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I hate the type of ‘instructional videos’ that have (likely programmatically) edited all and any short pause in the audio making the video appear as a 30+min co

I hate the type of ‘instructional videos’ that have (likely programmatically) edited all and any short pause in the audio making the video appear as a 30+min continuous speak. I mostly interpret this as ‘see me see me - I’m good!’ in stead of ‘let me try to educate you about this subject’. All the natural pauses between sentences gives a much better and natural flow. This also includes ‘oups I made a mistake .. and fixed it like this…’ Just like the line breaks in this comment serves a purpose;-) One great example of a really good tutorial is Eivind Fonn’s Spacemacs ABC videos: https://youtu.be/2y9NLIbNf_I https://youtu.be/2y9NLIbNf_I Here’s my worst example of how not to teach: https://youtu.be/qtIqKaDlqXo https://youtu.be/qtIqKaDlqXo This series is also bad as there is way too much zoom in and out (which distract all but the presenter!) https://youtu.be/qtIqKaDlqXo https://youtu.be/qtIqKaDlqXo

sbarre 4y ago
I hear you, but there's a middle ground I think. A bunch of non-breaking quick cuts is of course jarring and could be better, but what you describe with "mistakes and all" is too far down the other end in my mind. I would not want to sit through someone having to backpedal like that. But to each their own, we all learn differently.
JSavageOne 4y ago
I completely disagree. When I'm trying to learn something, I'd much rather sit through a short, efficient video than a 1 hour unedited video of someone including mistakes and rambling. Hell I generally don't even have the patience for videos in the first place and default to searching for text first unless I'm specifically looking for audio. But to each their own.