A fascinating and interesting approach Keith .. video documentation. (hmm) <br><br>I heard from a colleague at VicRoads that every couple of days they use a video system mounted under a helicopter that flies along the entire length of the Eastern freeway works to document the project. He smiled when I told him about your "helicopter vision of project management" and said that this was close to the way that they often work.
<br><br>Do you find that this takes long? I suppose not once they have mastered the SW and have a collection of screenshots to talk about.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Keith Richardson</b> <<a href="mailto:keithcr@fastmail.fm">keithcr@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My students who all have a background in video editing, are approaching<br>this in the following dual-approach:<br>Firstly they are putting colour-coded text boxes onto the spreadshet<br>with arrows etc giving in-context advice and hints for users.
<br>Then when this is finished to their satisfaction ("The user can just<br>choose to glance at it or not, depending on whether they need to or<br>not." is how one of the students put it.), they capture a series of
<br>screen grabs (using the "Capture-and-save-to-folder-as-jpg" facility of<br>IrfanView set to show the curser). This series of still images they then<br>load into Sony Vegas (video editing software) and turn into a video,
<br>zooming in for close-ups when one wishes to draw the watcher's attention<br>to a particular detail, recording a voice-over, and inserting text to<br>display while the video is running. Also a bit of music to give it
<br>quality, then the whole thing is rendered as a series if web-happy short<br>videos that a user can play depending on what they want to<br>'know-how-to-do-something'. These are called up via a hyperlink tutorial
<br>page on one of the worksheets.<br>Cheers, Keith<br><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
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