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[Jim Simmons]

Dennis,

I use gtk-recordmydesktop to do the screencasts, running Sugar at
800x600 on an IBM NetVista I bought surplus.  I then use Kino to edit.
 You *might* be able to get a screencast at a higher resolution with a
more powerful box, but the video would end up at 640x480 anyway so
maybe that would not be an improvement.  I'd be interested in your
opinion of my videos at

http://people.sugarlabs.org/jdsimmons/

I use Fedora 11 for recording the desktop and Fedora 10 for editing
(not on purpose, that's just how I'm set up at the moment).  I needed
to compile Kino from source.  There's another video editor called
Cinelerra that I would also have to compile from source to use, and
it's supposed to be pretty good.

James Simmons

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Dennis Daniels<dennisgdaniels at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
> Fair enough! You are echoing what most everyone on the IRC has said as well.
>
> I'm going to dive into running Sugar on top of Ubuntu today on my
> fairly powerful machine and see if I can get some decent recordings.
> Sugar needs a face and preferably that face would be of a six year old
> doing amazing/genious things with a computer but those screencasts
> probably won't happen with SoaS. I'm hoping I can get that with a full
> install of Ubuntu with Sugar on the top.
>
> All my efforts with SoaS, avec et sans screencasting, have been
> _disappointing_. There's no way I can recommend SoaS to any but the
> most hardened technophile teachers.
>
> with regards,
> Dennis
>
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>
>
> EOF
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:46, Jim Simmons<nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dennis,
>>
>> I think screencasting is a neat idea but the hardware most likely to
>> run Sugar won't have the horsepower to capture a full size screen and
>> in the case of the XO might not have enough disk space to do it
>> either.  See my other emails for my experiences making videos like
>> this.
>>
>> It may do a lot of good for us to create these kinds of videos
>> ourselves so kids can see them and share them with friends, but
>> technically it may be impractical to build a feature for doing this
>> into Sugar.
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>>> I need help in getting Sugar to be cool for kids and the easiest way
>>> _in my experience_ is to make it easy for kids to show off... make
>>> screencasting a FUNCTIONING and EASY to USE tool that can be launched
>>> from every activity.
>>>
>>> Please, if you're going to flame back, try to attack the argument (and
>>> parts of it may be flawed) and not me.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Dennis
>>
>