Select the Track FX button on the track that contains your Camtasia screen capture footage.

It’s important to have your Vegas project match the resolution and fps of your footage. If you used the settings in #1 this should be Custom (1280×720, 15.000 fps) progressive with square pixels.

In Vegas Pro go to File | Properties (Alt+Enter) and use the Match Media Settings button in the project properties to match your Vegas project to the Camtasia media.

Some people like editing in Camtasia Studio but I prefer the tools that I have in Vegas Pro.

Since this tutorial is about editing in Vegas Pro, in the Camtasia recorder select Tools | Options and make sure that you capture to the AVI file format (not CAMREC) so you can edit immediately in Vegas Pro.

If you want to capture to 4:3, I would use 1280×960 so that you still have enough resolution to repurpose later. This is easy using Camtasia 6 since it will resize the program for you. This means that you must resizing whatever program you are using to 1280×720. That’s the same as HD 720p and allows me to repurpose the footage for web delivery at HD resolution.

For this, I capture using 1280×720 screen dimensions.

I like to deliver widescreen DVD’s so I use 16:9 when creating a tutorial.Some preplanning is needed in order to get good result and that starts with the resolution of the application you are using for your tutorial.įollow these steps and you should have a pretty good looking Camtasia tutorial on DVD:

Resizing from that resolution will not maintain the fine lines needed to read text. It starts by not expecting video captured at 1680×1050 PC desktop resolution to be readable in a tiny 720×480 DVD sized video. The same rules apply for any small format out like YouTube. In this tutorial I’m going to share some of the techniques that I use when making Camtasia tutorials for DVD delivery. Yikes! But with a little planning and understanding of the limitations of the DVD format, you can get pretty good results. That’s like changing the resolution of your PC screen to 640×480. When creating tutorials using screen capture with an application like Camtasia for delivery on small formats like DVD, we sometimes forget that DVD resolution is 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL). We are spoiled by our high resolution computer screens.

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