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Hacking videos to be more efficient is always a good idea. I hate when people take 5 minutes to explain something that could be said in 30 seconds with proper e
by originalsimba 9y ago
Hacking videos to be more efficient is always a good idea. I hate when people take 5 minutes to explain something that could be said in 30 seconds with proper editing and planning. Go for it.
- patrickxie 9y agovideo speed controller chrome extensions has been a great addition. Shortens videos by speeding them up and skip freely. I generally skim through first by jumping 20secs ea, then rewind if I find anything interesting. And if the pace is too slow I 5x.
- on1200s 9y agoI learned that if you access the html5 youtube player you can actually change the speeds. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5845484/force-html5-youtube-video https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5845484/force-html5-yout... The other hack I was thinking about playing around with is removing silences, or long pauses, ummms, etc.
- muzani 9y agoThere was one by Peter Theil where the whole thing could have been summarized into "Make a monopoly that doesn't look like a monopoly. E.g. Google claims to be an advertising company." It's not easy to summarize as a 5 min video as the entire video was an elaboration of this concept. But it's easy to summarize into a couple of sentences.