Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

[Ivanka Majic <ivanka majic canonical com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 18:15 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote:
> Cool! Game!
> 
> I'll take a look at some apps to have some inspirations for me to
> propose some wireframes. Too bad I don't have a Mac to test Silverback.

I'll try and do it at the weekend.

> Good thing I can try Morae for free! I'll test it when I already have
> the access to Windows. 

Splendid.
> 
> For now, feel free to propose features and wireframes/mockups. Where do
> you want to make this happen, on the Screenie Launchpad page? Is
> everyone involved comfortable with Launchpad? I am.
> 

I am more concerned with getting the tool than what we use to get there
but, selfishly (as making Launchpad better is part of my job) I wouldn't
mind seeing all the places we can break it :-)

There is a team-screenie: https://launchpad.net/~team-screenie/+members
and I already have some devs in there I can prod when we have something
to design.

Feeling optimistic,

Ivanka

> Allan
> https://launchpad.net/~wersdaluv
> 
> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 09:57 +0000, Ivanka Majic wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I would love to get into this. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:10 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote:
> > > Cool. I'll read your Blog posts. Right now, the first dev+UX guy I can
> > > think of is David Siegel because he codes and he's a UX guy. Hmmmm
> > > 
> > Máirín, Allan, we have tried mixtures of GTK record my desktop, etc and
> > Pongo and it does the job but is all a bit complicated to set up and can
> > sometimes slow down a machine which renders it pointless.
> > 
> > Last summer at Guadec I got all excited chatting with David Siegel (who
> > is on my team) and Andreas (who worked on Pongo) so I started this:
> > https://launchpad.net/screenie and then, to my shame, did absolutely
> > nothing with it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > > If you have the streams from cheese / recordmydesktop / soundrecorder
> > > > you can put them together using gstreamer. I have a portable usability
> > > > lab [1] that uses a DVR to gather video & audio - but the gstreamer
> > > > pipeline I use [2] for constructing my videos could be modified fairly
> > > > easily for your case if you've already got the media you want. The
> > > > challenge here of course is obtaining streams that are synched correctly
> > > > - it would be hard to press record on all at exactly the same time so
> > > > you might be better off scripting existing command-line tools to do it,
> > > > and making a gui to kick off the script. 
> > > > 
> > > > At the GNOME Boston Summit there was some interest in potentially
> > > > putting together a GUI tool to do this but unfortunately my bad - I
> > > > didn't follow up after my talk they expressed interest in and I don't
> > > > know their names.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you know of any developers who would be willing to put together this
> > > > kind of app? I would be interested in getting involved but I don't have
> > > > coding chops (although I'm getting good poking at gstreamer pipelines
> > > > along the lines of what you would need) - maybe we should put together
> > > > some mockups of what we are looking for in such a gui tool and nag a
> > > > developer to help us out?
> > 
> > Máirín, I think it would be great to do some mockups first, and then I
> > think it would be relatively easy to get some devs involved - I have a
> > few potentials!
> > 
> > Silverback is a tool which is worth a look (as well as Morae) as it is
> > very quick and easy to get going with.
> > 
> > Sounds to me like if we pool our various chats and ideas we could pull
> > this off! 
> > 
> > I would love to be responding to this post with some actual mockups as 
> > a starter for 10 but don't have time to make any right now plus am going away. 
> > So much to do and so little time!
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Ivanka
> > 
> > P.S. We went with 'Screenie' as I thought starting the Launchpad project
> > then and there would mean I would follow up...better ideas welcome?
> > 
> > 
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