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What happened to the good old days of doing multiple takes and rehearsing? How well does that work on a live presentation before an audience, do you think? Say

What happened to the good old days of doing multiple takes and rehearsing? How well does that work on a live presentation before an audience, do you think? Say, a preacher delivering a Sunday morning sermon? PyGoSwiftCon 2023 tech presentation? "Here's last Saturday's video, can you post that to $WEBSITE?" One does not always have the luxury of a retake.

yellowapple 4y ago
And in those contexts you can't exactly cut the pauses out, either. They're live; pauses and other "imperfections" are unavoidable, expected, and an intrinsic part of the performance - and if your next thought is "but what about the recording of it?", I can think of few things worse to do to the recording of a live performance than utterly butchering it for the sake of tiny pauses. In any case, I said "and rehearsing"; people can and do rehearse live presentations and sermons and other speeches. That's in fact a very common thing: write out what you're going to say (or pay someone to write it for you), rehearse it in front of friends or family or pets or your mirror, possibly even memorize it.
- appletrotter 4y ago
  > And in those contexts you can't exactly cut the pauses out, either. They're live; pauses and other "imperfections" are unavoidable, expected, and an intrinsic part of the performance - and if your next thought is "but what about the recording of it?", I can think of few things worse to do to the recording of a live performance than utterly butchering it for the sake of tiny pauses. Doesn't seem any worse to me than watching at 2X speed, which I frequently elect to do.
  - yellowapple 4y ago
    Which is fair, but at least you get to control that. The same can't really be said of pauses between sentences/phrases; once they're gone, they're gone, you know? That is: playback speed is a non-destructive preference, whereas silence removal is destructive.
appletrotter 4y ago
I'm thinking about using this for internal videos where I walk through code and stuff. Sometimes I need to take a second to think, you know?

yellowapple 4y ago

And in those contexts you can't exactly cut the pauses out, either. They're live; pauses and other "imperfections" are unavoidable, expected, and an intrinsic part of the performance - and if your next thought is "but what about the recording of it?", I can think of few things worse to do to the recording of a live performance than utterly butchering it for the sake of tiny pauses. In any case, I said "and rehearsing"; people can and do rehearse live presentations and sermons and other speeches. That's in fact a very common thing: write out what you're going to say (or pay someone to write it for you), rehearse it in front of friends or family or pets or your mirror, possibly even memorize it.

appletrotter 4y ago
> And in those contexts you can't exactly cut the pauses out, either. They're live; pauses and other "imperfections" are unavoidable, expected, and an intrinsic part of the performance - and if your next thought is "but what about the recording of it?", I can think of few things worse to do to the recording of a live performance than utterly butchering it for the sake of tiny pauses. Doesn't seem any worse to me than watching at 2X speed, which I frequently elect to do.
- yellowapple 4y ago
  Which is fair, but at least you get to control that. The same can't really be said of pauses between sentences/phrases; once they're gone, they're gone, you know? That is: playback speed is a non-destructive preference, whereas silence removal is destructive.

appletrotter 4y ago

I'm thinking about using this for internal videos where I walk through code and stuff. Sometimes I need to take a second to think, you know?