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You can watch as many sequenced 5 minute videos as you wish in a single sitting; The fact that they're divided into separate videos in a playlist is hardly diff
by BHSPitMonkey 5y ago
You can watch as many sequenced 5 minute videos as you wish in a single sitting; The fact that they're divided into separate videos in a playlist is hardly different than taking a longer video and marking the timestamps where different ideas are presented.
- setr 5y agoThat’s technically true, but it’s obviously not true in practice — a 5-min video system means that everything will be self-contained within those 5 minutes. TV is the clearest counter-example (though it has additional constraints, like week-long gaps) — you need an ending at each 30 minutes, because you don’t expect the viewer to watch 4 episodes in one sitting. And this obviously isn’t the same as 2 hrs in a movie, where they expect the viewer to sit through the whole thing continuously. Even on Netflix, where they do expect you to binge watch, they still have to uphold the ending-per-episode constraint, because they’ve told the viewer this is a natural stopping point, by virtue of the format
- w0m 5y agoPeople are talking out both sides here. Complaining that the 5 minute demo isn't giving enough context; but also saying that you can't get deep enough in 5 minutes because the 5 minute video has to rehash to add context. I get it; some people dislike short videos; but there's also a fare bit of straw man building going on at the same time, starting at the dislike and trying to justify it. Luckily we have lots of options :)