Hello All,

I am practicing my skills at putting together some video tutorials and I have an introduction and the first part of the tutorial complete.

I will be finishing this off over the next couple of weeks.

Sorry about the fact that the audio doesn't always line up with the video...trying to fix this on the next ones.
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Intro - Build a Truck

Trailer - Build a Truck
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Please send me any comments you might have.

(Project files to be sent in the future, but decals are attached.)

Cheers,

Eugene


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When you embed the files in an html page please advise the size of the embedded fiels for those of us not on broadband.......

Cheers

Oh my, sorry bout that.

They are..uh...very big.

maybe 40 Mb and 70 Mb respectively.


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Thos swf's do not show up for me here..
OSX Panther using Safari on a Mac here

Hi,

Only the audio was working when I opened this in the Firefox browser on Windows, but it seems OK in Internet Explorer.

-Jim

Eugene,
Looking good on WinXP (Home) w/ Internet Explorer.

I got to the end of the trailer tutorial and almost screamed.
Where is the next tutorial!

I had read right past this in your post:

Gene,

Get only audio..then it stops DLing.....In Firefox browser..

Seems interesting though...could it be possiable to zip them up for downloading?

Michael

Only the sound?

It's shaping up to be a great tutorial. I just can't get past the canadian pronunciation of "Decal".

There's no need to say sorey aboot it, though...

/me wonders what the site was where Eugene found all those useful dekals.
Sounds like it could be handy.

Hi All,

I am not sure what has happened and why it's not working on Firefox...this is new for me so I will have to check the Camstudio settings a bit more.

Now "aboot the DeeCals". (LOL) Here is the link

Truck Decals

Interestingly, I worked in Buffalo for 5 years and when I came back to Toronto, people kept asking me if I was American! (I guess I picked up a few words).

Let me try to zip these up tonight and repost them. Maybe this will help.

Cheers,

Eugene

Good work Eugene!

Please try the zip files and let me know if there are any issues.

Intro 6mb
Trailer 12mb
BackTire 12mb

(last file is the next tutorial).

If these work out, I will remove the original files from the top post.

Cheers,

Eugene

Much easier to download, but the sound is quite far behind the images in the tire one.

Ken,

Can any Camstudio users out there help me with the settings so the Audio and Video stay synchronized? I believe it is the Interleave settings, but I can't really figure out how to calculate what is correct.

I will be posting another tutorial similar to the BackTire one that I did and although this one is better, there is still some slip.

I will try to fix this for my next tut.

Thanks,

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Here is the next one:

FrontTire

Cheers,

Eugene

I haven't downloaded the tutorial yet, so, I may be completely wrong here. You may not be able to do anything about audio in a Flash file getting out of sync...I think it's just their nature (try it as an AVI to check). The only cure I can think of is to make your files as efficient as possible so that the processing is as easy on the 'puter as can be.

I used Camstudio to make a tutorial recently and found that it would occasionally hiccup in the audio until I set the frame rate to 5 frames a second. I eventually went with a second program to record the audio (Audacity), used Camstudio (with the Camstudio lossless codec) purely for video capture and synched them up using Virtualdub. I made it in sections (turned out to be 12), edited each section and saved it back out as Camstudio lossless codec compressed AVI's with audio. When I finished all of the sections, I opened the first AVI in Virtualdub, appended each section then re-saved the entire thing out as an AVI with a compression that Quicktime Pro could handle and then used Quicktime Pro to save that as a Sorenson 3 with MP4 compressed audio MOV. I got a little over a megabyte a minute for both audio and video in the final product (720x480...I could've made the audio better, but, I was going for a small file size, it was adequate). If you want an SWF instead of a Quicktime, you could re-save the finished Camstudio codec encoded AVI's out as a single AVI and then use SWF Producer (should have come with Camstudio) to save it that way.

I hope this was helpful.

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After downloading one of the files (intro), I remembered something...the HTML for the page as created by Camstudio has a bug in it. It doesn't put the right number in for either width or height...I forget which, that's why the display problems in a browser. All you have to do is edit whichever number is wrong in the HTML and resave it.

Eugene,

I really like these tutorials, thanks for doing them!

I'm able to view the FrontTire tutorial by dragging it into Internet Explorer but I'm not able to view the BackTire one. It looks like it's loading in Internet Explorer but it just hangs there.

-Jim

David,

Thanks for the information. To be honest, Emilio Le Roux had used Wink with another small app that someone wrote for him to do his Sweeper tutorials and I thought they were quite nice.

However, I didn't want the headache if Camstudio would do all the work for me.

I will check out the avi files to see if the sound was also off.

Thanks again.

Eugene

The tutorials aren't working for me...

Rear tire didn't work for me. both the others in the first list of zips did...?

I can play Flash animations. It says the page cannot be found.

Ok,

Here is the start of the truck. I am modifying the Cube that comes on the Hash CD and then I will use this a few times to put the pieces of the truck together.

Here is the link (Flash file is zipped and is about 8 Mb).

Modified Cube

Modified Cube is also available here

Modified Cube Model

Keep me posted on the issue. I found a setting for the Audio where you can adjust it so it doesn't go out of sync, but I am still playing with it.

Cheers,

Eugene

Screenshot of where we are now.

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