[Yt-dev] Screencasts

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Cameron,

I love the screencasts -- I just made one about getting started
developing, record on my Linux machine using gtk-recordmydesktop, with
some editing in PiTiVi, which comes with Ubuntu.  I added a title card
to the front, which I think anybody can do with PiTiVi or iMovie.  (If
you want to do this, the title card I made is here:
http://yt-project.org/files/title_card.png ; you can resize the image
and center the current contents it to match whatever size movie you
record.)

Should we upload to both Vimeo and YouTube?  YouTube has a nice video
editor now, and it also has integration with various nice things.  I
like Vimeo on the whole more, but YouTube is a bit more everywhere.
What are your thoughts?

-Matt

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Cameron Hummels
<chummels at astro.columbia.edu> wrote:
> Hey peeps,
>
>    So it turns out that a bunch of people have viewed the "how to use
> reason" screencast that we put out last week.  It seems like screencasts may
> be a good way of introducing certain concepts in the yt universe, because it
> really shows our audience exactly *how* to get certain functionality to work
> (along with a rewind button!).  With that in mind, I wanted to see if anyone
> else wanted to create a screencast on some topic in yt.  I tried to create a
> "How to" on making a yt screencast on the following page to help you out if
> you decide to make one.  Furthermore, Matt and I outlined several
> possibilities for topics on the following page:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/wiki/Screencasts
>
>    Topics include getting up and running, parallelization in yt, halo
> finding/usage, volume rendering, time-series/movie-making, defining your own
> field, etc.  If you'd like to make one, feel free to volunteer and put your
> name next to one of the topics on the wiki (it should be editable by all),
> then just post one when you get a chance.  We can put it in our blog and
> update the site with news of it.  This may be a good way to supplement the
> documentation.  Let me know if you have any comments!
>
> Cameron
>
>
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