I Shat Brix and WTF/Camtasia

[Advancebo]

Ok so, I was recording a video for a tutorial on making a custom vehicle from scratch. I am using Camtasia Studio 5.

I recorded part 1 which was only 13 minutes. As I was saving it, a notice popped up saying that my Hardrive was almost out of space. I knew that it was about 63 gigabytes before I started recording or saving. Then when I went to check, it said there was only 4 megabytes left.

I am like WTF??

Now the problem is I want to delete the video, but I do not know where Camtasia stored it.

Any Help?

[Zeph]

Search for whatever you named the file as?

[Advancebo]

I did not even get to name the file, I clicked the stop recording button, and it said merging temporary files and stuff, during that is when I got the notice.

[Xetsuei]

Sequoia View (www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/) is your friend.

[Advancebo]

Sequoia View (http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/) is your friend.

I dont understand what it does exactly

[Xetsuei]

Shows you the biggest files on your computer and where they're located.

[Kalub]

Are you recording at full 29.5fps (1280x1024)? If so, yea that sounds about right. I would either tone down the fps to maybe half that, or reduce the recording size or screen resolution.

Just don't compress as you go, it fucks up sometimes. Your best bet is to record at (~17fps x 800x600) and then either save it as an AVI or Flash .flv depending on the audience. (Then I use a program called Virtual Dub that I encode the audio, video feeds with. For just voice 56kbps, and I use DivX or XviD for the video.)


Oh, and here is more advice, if you have multiple harddrives make it so Camtasia stores temporary content on a secondary drive, that way if anything happens, ie: running out of space, you can just: pause, compile, delete the Temp, and start another "part" of the video.



Just my two cents, also it's 6:19am so sue me if Ive done something stupid in the above post.

[Kalub]

Double POAST.


Just looking at my fraps folder, it is currently 25gb of raw footage (@1280x800 - 35fps locked)[56mins] from recorded raids in WoW. So I'm thinking you're recording a little too much. Check into your settings and post them here if you still want help.

[Advancebo]

I think my recording options were at 1280x600, and 50 frames per second...
But I am still finding the temporary video to delete it, then I will record for a minute and see what happens

[Kalub]

Look in these places:

C:\Program Files\Common Files
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp


Probably be your best bet.

[Advancebo]

Is it possible to delete the whole Temp folder? Because that whole folder is taking up 65 gigabytes out of my 141 gigabytes

[Kalub]

Uhh, most of the time, the best way to do it is just navigate there and ctrl+a + shift+del the entire contents of the folder. Some files may be in use though, so just skip them.

[Advancebo]

Im fixed, I went from 4 megabytes back up to 84 gigs

[Anton]

Record at 30fps. 50 is too many for just a small video set like that.

[Xetsuei]

Are you going to completely disregard my advice? USE SEQUOIA VIEW (http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/).

[Anton]

Chill Xet. He fixed it. Plus you don't even need that program, especially when you can do it yourself..

[Kalub]

Yea, I tried it, you know just for shits and giggles... I don't like it.

[Advancebo]

I did use that program, it located the 25 gigs vids

[Limited]

So, release soon :)?