VS X4 rendering 4:3

[rbridge]

I am currently using a trial version of VS X4 (testing if suitable for our needs) and I am using an instant project that I downloaded in the extras. It was one large picture and then 4 pictures scrolling on the left hand side. I modified it so that I had a background on the main video track, the one large picture a mp4 video captured with Camtasia Studio 7, and three pictures scrolling on the left hand side.

I want to have a 4:3 aspect ratio, as these would be going on a website and need to match previous tutorial videos. The video I put in the overlay track is captured at 1024 x 768 and I have tried a variety of sizes of the back ground, (matching aspect ratio and not) and I cannot seem to find or create a suitable template to create a good quality (I.e. can still read the menus in the window of the screen capture mp4) video. I don't much care what the output type is, as long as it is supported by Camtasia Studio 7 since I render there to create a HTML script, to be used on the website.

Any help is appreciated,

Ryan

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

Shouldn't be that big of a problem. First VS X4 has 16:9 as the default aspect ratio. You need to go to the Tools menu, you should see a check beside 16:9 Widescreen. Click on it to deselect it. Now your project will be 4:3. The Instant Projects, unless specifically made to 16:9, should adapt to the 4:3 ratio. Any of the HD templates will be 16:9, as that is the standard for HD.

As far as output to Camtasia Studio, in the Share step, Share>Create Video File>Custom. Then in the file type, select AVI, and press the Option button. Go to the AVI tab, where you can select what Compression to use. You should see the compression option of Techsmith Screencapture Codec. VS will use Techsmith's codec to render your file. Since you're going to take this back into Camtasia, I think you'll have better luck using it.

[rbridge]

Thanks for getting back so quick,

I had the 16:9 toggled off, The Techsmith codec really compressed it to beyond recognition, way too fuzzy. I tried using the Windows Video 1 codec and set the quality to 100% and this returned a much better result. Thanks again for the direction,

-Ryan