ScreenCast

term created by Jon Udell to describe a Video (Multimedia) demonstrating interaction with a piece of software. In the software world, we spend a lot of time describing how things work. To echo Michael Kinsley's lament about music and film, why should those descriptions use only text, possibly augmented with screenshots? Why don't we present, and quote from, live experiences?

Tools I've used

• QuickTime Player
• Loom
• Zoom - share screen in "meeting"

Dec'2010: he uses term SparkCast (portmanteau from SparkLine) for using inline mini-ScreenCasts packaged as animated GIFs! Note the trickiness of combining multiple gifs on page with auto-play and manual-loop....: 2010-12-14-UdellUsingSparkcastsToEnhanceStepbystepInstructions

2004-05 links

• I've been getting a lot of email questions about screencasting recently, and I've found myself answering many of them with URLs that retrieve various collections of articles and blog postings I've written over the last year. I should probably write up a FAQ on the topic. Meanwhile, I thought it would be helpful to reorganize what I've already written.
• http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/11/11/primetime.html
• http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/11/15.html#a1114
• Jon Udell's production (2005) technique