I've been using Win Camtasia just bought ScreenFlow 2.0. I built my first video and all goes well. BUT then I watch it on my windows computer and notice that the white background is VERY gray (dark). I'm completely confused b/c it was all good when I watched it on my Mac.

So I started testing SF videos against my older CT videos and as I'm doing this I noticed that the browser in Windows can switch the coloring from gray to white and back as I resize the windows (both FF and IE). It even happens as I move the browser between my MacBook Pro screen to my external monitor.

It's so weird that this never happened in my previous CT videos. But then I realized that SF exports into .MOV and not. .SWF. So it makes me think that it is the built-in .MOV player for WIndows which is causing the problem and that if I saved in .SWF then this wouldn't happen (my web stats show that 95% of my target audience is on Windows). But the Mac .SWF converter costs more money...

So, my question is, does anyone have experience in this area? Is the .MOV output inconsistent in different browsers on Windows vs Mac? Do I have to buy another program for converting the format to SWF? I'm just trying to figure out where to go from here and seeing if anyone has experienced these problems before and has advice to point me in the right direction before I spend a couple hours testing each possible video format in different browsers.


Thanks!

Macs and Windows computers have different gamma settings for the most part. That changed with Snow Leopard which I believe now matches Windows gamma.

SWF is a player wrapper. If you mean Flash Video, f4v, mp4, mov, are all playable in SWF if they're H.264. Camtasia on Windows uses H.264 in SWF. I believe the video file they produce is mp4 whearas Quicktime uses mov but they're both H.264 and both work in SWF.

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CraigS
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http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/ind..._Player:9:Update:H.264

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CraigS
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Thanks Craig! In summary, if I upgrade to Snow Leopard, do you think I'll get better color matching between the Mac and Windows browsers?

One of the "under reported" changes in Snow Leopard is now the Mac uses the same gamma setting as Windows so it's easier to know what things will look like.
Of course if you're really picky one should get a monitor calibration utility and run it on both Mac and Windows computers so you minimize the differences between monitors.

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