LD wrote:
I'm not frustrated by what I've been able to download from Zope.org, but I am really thinking that if I could just "watch over the shoulder" of some Zope guru (Jim/Amos/Brian/Paul/all/any/other) for 5 to 10 minutes... that all the gaps I keep running into would seal up for me...
First, I think what Amos wrote yesterday is the start of something really, really good. As long as we keep improving it and applying more time in that direction, I expect it to provide the foothold people need to get started. Now to your point, I think you're on to something with "recorded" tutorials, though I don't like the videotape part. I've long used Lotus ScreenCam as a backup for making presentations. It allows me to "record" a screen session with all the screen events, as well as adding audio narration and captioning. Unfortunately the files it produces are gargantuan unless you take painful (read: unacceptable) measures to reduce it. An alternative is to buy Lotus StreamCam which streams the presentation, rather than downloading a huge (e.g. 20 Mb) file. I don't mind the plunking down the money, but ScreenCam is a finicky product. It can get the audio and video out of sync, it is a Windows-only solution, it talks directly to the display (in some cases installing its own video driver), doesn't support all video cards, etc. Thus I'd like to see if anyone here has alternative experience. I'd like something that: o Allowed me to record screen events with synchronized audio narration o Recordings are streamed in a bandwidth-friendly fashion o Players are available *at least* for Windows and Linux --Paul