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Subject: Re: FLASH: Animated Screen Captures?
From: Seth Newton
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:23:56 +0100

Helen and whoever else,

I believe that Demoshield has those capabilities, and it stores them in
an .avi file format....so perhaps there's a way to bump it into flash. I
have a meeting tomorrow with the engineers who have been using it
(demoshield), so I'll mess with it and find out tomorrow and tell you if
anything comes of it.

-Seth.
----- Original Message -----
From: Helen Triolo <designerati-technica [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: Animated Screen Captures?


> Seth Newton wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to do a screen capture
> > of a mouse's movements with Flash/Director? And the end result would
need
> > to be web capable. I have thought of how I could do it in flash....by
> > simply animating the mouse patterns, and the drop down menus by hand,
but if
> > anyone knows a faster way, advice would be much appreciated.
>
> I've spent the past four days doing exactly that (animating mouse
> patterns and dropdowns -- as well as some expanatory popup boxes --
> manually on top of screen captures for a software product presentation),
> so if there's a faster way of combining an animated screen capture with
> Flash, I'll just sit down and cry... (Talk about tedious. But I did
> discover a lot along the way about making pauses of specified duration
> and organizing the presentation with movieclips, etc, etc that I'll use
> in the future, so not totally unredeeming)
>
> Actually, if anyone knows of such a thing for Director (or Flash), I'd
> be really glad to know of it too for the future.
>
> Helen
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