Can you edit the video with avidemux? Because I would, by nature of the beast, be working on more then one machine and would need to cut and past sections of video into each other for a clear presentation. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ariel Gold wrote: > Thought I'd start a new thread since Bryan asked about screencasting... > > gtk-recordmydesktop worked the best of all the tools i tried. > > You might be able to record sound and audio at once, but that didn't work > on my aging laptop. I found that recording audio and video actually worked > well as a workflow, aging laptop aside, because you can focus on actually > doing what your're doing on the screen, and then when you're playing it > back, you can sit back and tell people what you are doing. > > So it takes a few steps. > > First, record your screen with gtk-recordmydesktop. That's straightforward. > > > Then play it back and record an audio track. I used gnome-sound-recorder. > Then to put the two togetheri I used avidemux. > > After you open your video with avidemux go to the "Audio -> Main Track" and > select the filetype you want to add (ie. external mp2/3, wav). Then select > the sound file and it should work. Maybe there's a quicker way to add the > audio track from the command line? > > gtk-recordmydesktop outputs an ogv file, which avidemux won't open. so I > converted using ffmpeg -i filename.ogv filename.avi. Then you can make the > final file a flv or whatever... > > Here's what I ended up with: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4kOEF8kcc > > Look forward to watching some screencasts on things like load-balancing! > > -Ari > > 2010/5/20 Bryan O'Neal > >> If some one finds me a F/OSS desktop recorder and a way to edit and drop >> sound on it I will do video :) >> >> >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, keith smith wrote: >> >>> >>> I think video is the way to go if you are so inclined. >>> >>> Thanks for your help! >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> Keith Smith >>> >>> --- On *Thu, 5/20/10, Bryan O'Neal >>> * wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: Bryan O'Neal >>> >>> Subject: Re: Off site automated backups >>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" >>> Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 5:05 PM >>> >>> >>> Use RSnapshot. >>> >>> It is funny you are going down each of my presentations (ASULUG, PLUG, >>> ABLEConf) for the last year in reverse order. If only you had one about >>> VPN's in there is would have hit all four! :) >>> >>> Makes me think I really should put that stuff on my blog at some point ;) >>> >>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:51 PM, keith smith >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I'm already rsyncing to a backup server. The short coming someone >>>> pointed out would be if a table was dropped by accident or by a successful >>>> hacker then the rsync would replicate the changes to the backup server, >>>> leaving me with a real problem. So what I want to do is dump the data, tar >>>> it and store it off site. >>>> >>>> I can write a script to ftp the tarball, however I was wondering if >>>> there was a service that will just ftp in and copy what is there. That >>>> would be the simplest. Of course it would have to be SFTP. >>>> >>>> ------------------------ >>>> Keith Smith >>>> >>>> --- On *Thu, 5/20/10, Eric Cope >>>> >* wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Eric Cope >>>> > >>>> Subject: Re: Off site automated backups >>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" >>>> > >>>> Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 4:37 PM >>>> >>>> >>>> is FTP necessary or can you rsync them? >>>> Eric >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Stephen >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> in many many ways really. >>>>> >>>>> the simplest "dirt" thing that comes to mind is a cronjob/backup script >>>>> useing tar with compression the files you want to save then and ftp command >>>>> to push the newly created file. >>>>> >>>>> I know there are tools that can automate this im sure. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, keith smith >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Man I've got 3 threads going at once. Thanks for all your help. >>>>>> >>>>>> I want to do some automated backups and I've got this picture in my >>>>>> head of a service that can be configured to upload files from a specified >>>>>> folder by configuring it to FTP into my server. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is that possible? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance! >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------ >>>>>> Keith Smith >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >>>>> >>>>> Stephen >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >