Ask HN: Software for producing terminal-based tutorials?

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Post by plg » Wed, May 27, 2020, 12:22 PM UTC

Prof here. Need to create online lectures for delivery this fall. Course is scientific computing. Plan is video of ipython shell and an editor plus audio of me blathering on. I use a Mac. Suggestions for software for the screen portion? Thx!

Edit: OBS Studio? Screenflow? Camtasia?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 27, 2020, 12:26 PM UTC

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Post by haar » Wed, May 27, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

I've given some live showcasing/presentations with the help of https://github.com/paxtonhare/demo-magic to smooth over parts that are either time consuming, or not error-proof (e.g. networking and such). It might be useful here as well?

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Post by thdn » Wed, May 27, 2020, 1:47 PM UTC

Never used it, but saw it on a couple of tutorials, https://asciinema.org

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Post by sliken » Wed, May 27, 2020, 1:57 PM UTC

thdn wrote: post #4

Never used it, but saw it on a couple of tutorials, https://asciinema.org

Works great. Record, stop, and it spits out a URL. You can even self-host if you want.

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Post by champagnepapi » Wed, May 27, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

hmmm can't you screen record using Quicktime? Although, if this is for a lecture, you might have to overlay a layer of audio on top. But i'm not 100% sure about this, best of luck.

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Post by haar » Wed, May 27, 2020, 2:09 PM UTC

haar wrote: post #3

I've given some live showcasing/presentations with the help of https://github.com/paxtonhare/demo-magic to smooth over parts that are either time consuming, or not error-proof (e.g. networking and such). It might be useful here as well?

If you're wanting to combine that with e.g. asciinema - you can front-load a shell script via `asciinema rec -t "Some Presentation" -c ./presentation.sh`

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Post by padraic7a » Wed, May 27, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

thdn wrote: post #4

Never used it, but saw it on a couple of tutorials, https://asciinema.org

I was just about to suggest ascicinema.

I think it's excellent but it is limited to just the terminal. I don't think it's possible to incorporate a voiceover or soundtrack which you may sometimes want to do.