Trevor DeVore wrote:The Ambrosia videos use the QuickTime Animation codec which isn't a very good delivery codec but it is all QT really had for screen capture. At 100% quality it is lossless but even when you drop the percentage slider down you get larger file sizes then you would with a codec like TSCC. Ensharpen for QT is actually a pretty big deal because QT has not had a screen capture delivery codec while WiMP and Real have for quite some time. The codec has good compression, is lossless and is nice to your CPU (unlike Sorenson).
I hear TSCC is good (I look forward to seeing it too, but it won't show the video track on my new G4 laptop).
My point is not about the relative merit of one codec over another, but that the technology to deliver useful screen recordings as training materials has been around for years and can be done with readily available tools. In the highly competitive video compression arena it will only continue to get better over time.
Sorry Richard, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I've been delivering training materials using the Animation codec for a few years which is why I am excited about the Ensharpen offering.
I just didn't want to leave folks with the impression that a "perfect" solution being creatable only on Windows would preclude a "good" solution from being created anywhere. Many companies have been delivering training videos over the Web for quite a while, and a lot of them were done on Macs.
Definitely. With the release of Snapz Pro 2 the Mac solution got even better. The recording ability of this upgrade is really amazing.
Having a "lossy" codec does not necessarily mean the instructional value will also be lost. Yes, getting the very best quality technology allows can be valuable, but getting results now with the tools at hand can be more so.
Agreed, as I mentioned above, I have been working with the current tool set for a while and just really like the new offerings.
-- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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