Tag: ScreenFlow

The Story Of blackboard-bold-mode

• Evaluate sound-dampening foam
• Record the audio and video simultaneously in a conversational style and edit the video to fit the time-line
  • Love conversational style; curious about how to reduce it to the core content

• Spent only 2 hours and I’m happy with the result
• Conversation (audio and video) were recorded separately from the content. It is difficult not to synchronize them but rather to make them work well together. In this screencast, the content more or less makes sense. I think that I could do it better.
• Weighing the balance between getting the content out there in an imperfect form versus planning forever and rarely publishing anything.
• Missed light misplacement hilariously causing humongous eyebrows

(Screencast) The Best Emacs Modifier Key Setup for OS X

• Demonstrate lessons-learned about alternate input methods and redefinition of the Emacs interpretation of modifier keys
• Utilize a lower-third instead of text-boxes
• Talk louder

(Screencast) Three Ways to Quote in your Notes with Org-Mode

• Demonstrate how I like to quote content in Org-Mode
• Learn how to use call-outs and text-boxes
• Learn how to ad-lib content
• Scripted out location of content and video-recording of presenter to make sense of what is appearing on the screen and where
• Learn how to use content-music

• Made video top right 100% of the top right corner
  • This means scaling it by 50%
• Remove the dropshadow from the video
  • The video stood out enough already
• Amplified volume by 200%
• Added callouts interesting content
• Added watermwark, 25% scale, 25% opacity, 10 key-presses from bottom and right edge
• Include the word Screencast in announcement to distinguish between screencast and blog post
• 6h of effort for 7m of content
• Posted manually on Reddit
• Blog published to social sites

• Wrote a script; didn’t pay attention to it enough
• After re-recording it six times, said I would never re-record it again. Instead made corrections using text-boxes positioned over my face.
• Light was OK
• Speaking volume was too quiet; content volume was too loud
• Skin was shiny
• Looping the banner and jingle at the end was a mistake
• The 3m monologue about Braille displays was interesting to me and perhaps no one else so don’t include that. 3m is a long time.
• Use a lower-third intead of text boxes
• Redditers commented that a blog post would have been more concise and faster. What is the best of both worlds?

Hello, Screenflow and Youtube

• Develop a jingle and banner to introduce the videos
• Learn how to use ScreenFlow on smallest project possible
• Learn how to publish and monetize on YouTube
• Learn how to define closed-caption content

• YouTube
  • Easy and pleasant process
  • Signing up takes 30m or so
  • Publishing the video offers 20-30 configuration options
• Forgot to develop a watermark for the videos
• Closed-captioning is tedious and time-consuming
• Screenflow project is large; be sure to keep it on a large disk
• Glad to have worked in a simple project like this to get some practice with Screenflow. It took some trial and error to grok the power of layers in practice.
• Volume wasn’t loud enough
• Transitions were OK; can see some blockiness because of how I layered the background