Hi! First a few links to examples. I have some under http://letexa.com/ (there's a "Jobs" sign which looks like this is a commercial thing, but if people would actually READ... ;-) ). The I've another one that adds only one aspect: a small video (of me) in the top right corner. WARNING: the contents of this presentation didn't even matter when I first made it, partially overwriting another one that also didn't matter! This is just demo of how such stuff looks like in Flash. http://www.hasenstein.com/TMP/pres/presentation.html This one loads a 38MB .flv video file FULLY before starting, I coded it that way. If you start it and do something else for 5-10 minutes you'll be fine (I hope not too many people are interested ;-) ) As for generating Flash, I'm the proud owner of a small printing business (part of a Mailboxes Etc. franchise I have with a partner) and had to buy the last three versions of Adobe Creative Suite anyway - the last one because it included Flash after the purchase of Macromedia by Adobe. I've also used eval versions of Adobe Captivate and of Camtasia. BUT on Linux you can use this very nice utility to create Flash screencasts: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ Not everyone needs Flash CS3, the authoring environment. One can start with vnc2swf (which is the by far best way anyway to produce a Linux desktop screencast - apart from using Camtasia in Windows with Linux in a VMware window). What is even more important is the creation of good concepts and scripts for production. I'd quite happily resign to only do the last step of producing output if I'm given good scripts by others. I just put an example for a script online, usually I do that with the course but I'm producing it following that script right now, while not answering emails... there are other scripts on the Letexa site but this one is the nicest one I've done so far I think. Link: http://letexa.com/courses/15/script.php Not to mention the site itself. You see "php", but I'm using it only for header and footer insertion. I haven't put the courses into a database yet. Several reasons: There are very few courses so creating content is a priority for me (if I showed empty pages and said "but I've got a beautiful backend code!", how interested would anyone be?). My shared hosting account costs very little and includes everything and the kitchen sink ($9.89/month for 150GB of space, ssh, mysql, etc. etc. etc.), but PHP is done via CGI and what performance can I expect of shared hosting anyway... so I didn't want to also add database queries if I didn't have to. And there's still LOTS of explaining to do about the weird and crazy concept... ;-) Michael Anders Johansson wrote:
It certainly sounds interesting. I think I would like to be involved in something like that
How were you planning on generating the content? The only flash-generating software that I'm aware of is openoffice Export, but that doesn't seem good enough
Anders
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