[hawken]

After finding some screen cap software for free (admittedly not the fastest) I've started converting my portfolio into videos of my websites instead of the normal static images.

dadako.com > Transport for London

dadako.com > Ottoblog

dadako.com > Salon Boutique Autumn 2007

dadako.com > The Plant relaunch

http://www.dadako.com/nec-cinema

this is particularly handy for projects that have disappeared from the face of the earth and I wish I had done this many years ago.

[Dusteh]

brilliant idea. Works really well.

[Limbo]

Good work - like the idea a lot.

[woodss]

Kudos for this - it really does make a difference - I can see how demonstrating how something works is better than just talking about it some blurb... i think you've hit on something here :-)

Whats the screen capture software you're using tho? Does it make the SWF files automagically?

[Dusteh]

Yes, spill the beans so we can rip your idea

[jack]

Looks brilliant!

[datahound]

That looks great. I am inspired. I need to get to grips with video technology.

If you care you are getting column drop in IE6.

[datahound]

No problem was only the first T for L page affected, forget it.

[Dusteh]

I've produced several 3D animations over the years which I need to embed into my portfolio. I keep meaning to look into Flash embedding and compression - now is probably the time to start.

[Mik]

haha.

Been doing that for ipod for years Ideal for client chats.
Looks even better on the ipod touch / iphone.

Didn't I post up an example a while back?

[Dusteh]

I don't recall ... stick it up again?

[sub]

Good stuff, Hawken.
The quality of the work really shines through as an animated live example.

[Dusteh]

holy shit, is that your x-ray photos site sub? Thats amazing.

[adras]

Hawken neat, idea. I can see how potential clients would love this.

[mr_tim]

Great idea and super work there, hawken.

[hawken]

OK here's how I went about it:

I typed "screen recorder mac" into google and got all sorts of results, I used the first one I found. Saved the results as uncompressed video then loaded that into cs3 flash flv converter, from there I could do some simple editing and resizing. After which I loaded into flash with some flv repeat actionscript and dumped the rest on my server. They are in general about 2mb's big.

[2Dfruit]

the first link there..the london transport one has some sections that start repeating..couple of frames. you might wanna sort that out.

[hawken]

the actual thing is repeating animations

[Rik]

i see what papa lazarou means. in places the animations seem to start mid way through, then cut and loop - rather than loop from the beginning of the ani.

[hawken]

the actual thing is repeating animations, check it out