Okay, now there are issues with the video ...

[LNMcCarty]

So after not being able to resolve the reduced image quality in my presentation, I decided to embed flash movies into the presentation. However, now when the presentation opens and the flash movie starts, it's very jerky and there are remnants of previous frames as the video progresses.

Any suggestions on how to remedy this?

[brianosmi]

What can you tell us about your flash movies?

Here are a few items for starters:

• What tool was used to author the movies?
• What is the frame rate?
• What is the file size of the movies?
• Are they .swf or FLV?
• What are the height and width dimensions of the flash movie?

[LNMcCarty]

1. It was authored by a screen capture program called CamStudio.
2. It has a sample/playback rate of 40 frames/sec and a keyframe rate of 15 frames/second.
3. The movie is 4 KB.
4. It is a .swf file.
5. The movie is 300 x 300 pixels.

Originally Posted by brianosmi

What can you tell us about your flash movies?

Here are a few items for starters:

• What tool was used to author the movies?
• What is the frame rate?
• What is the file size of the movies?
• Are they .swf or FLV?
• What are the height and width dimensions of the flash movie?

[brianosmi]

Originally Posted by LNMcCarty

2. It has a sample/playback rate of 40 frames/sec and a keyframe rate of 15 frames/second.

I use Camtasia Studio quite often... Could you first try cutting the frames per second down to 30 (or even 20) and see if that makes a difference? The default fps for Engage is 30 fps...

Another standard practice I use when publishing flash content from camtasia studio is I use the legacy .swf output setting, and normally target for Flash Player version 6.

[daveperso]

Actually, Camstudio is not the same as Camtasia Studio. Camstudio seems to be trying to confuse the user here.

CamStudio is a freeware open source application which records in AVI and then converts to SWF and which I haven't tried.

You might want to test your converted SWF in Swiff Player first to see how it looks BEFORE you import into Articulate Presenter. You can download Swiff Player here.

This knowledge base article gives some basic information about how your Flash movies should be before you import into Presenter.

Regards