[Sugar-devel] Etoys - export as video

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 21.06.2009, at 16:34, Simon Schampijer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> are there ways to export an animation one has done in etoys into a ogg
> file for example?


With the new GStreamer support this may be possible to implement, but  
hasn't been done yet, to my knowledge.

There was a recent discussion on how to export an Etoys animation as  
Animated GIF file. Abe-san provided a "quick hack" that works quite  
well:

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2009-June/003216.html

Under Sugar you would probably have to drop his attachment into Etoys  
using the Sugar Frame. And then it would only save to the "data"  
directory so you would need to follow this example to copy the  
animation to the Journal:

http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Saving+to+a+file+in+Sugar

> Would one do a screencast, maybe?

Not quite sure what you mean here. Using an external screen-cast tool  
is possible of course.

For recording demos or tutorials in Etoys we have the "Event Theater"  
which records events and voice-over. Of course you need Etoys for  
playback, too.

- Bert -