Screencast
Contents
today's mission
actions
- upload to AboutUsWiki YouTube account
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Why login? -
How to sign up? -
Welcome to AboutUs
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- Put on own page for transclusion purposes
- Tag the base pages as Category:VideoFAQ
- change existing references to old YouTube codes to be just transclusions of these new pages
- transclude these in the appropriate help pages
What do we have?
- Why login, Why login script
- How to sign up, How to sign up script
- Welcome to AboutUs, ScreenCast/IntroScript
What I think needs to happen, though maybe this is over-engineered
Each screencast needs 3 pages.
- One for the video itself. This is what we use for transclusion whereever the video needs to appear.
- One is for the script
- One is for comments/discussion (maybe this can be on the script page)
We need a naming convention for these different pages.
ideas
- What if we screenshot the tabs we're using, then annotate them (circles and arrows and such), then actually screencast in preview?
- Or, what if we use Keynote instead of Preview, so we can have a more natural transition of the page loading? And doesn't keynote allow a voiceover anyway? Maybe we don't need iShowU at all?
notes
- In Safari, to move between tabs, it's command, shift, left/right arrow
- Make sure the sound is coming through the headset; the driver should not be able to hear the countdown.
- writing the script on paper can make the whole process faster than attempting to capture the script in the wiki - the advantage to doing the script in the wiki is that it's easier for others to revise and re-make the screencast
- make the font size as big as possible in the browser
- make the mouse pointer as big as possible with universal access tools
- let's call the intro one done and move on to another one - the list of possibilities is below - as we make more, we can start to organize a VideoFAQ (Category:WikiAnatomy) as well as post them on the weblog as well as on the appropriate help page.
Second one
Flash sample from Vartan
Our first one, please comment
next steps
'questions and answers and learnings
- ShinyWhiteBox.com - program called iShowU - $20
- no editing - it's just one take - the first one took 15 takes, re-doing until feels like it's more or less right
- 45 min, start to finish, Julia and Mark, wrote script over lunch
- minute long, make 30 seconds long?
- we can post these on facebook or other places
- topic of the first one? "Welcome to AboutUs"
- let's publish the script with each one so anyone else can then modify the script, record their own version, and the community can decide which is the "official" version of any of these at any one time, but we could have a gallery of each topic videos - need to figure out how to organize this
- need to be not-logged in to AboutUs and also google
- record screen or window - you can set it
- you can set the start and stop hotkeys
- In the editing process if the thing that the mouse is point to could be highlighted somehow... red circle around it, kind of pulled off the screen and made bigger (hard to explain what I mean)... that would help. Like for the "ContactUs" link the "Useful Links" box could be closed, then opened and circle the link to "contact us." I think right before hitting the edit tab in this to highlight the many edit tabs would help people see them.
- All in all, I think it is awesome. The capabilities of a screen cast thing-y and audio go beyond what something like WikiAnatomy can offer for a beginner overview, walk you through it sort of thing... yay!
previous notes
Try to set up a vendor share, like Brandon did with OmniGroup.com by using Amrosiasw.com screencastonline.com
Break these ideas down, for a screencast action:
- Preview
- Category
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MoveRenamemove page - Edit
- Save
- Glossary
- RecentChanges
- (diff)
- (hist)
- IRC
- HelpByPhone
- CamelCase
- RealNames
- AssumeGoodFaith
- BarnRaising
- PageName
- Thumbnail
- Review
- LostPassword brilliant