Re: Org-mode screencasts

From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode screencasts
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:35:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7sge3$bto$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTimAPb-JqJ_vvmgDEPN_-785Kp2Zs7c2ZUz0kXUS@mail.gmail.com

Unfortunately neither istanbul nor recordmydesktop work properly on my
twinview desktop : both are very very slow and flickery.

What is the current concensus for screencasting with Linux : hopefully
with some sort of ability to show the keys pressed and an easy way to
annotate the video?

Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> writes:

> Richard,
>
> That's a great intro screencast.
>
> Scot
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>
>>> One thing that would be really excellent is to show keystrokes as you do
>>> the tutorial. I don't know what system you're using, but this link:
>>>
>>> http://screencasters.heathenx.org/blog/2009/04/06/smaller-key-status-monitor/
>>>
>>>
>>> Rustom Mody wrote:
>>>
>>> mwe-log-commands may be particularly useful for an emacs related
>>> screencast http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/mwe-log-commands.el
>>
>> It would be extremely nice for screencasting Emacs to have a configurable
> input
>> and prompt display similar to the calc trail.
>>
>> Wish list:
>>
>> - stack view of the keystream from view-lossage
>> - annotations (i.e. an overlay) when a binding dispatches a command
>>  using the mechanism from mwe-log-commands.
>> - annotations of minibuffer prompts
>> - annotations of keybinding hints
>>
>> The view-lossage stream doesn't use the format one would want for user
>> documentation:
>>
>> C-x b f o o <return> <return> <menu> v i e w - l o s s a g e <return>
>>
>> Something like the following would be more like documentation:
>>
>> C-x b [switch-to-buffer]
>> f o o RET [minibuffer input]
>> RET [minibuffer prompt confirm]
>> [visiting buffer] foo
>> M-x [<menu>]
>> v i e w - l o s s a g e RET [minibuffer input]
>> [visiting buffer] *Help*
>>
>> The parts in [brackets] are intended to indicate some kind of face overlay. As
>> uncolored plaintext the information is just distracting.
>>
>> Another tool, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ScreencastMode has good ideas for
>> keybinding hints and one-key stepthrough. I don't think the typed-text
> narration
>> style is a good fit for these particular screencasts and their target
> audience,
>> however.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
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