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My main problem with videos and audio recording is they take so long to do. I made one for training at work and it's had high payback, but it's also around an h

My main problem with videos and audio recording is they take so long to do. I made one for training at work and it's had high payback, but it's also around an hour of time per minute of content.

blattimwind 6y ago
They take a long time to produce and to consume as well. Video is a neat but inefficient form of communication for a lot of content.
- msla 6y ago
  Video is good for brief pieces unless the whole point is to evoke emotion. Are you Spielberg? Are you going for Best Picture? Then keep your video very short. It isn't searchable, it moves at one speed regardless of how the audience is doing, and there's no way to copy text out of it so I can search for more information. It can't be cross-referenced, it can barely be indexed, and the text it contains can't be reformatted, unless I'm applying the formatting to subtitles which live in a separate file, in which case I'm really interacting with a text document after all, innit?
ozim 6y ago
Look at pluralsight, everyone should be able to run video on 2x speed. One hour explanation I can watch in 30 minutes. If it would be written I could skim even faster and read interesting parts... But people don't read that is the problem.
- grogenaut 6y ago
  That doesn't make it faster for ME to produce. And if people are running it at 2x then it's even less ROI. I spent 40 hours making a 18 minute video. If that's run at 2x, that's a 9 minute video. So that's 266:1 ratio. And I made the video because some people read and some people watch. Again the video was well recieved, it was however probbably not worth the time. I only did it because I was remote with bad internet so it was how I could be successful at that time.
  - grogenaut 6y ago
    In 40 hours I can have 40 1 hour one on one training sessions and answer specific questions.

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My main problem with videos and audio recording is they take so long to do. I made one for training at work and it's had high payback, but it's also around an h

by grogenaut 6y ago

My main problem with videos and audio recording is they take so long to do. I made one for training at work and it's had high payback, but it's also around an hour of time per minute of content.

blattimwind 6y ago
They take a long time to produce and to consume as well. Video is a neat but inefficient form of communication for a lot of content.
- msla 6y ago
  Video is good for brief pieces unless the whole point is to evoke emotion. Are you Spielberg? Are you going for Best Picture? Then keep your video very short. It isn't searchable, it moves at one speed regardless of how the audience is doing, and there's no way to copy text out of it so I can search for more information. It can't be cross-referenced, it can barely be indexed, and the text it contains can't be reformatted, unless I'm applying the formatting to subtitles which live in a separate file, in which case I'm really interacting with a text document after all, innit?
ozim 6y ago
Look at pluralsight, everyone should be able to run video on 2x speed. One hour explanation I can watch in 30 minutes. If it would be written I could skim even faster and read interesting parts... But people don't read that is the problem.
- grogenaut 6y ago
  That doesn't make it faster for ME to produce. And if people are running it at 2x then it's even less ROI. I spent 40 hours making a 18 minute video. If that's run at 2x, that's a 9 minute video. So that's 266:1 ratio. And I made the video because some people read and some people watch. Again the video was well recieved, it was however probbably not worth the time. I only did it because I was remote with bad internet so it was how I could be successful at that time.
  - grogenaut 6y ago
    In 40 hours I can have 40 1 hour one on one training sessions and answer specific questions.