Am 03.03.2010 18:31, schrieb Gregory Pittman: > On 03/03/2010 05:06 AM, a.l.e wrote: >> hi robert, >> >>> My work on the video tutorial system that can integrate into >>> application has advaced recently (http://quicktorials.org), and I'm >>> searching for a first application to support it. >>> >>> the idea is to place links in the application like this: >>> >>> http://quicktorials.org/id/net.scribus=en=1.3.5=s45678=frame.image.place >>> >>> More details are described in the "Help" section of the page, but i >>> would love to get feedback or questions to answer. >> >> would it be an option to enroll as gsoc-pupil and implement your video >> help system for scribus in that context? >> >> >> and it's a pity, that you can't attend the next LGM. i would have >> loved a talk about your project! > > I have reservations about the utility of this. > > First of all, the overhead with this is significant (lets compare text > or text + graphics to audio or audio + video), so that one would perhaps > want to limit the topics to things which are not intuitive or things > which cannot be easily discovered on ones own. How much of the content > of this demo is not pretty obvious either intentionally with > experimentation or by accident? > > Secondly, this suffers from being what I think of as a strictly linear > mode of learning. You cannot browse or scan the content to see what is > in there, you have to play it back, with the video taking its own good > time to perhaps not tell you anything that you don't already know. Even > if you basically knew the content except for one little piece of info, > you have to play the whole thing up to that moment to get the info you > need. If we might imagine some more sophisticated construction, where > the content is collated and indexed, you begin to talk about a project > that becomes as big as Scribus itself. > > It is difficult to generate something like this for both newbies and > experienced users. Typically you must go to the lowest common > denominator in its construction. Let's be realistic, Scribus is not a > program that was designed to focus on the low end of the DTP user > spectrum. Professional users won't use this kind of learning more than > once or a fraction of once. > > If there is merit to this kind of concept, it needs to be developed as a > separate off-line project, so that the content can show its worth by > some kind of statistical method. I also think (personally) that it's a > horrible waste of GSoC dollars at this point. > > Greg >
From my experience, it depends on the kind of software you are working with. For such a thing, I would ask at Kdenlive, a video editor project. They already made a few video tutorials, and I found these helped a lot to learn handling effects and stuff. Then I know Bibble (closed source RAW picture processor) who have a few very good video tutorials which helped me but are bit lengthy. For Scribus, I agree there is a difference. Although I can imagine some basic handling things to be well presented as a video (Gimp would be another candidate), most of the more advanced features can be (better?) shown using text + some screenshots. So my tip would be to go to www.kdenlive.org and try there. Rolf
