| James Wrubel 2006-07-07, 7:11 pm |
| All,
I have a fairly large (and in my opinion, cool) project I am initiating that requires Flash and specifically FMS design and development skills. Stop me if you've heard this before, but the project is an online training interface with synchronized slides,
video, and transcript. It's similar to Breeze Presenter, and in fact this is what we are using now but our Breeze instantiation is not scaling to the user base we have. Breeze has exceptional content authoring capabilities but our inability to customize t
he interface and scale the application has prompted us to undertake this project. We intend to have this application handle the larger, more static presentations and have Breeze serve the more short-lived content where Breeze's speed advantage is priceles
s.
Anyway the project entails a largely self-contained interface that would display a combination of slides, instructor/student classroom video (already captured and converted to FLV), as well as Camtasia and document cam (also already captured and converted
). The video would be served off of a CDN (or optionally a known FMS server stored in a user's profile) and we will produce streams for different bandwidth targets, etc. Camera switches between the various POVs would be handled via cue points - The goal o
f this interface is to replicate the student experience from some of our classroom instruction. We will also offer closed-captioning since our FLVs will have embedded captions in potentially multiple languages. The interface also needs to allow for VCR an
d slide-by-slide navigation as you would find in a number of similar applications.
Where it gets even more interesting: I want to include support for key learning objectives, which are essentially custom cue points predefined and embedded in the FLV. These will be presented through some UI affordance when the video passes one and also
can be used for navigation.
SCORM and Section 508 compliance are also critical for the project as most of the customer base are federal agencies. Unfortunately since the project is sponsored by the US government it must be a US firm or individual. My preference would be an individua
l as it's an easier contract for me to write, but anyone interested, please contact me. If you happen to be within driving distance of Pittsburgh, PA, even better. This is a project slated to begin ASAP and with a February 2007 go-live.
If you are interested, please email me directly at jcw-etTNj8cnB6w@public.gmane.org (my work email) and I can go in to more detail.
Jim
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