Sketch Your Presentation With Sketchcasting

This is a neat idea that I found out about through Jim Kukrals blog, Sketchcasting!

The idea is to create a video, much like a webcast, but rather than show the concepts you are talking about, you draw them. If you have ever seen any of the Whiteboard Friday videos over at SEOMoz you will get what I mean.

Let me explain with a Sketchcast I tried to create …

Sketchcasting

Unfortunately attempting to embed the video sends our blog template squiffy! Ah well, you can follow the link instead.

As you can see and hear, I didn’t do a very good job! The problem I found is while in the real world I could write and draw quite naturally, the sketch recording feature seems right now to be very jumpy and the sensitivity is off. Unless I draw really slowly it doesn’t put the pointer where I want it to.If you check out the site though many people seem to have got the hang of it, perhaps it is just my low-powered Mac at fault?

Try it out and see how it works for you. I think it could be a fun way to create tutorials and creating live Mind Maps.

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Do let us know in the comments if you try it out and how you find it?

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Web 2.0

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4 Responses to “Sketch Your Presentation With Sketchcasting”

  1. Hear Me Draw @ chrisg.com on September 25th, 2007 1:35 pm

    [...] just did my first ever Sketchcast over at Codswallop and I found the experience quite [...]

  2. Philipp Lenssen on September 25th, 2007 11:55 pm

    “Unfortunately attempting to embed the video sends our blog template squiffy!”

    Got more info on that? Maybe we can help…

  3. Chris Garrett on September 26th, 2007 12:12 pm

    Hi Philipp :) The sidebar overlaps the content area, it might be because of the width of the embed but I dare not test it on the live site.

  4. Do You Multi-Media? : The Blog Herald on November 21st, 2007 3:32 pm

    [...] nice new idea is the Sketchcast.  Sketchcasting is a way to provide an animated doodle that illustrates an idea, or purely for entertainment. This [...]

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