My First Screencast…
At work I’m currently working on a new VB/VS 2005 app. Work is progressing well and I excited and want to show it off. But I’m also working remotely, away from our office.
In the past, I’ve played the “grab a bunch of screenshots and try to turn the static display in something more with words” game. That only goes so far.
Today static just wouldn’t do. So I decided it was screencast day.
Taking my queue from the Blogcast Repository, How to Create a Blogcast page, I downloaded the Windows Media Encoder 9, watched their How to configure WME video and away I went!
Just a few minutes later I had a finished screencast, demonstrating the app, showing it off in its full dynamic glory, all with accompanying voice audio.
Okay, maybe it was a little rough around the edges, unscripted and had one problem with the About box not getting grabbed by the encoder. Still in 6 minutes of recording I was able to show the app off in what have taken 30+ minutes to write and still would not be as cool or complete as the video…
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4 comments:
Lets see it!!!
Don't I wish...
But it's for an internal only app and has associated IP issues.
I'd need to get approvals from my boss, his boss, maybe his boss, Legal, Marketing, PR...
The joy of working at one of the Final Four Accounting firms.
Heheehehe I understand. Of course now you are going to force me to try a screencast myself. I wanted to see if it was something I could use before I spend time trying it out.
The joy of being a lazy developer :)
Ok I feel REALLY lazy right now. That was a little too easy... and of course I can use it... for something.
I used WME to digitize output from my TV card so I could stream tv to my pocket PC device about 1.5 years ago. So I figured this would be a little more involved. In any case, thanks for the post... this looks very useful.
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