* James G. Britt  (ruby.talk.list / gmail.com) wrote:
> Jamis Buck recently posted about his giving a Rails  demo/talk to a
> Java group.  He mentioned (among other things):
> 
> > There were a few technical things I would do differently next time:
> > 
> >  1) Don't try to be clever and type out method comments in the screen
> >     capture videos. It might be nice for later, when you distribute
> >     the video, but during the presentation it just makes it lag.
> > 
> >  2) Keep the action in the videos as close to the top of the screen
> >     as possible, so that people sitting WAY in the back can see it
> >     better.
> 
> I've been mailing software movies at my current job as means of
> documenting how to install and configure assorted software.  I'm
> interested in what ways others have found to ensure good results.

Haven't done any videos myself but would like to mention script and
scriptreplay. These two utils come with the bsdutils package on my
Debian box.

script records a console session with optional timeing data.
scriptreplay plays back the session

Not sure how the timeing data is used but it doesn't look too hard
to alter for your purposes.

Just a heads up.

Cheers,

Emiel
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Emiel van de Laar