith is launching their own site http://www.screencast.com but so far it has two drawbacks:
1. A lot of features missing as compared to Viddler
2. They are not free

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards
Peter Kalmström, www.kalmstrom.nu

OutlookSolution and TonyHine: Be aware that you can embed Viddler's player at ANY size. So if you are recording your screencasts at 800x600, and you would like to view them natively, you can embed our player on your site/blog at that size without losing any quality.

If either of you need help with this.. please let me know. I'm going to see if I can get Allen to respond to this as well (as I know he uses Camtasia too).

when you resize in camtasia (i am using 3.x), make sure you double check to verify that the sizes are still in sync. What i find is that clicking the "resize" window does not keep it in sync and you need to click off and click on it to get it to work.

but in all my screencast uploads, it has worked fine.

you might also talk to demogirl.com she has hundreds of screencasts and while she does not use viddler for the hosting, she does use camtasia.

Hi
With a bit of testing I managed to embed my video so that it doesn't resize at all. If I set the flash player size to 850 in width and 641 in height the size of the video looks great for a 800 by 600 screencast.
Now I am happy but not 100% happy yet ;-)
Of course I would like people to start embedding my content in their blogs etc but I would like to make the default size of the embedded player html code 850*641 instead of the current width="437" height="370" . Is there any way of doing that?
If not, please consider this a humble feature request!
Best regards
Peter Kalmström, www.kalmstrom.nu

ToniHine: I, too, use Camtasia. When you render your video, render it in FLV format. I've just started using Viddle last week. The main reason is the FLV upload format it allows. My current 11 minute video - 640x480 - was about 23 megs when rendered in Flash. It was 250 megs as a MOV file and about as large as an AVI file. For real time video, I download the video into I-Movie, render as AVI, bring into Camtasia, and render out as Flash with great results. Hope this helps.

Wow, I'm surprised no one has ever shared a Viddler/YouTube Preset that they have created in CamTasia. This sucks. I know this was posted over a year ago, but I'm running into the same issues of native recordings looking great while they look like total crap on Viddler.