It’s been an awful long time since I took a look at Wink, one of the free screencasting tools that are floating around for Windows. Last time I looked, Wink didn’t even support audio, something that has come to be a necessity in my checklist for screencasting tools. It seems it now does, and I’ve got to get around to taking another look at it, thanks to the screencast Rich Hoeg put together on how to use Google Blog Search. Two things I noticed that I’ll definitely explore: the preload of the SWF file took a loooong time, and I wonder if the Flash file is well-optimized. I’ll try to create a screencast using two or three other tools in addition to Wink and compare the file sizes. The second thing I noticed is that the audio was pretty scratchy, but that may be a result of Rich’s mike, and not the software. We’ll do a comparison there as well. This won’t happen for a couple weeks, I’m guessing, but I’m looking forward to putting the current generation of packages through their paces.
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Good points. Here is some additional data. My microphone is fine. When I use it with other tools such as Breeze, the audio does not degrade. With respect to load times, I’m not certain if the problem is Wink or TypePad. If I run the file on my own computer, access is immediate.
Here’s another example of Wink screencast created by a co-worker of mine for the Learning 2.0 program. http://www.plcmc.org/public/netlibrary/netlibrarytalk.htm
Hi, Paul, good to “see” you at the Adobe Captivate 2 demo, looking forward to your views of that, as well as the test and review of Wink. I’ve been using CamStudio, it could be interesting to compare that with Wink as two free options…
Hi Tim, that’s odd- I wasn’t able to see any of the other participants in the session, and wondered how many had shown up. I want to first compare my notes to what currently exists in the current version of Captivate; I didn’t get a very good sense for what was new, did you?