Calling all vidders!

[brownbetty]

In order to get the widest possible fan contribution, we'd like to make editing fanlore as non-threatening as possible, and get our help resources up to snuff. To that end, we're attempting to get some screencasts made. Now, I can record a screencast, but when it comes to editing out all the pauses and jittering, and speeding up the typey-bits to make it not annoying to watch, I admit, I'm not so hot.

However, it occurs to me that this should be a fairly trivial exercise for some of the amazing vidders I know we have in the fan community.

We would like screencasts on, at minimum the two following subjects:

1) Getting a fanlore account! This is the first hurdle for new editors. A screencast should walk the viewer through getting an account, and let them know how to set up their OpenID, should they wish to add that.

2) Editing a new article! Want to start a new article? How do you do that? How do you make a wiki link, and add headings?

Additionally, if screencasts include a voice component, subtitles would be awesome, and make them more accessible.

If you'd like to make a screencast, or help with one, or suggest other topics that could be usefully screencast, please let me know!

Comments

[cesperanza]

Oooh ooh, mr. kotter! There's a fabulous screencast program called, I think, "I show U" which is easy peasy. I'm insane at the moment but would be totally willing once grades go in Monday to do some screencasting of myself Fanloring.

Oh, put that way it sounds so so dirty. <3

[brownbetty]

That would be super-fabulous. I know there are various free screencast programs, and I tried making one myself, and then I played it back and I was like "...oh, self."

and then I thought, wait a second, maybe there are people who are good at this!