This is so exciting – New era at LumberJocks.com begins right now – the era of video tutorials. I just finished our first video tutorial screencast titled ”How to submit entry into the Bookcase Design Challenge”. It outlines all of the steps in posting the blog entry, embedding the pictures as well as the final project file and then submitting it properly to the Challenge.
Any feedback is much appreciated since I want to replace our wordy help section with this kind of screencasts in the future.
Oh.. and special thanks goes to gwurst for giving me the permission to use his entry as the source material for this video. Thanks!
Now let’s get the show started…
note: there is no audio
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18 comments so far
Greg Wurst
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posted 461 days ago
Great video and very descriptive. You covered all the bases and described the whole process. My bookcase design is now immortalized in an instructional video! :)
MsDebbieP
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posted 461 days ago
wow gwurst—a winner before the contest is even over!!! :)
Congrats :)
Thanks, Martin. This really is much better than the written descriptions. Love the little “tips” flags.
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Al Navas
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posted 461 days ago
Terrific, Martin!
And congratulations to gwurst for his immortal design - it is great, gwurst.
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Russel
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posted 461 days ago
Was there supposed to be audio? I know my hearing ain’t what it used to be, but I couldn’t hear anything. I cranked my volume up all the way (nice buzz) but no sound.
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Martin Sojka
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posted 461 days ago
No audio, Russel.
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Russel
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posted 461 days ago
Thanks. I thought I was going deaf.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 461 days ago
Thanks for the video. This makes the process much clearer.
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GaryK
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posted 461 days ago
Great video, Martin!
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Napaman
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posted 461 days ago
thanks martin…very clear…even i can do this…lol…
one question…you uploaded pictures from photobucket and the sketch-up file from box.net…why do you need the sketch-up file at the end if you have the three pictures of your work? what is difference between the two? my guess is that the sketch-up file allows contest judges to view your work in sketch-up?
gwurts…cool bookcase…
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pappyjohn
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posted 461 days ago
HI Martin, Looks pretty great, for thhe finishe video are you incorporating sound. I’m fairly new to the computer scene, will this thing be able to be slowed down. Getting older and my glsses don’t work as fast as they used too (ha ha). Thanks for listening to my input….your brother in woodworking John
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Mike Lingenfelter
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posted 461 days ago
Yes, thanks Martin. I hadn’t heard of box.net. That will be useful for other postings I’d like to do.
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DAN
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posted 461 days ago
I liked it and learned many things from it !
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Al Navas
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posted 461 days ago
To everyone entering the Bookcase Challenge (I hope I don’t upset anyone here):
PLEASE make sure you enter the proper tag in your blogs, “challenge04”. It would be sad to see anyone miss out by having an improper tag in their entry :-( .
When I clicked on Martin’s link to view all the entries, only a few came up. But, as I looked through the entries of the last two days, I found at least four more. These were either missing the tag altogether, or the tag was misspelled.
Good luck to all!
-- Al Navas, St Joseph, MO, http://sandal-woodsblog.com
Martin Sojka
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posted 460 days ago
Thanks for the feedback.. I need some encouragement before working on other LJ Help Screencasts lol
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CharlesWilson
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posted 460 days ago
Worked like a charm!
Thanks!
Charles
Bob Babcock
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posted 460 days ago
Nicely done Martin…what are you using to capture the screens?
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Karson
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posted 460 days ago
Great job Martin.
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Martin Sojka
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posted 460 days ago
Bob, I’ve used Camtasia.
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