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Subject:RE: S/w for creating application demos From:"David Demyan" <dbdemyan -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:46:55 -0400
Prerna wrote:
> I need to create the demo for an application. The demo
> should not be too big in size as it has to be attached
> with the application. I would like to know which s/w
> would be suited for making the demo. I have been experimenting
> with various s/w such as Lotus ScreenCam, ViewletBuilder,
> Demoshield etc. The problem is that the size of the
> demo file becomes too big.
Prerna,
If you don't like the size of the demo files created by
ViewletBuilder, there is little hope. The little Java
applets created by ViewletBuilder are absolutely the
smallest filesizes I have seen for full motion screen
sequences.
The only other alternative I can think of is the new
feature in TechSmith's Camtasia: export to animated GIF.
I think there is a practical limit to the
length and frame rate for animated GIFs, but you could
play around and see what can be achieved.
Download an eval copy of Camtasia from http://www.techsmith.com. The export to animated GIF
feature is part of Producer, and can be found under
File > Produce Movie > Animated GIF. Yes, I do work for
the firm since I write the online help for their products.
But many techwhirlers agree these are high quality
products.
For stripping the size of Animated GIFs, see: http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim. I'm not
affiliated with this site, but there is some good advice
there.
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