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That's what makes so many you tube videos so difficult, especially when the purpose of the video is explanation or description (i.e. a lesson). Please just focu

That's what makes so many you tube videos so difficult, especially when the purpose of the video is explanation or description (i.e. a lesson). Please just focus on the agenda, and maintain a flow of thoughts. People mostly just want the info. That said, this looks like a great piece of work.

skybrian 5y ago
I wish people would stop using YouTube for technical content and blog instead. Sure, some things need to be video, but you could just have that part in the video and link to it from the blog. (SIGGRAPH papers are a decent example.) Basically, no talking heads. That stuff should be text.
- OJFord 5y ago
  O(months) ago Dave Jones of EEVBlog had a thing of 'where should I put my head' - 'do you like the green t-shirt so it's just a floating head or is it too spooky' - 'lemmeknowinthecommentsclickthebelltosubscribealgorithmsalgorithms'. Gah, if I had an account I'd have been despairing in the comments. Who cares where your head is if it's not in the way (this was specifically for shots where he's talking over a teardown photo)? There's a really easy way to make sure it isn't! Ben Eater has it right, all content, voice over video. It's not that I 'hate people' or whatever, depending on the content/style of the rest of it it can be fine: Clough42 for example is moving around a workshop doing physical things, so it seems quite natural when he turns to face the camera, or for the intros. It helps that his production quality is insanely good too - for all the time spent talking about new expensive AV gear on EEVBlog, it's not great! Not because of the gear, but the refusal to do a re-take if it goes wrong - cc: sorry about the mic it gets better in a sec - editing mishaps like repetition of a shot or not removing one that was clearly intended to be, etc. Can't complain though, I enjoy it all for free, and I'd recommend every channel I've mentioned.

skybrian 5y ago

I wish people would stop using YouTube for technical content and blog instead. Sure, some things need to be video, but you could just have that part in the video and link to it from the blog. (SIGGRAPH papers are a decent example.) Basically, no talking heads. That stuff should be text.

OJFord 5y ago
O(months) ago Dave Jones of EEVBlog had a thing of 'where should I put my head' - 'do you like the green t-shirt so it's just a floating head or is it too spooky' - 'lemmeknowinthecommentsclickthebelltosubscribealgorithmsalgorithms'. Gah, if I had an account I'd have been despairing in the comments. Who cares where your head is if it's not in the way (this was specifically for shots where he's talking over a teardown photo)? There's a really easy way to make sure it isn't! Ben Eater has it right, all content, voice over video. It's not that I 'hate people' or whatever, depending on the content/style of the rest of it it can be fine: Clough42 for example is moving around a workshop doing physical things, so it seems quite natural when he turns to face the camera, or for the intros. It helps that his production quality is insanely good too - for all the time spent talking about new expensive AV gear on EEVBlog, it's not great! Not because of the gear, but the refusal to do a re-take if it goes wrong - cc: sorry about the mic it gets better in a sec - editing mishaps like repetition of a shot or not removing one that was clearly intended to be, etc. Can't complain though, I enjoy it all for free, and I'd recommend every channel I've mentioned.