RE: Camtasia vs Captivate vs Wink

["Robart, Kay" <Kay -dot- Robart -at- tea -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us>]

You can do full motion fully narrated demos from Captivate, too, though.
But you're right about the scaling.

Kay

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Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 8:16 AM
To: Cardimon, Craig
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Subject: Re: Camtasia vs Captivate vs Wink

Hi Craig

For me, the answer here is "it depends".

If I am wanting a full motion fully narrated demonstration, I'm using 
Camtasia. If I'm wanting something interactive, where my viewer may 
click and/or type to perform a simulation, I'm using Captivate. Another 
thing to consider is the area you need to capture. If I have no choice 
but full screen, Camtasia seems to do a better job as its approach tends

to be "Capture as large as you can, then reduce the size to what you 
want when you publish.". And it seems to scale things wonderfully so 
there isn't much loss of clarity. But with Captivate you don't want to 
take this approach as any scaling afterward will have a negative impact 
on what you see. The extent to which things degrade will depend on how 
much scaling is done.

If I'm on a severe budget where I cannot spend any money, Wink is my app

of choice.


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