This page has a list of several tools available: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/05/02/what_is_a_screencast.htm
I haven't heard of an open source option, but Wink is available for free: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Most of the tools will let you do the voice and text annotations, then export it all as a swf for you. If you absolutely have to use open source all along the way, it might cost a lot of time compared to the commercial/closed source options... cheers, Pauline --- Darren Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope this isn't off-topic. I want to make a video to demonstrate how > to use a web site. Flash flv is the obvious choice as I want it to be on > the web and work on all of windows/mac/linux. > > I see these steps: > 1. Record a browser session. (i.e. record output of a window, not of > the whole desktop? Or simpler to make the browser full-screen?) > 2. Convert that to flv. > 3. Add a voice-over (merge from mp3 file?) > 4. Add explanation text on top of the movie. (Wrap the flv in a swf, > and use actionscript to show/hide a text window at certain points of > time? A bit labour-intensive, but at least I know how to do this. I > probably want to host on YouTube though, so I'd then need to convert > back from swf to flv??) > > I am wondering if I can do the whole process using open source tools? > (I'm using linux, but could use windows if necessary.) If not, what do I > need? I would welcome suggestions for software, as well as web > sites/books/blogs that would give useful advice. > > (Initially this is to promote an open source project - MLSN,see my sig > file - but I am sure some of my clients could use something similar, so > I want it to look professional.) > > Darren > > -- > Darren Cook > http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese free dictionary) > http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) > http://dcook.org/work/charts/ (My flash charting demos) > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
