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But if I am looking for a specific thing, I want to be able to skip. I want a transcript first world, where I can skim, ctrl+f, click, and THEN the video plays
by basch 6y ago
But if I am looking for a specific thing, I want to be able to skip. I want a transcript first world, where I can skim, ctrl+f, click, and THEN the video plays. It's fine if you want to watch a whole video, but the amount of "Hey there campers, dont forget to subscribe" almost outweighs actual content. I find the idle banter and chatter on podcasts equally distracting. Scrubbing through a video to find what you are looking for is infinitely more annoying than scrolling down a page of screenshot with captions.
I, like your parent, if I run into a video, will press back and try and find an article first, and then use the video as a last resort. For some process type things, like you describe, things I'm less familiar with, like a mechanic working on a car, a video might be easier.
I do very much like the rev interface for transcript/video. https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/MHjYIxnUkQQJMJ605Wjoq9PFre6W9dAjsY7xB9UOupqCxAtuYBHrCMdN4i_ROQyEOVxVhRz-u4a8jZGizZIL6s7Apeo?loadFrom=PastedDeeplink&ts=496.01 https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/MHjYIxnUkQQJMJ6...
- brokenmachine 6y agoWhat would be cool is crowd-sourced chapters for the videos. Anyone can create a chapter marker, and people can downvote/flag those chapter markers if they're irrelevant. Then you would have chapters so you could avoid the waffley "please like/subscribe" begging and longwinded intros that don't get to the main part of the video. Youtube would still be able to embed their ads whenever they want.
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago>but the amount of "Hey there campers, dont forget to subscribe" almost outweighs actual content. The "Hey guys, blahblahblah" is insufferable but you quickly learn hammering L about 4 times gets you to the real meat of the video.