No problem on the text panels front. That would probably make file exchange easier anyhow. Just send me a text file explaining what you want 'said' and at what point in the video in min:sec. If you don't have a mic, that would make it pretty hard to dub audio anyhow
re: file size. 2.5G for 7min!!!??? holy crap!!! that's insane!! are you using compression at all? what resolution are you recording these at? i can probably work file size issues out too, but at my connect speed it would take a rather large amount of time to dl 2.5G. Somethings gotta be mis-set or something. I'll dl that xfire program and take a look at it to see I can be of some help there.
I (and many others I'm sure) really appreciate you making these tutorials available for the public, as well as your mods!!
e-mail me to the address in my profile and we can get working on this.
(incidently AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! I just accidentally erased my whole career because I decided to delete some old saves, starting with the first one, and confirmed it without reading the confirmation window!! who'd'a thunk that it would delete all saves after it too!! OOF!! won't EVER do that again
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<EDIT> hmm .. actually NOT going to dl xfire. looked at the faq, etc ... not something I want on my system, guess I'm kinda picky about that sort of thing. sorry. I could perhaps look into other video capture software; I know folks in the Blender community make a lot of vid-tutorials, I'll see what they use. I DID however notice in the faq something about recording video at half-size; have you tried that?