James, There is definitely more polish here http://people.sugarlabs.org/jdsimmons/ReadEtextsTheMovie.avi Is there audio on either the .avi or .ogg? If yes, I didn't hear either.
May I suggest you put the .avi video on youtube? I really believe that Sugar needs more screen time... people need to see it in action. AFAIK there Google Docs is the only free collaboration text editor out there... I was hoping that there would be a demo of 'record' for audio annotations to the e text in your video. Typing is so... 20th century! (only said partly tongue in cheek, I'm a big fan of recording in all forms, but typing is just slow, and for ESL learners, a great big road block for language fluency...IMHO) I've not used Kino in a long time... is there a video editor in Sugar? I taught video production with my students and they had a blast... especially since they didn't have to type to tell their stories! Another score for recording tech! re: cinerella: Not used it. I'll take a look at virtual dub, don't know if it runs on *nix or not. All the best, Dennis lost and found: +15047567321 +18586833669 GoogleTalk: dennisgdaniels skype : dennisdaniels EOF Sent from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:07, Jim Simmons<[email protected]> wrote: > Dennis, > > I use gtk-recordmydesktop to do the screencasts, running Sugar at > 800x600 on an IBM NetVista I bought surplus. I then use Kino to edit. > You *might* be able to get a screencast at a higher resolution with a > more powerful box, but the video would end up at 640x480 anyway so > maybe that would not be an improvement. I'd be interested in your > opinion of my videos at > > http://people.sugarlabs.org/jdsimmons/ > > I use Fedora 11 for recording the desktop and Fedora 10 for editing > (not on purpose, that's just how I'm set up at the moment). I needed > to compile Kino from source. There's another video editor called > Cinelerra that I would also have to compile from source to use, and > it's supposed to be pretty good. > > James Simmons > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Dennis Daniels<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Jim, >> Fair enough! You are echoing what most everyone on the IRC has said as well. >> >> I'm going to dive into running Sugar on top of Ubuntu today on my >> fairly powerful machine and see if I can get some decent recordings. >> Sugar needs a face and preferably that face would be of a six year old >> doing amazing/genious things with a computer but those screencasts >> probably won't happen with SoaS. I'm hoping I can get that with a full >> install of Ubuntu with Sugar on the top. >> >> All my efforts with SoaS, avec et sans screencasting, have been >> _disappointing_. There's no way I can recommend SoaS to any but the >> most hardened technophile teachers. >> >> with regards, >> Dennis >> >> lost and found: >> +15047567321 >> +18586833669 >> GoogleTalk: dennisgdaniels >> skype : dennisdaniels >> >> >> >> EOF >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:46, Jim Simmons<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dennis, >>> >>> I think screencasting is a neat idea but the hardware most likely to >>> run Sugar won't have the horsepower to capture a full size screen and >>> in the case of the XO might not have enough disk space to do it >>> either. See my other emails for my experiences making videos like >>> this. >>> >>> It may do a lot of good for us to create these kinds of videos >>> ourselves so kids can see them and share them with friends, but >>> technically it may be impractical to build a feature for doing this >>> into Sugar. >>> >>> James Simmons >>> >>> >>>> I need help in getting Sugar to be cool for kids and the easiest way >>>> _in my experience_ is to make it easy for kids to show off... make >>>> screencasting a FUNCTIONING and EASY to USE tool that can be launched >>>> from every activity. >>>> >>>> Please, if you're going to flame back, try to attack the argument (and >>>> parts of it may be flawed) and not me. >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> Dennis >>> >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
