Asterpix - yet another fantastic video tool.

Asterpix lets you put a hotspot over any object in a video. The hotspot will then track the object on screen (quite reliably in my tests) and add text or a link.

I have used it to imagine that an old (but very funny) video is being used in a vocational course for crane drivers. I'm sure other C2.0 members will think of better examples.

(BTW I was unable to embed this - has Ning removed that feature, or am I just being inobservant?)

Tags: asterpix, link, tool, video, vocational

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Permalink Reply by Ian Grove-Stephensen on November 11, 2007 at 1:23pm

Thanks to Pete's timely screencast, I will have another go at embedding my Asterpix video. It hadn't occurred to me that Ning would simply recognize the HTML and process it accordingly:

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Permalink Reply by Carolyn Foote on November 11, 2007 at 2:04pm

Clever--but I wish it had a feature that made the little popup more obvious...so any person who watched would know to click on the outlined area!

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Permalink Reply by Ian Grove-Stephensen on November 11, 2007 at 2:15pm

It does - I chose the least obtrusive of three options. Perhaps I should have gone for the most obvious instead.

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Permalink Reply by Ed Jones on November 11, 2007 at 4:00pm

Cool tool!

Now, will you tell learners that this video is a long-known hoax, or leave it as an exercise to the learner? ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Ian Grove-Stephensen on November 11, 2007 at 4:09pm

Hush! You'll spoil it for everyone else ;-)

Actually, if you toggle the final comment to full size, you will see that I've left it as an exercise, but with some clear pointers.

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Permalink Reply by nat kausik on November 12, 2007 at 2:44pm

thanks for trying asterpix.
we are experimenting with a variety of indicators to make them obvious yet unobtrusive. our best one yet is on the anvil and will be released at our launch next month.

there are a number of educational videos that are popular on our site, amongst them being
"How to save money on gas" and
"How to ask for a pay raise"

appreciate your continued feedback as we improve our offering.
best,
nat kausik
nat@asterpix.com