[Xerte] Re: wink swf file resizing

Wed Mar 2 13:02:30 GMT 2011

If all you want to produce is a screen capture video with audio then you
could also try Camstudio.

Wink can also be used to for screen capture that is then annotated to
provide a screen by screen display which combines annotated screens and
animated sections. To see an example of this look at page 10 of the "Xerte 2
project that demonstrates the use of Page Wizards" available from the Page
Wizards page of the Xerte Wiki. For this type of usage you will need to keep
the Wink interface rather than use Xerte's own swf player control.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 2 March 2011 11:34, Peter Snowball <southman at internode.on.net> wrote:

>  In our original testing using Wink we had the size problems mentioned by
> Johnathan below which was probably due to using the the preloader.  As a
> result we ditched the preloader but also the Wink native controller and
> imported using Xerte SWF with the Xerte swf controller.   It seems to work
> fine and preserves the xerte look and feel.
> If you want audio with the screen capture I suggest you look at microsoft
> expression encoder ( 10 minute limit in free version) output to WMV then
> convert in format factory to FLV (Wink is very time consuming as you must
> add audio a frame at a time).  The FLV is similar in size to the wink SWF
> and should give you as good a quality as the original screen particularly if
> you capture only a portion of the screen equal in size to what Xerte will
> display. Screen shot attached with full screen capture shrunk to fit in
> Xerte .
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
> On 2/03/2011 4:28 AM, Kemp Johnathan wrote:
>
> With respect to Wink files there was some discussion on the Xerte list a
> couple of years ago.
>
>  The page in the PageTemplates project wide template that displays swf
> files should display wink files as does the Text Flash SWF Page Wizard
>
>  There are a number of factors that you need to keep in mind when you
> create your wink video file, the following is from the Page Wizard
> documentation
>
> For Wink files use the following settings
> Wink: framerate 24; Output to SWF; Preloader = No; Add Control Bar = Yes;
> max project dimensions 740 x 460.
> Xerte: Add movie size parameter e.g.
> “740,460”
> Add Interactivity parameter = Native SWF
> Note: including a pre-loader in the wink render settings will cause size
> problems, with its display in Xerte.
>
>  Hopefully this will resolve your wink problems.
>
>  Kind regards
>
>  Johnathan
>
> On 1 March 2011 13:36, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>>  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
>>
>> *To:* Xerte discussion list
>> *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
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>> *To:* Xerte discussion list
>> *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/
>>
>>
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