Video Tutorials and marketing.

Hi Folks,
         I discovered gvidcap the other day.

http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

Which allows you to make mpeg movies of your screen. I've been
wanting something like this for a while so I can show off som eof
AbiWord's cool interactive features.

Here's the first of these:

http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/VisualDragAndDrop.mpeg

Showing off visual drag and Drop of text.

I thought it would be fun to put together of afe wof these for the 2.2
release.

Other videos which come to mind are:

1. Auto updating Word Count (including response to selections)
2. Using the insert table, table split and table merge dialogs to create
complex tables.
3. Using the Text folding feature of the bullets and numbering dialog.

 Other ideas I haven't thought of yet!

Of course since the videos are so huge, it might be just as easy for
users to download AbiWord and try for the themselves, but these are
novel features that users may not know about.

I'll try mpeg4 compression next to see how much we gain.

So how do people feel about having an archive of these things as part of
our marketing effort?

Cheers

Martin
Received on Tue Sep 7 08:10:50 2004