EduGeek Journal

1 | Matt Crosslin

July 18th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

As usual, I can’t install this on my work computer. I’ll have to bust out the laptop to see how this works. How does it do with Second Life?

BTW Darren – are you coming to the first monthly EduGeek Journal EdTech Focus Group this Friday? Thai food awaits…..

2 | Matt Crosslin

July 19th, 2007 at 7:20 am

I did finally get this to install, and I tested it out with Second Life. Not as impressive when capturing something as intensive as SL. Seems like it was capturing about 1 frame per second, which is fine for most Camtasia-ish stuff, but not good at all for moving stuff. Still, it has a slick interface, and the hosting option – so a definite move in the right direction.

The end product of my test was a 2 and a half minute capture of me flying around Angel Learning Island in SL. It was saved to my hard drive as a 160mb SWF (Flash) file. I really didn’t want to sit around and wait for that to upload :)

In the future, it would be nice to be able to adjust the capture settings, as well as the area of the screen you are recording. Also, since it seems to save these as Flash files, it would be nice to see a few editing tools (cut and paste, especially for people like me that tend to fumble around with the controls before we get going). I didn’t record any audio, either. Wonder how that works.

3 | Darren Crone

July 19th, 2007 at 7:56 am

I am so there.

4 | Darren Crone

July 19th, 2007 at 8:12 am

While a far cry from full frame, full motion video, it is a start. I am hoping they will add some basic editing functions as well. I have seen interfaces that allow editing on the hosting server. This gets me daydreaming, how long will it be before all programs and data are hosted by some giant server in the sky and computers as we know them are replaced by drones with snazzy interfaces? Just thinking ahead.