Comments on: Make your own video demo

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:57:01 +0000

Thank you for this post. I discovered that Microsoft’s Expression Encoder 4 has a free version that will do awesome screen capture. You can then send it to the encoder and use VC-1 Advanced codec, which is the best codec I’ve found for screen capture (I did 960×720 and the WMV file was literally perfect – indistinguishable from the original capture file despite being much smaller).

The only problem is that when I import that WMV file into Pinnacle to to voiceover and music, I have trouble making a movie with anything larger than 640×480 resolution. That’s probably user error though – I don’t know much about codecs, just that Pinnacle doesn’t seem to offer VC-1 advanced, and you can’t do voiceover in Expression (at least not in the free version).

By: Hotel Riccione

Hotel Riccione — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:54:33 +0000

Hey thanks a lot, I like to make videos, I have some part that I want to edit in a video, this is helpfull for me, thanks a lot.

By: Harsanik

Harsanik — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:30:21 +0000

Great article for beginners, I’m in the midst of learning video editing and I could use some of these tips in my own venture. Thanks again.

By: Production Music Library

Production Music Library — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:42:15 +0000

Very informative, thanks for this article, useful. Is it possible even to use parts of it in our site? (with credits of course), it can help our clients as well.

By: Alex F

Alex F — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:00:30 +0000

Superb job! It is a very well articulated article. I love it and will use it for the upcoming project – first time doing this BTW.

Thanks, Mr. Crane.

By: Mapper99

Mapper99 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:37:46 +0000

Very informative article. Thanks!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:20:37 +0000

Audacity is a great open source program you can use to record and edit audio files, then add them to your movie during editing in Pinnacle.

I found this article while trying to work with CamStudio AVIs in Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12. CamStudio’s lossless codec provides crystal clear picture, but I can’t get it to load into Pinnacle. I tried the PicVideo codec after reading this article, but that codec produced a pixelated video right from the start.

Does anyone know if there is a good codec for CamStudio that produces crystal clear images like CS’s lossless codec, but will also import into Pinnacle? Or, perhaps I’m not setting something correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Keith / Great Documents

Keith / Great Documents — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:44:42 +0000

Really nice article Dennis.

Many thanks; bookmarked for future reference!

By: Dennis Crane

Dennis Crane — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:30:16 +0000

Thanks for feedback!

@aati: From my toolkit, mentioned above, I can advise two tools for recording audio:
CamStudio – you may record voice simultaneously with video capturing of the screen.
Pinnacle Studio – you may record a sound track from your microphone during the montage step.
I’m sure there are also many other specialized tools for voice recording.

By: aati

aati — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:23:28 +0000

Hello…
Nice article…
One thing I want to know, I want to record demo in my own voice.
Can you plz tell me the name of tool, which I can use for audio recording.

Thanks…