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Can you elaborate on why some comments won't be made if people watched the video rather than read the transcript? I certainly agree with your second point that
by akkartik 4y ago
Can you elaborate on why some comments won't be made if people watched the video rather than read the transcript?
I certainly agree with your second point that some people prefer reading transcripts to watching videos. I used to be one of them until a year ago!
- kragen 4y agoYou can't scroll back and forth through the video to compare different points where he's talking about related themes, you can't text-search to find where or whether he mentioned a particular theme, and when you're reading the transcript, it pauses automatically when you stop to think, so thinking is the default. With the video pausing requires effort, so the default is to not think. There are things that work better in some sort of video. GUI demos, mechanical movements, some kinds of data visualizations, and facial expressions, for example.
- akkartik 4y agoThank you! Now that you mention it, I tend to pause and rewind a lot. But I likely do miss connections that are more than a few minutes apart.
- jholman 4y agoI would imagine it's because the transcript contains strictly more information than the video?
- kragen 4y agoEach contain information that the other lacks.