Hi Sebastien, *, On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Sebastien Plisson<sebastien.plis...@free.fr> wrote: > > I thought it could be great to describe issues by just recording a short > screencast
Well, "no" A screencast forces you to spend the time watching it, the real issue probably only comes at 3 minutes into the screencast, so this time is forced on the QA and dev persons (and not only only one person, but multiple). So while a screencast is a good help to further describe and demonstrate a problem, it is in no way a replacement for a good description and a screenshot. Especially when then people write issues with "see the screencast" with no other explanation, we will have a big mess. So again: Screencast are fine in /addition/, but not as replacement. > For more information, bookmarklet, etc you can check it at > http://www.screenjelly.com > > What do you think ? I had a look to the "how to install OOo on mac" screencast you linked from your blog and was very, very disappointed. First of all the screencast wouldn't even start. It showed the buffering circle thing but didn't start off. By chanc I tried it with one of your public screencasts, the same problem. It did work without problem however, when switching to fullscreen mode. (i.e. in fullscreen mode the screencast showed playing). Use the very same screencast in the regular mode and all you get is the "buffering" symbol without any action. So that for the technical part. And then to the part I tried to point out in the first part of the post: To get to the contents you need to watch. And that costs time. The disappointment id even bigger when you don't get what the title suggests. The "how to install OOo on Mac" doesn't show how you install OOo on Mac. It shows going to the OOo-homepage and clicking on the download link. Before OOo is downloaded, the screencast recording is stopped. You don't even see the opening of the dmg. I'm not sure whether it is possible to easily edit the screencast with that software, but many users probably won't anyway, and staring at a progress meter is not very satisfying. Please don't get me wrong, I myself did create screencasts already as well (with pyvnc2swf) to illustrate something, and it can help to illustrate stuff hard to put into words. But please don't forget the words. You cannot search for contents shown within a screencast, you can only search for the words in the description. Keep that in mind and it will be a great help, otherwise not. ciao Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@qa.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@qa.openoffice.org
