[IAEP] Best video introduction to sugar?

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 07.10.2008 um 19:07 schrieb Eben Eliason:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de 
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 07.10.2008 um 14:04 schrieb Marco Pesenti Gritti:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de 
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting - how did you get it to display synchronously on two  
>>>>> XOs?
>>>>
>>>> By making them play at fixed times (and syncing the clock, sort  
>>>> of).
>>>
>>>
>>> Is that code available? Or at least a full-screen flash player?  
>>> When showing
>>> http://interdimensionmedia.com/scratch/MoMA/demo.html in Browse on  
>>> the XO,
>>> unfortunately the demo cannot go to an unembellished full screen.
>>
>> Eben, do we have the latest image somewhere?
>
> Hmmm, I have a directory for it, but it only contains the .crc file.
> Oddly missing is the .img itself, so it seems I don't actually have
> it.  After a little digging, I found the links to it; it appears
> you're still hosting the files in your d.l.o space.  I'm downloading
> them again so I have an archive.  Here are the links:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~marco/demo.crc
> http://dev.laptop.org/~marco/demo.img

Thanks, I'll have a look.

>>> And, what would it take to translate the demo?
>>
>> I think Eben hacked the presentation up in Flash or Illustrator. So  
>> he
>> would need to translate and regenerate the video.
>
> Translating would take some effort.  The process was broken down into
> 2 parts: static and dynamic.  The static content (backgrounds, really)
> were generated slide by slide in Illustrator.  I have the source files
> for each slide -- there are (literally and precisely) 100 of them,
> across both screens.  The static backgrounds were then imported into
> Flash and used as a backdrop for the dynamic content, which included
> all of the palettes, and other interactive text such as the typing
> segment.
>
> Fortunately, I believe that these were imported as vector objects,
> rather than as images, which means that it should be possible to edit
> the text within them directly within the Flash document, rather than
> having to individually edit and export each Illustrator file again.
> After editing all of the static text fields, we'd then need to
> translate the various method calls on each slide in the timeline which
> define the palettes and other dynamic content.  This should be
> somewhat straightforward, since the system used to create palettes,
> animate the cursor, transition between slides, etc. was all carefully
> thought out to make creating the actual animation fairly simple.
>
> It's still a fair amount of work overall, but specifically because the
> text can all be edited within Flash and then re-exported, it should be
> possible.


So if someone had Flash they could translate it. What's the license on  
these files?

One other thing - Eben, could you re-export the files as Flash v. 3  
and send them to me? I'd like to try something ...

- Bert -