Videocasters
This group is for learning, teaching, and coordinating videocasts about Drupal. Videocasts are one of the most effective ways to engage and teach users or potential users of Drupal and are pretty easy to make. Join this group to learn how and pitch in.
Ubercart Option Image Module
After many requests I have created a short screencast to demonstrate the features and configuration of the uc_option_image module which is available at Ubercart Option Image Screencast.
Video Podcasting on Drupal
I am currently working on a project for the Las Vegas Drupal Group and I'm in need of some suggestions for video embedding/podcasting modules. I'm curious what modules everyone that's doing vcasting with a Drupal-based site are using... like, is there anything out there module-wise that's like the CCK/Views of the video world?
New Features in Drupal6 Screencast
Hello Videocasters,
I recently created a screencast of the new features features in Drupal 6. This is the first part in a series of screencasts on the subject that is being created by Mastering Drupal.
The video is a bit of a whirlwind tour, coming in at just over 20 minutes.
I hope you enjoy it and let me know any ideas for improvements.
Screencast Demo of Drupal for Facebook
At the recent Bay Area Drupal Camp, I presented Drupal for Facebook. I built a small Facebook Application and walked through how I used Drupal to create it. Now the details of this presentation are available in two screencasts.
This is recommended viewing if you're curious what Drupal for Facebook is, or if you've downloaded it and are struggling to set it up. Read more: http://www.dave-cohen.com/node/2246
Or jump right to the videos:
http://blip.tv/file/492126?filename=Dcohen-DrupalForFacebookBADCampDemo2...
http://blip.tv/file/492102?filename=Dcohen-DrupalForFacebookBADCampDemo1...
(if the video doesnt play, select an alternate format on the bottom of the page. These links are to the higher resolution versions.)
Looking For Feedback/Criticisms on Videocasts
I've been doing a series of videocasts at http://www.theartlab.net/podcast/drupal-school for a few months now with the goal of showing new Drupal users "how things can work".
I'd like to keep things directed at making it easy for new users to jump and and get their head around some of the terminology, how drupal.org works, and where they can get more info.
What do types of topics do you think would be most beneficial to new users? What are some of the concepts you can think of that are easy to a developer, but like flying a space ship to a new user? Any other suggestions?
Praise for the Dojo format
Dojo #7 was the first time I witnessed a screencast/SkypeCast/IRC chat live. I was blown away. What you've hit upon with the dojo format is the ultimate cool teaching tool. Way cooler than anything I've ever seen or imagined. Respect and kudos to the people behind this.
I immediately started thinking about how to leverage the format. At the upcoming OSCMS Summit, how feasable would it be to do my session on Drupal search in the dojo format? I could wear a headset to Skype broadcast what I'm saying, and I could have VNC and Snapz Pro turned on, and I think it would be a good idea to have an IRC channel for each physical room at the conference; that's all we'd need, right?
How hard is this to set up? What needs to be done before we could host a conference where every presentation was done dojo style?
Really amazing things happening here. I think the Drupal dojo is going to be the big news of 2007.
Organizing video coverage of DrupalCon Brussels 2006
Good news! There are several people that have volunteered to help out with coverage of DrupalCon, and Norbert Fuerst has offered his services to do post production on all footage through his video production company.
Demo of tac_lite access control
I just posted a videocast installing and configuring Taxonomy Access Control Lite.
I haven't got this screen capture thing quite down yet, but this one is good enough to share. Here's the link:
Editing the instructional video from Drupal Camp SF
We captured over 10 hours of video from Drupal Camp SF a couple months back. We also have a budget in the neighborhood of $2,000 to put into editing it release. Before we contract someone out to start cutting the video, lets think about what we want to get out of it in the end.
Here is what we covered at the camp:
http://drupal-camp.org/camps/sfapril/notes
Day 1
* Bsics of the Drupal framework, community, and theming system.
* Basics of Drupal configuration
* Jeff shows us how to create an alternative navigation menu for users of sites. This will give users a much more streamlined menu interface.
video casting software for non-Mac platforms
As a non-mac user, I'm curious what recommendations people have for screencasts.
I have used Wink which worked fine and has handy callouts and prev/next buttons but it only producses flash. Wink works on MSWindows and Linux.
Someone else recommended using camstudio (the GPL version of camtasia) which produces flash or avi files, though I haven't used it yet. This is MSWindows only software.
I've read about various Linux only tools that all seemed relatively complex to produce anything with voiceovers...and people like voiceovers so that's a deal-killer.
Videocasting Specs
I added a section to the handbook about how to make a Drupal videocast. Feel free to edit :-)
Don't laugh too much...
I did my first screencast of the CivicSpace contribution to the Drupal install system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COg-orloxlY
Now I need to do a screencast of CiviCRM, which requires a higher resolution... 800x600 at least. I still want it to be readable and useful.
Any tips?










