Archive for 'Content Master'

Microsoft Project 2007

December 14th, 2007 – 11:45 am
Tagged as: Content Master

Only one project running this week and for the rest of this year – Expression. We were finally briefed about the requirements for this project. It’s going to be a long ride I think! The details supplied to us about this project were to create tutorial step-lists that show off a range of new features […]

Expression yourself.

December 7th, 2007 – 10:45 am
Tagged as: Content Master

By the beginning of December, work at Content Master was becoming really quiet. However, we did have a new project rolling in – namely Microsoft Expression 2.0 Silverlight Marketing. This project was to be an exciting one. We were targeting a whole suite of new software, where the earlier version has already been released, however […]

Back to mastering content

November 27th, 2007 – 9:33 am
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Just got back from a 5-day holiday off work! And I had a good time thanks (if you were asking?!). Ahh yet another factor that I’ve encountered about the world of work. Coming back to work after just getting used to it, even if it’s just a week off, you sure do wonder what the […]

Forget about this week…

November 13th, 2007 – 10:50 am
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Just a quick update really. Again it’s one of those weeks where nothing new has really come in. Work is still plodding along especially on Longhorn Courses. Continued editing on clin5135ae_02_01_03_dem01 and 02_01_05_dem01. Re-recording was required. Moved on to new course SMSGR, sent back to us. Working on XML files correlating with HTML files and […]

Sums-jah!

November 9th, 2007 – 5:30 pm
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This week a new project was brought upon me to work on called, The Sales and Marketing Services Group Readiness (SMSGR). This was apparently a new branch from Microsoft. Its basis is simply to promote marketing material not just from Microsoft, but from various external courses that come into Microsoft in Word document form. The […]

Synchronising and Debugging

November 3rd, 2007 – 4:44 pm
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November already and time is flying through these projects. I have not updated in a while, due to the fact that the majority of work going on at the moment has been primarily working with storyboards, animations, demonstrations and simulations – all of which has been covered in previous entries. VistaDell has been a monster […]

Keyframes!

October 19th, 2007 – 12:21 pm
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I finally got shown how to create simulations in Flash. Phoar a lengthy process it is! The one word that sticks to mind from this week – Keyframes! Every screenshot exported using Adobe Illustrator (Photoshop didn’t have batch export to PNG, but Illustrator did) needed to be imported into Flash. Once imported, each image required […]

Simulation-ville.

October 5th, 2007 – 6:20 pm
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The team had got rid of Groove (for which there were celebrations too!) however several other projects popped up for which the workload was heavy. At this point, I started to take more of an interest in simulations. Simulations required a whole new parsing process, and without doubt was the longest of all elements to […]

Anis, demos and sims.

September 29th, 2007 – 12:53 pm
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Groove was coming to an end, so priority was to finish this. Therefore, for now, most production on VistaDell came to a halt, as the team were in need for finalising the release of Groove. This included building some extra animations in Flash. Also some demo corrections in Adobe Captivate came back after reviewing. At […]

I’m Demonstrating.

September 21st, 2007 – 11:45 am
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Why does the word demonstrating have “Demon” in it? Lol, anyway, that’s beside the point. By mid September I was in the Groove (get it? Project Groove? Sorry had to say that…), with producing storyboards, animations and demonstrations. However, I had yet the next major step to learn, given that a new project had arisen […]