Hi

I wonder if it could be possible to make a video tutorial, that could be shown the first time you start Inkscape? It would not be more difficult to do than to: 1. Make a video from the current tutorials. 2. Add a webinterface inside Inkscape to be able to see them with a web interface.

I was thinking about something like this: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#iphoto

My, and MANY new beginner to Inkscape, has one problem: we are used Adobe Illustrator. To convert, it would be nice if you lower the bar as much as possible.
I guess that this feature would double the adoption rate of Inkscape. I skipped Inkscape after I found it too difficult, but I found Xara, and they seem to have nice videos easy to access, so Ill try that from now on.

Sincerely yours

Tutorials do already exist under the Help menu, but they're not video format.

I think filesize may prevent the developers from wanting packaging video's with Inkscape, but they could provide a link to a website.

Hi

Thanks for the answer! Well, if you open the "Help" menu. The Help could be a set of html pages. Actually you have already done the home work, since screencasters.heathenx.org already made the movies for you.

Just let people play them in a window inside Incscape! I could build that homepage with Drupal, if you just link to it inside the Help application and show the homepage via the Khtml library.

Think of it, every new user could get started doing cool things from scratch not wondering how they would learn Inkscape.

This would definitely increase the userbase by double since it lowers the learning curve by soooo much! I think most people try Inkscape out, but don´t have time to read user manuals. Video is a great way to get people started.

i was thinking the same thing.. learning videos will get more people to try it out, it will give them a better "feel' for the app.
i just took one look at the tutorial page hoping to find tutorial video.. none
so now im not gonna try it

looks great though!!

mortas may wrote:i just took one look at the tutorial page hoping to find tutorial video.. none
so now im not gonna try it

You can find a tonne of video tutorials at http://screencasters.heathenx.org/

If anyone wants to make some video tutorials, I can recommend these free screen recorders:

http://camstudio.org/
or
http://www.nbxsoft.com/screen-recorder.php

What are you waiting for?

Could this be sent in as a "bug report"? I think there should be links to video tutorials, provided it doesn't entail a big kerfuffle over licensing agreements. I don't know how it would be possible to have the videos built into Inkscape without diverting too much development time to enable such a feature plus it could mean increasing initial download size (unless they could be streamed).

I'm not so sure about the embedding Idea, but adding a link to the screencast blog from below the link to the manual seems like a reasonable idea, and shouldnt be too hard.