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Re: Nice videos on the OXD site

 

Thanks a lot - will try it out!

Also, this tool was mentioned on the dhis2 dev list:
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

Cheers,
Knut

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Sarah Bird <sarah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> It was actually a bit of a hack job, almost no editing just all one take. I
> had a .jpg as my initial screen and then I just switched into a full screen
> browser.
> My laptop is ubuntu and I started off trying gtkrecordmydesktop but in the
> end I just used the command line and ffmpeg - quite nerdy I know.  I found a
> howto guide somewhere on the ubuntu forums (which I can't find the link to
> now) but in the end the command I used were:
> screen capture
> ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -acodec
> pcm_s16le -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_ultrafast -threads 0 output.mkv
> convert to mp4
> ffmpeg -i output.mkv -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre
> libx264-lossless_slow -crf 22 -threads 0 our-final-product.mp4
> A couple of times, for the longer videos, I needed to piece together a few
> .mkv files, for that I used mkvmerge.
> Sorry, probably not very helpful, I just wanted to focus on making the
> screencasts and this was the quickest way I could find to put together the
> video.
>
> All the best,
> Sarah Bird
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Sarah,
>>
>> We admire the nice videos you have put together for OpenXdata
>> http://doc.openxdata.org/tag/
>>
>> Could you let us know what tools you used to make them?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Knut (DHIS 2)
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Nice videos on the OXD site
>> To: Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: DHIS 2 developers <dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> What are the good (and free) tools for making such videos?
>> I know that the Kenyan team wants to make some videos as part of their
>> training material.
>> ----------------------------------
>> Ola Hodne Titlestad (Mr)
>> HISP
>> Department of Informatics
>> University of Oslo
>>
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>>
>> On 10 December 2010 17:51, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Some inspiration:
>> >
>> > http://doc.openxdata.org/tag/video
>> >
>> > --
>> > Cheers,
>> > Knut Staring
>> >
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>> Knut Staring
>
>



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Cheers,
Knut Staring



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