About video tutorials

[Philip Rodrigues]

On Friday 10 February 2006 8:09 pm, Mr Bulldog wrote:
> well I don't really like voice over's on video tutorials, as often it is
> poor quality, adds to file size and sometimes especially if you have a
> 'yorkshire' slang or accent will be impossible to hear. 

Voiceovers are subject to that problem - they're very hard to do 
professionally.

> So i probably say 
> you are right there. It is really the concept of the video tutorials,
> possibly using the application made by Sander Koning could take steps which
> adds notes  at like flashes at points and like fades between slides.

I don't quite understand you. Could you rephrase? 

I think you might be a little confused about the work done by Sander. 
Basically, he's investigated the use of KDExecutor for automating screenshot 
generation. AIUI, with KDExecutor, you can "record" a series of steps done in 
a KDE application, and then replay the steps automatically. So the relevance 
for screenshots is that you can record the series of steps needed to make, 
say, a screenshot of konqueror showing www.kde.org, and then just replay 
those steps with the KDE language changed in order to get screenshots for all 
the available languages (since of course, the GUI will be different for each 
case).

You might be able to do the same for video screenshots. Sander will be 
presenting his work in a few days at FOSDEM, so there should be slides, code, 
etc available soon so you can fully evaluate it.

> There is just the boundary betwen the software, where I use wink for video
> screen recording, but that isn't opensource, maybe if we got enough people
> to 'petition' or email the creator, he could release it just for use with
> kde, than make it opensource, or whatever.

If it's free to use, and the output is too, what's the problem? Anyway, it's 
something of an irrelevance, so let's not spend time discussing it.

> With KDExecutor does that like make a script of your actions on the desktop
> and actually perfrom them exactly the same on another user's desktop - as I
> haven't tried that yet.

See above.

I think that now is the time to start working on some examples, 
proof-of-concept, etc, so that:
1. There's stuff for others to see, play with, get excited about, and 
hopefully start helping with.
2. You can make a conclusion about tools.

Regards,
Philip
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