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I like the idea of explaining the process I used to create the video, but producing a "Making of ..." video is probably not going to happen soon. Briefly, the process was create a PowerPoint presentation and show it manually about a dozen times, adding refinements, then create the video using Camtasia 8, and then futz with the video so that it shows well at YouTube screen resolution.
Making the PowerPoint took more effort than I expected, because PowerPoint is just not designed to do animation (i.e. small changes from slide to slide). Once I had the slides I used Camtasia to capture a crude run through of the presentation, which I then transcribed into the rough draft of a script. Once the script was clean I read it into a digital recorder, and then recorded the video in Camtasia by mixing the playback of my audio while I focused on operating the mouse. Camtasia 8 has a very nice automatic zoom-and-pan feature! But when I uploaded the video to YouTube and saw how low the final screen resolution was I realized I had to go back and really zoom tight on everything I wanted people to be able to read. But Camtasia's manual zoom-and-pan interface is also very well done, so it didn't take very long.
Jeff
At 12:11 AM 4/11/2008, you wrote:
Delightful. Very clear and rather compelling.
It seems to be there twice, one having been viewed 17 times and the
other 40 times and rated as well. They have the same 3:51 time and
seem to have the same content.
I would love to see more along these lines. Though speaking of lines,
I did not understand any meaning of the vertical line on the left of
the screen.
If you could do one which reveals how you created one of these, then
more people might be encouraged to try it for themselves on other
topics. I want to think of this as a tutorial colophon intended to
share the knowledge you had to acquire to create the video.
Dick
On 2008, Apr 10, , at 22:43, Jeff Conklin wrote:
> I've just created a semi-animated 4 minute video the Limits of
> Conversational Structure which helps to illustrate why meeting
> discussions about complex issues don't work very well.
>
> Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxS5wUljfjE
>
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