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Troy Stein, the Camtasia Studio Product Manager, is out loose on the road! He'll be making his way around North America over the next few weeks stopping to chat with Camtasia Studio users. He's starting on the East Coast of the United States. If you'd like to give Troy your feedback directly, drop us a line either in the comments or via e-mail and he may be coming to your town soon.

Here are Troy's notes from one of his meetings...

I met with Anthony Rocha in New Hampshire. Anthony runs Blade Multimedia, a full-scale multimedia development shop. He kept mentioning in his "pipeline" -- the various applications he uses to create his rich websites, CDs, etc. Anthony uses a lot of software applications in his multimedia projects, in conjunction with Camtasia. Here's how he decribes his pipeline of applications and some of the workflow (3min video):

Below is his list of apps in his pipeline. What's in yours? What do you use in conjunction with CS?

Me? Tonight, I used a Sony HDV camera, digitzed it with iMovie (for some reason Final Cut didn't like me today). I exported from iMovie to QuickTime MOV and imported it into a prototype of CS for editing, marking and production. Why not just edit in iMovie or FCP? I'm making a longer video of the interview and want the ability to create a TOC for easier navigation. If there's a good way of creating an html TOC w/ embedded MOV file in iMovie or FCP, let me know.

Anthony's Pipeline of Applications:

Animation 3D & 2D:

. 3DS Max
. Silo
. Motion Builder
. SWiSHMax
. Flash
. Swift3D

Graphics Design

. Fireworks
. Photoshop
. Digital Audio production
. Cakewalk Sonar Producer
. Cakewalk PRO Tracks
. Groove monkee midi libraries
. VSampler
. WaveLab
. dbpowerAMp Encoder

Video editing and encoding (& screen capturing):

. Camtasia Studio v5
. SWiSHVideo
. Adobe Flash Video Encoder
. Sorenson Squeeze
. MediaCoder
. SUPER

Web Design:

. Dream Weaver
. Source Edit
. Notepad
. XAMPP local server for site testing.

Rich Application Development:

. MDM zinc 3
. Amayeta swf encrypt
. Axialis Icon Workshop
. Astrum Install wizard