New question about demos - transition effects

John Bartol johnbartol at shaw.ca
Thu Jun 1 14:31:43 MDT 2006


Found out more about the demo that a client wants. This is to be used as 
a feature demo for prospective clients rather than a procedural demo for 
existing customers.

Now, the system being shown is character-based and is *not* 'flashy'. 
The key features of the system lie in the reporting, database 
management, and other tools.

What I'd like to do is make a demo that lets me 'transition' items into 
the display. For example, if showing a feature that touts inventory 
tracking/ordering where there is static information on a screen shot, 
and associated reports (and graphics), I'd like to do something like:

- show the screenshot
- highlight the key info on the screenshot and display callout  text 
("Look at the wonderful info :-)")
- fade in the report/graphic samples
- go on to the next point (either automagically or through keypress on 
button)

Overall, I'd like to have a screen that shows thumbnails for each 
feature as the demo menu - click the appropriate thumbnail, jumps to 
that demo portion.


So... none of this is 'live action' - Camtasia, Captivate are not really 
appropriate. Qarbon and Wink would be good if I was doing screenshot 
progressions through the use of the features, but I don't think they do 
what I want.

And thus, the question... What kind of app should I be looking at to do 
something like this?

Thanks again for all the help in the last round of questions! :-)




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