Screen capture video recording using using software such as Camtasia Studio is a fantastic way to provide training related to internet marketing, and to tell your own story. The discussion of website layout and content can quickly become confusing without a visual frame of reference.
In order to optimize your screen capture video, you should record using a pre-determined size that matches the width versus height ratio at which your video will be displayed.
The standard ratios are 4 x 3, and 16 x 9. What this means as way of example is that a 4 x 3 ratio relates to a video capture of 320 x 240 pixels, or 640 x 480 pixels, etc.
When you record your video, you will want to use the proper aspect ratio to avoid distortion in the process of displaying your video.
And that brings me to the point of this post. There is a handy little utility software program that will automatically, at the click of a mouse, re-size your browser window to specific dimensions. That makes getting the right size a snap. And the utility has another use as well: it will tell you how big your browser window is. This is especially handy if you are sizing for non-standard dimensions.
The name of this utility software program is, not surprisingly, Sizer. It’s a free tool, and I recommend you grab it before they change their mind and start charging a fee. You can download the tool for yourself at www.brianapps.net/sizer.html
This tool is equally useful when you want to make screen capture images of a specific dimension. So whether you are tooling up for screen capture video or screen capture images, you can’t go wrong with Sizer in your toolkit.
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