video tutorials on squeak etoys

> On Oct 6, 2007, at 8:55 , Timothy Falconer wrote:
>
>> I've just posted my first two screencast tutorials on Squeak Etoys:
>>
>> http://waveplace.com/movies
>>
>> The first movie discusses how to install Squeak Etoys and the  
>> latest OLPC Etoys image on your computer (particularly if you own  
>> a Mac).  The next shows Etoys in action for about fifteen  
>> minutes.  If you listen closely at the end, you may figure out why  
>> I ended the movie so abrubtly :)
>
> Excellent, thanks! This is very useful.
>
>> My next screencast will be on Tuesday.  Let me know if you were  
>> able to view these movies.  I used two different approaches to  
>> encoding the video, so I'm interested to see how others fare on  
>> different systems before I make new ones.
>
> Both worked fine on my Mac, but the second one stopped at 7:56. I  
> can skip forward a few seconds and then it plays again, but audio  
> is lost.
>
> - Bert -
>
>

>
> > My next screencast will be on Tuesday.  Let me know if you were able to view
> > these movies.  I used two different approaches to encoding the video, so I'm
> > interested to see how others fare on different systems before I make new
> > ones.
>
> Both worked fine on my Mac, but the second one stopped at 7:56. I can skip
> forward a few seconds and then it plays again, but audio is lost.
>
> - Bert -
>

>   Hi, Tim,
>
>   As you say in the first video, it would be nice if a Windows user
> follows this style of instruction.
>
>   There are a few things that depend on your computer (like getting
> the Toast icon first, stuff-it problem, etc.) but it is still great.
>
>   Oh, and the link to www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer seems to be
> missing the bitmap
> (http://waveplace.com/images/get_flash_player.gif)...
>
> At Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:03:28 -0400,
> Timothy Falconer wrote:
>>
>> As several have pointed out, the second video lost sound halfway
>> through.   I've reshot it using new settings.  I'm also sticking with
>> Quicktime instead of Flash Video.
>>
>> Let me know if the larger file is takes too long.  Depending on your
>> connection, you may have wait a bit before it starts playing.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 6, 2007, at 8:55 , Timothy Falconer wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've just posted my first two screencast tutorials on Squeak Etoys:
>>>>
>>>> http://waveplace.com/movies
>>>>
>>>> The first movie discusses how to install Squeak Etoys and the
>>>> latest OLPC Etoys image on your computer (particularly if you own
>>>> a Mac).  The next shows Etoys in action for about fifteen
>>>> minutes.  If you listen closely at the end, you may figure out why
>>>> I ended the movie so abrubtly :)
>>>
>>> Excellent, thanks! This is very useful.
>>>
>>>> My next screencast will be on Tuesday.  Let me know if you were
>>>> able to view these movies.  I used two different approaches to
>>>> encoding the video, so I'm interested to see how others fare on
>>>> different systems before I make new ones.
>>>
>>> Both worked fine on my Mac, but the second one stopped at 7:56. I
>>> can skip forward a few seconds and then it plays again, but audio
>>> is lost.
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>>
>>
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> Yoshiki,
>
> I'll make Windows & Linux installation movies in the next day or so.   I've
> switched my capture machine to one that has Parallels, so I can easily switch
> between Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu.   A real benefit is that I can do some
> movies using the Sugar interface in Ubuntu, which I'll do when I get into how
> to load and save projects in Etoys.  I'll probably show all ways to do it (all
> platforms) ... haven't decided yet.
>
> Tim
>