Camtasia Studio v5 Sneak Peek Day 7 - Silverlight
Posted on Saturday October 6, 2007 by Betsy Weber
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Our sneak peek today is about Camtasia Studio and Microsoft's Silverlight. For more info about Silverlight, visit here.
Dave O'Rourke made a quick screencast that will show you how to use Camtasia Studio 4 and 5 to create content compatible with Silverlight. We have made it a lot easier in Camtasia Studio 5 to create WMVs that are compatible with Silverlight. We changed the default settings so it takes three simple steps to produce a Silverlight compatible WMV file in Camtasia Studio 5. See below.
Also, ff you're using Camtasia Studio 4 and would like to produce WMVs that are compatible with Silverlight, you can download and use this Windows Media Profile (*.prx) here. Dave's screencast will walk through the steps to use the Windows Media Profile in Camtasia Studio 4. Camtasia Studio 5 users will not need to do this.
Comments (6)
Why should I use Silverlight instead of WMV?
Posted by John Kirk | October 8, 2007 9:31 AM
Posted on October 8, 2007 09:31
>>Why should I use Silverlight instead of WMV?
There's been a lot of confusion over this. Silverlight is the player. It runs inside the browser, like the Flash player. Just as the Flash player can consume an external Flash Video (FLV) file, the Silverlight player can consume an external Windows Media Video (WMV) file. The change in Camtasia Studio 5 is that we now default to settings which allow you to use your Camtasia Studio created WMV files with the Silverlight player.
A slightly different question would be... Why would I use the Silverlight player instead of an embedded Windows Media Player?
The main advantage I see is that the Silverlight player runs inside IE (Win), Firefox (Win), Safari (Mac), and Firefox (Mac). Using an embedded Windows Media Player limits your audience to IE (Win) only. The main disadvantage right now is that the Silverlight player is not yet installed on many systems, so your viewers will likely need to download and install the Silverlight player before they can view your content. The install is pretty painless though, and over time more and more users will have installed the player.
Posted by Dave O'Rourke | October 8, 2007 3:53 PM
Posted on October 8, 2007 15:53
Why is the quality of the AVI output of Camtasia so much better than the WMV one. The AVI video that is produced is much sharper, the colors are much better and yes the size is massive as well. Is there a way to create a WMV ouput(for Silverlight), which is of equal or better quality when compared to its AVI output regardless of the size of the file?
Posted by Waqar Ahmed | October 24, 2007 11:15 AM
Posted on October 24, 2007 11:15
I upgraded to v.5 and love it.
So ... what can you do for me to make it easier to produce a Silverlight hosted wmv. I see here that making the wmv is not a problem. But I (and others) don't know how to take it from there. I guess what we want is a "default" Silverlight player and instructions that connect the dots all the way to posting on the MS Silverlight website. In other words, can you make a turnkey experience for us? Thx !
Posted by Ward | October 26, 2007 2:22 PM
Posted on October 26, 2007 14:22
I definitely want to see Silverlight support in Camtasia
Posted by Jaimir Guerrero | August 12, 2008 10:31 PM
Posted on August 12, 2008 22:31
help me IE V5 player just ...
Posted by zaya | June 9, 2009 6:24 AM
Posted on June 9, 2009 06:24