videocast

After several sets of trial and error I found that the settings provided in this document have rendered desirable output for me when creating basic “screencasts.” These settings have been tested on long duration videos, in excess of 1 hour. I have had final file sizes as low as 66 MB for a video that is nearly two hours long with a final screen resolution at or near 800 x 600. Your usage and mileage may vary but these settings have proven successful for me.

Thanks to Matt Koglin of Antinomia for helping get a torrent file of my 3rd lesson together. It was a good lesson with a number of practical examples and some fun "let's watch Josh remember how to do this" moments.

Download the HD torrent now, and help seed if you can.

It's about 275MB, but the audio is clean as I did the screencap myself. I'm going to see if we can start getting our lessons hosted on the Drupal.org infrastructure, but for now this can be a great excuse for anyone who's still holding out to get torrent-savvy!

There's also a ~90mb .mov file created by mpare. Thanks!