Flash / HTML 5 Player Options

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Custom Production Settings

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Turn the video controller on or off.

If you only want to produce a video file, uncheck this option.

When unchecked, Camtasia Studio features like quizzes, hotspots, table of contents, and closed captions are not included in the video.

When checked, the video begins in a paused state. The viewer must click the play button to view the video.

When unchecked, the video begins immediately.

Choose an image that displays before the video begins.

When Pause at Start is unchecked, you cannot choose a start thumbnail.

When checked, the playback controls appear when the mouse is moved over the video.

When unchecked, the playback controls are always visible.

Options for when the video ends includes:

• Stop with replay button:
  The video stops and displays the last frame of the video with a replay button.
• Stop:
  The video stops on the last frame. Viewer must use the playback controls to replay video.
• Loop playback:
  Continuously plays the video.
• Go to URL :
  Open a URL in the viewer’s default web browser.

The size of the frame in the HTML page, where the video is initially displayed.

When the Embed size and Video size are the same:

• The quality of the embedded video is the best it can be since no scaling is being done to the video at playback time.
• In full screen mode, the quality does not look better.

When the Embed size is smaller than the Video size:

• In full screen mode, the quality looks better.
• The video's file size is larger, and takes longer to download.

The size that the video is produced at.

• The video size should never be less than the embed size.

• The Automatic option preserves the highest frame rate for all clips on the timeline. To decrease the file size, select a lower frame rate.
• Decreasing the frame rate to reduce the bandwidth required by the video stream may cause the video to appear choppy during playback.

Select an option from the dropdown and then use the slider to adjust the quality.

• The Quality (strongly recommended) encoding mode allows the bitrate to vary as needed to achieve a given quality without unnecessarily increasing file size.
• The Bitrate encoding mode sets the maximum data transfer rate (in kBps). A lower bitrate produces a smaller file size but may decrease the video quality.

• Key frames determine accuracy when seeking through a video.
• To decrease file size, increase the number of seconds between key frames.

The default option is recommended.

Do not change this setting unless you are familiar with H.264 encoding options.

The default option is recommended.

Do not change this setting unless you are familiar with H.264 encoding options.

Produce a separate video production for each marker on the timeline.

• Select the audio bitrate from the dropdown.
• Disable this option if you do not want to include audio in the final video.

Check to include a table of contents in the video.

If you have markers in your video, these can be used to include a table of contents in the final video.

You are able to rename the markers and choose which markers to include in the table of contents in the Production Wizard's Marker options screen.

Check to make the video searchable.

The Searchable feature adds a search pane to the video and allows viewers to search for text in captions, PowerPoint slides, PowerPoint notes, and markers. Viewers can click a search result to jump to that location in the video.

Check to include captions in the video.

Caption type options include:

• Closed captions:
  Captions can be turned on and off by the viewer via a CC button on the controller.
  Captions are overlaid on the video.
• Burned in captions:
  Captions become a permanent part of the video and cannot be turned off.
• Under video captions
  Space is added under the video and captions are placed in that space. With this option, the video's dimensions will be increased to accommodate the captions.
  
  

Caption initially visible:

• When checked, captions are seen when the video begins playing.
• Only available with the Closed Captions option.
• Uncheck to hide captions when video first plays. Viewers must turn captions on via a CC button on the controller.

Check to include quizzes in the video.

You are able to choose the reporting and viewer options in the Production Wizard's Quiz Reporting options screen.