Well after almost a full weeks worth of meddling, script writing, and the addition of wormholes to RIsk I’ve finally managed to begin filming my screencasts. As things turned out I quickly realized how useless my scripts actually were, and quickly reverted to “winging it.” Since I intend to down the screen captures I don’t exactly need to worry about screwing up, simple pause, and start again. I have to admit how alien producing a screencast feels for me in general and as part of GSoC. Today I managed to record my advanced screencast and my map making screencast. Since the train is now rolling I see no problem in recording my basic screencast tomorrow. For everyone’s entertainment I have uploaded to youtube the uncut/unedited recording of my advanced screencast; please let me know if the panning is too jumpy, the recording is short enough I can redo it with some different configuration to clean that up.
Other than that I am a little confused about how good the screencast needs to be. I don’t want to seem like a schmuk getting tongue-tied on film, but does the odd slip-up here and there ruin the entire paragraph? Please let me know what you think…
EDIT: OK, so the audio is pretty quiet, and it sounds like I’m blasting off to somewhere. I’ll probably rerecord the audio with better audio, unless I can clean it up.
Tim Ansell | 31-Jul-08 at 9:20 pm | Permalink
Hi jphr,
The video seems to be focused on a little square of the window (so we can’t see the details you are talking about). Your voice also doesn’t match what is shown on the screen multiple times and is cut of abruptly at the end.
A good sound editor should let you chop out any stuff ups and move the speech to be closer to the actual actions.
Otherwise it is very good to see this stuff in action!