RE: Camtasia vs Captivate vs Wink

["Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>]

Rick,

I'm at a small 50-person company, so I would say budget is a large concern. I don't want to put in a request for software if I don't have to. 

What you say makes sense. Let's go the free route first. Have you used Wink, and if so, can I pick your brain?

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stone [mailto:rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com] 
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 9:16 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.

Cheers... Rick :)

On 6/6/2011 8:00 AM, Cardimon, Craig wrote:
> What do you folks tend to use more for video tutorials:
>
> *         a slide-based application such as Adobe Captivate
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> *         something like Camtasia, which offers SmartFocus
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> *         something free like Wink
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> I tried Captivate and got used to manipulating and editing slides. Quick and easy. Having to access Camtasia files via the playhead seems awkward.
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