Screencast screencast screencast

Yep I am sure.
I mentioned it in a talk with Peter yesterday, but the big buzz will be screencasting.

I referred to it as videocasting. -He smiled. 'Screencasting it is'-
I already implemented it in the new version of SnowBlog some months ago, and I see amazing possibilities: teachers can upload little lessons, and children can exchange messages over little video's.

But the big problem is the standard, Peter replied.
And the necessity of good software.
I am not sure about that...
.mov and.swf seem to do well. -Apple has some very nice features in their paying quicktime version btw.-
And good software to tape? Try ScreenRecord. 20 dollar only.
Tape, export and you have a perfect .mov. ready to upload.
Intro's can be made in iMovie, but are no necessity whatsoever. Video is visual and thus works perfectly without..
Use iChat in combination with a webcam to show yourself online if you want.

I am certainly not the only one with this opinion, it seems.

Update: good software + explanation can be found here (scroll down)

Posted on September 21, 2005
in Projects - Podcasting

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You're right that QuickTime and Flash (and WMV?) will get us a long way. I was more thinking about movie distribution: DivX, VidX, Sorenson, WMV9, MPEG, ... And most of those standards are proprietary (Apple, Macromedia, Microsoft, ...) In audio it's easier: MP3 works everywhere.

A real hard thing in videocasting will be the generating of content. A lot of technical and productional qualities are required to come up with quality.

But your post got my grey cells disco-dancing and look what's come out:
http://blog.forret.com/blog/2005/09/wizarss-wizard-player-based-on-rss.html

Posted by Peter Forret | September 28, 2005 2:50 PM