DokuWiki Beginners Screencast #1

This weekend I started with something I wanted to do for a long time – a screencast series for DokuWiki beginners. The short 5 to 10 minute videos shall explain basic DokuWiki concepts to new users.

This first screencast starts where every beginner starts and explains how to create your first page in Dokuwiki.

The screencast has English subtitles to make it easier to follow my mediocre English pronunciation. The video is hosted at dotSUB which makes it possible to translate the subtitles in a very wiki like way. So if you like to make this video more accessible, help to translate it to other languages.

Remember this is my first screencast with audio so be gentle with your criticism ;-) . But I'm open for tips how to improve future ones.

I already made another screencast dealing with using links and creating new pages in DokuWiki. It's not transcribed yet but I hope to release it someday next week.

Based on the feedback I get, I like to do a few more of those screencasts in the future. So please let me know what you like to see explained about using DokuWiki.

Tags:: dokuwiki,; screencast

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Posted on Sunday October the 5th, 2008 (7 weeks ago).

Comments

Nice job! I didn't even need the subtitles (your pronunciation is far from 'mediocre').

The only comment is that at the very end you can see the "stop" dialog from recordMyDesktop. Maybe you could trim that off?

I'd love to see more advanced stuff

2008-10-05 22:50:55

Aaron Griffin

Yeah, I noticed that recordmydesktop window only when I already had uploaded and transcribed the whole thing at dotSUB :-(

2008-10-06 09:37:04

Andi

Very cool!!!

What kind of microphone and which programm did you use for the audio recording. Was it a standard headset (the audio engineer in me always wants to know that kind of stuff ;-))?

2008-10-06 14:58:49

Michael Klier

Sound and video where recorded in recordmydesktop (http://recordmydesktop.sf.net) which creates a .ogv video. That was converted to divx (I think) with mencoder and uploaded to dotSUB where it was encoded to .flv ;-).

The microphone is a cheap (~10€) clip-on microphone, no headset.

2008-10-06 15:02:50

Andi

I'm not sure if it is only my problem but when I started your screencast it stopped after 10 seconds.
I'm a little bit confused because there are already comments which tell me that it finaly worked....
May be you changed something. If it#s fine just ignore my comment ;-)

2008-10-06 17:06:11

flog

flog, let it buffer a bit more... hit play, then pause again and wait til the player loaded more data then hit play again.

2008-10-06 17:52:03

Andi