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Camtasia Experts Needed...

by KevinDasilva
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Whats up warriors?

Having a problem with Camtasia. I record a "Screen Capture" (as a .camrec) and then when I open it in Camtasia, IT IS BLANK and it doesn't let me play, produce or anything else...

What am I doing or what do I have setup wrong?

Thanks in advance
#camtasia #experts #needed
  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    right click it and send it to the time line
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    • Profile picture of the author KevinDasilva
      hey askloz,

      thanks for the reply but it wont go!

      Its says its 53k "kbs" so its a big file but its empty
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      • Profile picture of the author KevinDasilva
        OK when I open a ".avi" it plays, lets me produce and everything else so I will probably just go that route...

        I thought maybe I had to do it in .cam to be able to "produce"

        But this is still bothering me BIG TIME
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          try media converter 2.5, it'll crush the file size to a smaller one.

          Mine end up around 300-600MB, after crushing them, they come out like this
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          approx 50-130MB. and the quality is still good.

          Originally Posted by KevinDasilva View Post

          OK when I open a ".avi" it plays, lets me produce and everything else so I will probably just go that route...

          I thought maybe I had to do it in .cam to be able to "produce"

          But this is still bothering me BIG TIME
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      • Profile picture of the author askloz
        what version are you using? 5? or 6? it sounds like you're using version 5, that happened to me, so I upgraded to 6.0.1, works just fine.

        56kbs is small man.

        I've got files that are way larger than that.
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        • Profile picture of the author Adeel_Chowdhry
          56kb?

          ...you proabaly didn't save the file properly!!

          OR...that the project file is 56kb and you've moved the connected main files elsewhere - and it can't find it to 'call it in'.

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          • Profile picture of the author askloz
            that's about right mate, camrec, I've got ones that are about 7.5KB in size, but it only saves the settings, etc and the location of the imported media.

            BTW, there are two types of .camrec files, one that has a small green icon with a white paper background,while the other one looks green with a film strip, these ones get huge.

            Originally Posted by Adeel_Chowdhry View Post

            56kb?

            ...you proabaly didn't save the file properly!!

            OR...that the project file is 56kb and you've moved the connected main files elsewhere - and it can't find it to 'call it in'.

            Adeel
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            • Profile picture of the author KevinDasilva
              Its not 53kb its 53,000kbs

              And yeah its the "film strip"

              And still nothing... However as long as I can "produce" it for my site using the .avi I will work with that for now...

              But this is bothering the HELL OUT OF ME...
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              • Profile picture of the author askloz
                Originally Posted by KevinDasilva View Post

                Its not 53kb its 53,000kbs
                That's 56MB mate. so yeah, that's huge mate... head over to tech support they will help ya...

                Originally Posted by KevinDasilva View Post

                And yeah its the "film strip"
                you're opening up the wrong one really, you should of saved your project first.

                Originally Posted by KevinDasilva View Post


                And still nothing... However as long as I can "produce" it for my site using the .avi I will work with that for now...

                But this is bothering the HELL OUT OF ME...
                Maybe your pc needs upgrading? got much ram? cpu size?
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          • Profile picture of the author KevinDasilva
            Hey Adeel,

            I have many files and all the ".avi's" work just the .cam's are "blank" and it will not read them...

            I have recorded many. Maybe because its not saving it to the "Camtasia Folder"?

            Originally Posted by Adeel_Chowdhry View Post

            56kb?

            ...you proabaly didn't save the file properly!!

            OR...that the project file is 56kb and you've moved the connected main files elsewhere - and it can't find it to 'call it in'.

            Adeel
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            • Profile picture of the author askloz
              doesn't need to be saved in the camtasia folder, it can be anywhere...

              how large is the avi file? try crunching the size of it with that software app I mention above.

              Originally Posted by KevinDasilva View Post


              I have recorded many. Maybe because its not saving it to the "Camtasia Folder"?
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        • Profile picture of the author KevinDasilva
          I just upgraded to the 6 also... but maybe I never "deleted" the 5 completly!

          I know 53k isn't too big but the point I was trying make is its reading the "size" which is an actual video... you know? Its not some blank video...
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          • Profile picture of the author askloz
            did you upgrade / update it to 6.0.1? that one iron outs the previous bugs in 6.0.0

            Originally Posted by KevinDasilva View Post

            I just upgraded to the 6 also... but maybe I never "deleted" the 5 completly!

            I know 53k isn't too big but the point I was trying make is its reading the "size" which is an actual video... you know? Its not some blank video...
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