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I'd very much consider speeding up your videos. I watch things like educational videos, interviews, news videos etc mostly on 2x. Movies I often watch on 1.5x

I'd very much consider speeding up your videos. I watch things like educational videos, interviews, news videos etc mostly on 2x. Movies I often watch on 1.5x, not always but typically at least 1.3x. Sometimes I go up to 2.5x or 3x when needed, e.g. speeding through a Let's Play video during a part which isn't particularly interesting any slower.

wuschel 8y ago
> Movies I often watch on 1.5x, not always but typically at least 1.3x. For me, I would ask myself if these movie is worth watching, and if the teaching materials are worth ingesting.
- IkmoIkmo 8y ago
  Of course, I always do, too. Funny thing is that some of this stuff wouldn't be worth watching at 1x, but are worth watching on 2.5x. For example I really enjoy watching replays of strategical games, but much of it is frankly quite boring in real time. Take a typical 2+1 hour game of chess, with minutes between moves, condensed into a 45 minute match with commentary, that's an excellent way for me to enjoy relaxing after a day of work while the washing machine is churning and I'm eating dinner. But I'd absolutely have no time (much less interest) to sit there for 3 hours watching people think. You have to wonder, what are the odds that all of human content is paced at a perfect speed for all of human consumers? What are the odds that every lecturer for example, speaks at the same pace, all with the same information density of the concepts they are talking about? The answer obviously is virtually zero. And so if you have different paces of information density, then the norm should be for every individual that for some content, you adjust the speed of the video! Some videos pack a ton of information in five sentences, others take ten sentences to convey the same idea. (a density of concepts per sentence) And some lecturers pack those say five sentences in one minute, while others do it in two. (speed of speech) If everyone enjoyed the same pace, and all content was at the same pace, then you'd never have to adjust content-speed. But both of those two statements aren't true. So again, the norm should be that any individual may want to speed up at least some of his content. In the end it really depends on the content. I don't speed up movies as much for example as news though because in the former, moments of quietness and facial expression are much more meaningful than in the latter and it loses its impact when sped up too much.
  - inimino 8y ago
    What are the odds that all information worth consuming is best consumed at the same speed? What are the odds that every human cultural experience can be reduced to "consumption" of N bits of information per minute? I say you will benefit more from eating your dinner and relaxing into the churning sounds of the washing machine than you will from another day of your hyperoptimized speed run through life, measured in bits of information per minute absorbed (like a sponge) from 'content' (a term invented by industries that profit by the mindless consumption of your time by their 'content').
  - wuschel 8y ago
    Thanks for the refreshing answer! :)
ivan_ah 8y ago
+1. This is a good Chrome extension for video speed control of all web video content: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro... Highly recommended!
sotojuan 8y ago
Unless the film is animated, I could not see how you could enjoy watching it at 1.5x speed, particularly if it's a serious drama. Humans moving at 1.5x speed just looks weird, and when I speed narrative (i.e. not documentaries) films, it feels like I am watching them just to feel like I watched it compared to enjoying it.
krackers 8y ago
Videos/interviews I agree 2x is fine. I'd think that movies would have a sense of artistic timing/pacing which speeding up the movie would ruin.

wuschel 8y ago

> Movies I often watch on 1.5x, not always but typically at least 1.3x. For me, I would ask myself if these movie is worth watching, and if the teaching materials are worth ingesting.

IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Of course, I always do, too. Funny thing is that some of this stuff wouldn't be worth watching at 1x, but are worth watching on 2.5x. For example I really enjoy watching replays of strategical games, but much of it is frankly quite boring in real time. Take a typical 2+1 hour game of chess, with minutes between moves, condensed into a 45 minute match with commentary, that's an excellent way for me to enjoy relaxing after a day of work while the washing machine is churning and I'm eating dinner. But I'd absolutely have no time (much less interest) to sit there for 3 hours watching people think. You have to wonder, what are the odds that all of human content is paced at a perfect speed for all of human consumers? What are the odds that every lecturer for example, speaks at the same pace, all with the same information density of the concepts they are talking about? The answer obviously is virtually zero. And so if you have different paces of information density, then the norm should be for every individual that for some content, you adjust the speed of the video! Some videos pack a ton of information in five sentences, others take ten sentences to convey the same idea. (a density of concepts per sentence) And some lecturers pack those say five sentences in one minute, while others do it in two. (speed of speech) If everyone enjoyed the same pace, and all content was at the same pace, then you'd never have to adjust content-speed. But both of those two statements aren't true. So again, the norm should be that any individual may want to speed up at least some of his content. In the end it really depends on the content. I don't speed up movies as much for example as news though because in the former, moments of quietness and facial expression are much more meaningful than in the latter and it loses its impact when sped up too much.
- inimino 8y ago
  What are the odds that all information worth consuming is best consumed at the same speed? What are the odds that every human cultural experience can be reduced to "consumption" of N bits of information per minute? I say you will benefit more from eating your dinner and relaxing into the churning sounds of the washing machine than you will from another day of your hyperoptimized speed run through life, measured in bits of information per minute absorbed (like a sponge) from 'content' (a term invented by industries that profit by the mindless consumption of your time by their 'content').
- wuschel 8y ago
  Thanks for the refreshing answer! :)

ivan_ah 8y ago

+1. This is a good Chrome extension for video speed control of all web video content: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro... Highly recommended!

sotojuan 8y ago

Unless the film is animated, I could not see how you could enjoy watching it at 1.5x speed, particularly if it's a serious drama. Humans moving at 1.5x speed just looks weird, and when I speed narrative (i.e. not documentaries) films, it feels like I am watching them just to feel like I watched it compared to enjoying it.

krackers 8y ago

Videos/interviews I agree 2x is fine. I'd think that movies would have a sense of artistic timing/pacing which speeding up the movie would ruin.