HANK Admin Web Site Screencast
I just posted a video over on the HFCC Help Desk Web Site that describes the Drupal-powered web site that we use to manage the college's Student and Financial Management System, lovingly dubbed "HANK" or HFCC's Automated Network of Knowledge. (Yeah, it's weak. Somebody actually suggested an acrostic for EDSEL. My own suggestion of SCMODS never stood a chance...)
The HANK Admin web site is an internal web site centered around Drupal's Project and Project Issue Tracking modules. It also features LDAP Integration for authentication, Forums and navigable Book Pages for user documentation.
View the video: https://dvc.hfcc.net/about/hank-admin.htm
This was my first serious attempt at screencasting. If I had more time, I would start over and record it again to fix some minor issues, but overall, I'm satisfied with the quality.
For the primary capture, I used CamStudio. It works pretty well, but doesn't like writing audio to the hard drive at the same time that Firefox is working, so there are a couple of burps and beeps when I forgot to stop talking while clicking on web pages, and the audio track drifted from the video over time. I captured some additional screens on a second pass, and then pulled the whole mess into Adobe Premiere to straighten it out. Premiere did not like my 1032x752 media files at all! Eventually I figured it all out, and used ffmpeg to spit out the final results. I also discovered the easy-to-use JW FLV Media Player along the way.
Because the Help Desk site is not Drupal (yet!) I posted a link directing viewers to this blog entry for comments and questions.