Comments on: How I produced my first screencast, and what I learned http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/ Small pieces of the new big world Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:37:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stuart http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7840 Stuart Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:08:14 +0000 http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7840 Paul - Cool beans! I love it when hacks like that work out. By the way, I'm really tempted by Screen Flow now. I just downloaded the demo to check it out. Chris - Thanks for the comment and the link. I've got ShowMeDo bookmarked now. Paul – Cool beans! I love it when hacks like that work out. By the way, I’m really tempted by Screen Flow now. I just downloaded the demo to check it out.

Chris – Thanks for the comment and the link. I’ve got ShowMeDo bookmarked now.

]]> By: Chris Lasher http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7838 Chris Lasher Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:07:18 +0000 http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7838 Great screencast! Just an FYI, ShowMeDo.com has a couple of videos on screencasting on a variety of operating systems: http://showmedo.com/videos/screencasting Great screencast! Just an FYI, ShowMeDo.com has a couple of videos on screencasting on a variety of operating systems: http://showmedo.com/videos/screencasting

]]> By: Paul R. Pival http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7817 Paul R. Pival Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:21:44 +0000 http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7817 That's a great idea - I hadn't thought of it, and I didn't think it'd work 'cause I figured the recording application would just zoom too, but i just tried a quickie with iShowU and it did work - cool, and thanks! That’s a great idea – I hadn’t thought of it, and I didn’t think it’d work ‘cause I figured the recording application would just zoom too, but i just tried a quickie with iShowU and it did work – cool, and thanks!

]]> By: Stuart http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7814 Stuart Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:01:08 +0000 http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7814 Thanks for the kind words, Paul. I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, so your comments are definitely encouraging. Your comment about magnifying the screen made me think: I'll bet I could use OS X's built-in screen zoom function (via Universal Access) to do that on the fly. Or, maybe I'll break down and get ScreenFlow if I keep doing enough of these. I hadn't run across Screen Mimic. I'm definitely going to give the demo a try. Thanks again! Thanks for the kind words, Paul. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a while, so your comments are definitely encouraging.

Your comment about magnifying the screen made me think: I’ll bet I could use OS X’s built-in screen zoom function (via Universal Access) to do that on the fly. Or, maybe I’ll break down and get ScreenFlow if I keep doing enough of these.

I hadn’t run across Screen Mimic. I’m definitely going to give the demo a try. Thanks again!

]]> By: Paul R. Pival http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7811 Paul R. Pival Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:17:49 +0000 http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7811 Me again- went back to check on some other software to see what else might allow magnification, and couldn't find anything, but did notice that Screen Mimic allows you to save directly to FLV, which might allow you to cut out your VisualHub step... http://www.polarian.com/products/ScreenMimic.php Me again- went back to check on some other software to see what else might allow magnification, and couldn’t find anything, but did notice that Screen Mimic allows you to save directly to FLV, which might allow you to cut out your VisualHub step… http://www.polarian.com/products/ScreenMimic.php

]]> By: Paul R. Pival http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7809 Paul R. Pival Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:00:38 +0000 http://thenewbig.com/2008/02/17/how-i-produced-my-first-screencast-and-what-i-learned/#comment-7809 Hey, really appreciate the time you took to detail your process. I thought you did a great job, and I learned a few things. Normally I shoot for 5 minutes or less, but you were telling a good story with good information so I didn't get bored at all with the length. You've picked up a new subscriber :-) I was going to suggest you could drop the fps rate down to around 15, but I see you're already going to try that next time. Only other suggestion would be to try and find some software that would allow you to magnify some parts of the screen when you wanted to show more detail. I know the new ScreenFlow program will do that (http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/), but it's a little steep at $99. Thanks again! Hey, really appreciate the time you took to detail your process. I thought you did a great job, and I learned a few things. Normally I shoot for 5 minutes or less, but you were telling a good story with good information so I didn’t get bored at all with the length. You’ve picked up a new subscriber :-) I was going to suggest you could drop the fps rate down to around 15, but I see you’re already going to try that next time. Only other suggestion would be to try and find some software that would allow you to magnify some parts of the screen when you wanted to show more detail. I know the new ScreenFlow program will do that (http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/), but it’s a little steep at $99. Thanks again!

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