Re: [Usability] screenshot & recording desktop video

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

darcy parks wrote:
> On 6/10/05, Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
> ...
> > Scenario: You're recording a product demo for a Web site. You don't
> > want a video recording interface to appear in the video, because that
> > would look unprofessional.
>
> What about a post-recording dialog?  It could have a slider to scan
> through the recording, and then the user could set start and end
> markers for easy editing.  This would make it easy to remove the part
> at the end where the mouse moves up to the stop button.

First, if you have a stop button you have a visible video recording 
interface, which would look unprofessional. And second, it would 
probably be rather difficult to crop a video after-the-fact in those 
cases where you just wanted to record the active window.

> This would be useful in the case of a timed recording too, because
> guessing the exact amount of time is probably difficult.
> ...

True -- if the exact end time was important, you'd use the keyboard 
combo instead.

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Matthew Thomas
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