Comments on: (I Am) Discovering Screencasting https://www.daniellemorrill.com/2008/08/i-am-discovering-screencasting/ I can see the future, because I live in it today. Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Danielle Morrill https://www.daniellemorrill.com/2008/08/i-am-discovering-screencasting/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:04:17 +0000 http://www.daniellemorrill.com/?p=231#comment-33 Hey Greg, I’m finally getting around to watching your screencasts now. I am really impressed by how short and to the point each of them is, definitely something I’m striving for. These definitely are a little more polished than what I’m currently doing, and I usually include some video of people as well, but I am guessing part of the key to such short videos is keeping the production dead simple.

I’ve felt like the ramp up for producing video on products I’m not very familiar with is so much as to be prohibitive for some – the best person to create a video about their product really is someone who is intimately acquainted with it. It would be fun to build a product with a toolbox for generating product screencasts and a network for distributing them. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Greg Jagiello https://www.daniellemorrill.com/2008/08/i-am-discovering-screencasting/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:51:08 +0000 http://www.daniellemorrill.com/?p=231#comment-30 Hey there, saw you are getting into screencasting, very cool. I’m an interaction designer and work on many web-apps, and during the course of my work engagement I end up learning the apps really well, yet still having that outside perspective you mention. So making screencasts for me became a natural extension of my client deliverables. I agree that they are really valuable…especially for visual learners, or those who are averse to just jumping in and trying something.

Here are a couple I’ve done fairly recently:

TripIt (an online travel itinerary site):
http://www.tripit.com/uhp/learnMore
JobScore (careers and jobs):
http://www.jobscore.com/corp/index.html

I realized that if I wasn’t already working on the products, I just wouldn’t even offer these…it would take too long to ramp up and understand that my clients would likely balk at the end cost. I also find that anything over 60 seconds becomes very unruly if you are working from a script or have others involved (I always do), so I try and cap them at 60 sec myself.

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