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Old October 6, 2006, 03:27 PM
KenWeyer
 
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Default Wink - Tutorial and Presentation Software

Here is a F R E E application that creates tutorials and presentations. Here is a breif explanation from their website.

"Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
Here is a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink.

This is a good example of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation.

It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can create content viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features. So spread the word about Wink to your friends."

I thought this might be of value to some. Maybe can even be used as another version of a hotsheet.

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

Ken
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Old September 10, 2015, 03:55 AM
John benett
 
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Default Re: Wink - Tutorial and Presentation Software

A better product is My Screen Recorder. It is one of the best screen recording software. It records your screen and audio from the speakers or your voice from the microphone - or both simultaneously. The recordings are clear and look great when played back on your website or uploaded to YouTube. It will record directly to standard compressed format that works with any video editor or any tool, no conversion required. Also, the video is much smoother than wink, and you get to record audio with it.
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Old September 10, 2015, 11:36 AM
Steve MacLellan
 
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Default Flash might not be the best choice -- here is a better one

According to W3schools.com, it shows for August, 2015, that 21.2% still use Firefox. Because of security issues, Firefox hasn't been supporting it the last couple of months or so. No idea when they might reverse this decision. For that matter, mobile devices such as tablets and cellphone users are outpacing desktop users. Some Android users can't view Flash content, and Steve Jobs hated Flash, so there isn't any support for it on iPhones or iPads.

You can find some stats on the amount of mobile users here:
http://www.statista.com/topics/779/mobile-internet/

So this pretty well limits you to two choices. Upload your videos to YouTube or some other subscription video services site that will automatically convert your video file in the appropriate format depending on the users system, OR use HTML5 video.

Html5 video relies on the video support being built into all browsers on desktops and mobile devices these days. At first it was very clunky and not well supported, but improvements in operating systems makes it a great option now.

One of the most important things to know about using Html5 video is that you need to tell the browser that the webpage they are looking at needs to be rendered as Html5 so you have to use the correct doctype declaration which is <!doctype html>

I'm not sure how html will be displayed on this forum so let me give you an example instead and you can use your browser's "view source" tool to see the markup.

http://profitalchemy.com/jv95-replay/

Scroll down until you see the Video tag. Note that the mp4 video is the first in the list. If it isn't -- it won't work on Firefox. You'll also see there are two other video formats: .ogv and .webm. These are for other devices and browsers, not Firefox, but you need to include them too.

Note: Not all mp4 files will work. Mp4 is a wrapper (like a container) that supports more than one type of video format, so the Mp4 has to have a format that is supported by Firefox.

There is a free converter you can download to convert your video files into the correct formats with the correct file extensions here:
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/?from=app

It will write the html markup for you as well, but use my example for your markup, not theirs. That page was hand-coded, and I know most people these days use Wordpress or some other type of visual editor so you don't have to deal with raw markup, but if you can read it... it will help get you started in the right direction.

Regards,
Steve
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Old September 10, 2015, 01:29 PM
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Default Thanks Steve, great up to date info.

You are appreciated.

Gordon

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Originally Posted by Steve MacLellan View Post
According to W3schools.com, it shows for August, 2015, that 21.2% still use Firefox. Because of security issues, Firefox hasn't been supporting it the last couple of months or so. No idea when they might reverse this decision. For that matter, mobile devices such as tablets and cellphone users are outpacing desktop users. Some Android users can't view Flash content, and Steve Jobs hated Flash, so there isn't any support for it on iPhones or iPads.

You can find some stats on the amount of mobile users here:
http://www.statista.com/topics/779/mobile-internet/

So this pretty well limits you to two choices. Upload your videos to YouTube or some other subscription video services site that will automatically convert your video file in the appropriate format depending on the users system, OR use HTML5 video.

Html5 video relies on the video support being built into all browsers on desktops and mobile devices these days. At first it was very clunky and not well supported, but improvements in operating systems makes it a great option now.

One of the most important things to know about using Html5 video is that you need to tell the browser that the webpage they are looking at needs to be rendered as Html5 so you have to use the correct doctype declaration which is <!doctype html>

I'm not sure how html will be displayed on this forum so let me give you an example instead and you can use your browser's "view source" tool to see the markup.

http://profitalchemy.com/jv95-replay/

Scroll down until you see the Video tag. Note that the mp4 video is the first in the list. If it isn't -- it won't work on Firefox. You'll also see there are two other video formats: .ogv and .webm. These are for other devices and browsers, not Firefox, but you need to include them too.

Note: Not all mp4 files will work. Mp4 is a wrapper (like a container) that supports more than one type of video format, so the Mp4 has to have a format that is supported by Firefox.

There is a free converter you can download to convert your video files into the correct formats with the correct file extensions here:
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/?from=app

It will write the html markup for you as well, but use my example for your markup, not theirs. That page was hand-coded, and I know most people these days use Wordpress or some other type of visual editor so you don't have to deal with raw markup, but if you can read it... it will help get you started in the right direction.

Regards,
Steve
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Old September 10, 2015, 01:44 PM
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Default Thank you Gordon :-) No message.

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