Importing an AVI that uses TSCC codec

[JimDean]

Can Ulead 11.x import a TSCC-based screen-capture AVI, and use it as background with a DV-captured file as a PIP on top of it?
I realize that the "produced" result will not be TSCC, but I need to know if Ulead will properly import and display and incorporate that playback in the edited production (likely standard DVD format).

Note ... Pinnacle 11.1.2 cannot do this. Windows MP can play it back just fine. I *think* Ulead 7 could import TSCC OK ... I am not at the machine with UL7 right now.

Thanks!

Jim

P.S. Answer is "YES" - see my later post below

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the Board. I don't mean to sound flip, but have you tried doing it? I only have one Tech Smith program installed, but that is only to capture still screen shots, not video ones. If you look at the "Please Read This Before Posting" sticky at the head of this Board, you will see that there are all sorts of things we need to know before anyone can answer a question, especially one such as yours.

At the very least, if you have a TSCC file on computer, have you tried using the Insert command within Video Studio to see if it can recognise the file? If it does, then you are mostly there already. And again, if it can, could you right click on one of the files and copy down ALL its properties here, please. That will at least give us a clue about what we are dealing with...

The problem is that there are literally dozens of different types of AVI files, all of which use that extension, but which in reality are an enormously diverse types of video, some of which VS can handle, but some of which it cannot.

Can you also confirm exactly which Tech Smith product you are using? Is it SnagIt or something different? Once we know, hopefully someone with the same product will come along and be able to answer you...

[JimDean]

I own an old copy of Ulead, on another computer that is packed away.

I only would need to use Ulead *IF* it can handle the TSCC codec. I don't want to buy an upgrade just to test that one thing.

I fully understand how codecs differ, even though they produce a similarly tagged AVI file.

I was surprised that Pinnacle could NOT read the file's video ... that is the program that I use at work - thus my posting here.

I'm hoping that someone on this forum also owns a copy of Camtasia, which captures in the TSCC mode.

Thanks for your reply.

Jim

[Ken Berry]

OK. So at least now we know you are talking about Camtasia. I know that several of our users have that program. So hopefully one of them will soon come on line and see your question...

A supplementary question, though, is whether Camtasia allows you to choose another format to save your screen capture in? I know, for instance, that you have a choice of format in still screen captures from TechSmith's SnagIt program, for example...

Good Luck!!

[Black Lab]

You could always download the trial and try it yourself.

[JimDean]

AVI files which are created with a TSCC codec, via either Camtasia Recorder screen-capture, or via a Camtasia production to AVI, will play back just fine in VideoStudio, and VS is able to incorporate them in the creation of DVD's. This presumes that the same machine is used for both, or that the TSCC playback codec (free) has been installed on the Ulead machine.

Note that the files created by screen capture in Snagit are WMV, not TSCC. TSCC is a proprietary *lossless* screen-capture format created by Techsmith.

Also note that when a DVD is created, or any other codec is used to produce something from a TSCC source, there will naturally be some loss of detail since all the other codecs (other than DV) involve some compression.

This is based on the use of Ulead VS 11 plus.