[Live-demo] Quickstart (video??)

[Cameron Shorter]

Answering Hamish,
I think probably our first use of videos would be to provide viewers 
with a quick overview of the application.

I think in most cases, the best way to achieve this would be to record 
someone walking through the quickstart.

By recording the quickstart, we would also be reducing our maintenance 
costs, by reusing material created by each project.

An included voice commentary would be the most professional 
presentation, but also a lot more work to do well. So I would suggest 
that adding voice should initially only be optional.

On 13/06/11 05:07, Alex Mandel wrote:
> If you need to do audio separately for whatever reason:
> Audacity is the standard.
>
> I also +1 on recordmydesktop - I use the gtkrecordmydesktop variant.
> This could be considered the standard for recording inside the vm or on
> a live boot, you'll just need something else to record the booting of
> the vm or disc.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 06/12/2011 06:08 AM, Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
>> Record my desktop is really good!
>>
>> i used it few weeks ago to make a presentation ...
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvZfqgbag8E
>>
>> (sorry to use youtube, the next time i'l use vimeo that's more foss oriented)
>>
>> that's OssimPlanet that display maps generated on the fly by Grass.
>>
>> i had only problems to record my second screen at the same time .. but i think will be easy to fix
>>
>> Massimo.
>>
>>
>> Il giorno 12/giu/2011, alle ore 08.29, Hamish ha scritto:
>>
>>> It is unclear to me: is the goal to have narrated screencasts, or
>>> demonstrations of humans doing the task? (by the latter I mean
>>> the conceptual equivalent of a video camera trained on the
>>> screen+operator, who turns to the camera every now and then with
>>> a toothy grin)
>>>
>>> something to try:
>>> apt-get install recordmydesktop
>>> """
>>> Description: Captures audio-video data of a Linux desktop session
>>> The application produces an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file.
>>> recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only
>>> regions of the screen that have changed
>>> """
>>>
>>> [unabstrusive would have been a more entertaining misspelling]
>>>
>>> see also the ubuntu howto links here:
>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Movies#Q:_How_to_create_a_screencast_.28for_video_tutorials_etc.29.3F
>>>
>>> vnc2swf looks interesting (flash animation, not movie so maybe
>>> smaller files + better quality, but needs a flash player)
>>>
>>>
>>> any thoughts on WebM + Vorbis? Is it supported out of the box
>>> in 11.04, or are the libraries too new?
>>>
>>> any thoughts on speex for the audio codec, as just voice?
>>> (as long as we suggest to use VLC as the recommended player,
>>> anything from the Ogg family of codecs shouldn't be an issue for
>>> end users or YouTube-alikes)
>>>
>>>
>>> another thing which comes to mind is play&  pause audio guides,
>>> like in museums or along the lines of RiffTrax?
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiffTrax#RiffTrax_Player
>>>
>>> ...,
>>> Hamish
>>>
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