On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Alex Rufon<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > Just wondering if somebody can suggest a screen capture application that we > can use to make J video tutorials/demos. > > I currently use the free software: Wink by DebugMode which you can checkout > here: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ > > I normally use that product for technical support where I would simulate the > problem and solution on my PC and send the "video" to the tech support people > on the other side of the world. It actually works well since I would just > dump the flash files in our Intranet FTP site. >
Alex, I have a Mac and have only used a single "screencast" application named Screenium, which only works on Macs and can be downloaded from www.synium.de . I have been very satisfied. A google search of "screencast" will give you may options especially if you focus the search even more. > I was thinking about this since after watching Oleg's sample site I believe > producing video tutorials to explain concepts and ideas behind J would be > very very useful. One topic that this can cover is handling ranks. You see, > when I was starting our, I've read about ranks but it only made sense to me > when Chris actually opened a J session and "showed" it to me. A video > tutorial could really ease a lot of learning curve for J newbie's. There are > a lot of subtleties that isn't covered by the reading materials and would > show up when you're actually mucking around a J session. > I think a clever person could take your suggestion and develop screencasts which would be very useful alternatives to some of the other resources we have. When you mentioned the idea of a screencast on rank, I immediately thought more specfically of Chapter 6 in JforC and more generally of Norman Thomson's J-ottings series in Vector. I think Thomson's articles provide a natural source of such screencasts because often he chooses a theme around a J concept. You can see his articles at the following link, and the one on ranks may be a perfect framework for a screencast. http://www.vector.org.uk/index.php?match=j-ottings&submit=search http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v202/jot202.htm > Going back to my original topic, Wink would work but my experience with it is > that a really useful video content averages from 20MB and above. Maybe > somebody knows of an alternative product we can use? > Your experience matches mine regarding uploads >: 20mb and this can be very time consuming. This size bloat has made me attempt to make my screencasts as brief as possible, trying to stay under 6 minutes per screencast, if possible. That means that very little detail can be given, but we can give oral or text links in the scrast to other detailed resources. I have listed 4 existing YouTube screen casts at the following link. They are very amateur productions, but may give you some ideas. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Links > r/Alex > -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
