Creating a Custom "Play Screencast"?

[ShannonW]

Hey guys,

Been trying to find the answer to this and I hope you all can help. We're creating tutorial screencasts for a new product and I'd like to create a custom, branded "Play Screencast" page. How would I go about doing that? :confused:

Thanks a lot!

-Shannon

[badscience]

You could try some manual editing - to convert the 'play screencast' page that Camtasia makes to something more like what you want?

I'm using Camtasia 4.01... your version might be different...

The text in the 'play screencast' page is in the .html file that camtasia creates for the video... it's the html page that you open to see the PLAY SCREENCAST screen.

So you could edit the text, or add new text, etc. Instead of saying "PLAY SCREENCAST" you could have it say "Start Demo" or "View Product Demo" or something... by opening the html file, deleting PLAY SCREENCAST and writing in it's place Start Demo, or View Product Demo, etc.

You can add as much text to the screen as you like, by just adding more text to the html file.

The look of the play screencast page is controlled by the .css file (in the same folder as the html file). Your web-developper should be able to bend this to their will. The .css file references image files in the images folder, which should be in the same directory as the html and .css files. So, you could change all the images in there to change the background of the play screencast page, and change the play button icon, etc., by swapping the images in the image folder for ones of your choosing.

Best of luck. If you find a better way of doing it, please do share!