Demo / tutorial maker tools?
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Hey, guys. I'm looking for a good tool to create those nifty, animated popup tutorials for an application. For example, the user clicks a "How do I add a record?" button, a little window pops up showing an animation of a mouse selecting Record / Add from the main menu, types in text, hits save, etc., preferably with an option for accompanying audio for verbal explanation. What's neat and groovy for this sort of stuff these days? Don't want to write a new tool, just want to find one that works and use it. :) Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
take a look at demoshield. http://www.macrovision.com/products/demoshield/index.shtml[^]
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I've used Wink from debugmode extensively. It's just as good as the $300 apps IMHO. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/[^]
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Is there any way to control what those info boxes look like in it? They kinda seem Win95ish. Jeremy Falcon
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Thanks, man. This looks interesting, both for the tutorial stuff and for some web based classes I'm thinking about putting together - unless you have even more neat & groovy suggestions for the latter :) Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
Christopher Duncan wrote:
unless you have even more neat & groovy suggestions for the latter
It should capture the browser to show its usage just as easy. And, since it saves to flash, showing it (and streaming it) on the web page is simple to do. I just wish I had it for home use, work tends to have a better budget. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
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Is there any way to control what those info boxes look like in it? They kinda seem Win95ish. Jeremy Falcon
It also doesn't appear to have audio capabilities, although I may just be missing it. Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
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take a look at demoshield. http://www.macrovision.com/products/demoshield/index.shtml[^]
Thanks, man. Took a look at their demos, so far the Captivate stuff looks the best. Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
unless you have even more neat & groovy suggestions for the latter
It should capture the browser to show its usage just as easy. And, since it saves to flash, showing it (and streaming it) on the web page is simple to do. I just wish I had it for home use, work tends to have a better budget. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
I really like what I saw with it, for both applications. It also looks pretty easy for me to have my voiceover talent come into the recording studio and then just import the audio files into the tutorials. Nicely done. And of course, since it's an swf file, that makes it easy to integrate into a .net app. Hey, $500 ain't bad. They want $1900 for the full tilt boogie version of RoboHelp! :omg: Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
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Is there any way to control what those info boxes look like in it? They kinda seem Win95ish. Jeremy Falcon
Yeah, there are a few different styles to choose from. You could also draw your own.
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I really like what I saw with it, for both applications. It also looks pretty easy for me to have my voiceover talent come into the recording studio and then just import the audio files into the tutorials. Nicely done. And of course, since it's an swf file, that makes it easy to integrate into a .net app. Hey, $500 ain't bad. They want $1900 for the full tilt boogie version of RoboHelp! :omg: Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
Christopher Duncan wrote:
They want $1900 for the full tilt boogie version of RoboHelp!
I always wondered about people that used it. I'd use the HTML Help Workshop and MS Word any day of the week before I dropped 2K on RoboHelp. :) Jeremy Falcon
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I really like what I saw with it, for both applications. It also looks pretty easy for me to have my voiceover talent come into the recording studio and then just import the audio files into the tutorials. Nicely done. And of course, since it's an swf file, that makes it easy to integrate into a .net app. Hey, $500 ain't bad. They want $1900 for the full tilt boogie version of RoboHelp! :omg: Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
BTW, there's a free trail if you want to play around with it first. Jeremy Falcon
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
They want $1900 for the full tilt boogie version of RoboHelp!
I always wondered about people that used it. I'd use the HTML Help Workshop and MS Word any day of the week before I dropped 2K on RoboHelp. :) Jeremy Falcon
Back in the Windows 3.1 days, when I had my software company, one of our gigs was writing a bunch of Word macros to help automate their help system stuff. Man, talk about primative. I'm sure it's much better these days. Probably don't even need stone tablets and a chisel anymore. :) Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
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Yeah, there are a few different styles to choose from. You could also draw your own.
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That may work for me since I already have Flash at home I can just add the voiceovers in that. So, as long as I'm asking... :) Anyway to control the frame rate so it's not so jittery? Jeremy Falcon
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Back in the Windows 3.1 days, when I had my software company, one of our gigs was writing a bunch of Word macros to help automate their help system stuff. Man, talk about primative. I'm sure it's much better these days. Probably don't even need stone tablets and a chisel anymore. :) Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
I just noticed the name change. I like it. Easy to remember. Jeremy Falcon
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I just noticed the name change. I like it. Easy to remember. Jeremy Falcon
Thanks. Show Programming was started back in 2001 when I was writing DMX concert lighting control software. It didn't make much sense in the context of my current strategy consulting business! Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
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BTW, there's a free trail if you want to play around with it first. Jeremy Falcon
Yeah, downloading as we speak... Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
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That may work for me since I already have Flash at home I can just add the voiceovers in that. So, as long as I'm asking... :) Anyway to control the frame rate so it's not so jittery? Jeremy Falcon
Yes. :)
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Yes. :)
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I just downloaded it. It doesn't seem to save video to anything except SWF and EXE. And it throws an ugly progress bar saying "Created by Wink" on the SWF. :( Jeremy Falcon
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Hey, guys. I'm looking for a good tool to create those nifty, animated popup tutorials for an application. For example, the user clicks a "How do I add a record?" button, a little window pops up showing an animation of a mouse selecting Record / Add from the main menu, types in text, hits save, etc., preferably with an option for accompanying audio for verbal explanation. What's neat and groovy for this sort of stuff these days? Don't want to write a new tool, just want to find one that works and use it. :) Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
FYI, I just came across this one. It's about $200 cheaper but still has what you're looking for. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp[^] Jeremy Falcon
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Hey, guys. I'm looking for a good tool to create those nifty, animated popup tutorials for an application. For example, the user clicks a "How do I add a record?" button, a little window pops up showing an animation of a mouse selecting Record / Add from the main menu, types in text, hits save, etc., preferably with an option for accompanying audio for verbal explanation. What's neat and groovy for this sort of stuff these days? Don't want to write a new tool, just want to find one that works and use it. :) Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
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I just downloaded it. It doesn't seem to save video to anything except SWF and EXE. And it throws an ugly progress bar saying "Created by Wink" on the SWF. :( Jeremy Falcon
Ya, swf and exe are the options. Hit File->Preferences and check out the preloader options - you can select one that doesn't say "Created by Wink", or disable it entirely.
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Ya, swf and exe are the options. Hit File->Preferences and check out the preloader options - you can select one that doesn't say "Created by Wink", or disable it entirely.
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That's cool. I just would've prefered more output options so I could fancy up the video clip and import it into Flash for the voiceovers. I'm not a big fan of using SWFs on top of SWFs anyway. Jeremy Falcon