Integrating movies into documentation

[Erika Yanovich <ERIKA_y -at- rad -dot- com>]

Hello all,

I've recently started to look into this and I need your collective wisdom. Do you integrate video captures/demos into documentation and if yes, why.  Is it considered more user-friendly than text? Do you replace existing text with video or you provide the video in addition? What type of explanations are best provided in video format?

I saw a few examples and must say that those examples that just show menu paths to a certain dialog box are useless IMHO as they can be replaced by a simple text line. Or am I missing something?

Do you embed videos in PDF or another online format?

TIA

Erika

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