Comments on: Record screencasts to animated GIF files

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Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:41:04 +0000

[...] pour la création des animations sur le blog de Hans : [en] http://hanschen.org/2009/09/02/record-screencasts-to-animated-gif-files/ vérouiller les [...]

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New Plasma HowTo version is up « Who Says Penguins Can't Fly? — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:58:40 +0000

[...] program I used to record these (read more about it here), byzanz, has also been updated. The new version improves the quality in some parts, but [...]

By: Plasma HowTo updated « Who Says Penguins Can't Fly?

Plasma HowTo updated « Who Says Penguins Can't Fly? — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:45:07 +0000

[...] you want to create your own animated GIF screencasts, I have written a small guide here (updated [...]

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:14:27 +0000

Update February 23, 2010
Updated the article with some minor changes and a tip about using GIMP to edit the output files.

By: Kolia

Kolia — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:43:35 +0000

Thanks for the fast answer, I will try it asap

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:39:57 +0000

Hi Kolia,

No, I don’t edit the GIF files at all. As mentioned, I use a different user to record the screencasts – I’ve set the resolution for that user to 640×480.

I usually use dual screens with a total resolution of 2560×1024.

By: Kolia

Kolia — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:05:55 +0000

Hello Hans,

Just a question: how do you handle the size of the GIF? Are you resize it after the record with GIMP?

Also what is your screen resolution?

Thanks

Kolia

By: GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 216 (09/06/2009)

GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 216 (09/06/2009) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:37:53 +0000

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By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:12:11 +0000

Because not everyone has a web browser that supports HTML 5 yet. The advantage of the GIF format is that almost everyone can watch them without any additional plugins. Yes, the BbalL plasmoid is broken for me too. Not only can't I throw it, it doesn't even show up on my regular setup (dual screens). Furthermore, if I lock my widgets the ball can't move (bug 203666) - I remember that it could in 4.1-something. Well, the best thing to do is to fill a bug I guess, and hope that the maintainer fixes it.

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:40:43 +0000

Not a fault of the screen cast at all (looks nice, but why a .gif file rather than HTML5 .ogg video?), but I always wondered about that Ball plasmoid. When I think ‘throw a ball’ i think there should be some forward momentum for it. The ball just really allows one to drop it. I thought myne was broken until I saw the video…

I agree that more KDE4 videocasts would be great, from everyone in the community!