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quality of .swf file?
Hello,
I'm trying to use camstudio, to create flash-movies for making tutorials for our students. Seems to work great, but there is something I don't understand very well: When I use "producer" make a flash movie, it makes two files: "movie.swf" and "movie.swf.html".
When I drag the former file into a web browser, quality is very bad. Also, when I try to import this file into powerpoint (which is actually my final goal), the quality is very bad.
However, if I drag the latter file ("movie.swf.html") into my browser, the quality is very good. So, obviously, I'm doing something wrong when importing the .swf file into my browser or powerpoint...
Can someone help me out, please?
Many thanks,
Stef Pillaert
I'm trying to use camstudio, to create flash-movies for making tutorials for our students. Seems to work great, but there is something I don't understand very well: When I use "producer" make a flash movie, it makes two files: "movie.swf" and "movie.swf.html".
When I drag the former file into a web browser, quality is very bad. Also, when I try to import this file into powerpoint (which is actually my final goal), the quality is very bad.
However, if I drag the latter file ("movie.swf.html") into my browser, the quality is very good. So, obviously, I'm doing something wrong when importing the .swf file into my browser or powerpoint...
Can someone help me out, please?
Many thanks,
Stef Pillaert
Comments
Terry
http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/
http://www.mediacoderhq.com/flv-converter/
I thought PowerPoint accepted mpg and avi files?
Terry
The .swf-files created by Camstudio-producer are of the best quality I can create (and I tried quite a few free AVI-to-SWF convertors). Moreover, the size of the .swf files created by Camstudio-producer are the smallest in size I ever produced, without losing the quality. However, if you change the size while viewing the .swf-video (so actually scale it), the quality becomes very, very bad: for instance, there are always strange traces of rectangles around the moving cursor.
So conclusion: as long as you can find a way to keep the original size, the situation with .swf files created by Camstudio is ideal: perfect quality and very small files.
Unfortunately, it is not easy/flexible to work with flash movies in powerpoint: it's not obvious to restart the video when you return to a slide with the embedded .swf, interaction with the powerpoint becomes akward when your cursor happens to be inside the video while whatching, .... But I agree: these are powerpoint problems, not Camstudio problems ...
Many thanks,
Stef
That is really great news (and very interesting!) to hear that CamStudio's SWF converter is working so well. I think I myself had become prejudiced against it simply due to the "shiny new object" syndrome: since there were newer converters, I assumed they'd possess improvements over CamStudio! I guess I was WRONG! ;-)
Does PowerPoint accept MPG or AVI files? Just wondering.
Thanks for the update!
Terry
Ken