Hi Gary,
"Seems to be some kind of fear (fear of the unknown?)preventing people
from offering their gained knowledge or expertise to the community . "
Maybe, but from my experience people prefer to take the least difficult
root to achieve something like this - that is tutorials - either video or
html. The reason for my last post:
To find a method of creating video tutorials OR as you have said HTML
tutorials AND standardising the community on this method. An example of
this is over at the TYPO CMS System [ dont worry about the app ]:
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_creating_video_tutorials/
they have standardised and provided a tutorial on how to make video tutorials.
If it is generally agreed that this method / FORMAT is used for Video tutes
and that method / FORMAT is used for HTML tutes etc - I think we are then
moving forward.
I think the WIKI idea is an excellent one - I am looking at this idea at
the moment. I am considering adding MYSQL support to my domain space at
www.tidalsound.com at a small cost. WIKI needs PHP and MYSQL to work. Again
to implement something like this needs standardisation in the community of
the tools and methods used to create content. But the beauty of such things
as WIKI is structure - people love structure.
If the steps and methods are clearly mapped out with no ambiguity and are
as simple and as quick to implement as possible THEN I think people would
tend to submit content. If it means too much effort people will be less
inclined to submit because as I said other things are going on in there
lives like THE REAL JOB :) unfortunately, the family etc. So time becomes
an issue when getting involved in such things as tutorial creation.
So Gary and all - I hope you can see where I am coming from - basically the
easier we make it and the more structured / standardised we make it to
create tutorials the more people will tend to submit
Cheers
Aidan
At 23:51 03/01/2006, you wrote:
> If making these tutes involves
> compositing seperate audio and video OR if there is any grunt work
involved
> in doing same - the number of people willing to participate in a potential
> RS video tute library will be very small. - ITS HUMAN NATURE - also people
> have other things to do in there lives ....
> Cheers
> Aidan
Hi Aidan :
Same applies to making HTML tutorials , of course , but as I've said ,
there are so many good and totally free HTML editors out there that I
wouldn't even consider trying to list them here .
So why then do so few people bother to take the time to create tute's ?
(just a retorical question , no need to attempt to answer) .
It's also human nature to feel good when you've contributed to the
community .
One of my main points which I don't remind repeating , is that info
posted here just goes down a sinkhole and dissapears . Unless you've
saved the file and remember you did , finding that valuable info can be
tough , and more importantly , if you're a newbie just trying RS , all
that archive info is of no use to you .
If you post to the Forum at least it's there for anyone to see , if
they have the time to dig all the way back through pages of posts ,and
only if the thread was labelled properly . If it wasn't that info is
probably not going to be read again .
So that brings us to the HTML tute . It's quick , it's simple , it's
free , it's easily linked to from many web sites ... it's perfect , but
it's rare .
Your slowly disappearing mail on video screen captures could be an
awesome HTML tutorial . Download a few of the freeware S/W's and put
them through their paces then write a tutorial about your experience .
Now you've really done something ! Now you've saved dozens of other
people the time and trouble of having to do it . Write it properly and
you may even inspire others to create video tutorials .
I can punch key words into Google , surf a bit , then post links to
this list , but what have I accomplished ? Easy to do but how much time
have I saved anyone , or what have I taught them ?
I don't think it's a question of time at all . Even if it takes a
month or two to do a tute , who cares ? A little bit every week and
in no time it's done . Even better , find a mate who is also inter-
ested in that topic and team up to create one .
Seems to be some kind of fear (fear of the unknown?)preventing people
from offering their gained knowledge or expertise to the community .
studio
www.niagara.com/~studio
www.studiodynamics.net
>
>
> At 12:50 03/01/2006, you wrote:
> >My little boy uses aviscreen classic (freeware) to capture video from the
> >screen for school projects - http://www.bobyte.com/
> >I'm using Microsoft Movie Maker2 with 9 year olds and they can cope
with it.
> >PCAdvisor UK Feb edition had a ULead video editor on the cover disk - it
> >looks more competent than Movie Maker but I haven't tried it.
> >
> >We use Bink and Smack (radgametools.com) to do any batch conversions - my
> >digital camera only does .mov which Microsoft Movie Maker won't recognise
> >for some strange reason. Anyway, Bink and Smack converts satisfactorily.
> >
> >Geo
> >
> >Aidan O Driscoll wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Guys,
> >>
> >>Re - video / audio / screen capture for tutorial vids, here are some
> >>ideas. Free where possible:
> >>
> >>*Windows Media Encoder (free) - specific to windows though:
> >>*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default
.aspx
> >>
> >>I have not tried this out, but I am sure if one uses the WME the output
> >>will be WMV, one could then convert the WMV to any other format.
> >>
> >>
> >>*Wink [ as others here have pointed out ]:
> >>*http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
> >>
> >>This app makes screen grab files for tutorials. Not sure if it does
audio.
> >>
> >>
> >>*Audacity:
> >>*http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
> >>
> >>Freeware Audio editor
> >>
> >>
> >>*Wax:
> >>*http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
> >>
> >>is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects
> >>software. May be possible to use to combine the video and audio files????
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>ONES THAT COST:
> >>
> >>*Bulent's Screen Recorder 3:
> >>*http://www.thesilver.net/index.htm
> >>
> >>Not free, but does the lot it seems - $24 or so
> >>
> >>
> >>*Capturewizpro:
> >>*http://www.pixelmetrics.com/CapWizPro/index.htm $30
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>*1st Screen Recorder & Video Capture: *
> >>http://www.screenrecorder.us/ $30 -
> >>looks ideal and good
> >>
> >>
> >>*Desktop Screen Record 5:
> >>*http://www.recordscreen.com/ $30
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>ANY ONE ELSE WHO CAN SUGGEST = F R E E = APPS FOR MAKING SCREENGRAB
> >>TUTORIALS ????
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>A
> >
> >
>
>
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