Jim's Unfold Tool Tutorials (and Camtasia Tests)

Jim

Here is a short, experimental tutorial made with the free camtasia 3 software discussed elsewhere on this site.

Camtasia supports title screens, transitions, and many other features I haven't tried yet. This is a basic screen recording with mouse clicks.

Note: I noticed it didn't pick up every single last mouse click in the videos, but that may be due to may ancient computer being slow.

Gaieus

It's probably just some codec issue here on my office computer but I cannot see the videos (I don't want to bother with codex now here as I cannot install a couple of things here). I'll check them out at home.

@jim said:

Note: I noticed it didn't pick up every single last mouse click in the videos, but that may be due to may ancient computer being slow.

This may also be due to low fps settings conbined with your fast modeling actions...

dylan

Will not play on mine either, I do not have the codec. I shall try at home later.

Jim which codec did you choose when saving? I know when I looked at this software over the weekend, there seemed to be quite a lot to choose from when saving the file/video. I was not sure myself which one would be the best.

Marek Badzynski

Camtasia uses it's own TSCC codec - avialable here for free:
http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp

One way to avoid the codec issue is to convert the final avi to flash with Camtasia; not only any flash player will play it, but file size is also reduced dramatically

Marek

Gaieus

Thanks a lot, Marek (and thanks Jim - cool plugin though I have never used it).

As for Flash videos; I also like them because they are more easily embeddable into websites (even here, to the forum) and really cross-browser nowadays...

Jim

I selected the avi output, but used the default codec.

@unknownuser said:

Will not play on mine either, I do not have the codec. I shall try at home later.

Jim which codec did you choose when saving? I know when I looked at this software over the weekend, there seemed to be quite a lot to choose from when saving the file/video. I was not sure myself which one would be the best.

GreyHead

Just testing - if this works here are flash versions of the two re-published in Camtasia.
Tutorial 1: Box
[flash=640,480:368nm3tv]sas/Tutorials/extensions/jf_unfold_tool_tutorial_1.swf[/flash:368nm3tv]

Tutorial 2: Cylinder
[flash=640,480:368nm3tv]sas/Tutorials/extensions/jf_unfold_tool_tutorial_2.swf[/flash:368nm3tv]

Bob