Trying to increase the sound of recorded screen captures

Thanks for the info about MPEG Streamclip. I'm testing it out right now. Although the one thing I want to do is keep my flick in Apple's Animation codec for the moment and not convert it to mpeg4 (this is just a time saving issue, that's all).

I'm also narrating screen actions for tutorials and Snapz is great for this, but it has no way to adjust the sound.

Antonio

It's not that I want to record over 0db, it's just that when I'm using Snapz to record my screen capture movies, there is no way to adjust the sound input. I'm using a good mic but I cannot seem to get enough input volume from it. After I make the clips, the sound is way too low and I'm just trying to find a way to boost it a bit. Most of the people I'm making tutorials for are playing the videos through the built-in Apple speakers on their computer. I want to have louder sound so that they can hear what I'm saying.

I've adjusted the input through the sound prefs in System prefs, but I've pushed as far as I can go.

I mean I could take the whole film and plug it into FCP or iMovie and boost and sweeten the sound from there, but I'm trying to find a way to spend as little time as possible in post production with my tutorials because I'm not getting paid for it. I'm looking for tips on how to do that.

Antonio

Hey, thanks for the tips. But... I don't think I'm making myself clear here.

I don't want to spend ANY time in post with these tutorial screencasts that I'm making. If I did, I'd just whip out my Sennheiser and my mixer and take the whole shebang into FCP and cut it and sweeten audio there.

What I'm doing is using Snapz to capture screen actions that I'm recording as tutorials for my students. I'm using either a Blue Snowball USB mic or my Logitech 250 USB headset with mic to record my voice as I demo apps on the Mac. Snapz is using the Apple animation codec to make the movies. But, what Snapz is not doing and cannot do is help me boost the audio a bit. If it did, then I'd have a finished movie right there. As it is, I have to wait a long time for Snapz to finalize the flick. What I don't want to do is load the film up in FCP (takes time) and then export it (also takes time) and be done. I want to package these things up fast. All I need to do is boost the audio a little and everything would be great. If Quicktime Pro allowed me to do that, that would be great because it would not have to re-encode the movie again.

Maybe there is no way to do what I'm asking without doing it in FCP. If that's the case then that's what I'll do.

THe whole point of this is that I want to keep it as simple and as past as possible because I am not making any money doing this (but I am teaching for money). I offer it to my students as a value added addition to their classes.

Thanks,

Antonio

Hey, that's cool! I'll give it a try. Thanks!

Antonio