so there were quite a few mac people at the last group- does anyone have experience producing screencasts using iMovie? I captured one today using a program called iShowU (which is great). What's not so great is the quality of the final video when i chop it up in iMovie and render it -> http://www.jumpbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/this-looks-like-but...
I've read several forum threads on this topic and there's not much consensus on how to make it look good. I used the "Full quality" export option and exported as DV. thoughts or recommendations? Is iMovie just not capable of maintining original resolution in screencasts? thanks
I've recently run into the same problem, and found that it looks decent if you capture the screen area at a DV or HDV 720 resolution to match the native canvas sizes in iMovie. I did this by adjusting the screen capture size in Snapz Pro, which is the screencast software i use. I'm not sure how it would work in iShowU.
It still comes out subpar, and being limited to the various DV resolutions is unfortunate. Googling around for a while, it seems that the same issue comes up in Final Cut Express, and the real solution is to use Final Cut Pro, which is unfortunately very expensive.
Good luck Derek
On 6/11/07, Sean Tierney <legalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> so there were quite a few mac people at the last group- does anyone > have experience producing screencasts using iMovie? I captured one > today using a program called iShowU (which is great). What's not so > great is the quality of the final video when i chop it up in iMovie > and render it -> > http://www.jumpbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/this-looks-like-but...
> I've read several forum threads on this topic and there's not much > consensus on how to make it look good. I used the "Full quality" > export option and exported as DV. > thoughts or recommendations? Is iMovie just not capable of maintining > original resolution in screencasts? thanks
If I choose Full Quality, it is not possible to choose .dv--.mov is my only option. When I do this, the output quality is excellent.
If I choose Expert Settings, click Share, and click the Export drop- down list, I have the following choices: http://drunsen.com/imovie2.png
This is the only way I know of saving to .dv in iMovieHD. But I don't ever save to .dv, so can only recommend you export to QuickTime or if you must Windows Media/DivX/AVI. Upon choosing a file format, click Options to tweak per your quality and filesize needs.
Excellent demo last Tuesday, by the way. Thanks for answering my question about cost. I opened the Trac/Subversion image in Parallels and love it. When you start charging for the luxury option, will that essentially grant me root? If so, I should be able to copy-paste to a production server, right? That would be sweet.
Ryan
On Jun 11, 5:45 pm, "Sean Tierney" <legalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> so there were quite a few mac people at the last group- does anyone > have experience producing screencasts using iMovie? I captured one > today using a program called iShowU (which is great). What's not so > great is the quality of the final video when i chop it up in iMovie > and render it ->http://www.jumpbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/this-looks-like-but...
> I've read several forum threads on this topic and there's not much > consensus on how to make it look good. I used the "Full quality" > export option and exported as DV. > thoughts or recommendations? Is iMovie just not capable of maintining > original resolution in screencasts? thanks
Derek & Ryan, good suggestions- thanks! I tinkered with the various compression settings under the expert option and got very close to the quality that comes directly out of iShowU using these-> http://www.jumpbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/hiresimoviesettings... (make sure it starts out as an HD project).
> If I choose Full Quality, it is not possible to choose .dv--.mov is my > only option. When I do this, the output quality is excellent.
> If I choose Expert Settings, click Share, and click the Export drop- > down list, I have the following choices: > http://drunsen.com/imovie2.png
> This is the only way I know of saving to .dv in iMovieHD. But I don't > ever save to .dv, so can only recommend you export to QuickTime or if > you must Windows Media/DivX/AVI. Upon choosing a file format, click > Options to tweak per your quality and filesize needs.
> Excellent demo last Tuesday, by the way. Thanks for answering my > question about cost. I opened the Trac/Subversion image in Parallels > and love it. When you start charging for the luxury option, will that > essentially grant me root? If so, I should be able to copy-paste to a > production server, right? That would be sweet.
> Ryan
> On Jun 11, 5:45 pm, "Sean Tierney" <legalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > so there were quite a few mac people at the last group- does anyone > > have experience producing screencasts using iMovie? I captured one > > today using a program called iShowU (which is great). What's not so > > great is the quality of the final video when i chop it up in iMovie > > and render it ->http://www.jumpbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/this-looks-like-but...
> > I've read several forum threads on this topic and there's not much > > consensus on how to make it look good. I used the "Full quality" > > export option and exported as DV. > > thoughts or recommendations? Is iMovie just not capable of maintining > > original resolution in screencasts? thanks
iMovie is alright, typicially I do use final cut but to smaller projects Quicktime Pro is a pretty decent program. Not sure if it would help out here, but its far cheaper than Final Cut and for little projects I tend to use that a lot more than iMovie. Might give that a try.
On Jun 11, 8:45 pm, "Sean Tierney" <legalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> so there were quite a few mac people at the last group- does anyone > have experience producing screencasts using iMovie? I captured one > today using a program called iShowU (which is great). What's not so > great is the quality of the final video when i chop it up in iMovie > and render it ->http://www.jumpbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/this-looks-like-but...
> I've read several forum threads on this topic and there's not much > consensus on how to make it look good. I used the "Full quality" > export option and exported as DV. > thoughts or recommendations? Is iMovie just not capable of maintining > original resolution in screencasts? thanks
Most of the good mac centric screencasts you've have have probably been made with this. Many consider it to be the de-facto screencast tool for OS X. Give it a try.
> iMovie is alright, typicially I do use final cut but to smaller > projects Quicktime Pro is a pretty decent program. Not sure if it > would help out here, but its far cheaper than Final Cut and for little > projects I tend to use that a lot more than iMovie. Might give that a > try.
> On Jun 11, 8:45 pm, "Sean Tierney" <legalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > so there were quite a few mac people at the last group- does anyone > > have experience producing screencasts using iMovie? I captured one > > today using a program called iShowU (which is great). What's not so > > great is the quality of the final video when i chop it up in iMovie > > and render it -> > http://www.jumpbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/this-looks-like-but...
> > I've read several forum threads on this topic and there's not much > > consensus on how to make it look good. I used the "Full quality" > > export option and exported as DV. > > thoughts or recommendations? Is iMovie just not capable of maintining > > original resolution in screencasts? thanks
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