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Following up on Jon’s blog about questions that we are not posting about on our team’s blog, I wanted to share a new resource that just went live a few weeks ago. The new resource is called Community Clips and can be found at http://communityclips.officelabs.com/. Unlike our other help and how-to resources, Community Clips is a portal for viewing, sharing, and discussing videos on Office products, including Word. Think of it like a YouTube for videos on helping people become more productive with Office. Just like YouTube anyone can post videos that they would like to share.
I don’t know about you guys, but I learn the fastest by seeing someone perform the task that I am struggling with. Being in Office, I have the luxury of just going down the hall and asking someone a question. Usually, I can just peak over someone’s shoulder and watch them accomplish the task. It’s like pressing the Easy Button.
Sometimes I can’t always use the Easy Button. For example, out of curiosity I really wanted to learn some of the new ASP.Net and Silverlight technologies. Who could I ask? I could go ask the teams working on those technologies, but I don’t really have the same relationship with those guys as I do with people in Office. I did a bit of searching and discovered two really cool sites (http://asp.net/learn/ and http://silverlight.net/Learn/) that really helped me learn and pick up those technologies. Both of these sites had some really great how-to videos. These sites gave me exactly what I was looking for...an Easy Button.
Hopefully you guys will come to think about Community Clips as your Easy Button. Before you go and post some videos, I would definitely recommend you check out Jen’s great post on tips and tricks on making good videos.
Hope this helps.
Zeyad
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Nice. Can the recorder also be used to record videos for users without internet access in a corporate network? How can they view them?
Hi,
Once you download the recorder, you can use it independently from the Community Clips portal. The recorder creates .wmv files that you can save locally, and any .wmv player can be used to view the recordings you've made.
Thanks,
Jen
Hi Zayed, thank you very much for posting the usefull links, as I am very interested in learning more about those technologies!
Kind Regards
Hi Jen, thank you, I gave the recorder and playback a try and I like this tool. As audio is no option in large office rooms where people don't have headsets - do you also have a good hint for me on how to easily add subtitles to the recorded videos? ;) Stefan
Hi Stefan, There's no way to add subtitles through the Community Clips recorder itself. However, you may be able to do this with third party video editing tools. For example, with Windows Movie Maker (which comes free with Windows) you can add titles to clips.
Hi Jen, thanks I've seen that - Movie Maker however does only seem to insert titles between scenes, no subtitles to the recording. I also tried out subtitle files like *.srt with Media Player but unfortunately it did not seem to play them back.
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