On Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:47 PM Ed Leafe wrote:

>On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:35 PM, David Crooks wrote:

>> Now the honesty part:  It could have been a little smoother which 
>> comes with practice with the screencast software.

>       Do you mean that I wasn't very smooth, or that the recording
wasn't?  
>If it's the former, well, not much I can do about that - that's why I
write software instead of >doing voice-overs for commercials. ;-)

No, you sound fine...

>       The screen recording software is pyvnc2swf, so it relies on the
quality of the VNC server. >If I turn on finer updating, the lags are
unbearable. This was about the best compromise I could >manage.

I guess then the best thing is to just go with the lags.  It is almost
expected to have some lags feeding the video over the Internet and
dealing with network traffic.  Not a big deal.

>> I agree with Jean about not completing what you said at the beginning

>> of the screencast.  It seemed to me like you were almost there.

>       One of the problems is the inability to edit afterwards, so I
have to do this all in one 
>shot. In the past I've done recordings where I got about 8-10 minutes
into it, and then 
>something happened that forced me to start all over again. I did a
couple of dry runs, and the 
>whole thing took about 16 minutes, so this was the cleanest breakpoint
near the middle of that.

Ok, that is fine.  In some ways it is like a commercial. I bet many
commercials we see on TV are rehearsed many times going through a lot of
takes.

>> BTW, I did download the latest version and am starting to look into
it 
>> further.  Thanks!

>       Great - if you have any questions about it, the dabo-users list
is probably the best place >to ask them.

Will do...

David L. Crooks


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