RE: Camtasia vs Captivate vs Wink

[Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us>]

+1 what Rick said.

Captivate does do full motion video, but Camtasia does it better, and the
video editing layout in Camtasia makes much more sense for full-on video
projects. Though I have to say I like the text-to-speech built into
Captivate these days. It's great when you are in a pinch for narration.
You've got to work it a bit and learn the VTML (VoiceText Markup Language)
to make it sound good. I built a custom Tag library in Dreamweaver and
matched it to a custom page type. I use the Dreamweaver IDE to write/tag up
my text and then copy & paste into captivate.

Cheers!

-Greg

techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on
06/06/2011 09:20:15 AM:

> From: "Robart, Kay" <Kay -dot- Robart -at- tea -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us>
> To: "Rick Stone" <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>, "Cardimon, Craig"
<ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>
> Cc: techwrl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Date: 06/06/2011 09:20 AM
> Subject: RE: Camtasia vs Captivate vs Wink
> Sent by: techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>
> You can do full motion fully narrated demos from Captivate, too, though.
> But you're right about the scaling.
>
> Kay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+kay -dot- robart=tea -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
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> On Behalf Of Rick Stone
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 8:16 AM
> To: Cardimon, Craig
> Cc: 'techwrl'
> 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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