If you are hosting a GotoMeeting or GotoWebinar, there is a red Record button on your control panel. It saves to a .wmv file under My Documents on your PC as the conference progresses. You can stop recording and later resume, and it will append to the same file.
Some video webparts do allow immediate scrolling forward through the video. That makes it easy to eliminate what you don't care about. The webpart we used on the OSIsoft T&D user group site does that (although it doesn't seem to be functional at the moment, for me anyway). Those user videos have been converted from Windows media into Shockwave, which makes that feature possible.
Internally here at PacifiCorp we have been creating videos with Camtasia, exporting them to Shockwave, and posting them on PacifiCorp-hosted Sharepoint (MOSS, actually). These are mostly demonstrations of PI-related tools - in some cases an investigation of how particular users are using their software. It's working surprisingly well. Shockwave even plays back visually through the MeetingPlace web conferencing software we use here.
When we tested this earlier this week, Chris replayed the .wmv file while I was watching his screen through GotoMeeting and my viewing was uninterrupted by any video or audio delay. That was surprising - and pretty impressive. Of course we only had Chris, Kay and myself on the web conference together. Performance might suffer with more attendees.
There is a video provider out there on the web that lets viewers set bookmarks. I suspect the webparts we're looking at now may have that capability before too long.
From: ralph
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:44 PM
Subject: Low-cost video training
Seems like a useful tool for playing back meeting presentations also (assuming that we record them of course).
I'm not a big fan of video training because I find it takes too long. Most CBT programs that are not video allow me to quickly skip to parts of interest. It is harder for me to find the interesting part on a video.
It could be that I haven't yet come across the right video training materials.