Rough Cuts in Technology WSS 3.0 and TFS 2005
I'm working on my next Rough Cuts in Technology Microcast. This session will be on installing WSS 3.0 for use as the Team Site portals for Team System team projects. It's outlined in a TechNote but that doesn't stop folks from liking a visual representation and a verbal walk through.
I have taken the screen captures and have begun to produce them. I decided to experiment with Adobe Premiere for working with the clips. I have thus far been disappointed. It's much easier to deal with the timeline than some products I have used but the application of effects seems to be limited at the clip level and not to some region of the clip. For example, I need to blur some areas of a clip. Seemingly with Premiere I can blur the entire clip or none of it. Not what I wanted. Likewise I may want to zoom into some area of the screen. No go. As far as I can tell. In full disclosure, Adobe has a lot of products and I may need to combine a different product with Premiere and the other product will allow me to do the things I desire and Premiere itself is more for clip level manipulation versus manipulation of effects on some physically limited area of a clip. I'll have to look around. I have also found it very difficult to get either the frame size set to the 833x613 that I need and when I tell it to fit the clip to the frame size it provides a lower quality image than I want. The screen characters are not clear etc. So far Camtasia has done a better job and provided the output quality I would expect. It seems Adobe Premiere is really only designed for video from a video recorder and outputs to television or handheld dimensions. I'm finding it poorly works with my AVI files at my 833x613.
Apparently, I should give Camtasia more credit for its video handling of the type of videos I gather. Regardless, I still need more especially when I begin doing the sound editing. The last step is that I actually plan to take the final product and bring it into Silverlight add chapters etc. and distribute it that way. This will give the user the option of easily jumping past "Adding users to AD" or other areas. Sure I can do that in many tools and don't need Silverlight to do that but it will be fun and in line with the technologies that I focus on.