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The hard part about screencasts and interviews is keeping the viewers attention span. We've seen on Mixergy how the viewer count drops over time -- from Andrew'
by scorchin 17y ago
The hard part about screencasts and interviews is keeping the viewers attention span. We've seen on Mixergy how the viewer count drops over time -- from Andrew's graphs he makes public. I'd be interested in checking out some Rails screencasts, but only if they're well edited.
How much of what you build is going to branch back out into front-end code? HTML/CSS/JS
Do you plan on making the code readily available to follow along? If so, how are you planning on doing this? Might be an idea to try using a dvcs. Assuming you plan it well enough, you could potentially have a bash script which will checkout your code at each video point for the user.
- hajrice 17y agoI agree, attention span is something that's really hard to maintain. Front end coding: Very little, I'd use the nifty_layouts. No reason to spend time when the likelihood of you using the exact same design is very little. In terms of editing, that's very time consuming. This raises the question, would you be willing to pay for that at a "fair price"?
- thibaut_barrere 17y agoAbout fair price: I'll reach you by IM, several things to share with you on that topic.
- thibaut_barrere 17y ago> only if they're well edited I second that - an edited and concise screencast is worth much more than an non-edited one. PeepCode are a very good example about how to do this right!
- hajrice 17y agoI'd limit every episode by 5 minutes. www.screenr.com is awesome software. I haven't found anything that fits my needs apart from it(I'm on Ubuntu)
- thibaut_barrere 17y ago+1 for limit to 5 minutes (or concise anyway :-). About ubuntu - maybe this could be helpful: ? http://remi.org/2009/04/16/how-i-record-my-screencasts http://remi.org/2009/04/16/how-i-record-my-screencasts
- hajrice 17y agoThanks for responding with a useful link. Unfortunately, recordMyScreen is a bit ... "slow" in terms of video quality. I think I'll stick with screenr, it limits me to 5 minutes per video anyway!