I’ve begun to assemble short iMovie tutorials using a program called Snapz Pro. It essentially allows you to make a movie of whatever you’re doing on your desktop. The basic idea is to have a short, 1- or 2-minute long video of a function (capturing or exporting, for example), along with a narration describing what’s going on. A sample video is attached at the end of this entry.
It turns out that you can insert something analogous to chapter markers into Quicktime movies, so it might be interesting to design a lengthy tutorial about all of iMovie’s features, but allow users to skip to the sections they care about using the chapter points.
It also seems possible to add interactive URLs to Quicktime movies using HREF tracks. I’ve been experimenting with no success. Eventually, though, it should be possible to link an audiovisual tutorial to its textual counterpart on the ITG website.
More on how to do all of this later on — once I figure it all out!