About video tutorials

[Mr Bulldog]

well, i think i'll wait till fosdem and see what Sander Koning can ' pull
out of the hat' as he can give some advice on this project probably.it is
just the availability of the application we are going to use to take the
screenshots. If it were me i was just start burning away with wink, however
somepeople want to change the sourcecode or use gpl software only. However
if that is our only option, that is are only optio and people will be forced
to use that if they want to make video tutorials. So i see your point.

However you mentioned that the gui would be different for languages, well
you are right there, in some cases video tutorials would only probably be
able to apply for major languages, english, german, french, spanish and
other that are commonly used, however wasting effort on a system that won't
work well is another thought we should consider. Would we just be better off
taking video tutorials seperatly in the different langauges?

On 11/02/06, Philip Rodrigues <philip.rodrigues at chch.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc
> KDE Documentation Online: http://docs.kde.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kde-quality mailing list
> kde-quality at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-quality/attachments/20060211/199b62de/attachment.html