Video's and animations How-to

Introduction

There are many programs which can capture what you are doing on the screen and turn it into a video which can be viewed on Youtube. The problem with Freeplane maps in following this procedure is:

• the resolution of the video is too low to be able to read the content of Freeplane's nodes;
• the amount of memory stored is disproportionally large.

The following describes a procedure which keeps the resolution necessary for crisp, readable mind maps and takes a minimum amount of storage.

Wink

The program used is Wink, which is at free program. Wink captures the screen and the position of the cursor independently form each other. To see the cursor moving on the screen, only the begin and end points of the cursor are stored. If besides the cursor, the screen is not changing, only one screen is captured during the whole movement. Next when running the video Wink displays te screen and (re)generates the cursor movement. Each screen shot can be extended with call outs, images and recorded sounds giving an impression of a running animation or video - in the full resolution in which the screen is captured. The result can be rendered into flash. A special version could be converted to whatever format you need (e.g. mp4 or avi), although it is not clear you would want this if you are using a computer.