Now that the viewer recognizes themselves in the day in the life, you need to tell them that your solution will solve their problems - a very, very brief taste of what it's like once they have your product. But following this process is painful in some specific way, and you may totally fail because of something our product uniquely solves.2. If you're like most people, businesses, soccer moms, etc., you have some substandard way of doing things - whatever people did before your product. This is usually very quick, just a few sentences. You want to show the challenges and frustrations of people who do not have your product. You may not be original, but you'll have a strong structure for your demo. But the less you can get away with, the more people you'll make happy!Ī lot of good demo videos follow a very similar pattern. But it is still limiting.Īll in all, a lot of trade-offs in choosing the resolution. It can be viewed on almost any modern computer (the square 1280x1024, or the typical laptop widescreen). It's short in the vertical dimension, but it is an official resolution supported by YouTube (which is a popular destination for videos). Personally, I default to 720p, which is 1280x720. But that is a terribly limiting resolution, something that almost nobody has had as their primary display for 10 years now. Traditionally, people have adopted 1024x768 as a sort of lingua franca of resolution, probably because the LCD projector population seems (or maybe seemed) stuck there. (They look bad when they are a lot less than 100% resolution, but then your expectations are that the screen is shrunk).įiguring out the right resolution is a tough one, as you need to know the audience's capabilities. While normal 'real world' video looks OK when scaled, screen casts look really bad when they are close to but not 100% resolution. The problem, of course, is that the video was captured at a higher vertical resolution, and so the video gets scaled down to fit the laptop. My colleague was complaining that the video was fuzzy on his laptop, which has a 1440x900 resolution. The person who did the screen cast (a third person) had done it at a resolution of 1280x1024. Mouseposé is your cheat, with the elegant start/stop animation being designed to draw your eyes toward the mouse pointer, wherever it might be hiding.I was working this weekend with a colleague to deploy a video for a customer, and an interesting problem arose. With multiple huge high resolution displays connected to your computer, 'find the tiny mouse pointer' has become a popular game. Mousposé also includes keystroke visualization to show the audience what keys you press during your presentation. When the Mouse stays over a window for more than a configurable time, the focus automatically expands to highlight the window and your presentation moves smoothly from detail to context. In contrast to a simple laserpointer, not only does Mouseposé highlight the mouse pointer so that the audience can follow it around your screen, it also visualizes mouse clicks by drawing a red circle (or two or three depending on the number of mouse clicks) around the mouse, enables you too choose a sound to be played when the mouse is clicked and lets you pick different colors for right and left mouse clicks. The audience will be able to follow you much better throughout your presentation if people can clearly see what you are doing. After all, a presentation is supposed to look good, and Mouseposé if anything, will make it look even better.' – Victor Mihailescu, Apple News Editor, Softpedia It’s not only the functionality but the elegance and good looks that make it a winner. 'A great program that puts other similar ones to shame. When activated, it dims the screen and shines a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest or helping you to quickly locate the mouse pointer. Mouseposé is the indispensible mouse pointer highlighting tool (aka 'virtual laserpointer') for everyone doing demos at tradeshows, presentations and trainings, or those individuals with huge and high resolution displays.

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