Case Study - 3DTotal
High performance capturing and DVD production
When deciding on a Screen Capture software, 3DTotal were looking for particular features, all of which were offered by BB FlashBack. Full screen capture whilst using RAM heavy applications such as 3DSMax and Photoshop was essential. We needed to gain at least a 15 fps capture rate with the software at it's peak of RAM usage. Some of the models featured in 3DTotal's Training DVDs have up to 60,000 polygons, which can sometimes slow display rates and would result in a very slow training DVD which would just become frustrating for the end-user.
We needed full 32-bit colour as the texturing sections often have very detailed images which need to be shown in full colour detail.
We needed to be able to add sound to these movies, sometimes as the movies were being captured, sometimes after they had been captured. The video and audio needed to be editable, simply because when recording 10 minute movies, mistakes are very often made. By not having to record the entire movie again, vast amounts of time could be saved.
We also needed to be able to export the finished movie and audio files into a format which could be highly compressed, without losing valuable sound and image quality. 3DTotal's range of training DVDs were always intended to be the most complete, concise 3D training DVDs available, and with masses of content needed to go onto a single DVD BB FlashBack's 'export to Flash' feature allowed us to do just that.
After purchasing the software (extremely reasonably I may add) we were also astounded to have our first technical support question answered within an hour!
Overall, BB FlashBack has not only provided us with the tools we initially required, but has also offered extra tools that have made our DVD creation more efficient and more stable. With new updates this software just keeps getting better and better!
Ben Barnes
Designer - 3DTotal.com Ltd
http://www.3dtotal.com