EDU 2.0 Video Tours, Part 2

I thought that creating the edu 2.0 video tours would take about 2 days, but in the end it took almost 2 weeks!

The first version of the tour combined a story of my background with the features of the site, and it ended up being too long.

Then I decided to create live mini-tours of the site using demofuse, which reduced the size of the introductory video and made exploration of the live site self-paced. However, the introductory video was still too large.

Then I tried using Camtasia to create a video version of the mini-tours, but it was a clunky tool to use for voice narration (kept dropping the audio signal) and seems to be better for creating a single continuous screen recording rather than stitching together small pieces.

Finally I split the original video into two pieces - an overview and a founders background - and kept the demofuse live tours.

The final version can be seen at http://www.edu20.org/company/tour. Although I'm sure more improvements could be made, I think it's good enough for now.

So next week I'll start promoting the site.

Comments

[blair]

btw, who's malia the girl in the photo? shes hot!!!!

[Graham Glass]

Hi Blah,

Great to hear from you via my blog!

Malia is a friend of mine who lives in Dallas, Texas. I'll pass on your compliment!

Cheers,
Grah