TRUE STORY: Today I walked in dreadfully into the office because this is the day we start planning, designing and building training materials for a very large $1 million+ enterprise software implementation I've been leading for over a year. Before I start my day I go online to get my daily dose of HN stories and SHAZAM! Like a miracle out of IT Heaven this amazing tool comes out out of nowhere to punch my daunting wo…
thanks dude. email me at spatel @ iorad.com ...the ppt doc is ready just working on the premium workflow..we can try to hook you up a bit early.
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#82TRUE STORY: Today I walked in dreadfully into the office because this is the day we start planning, designing and building training materials for a very large $1 million+ enterprise software implementation I've been leading for over a year. Before I start my day I go online to get my daily dose of HN stories and SHAZAM! Like a miracle out of IT Heaven this amazing tool comes out out of nowhere to punch my daunting wo…
Also looking for premium PPT and PDF export options. Going to play with this more to see how easily my project teams can pick this up.
The editing workflow is a bit clunky, but given it's a first launch it's definitely workable. Small nitpick: wish that triple-click selects the entire caption in editing mode.
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#83LOVE it. I always hated screen casts. I prefer creating a Word or PDF document with annotated screenshots which user can go through at their own pace. One of the idea in my idea list was to make it easy to take screenshots and annotate them and create a polished PDF. But what you have created is even better. It is highly interactive and user can follow the steps as they work on the actual application. Extremely well…
thanks much...we're going to follow a github type model..public tutorials are free...for premium we are going to offer pdf, ppt, doc and html export to deploy on your own servers...
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we're working on that to speed it up, would you prefer a mode with no animations?
What about a toggle to set the animation speed before publishing?
My hunch is no animation is better, but since I haven’t actually seen that I don’t know if some animation is necessary to provide a cue for where the next step is.
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I read this as: You think that this alternative-to-screencasts is great, but you'd pay more money if it also made… screencasts. ;) There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking screencasts. But if you want a screencast - a thing with video and audio clips that conveys information through voice - you want a different product, right? There are existing products that help you make screencasts. The problem with bolting sc…
Not really. I want the ability to make it into a multi-media in the truest sense of the term. I'd want it as an option, but not a requirement. Maybe I'm just asking for a youtube-boxed sized version of hypercard. :D
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#86LOVE it. I always hated screen casts. I prefer creating a Word or PDF document with annotated screenshots which user can go through at their own pace. One of the idea in my idea list was to make it easy to take screenshots and annotate them and create a polished PDF. But what you have created is even better. It is highly interactive and user can follow the steps as they work on the actual application. Extremely well…
thanks much...we're going to follow a github type model..public tutorials are free...for premium we are going to offer pdf, ppt, doc and html export to deploy on your own servers...
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thanks much...we're going to follow a github type model..public tutorials are free...for premium we are going to offer pdf, ppt, doc and html export to deploy on your own servers...
How soon for any of the exports? The FAQ says 'summer 2012', but I know people that could use this yesterday.