Re: FLASH: Animated Screen Captures?

[Todd Ashworth]

Well, you could do it this way, if I understand what you are asking.


Capture a video of your mouse movements with the utility of your choice

(Sorry, don't know any, right off).  Then, save your video in whatever

format you choose (.avi is easiest).  Find another program that will take

your video and split it into individual .jpg (or whatever) images.  You can

find these all over the place at www.winfiles.com or www.download.com.

After you have done that, open Flash and then File > Import.  Select the

_first_ image that you got when you split up your movie.  Flash will

recognise that it is part of a larger group of images and offer to import

all of them for you.  Tell it yes.  After a few seconds, you will have your

entire movie imported into Flash.  It's a little crude, I'm sure, and I

wouldn't suggest trying anything over 90 seconds in length unless you have a

real workhorse of a computer, but it does work ... if that's what you are

after.  Then again, depending on your speciffic application, you might be

better off doing it by hand .. I dunno.


Todd Ashworth


----- Original Message -----

From: "Seth Newton" <

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To: <

flasherchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 9:07 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Animated Screen Captures?



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 <

designeri-technica [dot] com

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To: <

flasherchinwag [dot] com

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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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