Look into Snapz Pro...that was made for what you want to do. Although what Alexander built was pretty cool. I'd like to know how he swapped from a face shot to the iShowU so smoothly and how the mouse clicks got dubbed in. Pretty cool stuff.
Jeff Dain Sundstrom wrote: > Wow that is sweet! > > The hard part for me is capturing the video. After that, I can use > something like iMovie to create the final content and VisualHub to > compress to multiple formats. > > -dain > > On Dec 14, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Alexander Saint Croix wrote: > >> Jacek, >> >> Thanks for the feedback. :-) >> >> One problem with AV content is directing and production. It does take a >> long time to get the hang of being clear, concise, and especially when >> talking about software, specific. So, let's hope lots of people don't >> start >> sending you guys their problems via screencasts. The second problem >> is that >> most people (myself included) don't bother to write up transcripts. Our >> MediaMill platform in the College of Liberal Arts has transcription >> metadata >> built in, so I could conceivably spend the extra ten minutes after >> producing >> a short video like these to correctly mark up the text. >> >> That said, I spoke with some of the guys on the OpenJPA list and got a >> great >> response on how to resolve my OneToMany mapping problem. I did a second, >> hopefully more understandable, screencast of the solution so that I could >> get some more content and more opportunity to test different delivery / >> compression codecs. Here's the recommended solution to my bidirectional >> OneToMany question: >> >> Flash8 (640x480): https://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/embed/6965 >> Flash8 (480x360): https://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/embed/6967 >> iPod (large): >> https://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php?file=6966.m4v >> >> It took me a few minutes to make the video, less than a minute to >> upload the >> raw content to our MediaMill server, a couple of minutes to enter some >> metadata for the video (name, description, copyright, etc) and then I >> selected which derivative formats I wanted to produce. At that point >> I was >> free to leave and make tea. After about 30 minutes, all three were >> compressed and online for the public. Since production takes place at >> our >> compression farm, I didn't have to expend resources on my local >> computer to >> do the heavy work. >> >> The Flash8 codecs compress remarkably quickly--less than five minutes for >> both of them. The iPod codec took FOREVER to do its work. I don't >> know how >> useful this sort of doco would be on an iPod, but people might love it. >> >> I think I could help you guys roll out a lot of content--short pieces >> like >> the one above to promote OpenEJB. For my own part, I'm in the process of >> producing a series of articles on Container Driven Testing on an ATOM >> stack >> (Apache Tomcat, OpenEJB, MySQL). These videos will serve as >> "value-added" >> content throughout the articles. >> >> Another observation is that prior to compression, the videos are in .MOV >> format, and should be editable via QuickTime. So long uncomfortable >> pauses >> and the like can be wiped, soundtracks can be added, etc. A final >> observation is that the iShowU recorder cuts off the last three-five >> seconds >> of input, so give yourself a nice long pause before terminating the >> recording when you're using it. >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Alexander Saint Croix >> >> >> I don't see any problems with the video. It's fine for me (I'm no >>> speaking about its content per se, which is about mapping and the word >>> mapping was mentioned so many times that I heard only mapping - I >>> don't think it's because it was about gardening but the compression >>> software had a bug in itself and changed all 'flowers' to 'mapping' >>> ;-)) >>> >>> Jacek >>> >>> -- >>> Jacek Laskowski >>> http://www.JacekLaskowski.pl >>>
