On Friday, September 14, 2012 8:54:42 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > Rev 5434 packages this into the new screencast plugin. Yesterdays work, > in screencast.py and the node "@command screencast @key=Alt-9" in test.leo > taught me several things. In the notes below, m is an instance of > ScreenCastController. m stands for "movie" :-) >
Screencasts promise to be easy to be *much* easier to create than slideshows, while also being more interesting, informative and flashy. It is *so* much easier to write a screencast script than it is to lay out a slide, take a screenshot, and then manage resulting slide. In particular, there are few continuity problems with screencasts. Continuity is a *huge* problem with slideshows! If I change one slide, I am likely to want to change all following slides. Which means I have to retake all the slides, and file the new versions in the proper places. In contrast, any changes to screencasts naturally propagate forward. There might be an effect on following screencasts scenes, but this will happen rarely with a reasonable scene design, and any problems should be easy to fix. With screencasts, the *movie* script is also the *python* script! There is no "translation" from one to the other. Furthermore, all the work to produce a screencast is done (naturally!) within Leo. No need to create and manage external data. This is another huge advantage and it make producing screencasts much faster than producing slideshows. Screencasts are likely to be the long-awaited tools that will allow me to show Leo in action so that other will finally be able to understand it easily. This is an exciting prospect! Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/-/KAC9jOHo_MMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
