Video Help System

Subject: Video Help System
From: Kevin McGowan <thatguy_80 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:44:09 -0500


Hey folks,

We're being asked to produce a series of short (1-2 minute) how-to videos using Captivate. The problem I see is that our client wants us to create all of these how-to videos and then drop them onto their users' PCs in a folder.

I don't see that as an effective help-system, as the user/learner will have to manually hunt through dozens and dozens of videos to find what they want. I'd like to propose a more genuine help system that's easy to use and easy to search.

Has anyone out there built something like this? I'm looking for tools or other recommendations.

Cheers,
Kevin

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