video blues

I’m working on a new video of a Crysis tutorial this evening. This is a remake of the original video. The original video was lacking in some details, mainly because I was clueless was new to it myself. This new video is turning out to be much longer, but also creating a lot more grief for me.

The first Crysis tutorial I created had some issues after recording. In creating a video, I use a great program named Camtasia which is used to capture the screen and your voice as you work. When I went to edit the video, apparently the audio track was corrupt (according to the developers of the program) and I couldn’t add any fade effect between the opening still shot (title) and the video that I recorded (interesting side affect, hmmm).

This time, the recording failed for a new reason. Although I don’t know the cause other than the program is crap the recording is possibly really long, the video crashed during compilation to a version I could import into the editor. Basically, the recording I made was trashed. I never got to save the recording, it just disappeared and never asked me to continue.

After banging the desk for 10 minutes and yelling at the monitor waiting around patiently for a few minutes, I manually shut down the program for a restart. I figured I was left with having to start from scratch. But upon restarting the program, I was prompted with a notification that, “an unfinished recording was found and do I want to recover it.” “Hell yeah, I want to recover it, you @#$!”. Wouldn’t you know it… 10 minutes later I had the recording and I was able to edit it.

Problem again at this point… the video can’t compile with transitions. This refers back to the previous pain in the ass issue I had. The developer told me the audio was corrupted the first time and I don’t see how the exact same issue could happen again. I think it’s time for me to send another angry letter request for assistance. I love this program and don’t want to hate it… but what is with these problems I am having? This can’t be a coincidence anymore.

I’ll be back with an update to the result of my inquiry.
(”inquiry”… that sounds harmless, doesn’t it? lol)

Posted in: Rants »  by: foyleman

2 Responses to “video blues”

1. addrake  Says:
   November 3rd, 2007 at 11:22 am

   Sounds like your having lots of fun

2. supersword  Says:
   November 5th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

   The Camtasia screen recorder and/or Studio is an expensive piece of software, by my standards anyway. It’s a shame that things went wrong.

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