Another product that does this is GifGIFgiF. It does screen captures into
an animated gif file, and offers several advantages, as well as a few
disadvantages.
Advantages:
It's inexpensive--$29, if I remember correctly.
It's available for Mac and PC.
It captures at a higher frame rate than competing products. I've done
twenty frames per second at 640x480 on a PowerMac 7600.
The resulting files are _much_ smaller. A one minute capture, with a few
hundred frames, might be only 200k, as opposed to megabytes for other
products.
Disadvantages:
No sound capture--gifs don't store sound. But QuickTime can open gifs and
save them as movies, and they only get a few k bigger. Then you can add
any sounds, etc., that you want.
It captures gifs--see above about importing to QuickTime.
It's available from Pedagoguery Software, www.peda.com
I have no stake in Pedagoguery Software, other than as a happy customer.
Geoff Canyon
It appears that on 11/20/99 8:49 AM, Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi Peter. Have you looked at a product called "Camera Man"? With it you
>can record mouse movements while using any software. It will also record
>sound while you are running through the use of programs. I have used this
>to create demonstrations for CBTs. The file format can be saved in QT. You
>would then be able to control pause, stop and play easily in MC. I find
>this to be a lot easier to do than simulating mouse moves and running audio
>in the background over picts in MC.
>
>-Mark Talluto
>
>> I've been developing a CBT package that includes animated
>> demonstrations of the use of some software. The animations have been
>> programmed to include the following elements:
>>
>> - automated mouse movement
>> - automated text input
>> - automated button clicking
>> - automated field scrolling
>> - voice-overs
>> - appearing and disappearing elements, etc.
