Which format for your Camtasia Screencast? FLV or SWF? (Visual Lounge)

Which format for your Camtasia Screencast? FLV or SWF?

Posted on Wednesday February 21, 2007 by Betsy Weber

Most of the Camtasia Studio screencasts I make are for delivery on the web. And, the best option for me, usually means producing a SWF or FLV video. But, I never really knew the difference between the two or which format to use.

I had our Senior Flash Developer, Brooks Andrus, sit down and do a screencast with me to talk about the difference between SWF and FLV and which output to use.

Click the screenshot below to launch the screencast. We did pretty good on time for this one - it's just over 4 minutes. Don't get too comfortable!

Any requests for the next screencast?

Comments (6)

Patrick :

Hi there,

just wanted to watch it on my Mac and nothing shows up. Is there a downloadable version for the video?

Thanks in advance

Posted by Patrick | February 22, 2007 5:27 AM

Posted on February 22, 2007 05:27

Lance :

Thanks Betsy!

Posted by Lance | February 22, 2007 9:42 AM

Posted on February 22, 2007 09:42

Betsy Weber :

This one is on Kelly Rush's screencast.com account so I can't make it downloadable. But, I'll catch him this morning and have him make the files available...

Hopefully that will solve your viewing problems.

Posted by Betsy Weber | February 22, 2007 10:02 AM

Posted on February 22, 2007 10:02

AJ :

Hey Patrick,

You need to make sure that you have the latest version of Flash Player installed for the browser you are using, Safari/Firefox. The latest version of Flash Player is 9 and you can get it here: www.adobe.com

Posted by AJ | February 22, 2007 11:29 AM

Posted on February 22, 2007 11:29

Patrick :

I have the newest version of Flash 9 installed but it won't work. Have tried Safari, Firefox, Camino and OmniWeb but none of those display the screencast.

Posted by Patrick | February 26, 2007 8:33 AM

Posted on February 26, 2007 08:33

Patrick :

Hi there,

installed Parallels the other day and in windows it works flawlessly.

Greetings

Posted by Patrick | March 8, 2007 5:14 AM

Posted on March 8, 2007 05:14

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