Ben WrightFor the love of god, stop making every tutorial for a piece of software a goddamn video.
It makes it impossible for people to tell if the tutorial even addresses their question at a glance.
Protofox Riley@queex not to be a contrarian but for creative softwares (e.g Blender or Ableton) I prefer video as I can understand the process better than if it was written.
HollieK@protofoxriley @queex Horses for courses. Some things are better with video, some things are better written.
@HollieK72 it's also an accessibility thing I guess, I dunno I just find it hard to read longform text when doing something
@protofoxriley I should have written that we need both - some people want a video, some people want a written document.
Anke@protofoxriley @HollieK72 Clearly offering both text with screenshots and video is better than one or the other. :D
Personally I prefer text with screenshots, because it's easier for me to go at my own pace, go over one thing multiple times, etc, but even so I did look up an instruction video once because I couldn't figure out a crochet stitch from text and photos.
Personally I prefer text with screenshots, because it's easier for me to go at my own pace, go over one thing multiple times, etc, but even so I did look up an instruction video once because I couldn't figure out a crochet stitch from text and photos.
Short, looped 5-10 second (or maybe more) clips embedded in a written tutorial gives you all the visual information you could need, without having to rewind or scan forwards to find it again.
Pace is a big drawback. You can process written information at whatever speed you want; A/V dictates its own speed.
And nobody benefits from the "like and subscribe" churn, where the useful information is hidden behind layers of branding and optimisation for the Algorithm.
There's a place for video, don't get me wrong, but not in the way video tutorials exist now, and certainly not to the point where written versions simply don't exist anymore, as we're heading towards.
(Video is also a big accessibility problem.)