[Xerte] Re: wink swf file resizing

[Julian Tenney]

We have a captivate template which handles it.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Coast
Sent: 01 March 2011 14:06
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: wink swf file resizing

It's just supposed to show the series of steps in finding and opening a piece of software. I only have limited knowledge of these things, but I don't think the quality is a wink issue - it's just low res - I can easily change the resolution and/or the size of the frame that's captured, but presumably that doesn't matter if it won't be the correct size in xerte anyway.

Am I right to assume that captivate swf files don't have the same problem (i.e. changing the resolution on loading?)

Many thanks,

David Coast

Researcher Development E-Learning Officer
The Graduate School
The University of Nottingham
+44 (0) 115 9514608
www.nottingham.ac.uk/gradschool/<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gradschool/>

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 March 2011 13:37
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: wink swf file resizing

What are you trying to show with that: the quality isn't very good, and when you resize it to something Xerte can display it's going to look awful I think: even at a big resolution on my monitor it looks bad. Is this a wink issue?

The problem in Xerte is because the wink movie loads up and changes the xerte screen resolution: it assumes it will be running on its own, rather than loaded into something else (like Xerte). Not sure I can do much about that I'm afraid. Has anyone else tried and got wink to work?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Coast
Sent: 01 March 2011 11:54
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: wink swf file resizing

Please find the swf file attached.

Many thanks,

David Coast

Researcher Development E-Learning Officer
The Graduate School
The University of Nottingham
+44 (0) 115 9514608
www.nottingham.ac.uk/gradschool/<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gradschool/>

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 March 2011 10:45
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: wink swf file resizing

Can you send me the swf produced by wink please?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Coast
Sent: 01 March 2011 10:19
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] wink swf file resizing

Hi,

I'm trying to add a screen capture video to my learning object but don't currently have a copy of captivate. I can't use jing either because I need to be able to edit the video. I've found a free tool, wink, that I can use, but when I try to add a captivate movie made using wink in XOT (or in the standalone version of xerte), it seems to resize the video and zooms in on a small part of the screen. The resolution of the video is 685x514. I've tried to render the video in lots of different sizes but this doesn't seem to make a difference. When I open it as a page wizard in xerte, there doesn't seem to be any code to resize the video that I can fiddle with. Am I best off just getting a copy of captivate?

Many thanks for your help,


David Coast

Researcher Development E-Learning Officer
The Graduate School
The University of Nottingham
+44 (0) 115 9514608
www.nottingham.ac.uk/gradschool/<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gradschool/>

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