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Thread ID: 26765 2002-11-05 01:13:00 Recording a demo on to a CD kenc (2450) Press F1
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96033 2002-11-05 01:13:00 I have a great program for small business and farmers. What I want to do is to record on to a CD a demonstration of the program with a voice over by copying each screen. I want a CD which I can give people
which is both a sales aid and also a guide for users.
How do I do it?
Ken Chandler
kenc (2450)
96034 2002-11-05 01:23:00 Make a PowerPoint presentation with screenshots & voice-overs etc, then port it to a webpage (PowerPoint can do this), then use a shell execution program to make the web page auto-run when the CD with it on is inserted, simple :D

I have done this many times with PowerPoint presentations for customers and it works well for windows users.


Cheers

Liam
nz_liam (845)
96035 2002-11-05 03:54:00 here's (pressf1.co.nz) a link to the FAQ on how to autorun.

essiantially this is all there is meant to be in a autorun file:

[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.exe

you can change the "open" field to point to a html file as suggestd by nz_liam.
vk_dre (195)
96036 2002-11-05 04:12:00 vk_dre will that work?? (open=xxx.htm)

I always thought the autorun.ini file only worked with executables; hence it used shellexec to open the html file.



Cheers

Liam
nz_liam (845)
96037 2002-11-05 07:40:00 > vk_dre will that work?? (open=xxx . htm)
>
> I always thought the autorun . ini file only worked
> with executables; hence it used shellexec to open the
> html file .
>

well if u have seen the old PressF1 cds, u will have noticed that the autorun ini file is meant to autoload an htm/html document . so i guess, it is possible . and regarding wot i said about things being in the autorun file, the following should be changed,

icon=setup . exe i think it this was meant to read as icon=setup . ico . so the essential things in the autorun ini file are :

[autorun]
open=setup . exe
icon=setup . ico

cheers,
v . K
vk_dre (195)
96038 2002-11-05 07:43:00 also try Karen's Autorun ini file editor (www.karenware.com) quite useful for making other things autorun, like video files. vk_dre (195)
96039 2002-11-05 08:52:00 But just remember that not everyone uses PowerPoint :) If would be much better to create a presentation and export it to HTML so that there is no requirement of having PowerPoint. segfault (655)
96040 2002-11-05 09:10:00 > I have a great program for small business and
> farmers. What I want to do is to record on to a CD a
> demonstration of the program with a voice over by
> copying each screen. I want a CD which I can give
> people
> which is both a sales aid and also a guide for users.
>
> How do I do it?

well start by taking screenshots of the areas of ur program that u think will grab the audience's attention, u know how to take screenshots right? if u don't, just press "printscrn" the button right after F12, then save the pictures in any photoeditor like Adobe Photoshop, or MS PhotoDraw, or MS paint. After saving all of these images into jpegs or wot ever image file, then open MS Movie Maker (If u have it) then create a video file by compiling all the images into sort of a small video file (high quality) should be within 50mb limit. Now use either Virtual Dub or TMPGEnc's audio dub feature to mix ur audio file with the video file into one complete Video/Audio file. Then there u have it.
u can get virtual dub from DivX Digest.Com (www.divx-digest.com) and u can get TMPGEnc from Here (http:).

cheers,
v.K
vk_dre (195)
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