My first screencast :) Librivox recording demo

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Cori
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Post by Cori »

One of my workplaces was experimenting with Captivate screen motion grabbing software last week, and Yours Truly got to do the voice-over for it. Was rather fun, and so I thought I'd see what was available in the world of Doesn't Cost $400.

Here's what I came up with -- a screencast of me talking about recording this week's Weekly Poetry and waving my mouse with feeling -- using MP3DirectCut to do the original audio, and Wink for the demo itself. It's a 1K webpage, holding a 2MB Flash file. Gently now, if you're on dialup!
670k download here, if you want to hear what my original reading using MP3DC ended up sounding like.

Notes:
  • Sound quality in the demo is dreadful: that's a Wink limitation, but they didn't have sound at all up until this release. You gets rather what you pay for. However, the equally free MP3DC sounds pretty good, so don't let Wink put you off. I hope it shows how incredibly easy Librivoxing is!
  • I recorded the poem properly this morning, so this is a non-spontaneous version, and in fact I've actually left out all the words :D
  • This is the result of my first two Wink hours, so I don't even begin to get into what it can do -- i.e. please forgive the demo for being terribly basic.
So, fancy doing similar for the software YOU'RE LibriVoxing with..?
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Post by earthcalling »

Cori,

That's wonderful! Brilliant job. Wouldn't it be great to have some other LV tutorials done this way?

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*wow*!! That is hot hot hot. Gotta see if there's an OS X version...
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Post by LibraryLady »

Ooo, supercool!
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Post by hugh »

great work! ... this could be part of the buzz&humm project kristen is working on.
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Post by a.r.dobbs »

fantastic! I've been daydreaming of such software -- exactly! for buzz & hmmm use!

Thank you Cori. Even at low-fi, the voice recording is perfectly fine for such a lesson -- very enjoyable!

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Post by featherheadfop »

this is great :D
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Post by ceastman »

Very very nice!!!!

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Post by Cloud Mountain »

Wunnerful!

Okee dokee. Looks to be there'll be no more actual recording or editing around here for the next week or so!

Hasn't been fun like this in a long time.
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Ug!

No Mac OSX. :(
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Post by kayray »

Alan, I went fishing for any kind of OS X screencasting software and found that iShowU, though beta-ish, gets pretty good reviews and is cheap:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29337

Have installed on iMac but haven't tried it out yet.
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kayray wrote:Alan, I went fishing for any kind of OS X screencasting software and found that iShowU, though beta-ish, gets pretty good reviews and is cheap:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29337

Have installed on iMac but haven't tried it out yet.
Wish you hadn't shown this to me, Kara! Just when I thought I could get some Ulysses work done tonight!

WAIT! Nope! It's for OS 10.4 and higher. My G4's running on 10.3.9. Saved by 1/100th! (I think I'm going to have to install 10.4 on my G5.)

Thanks though for pointing this out to me!
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Cloud Mountain wrote:It's for OS 10.4 and higher. My G4's running on 10.3.9. Saved by 1/100th!
lol!!!
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Post by Cori »

I should note, for Windows folks with swisher computers than me, that Captivate has a free 30 day trial, so if you just want to goof around for a month, and then get back to Real Work, that might well be perfect. Can vouch for the super sound quality, and it didn't seem any more complicated than Wink to twiddle about ... possibly easier!
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