Why I hate video tutorials

Diomede

nonesuch00 said:

I am and most people have far to high of attention deficit to learn well by lecture without doing reading, writing and practice on written media. There is good reason you are told to read your assignment and do your homework. When I do watch videos I do take notes although that slows down the viewing process immensely.

Does anybody out there think lawyers are googling videos on the law? LOL, of course not.

This.  A thousand times this.

I have had jobs in which I had to answer questions related to law, including merely proposed changes to law.  In addition to answering questions directly, we produced seminars, lectures, and videos.  Lawyers are required to have a certain amount of ongoing continuing education that is satisfied by such seminars, lectures and videos, not by reading text independently.  But at the end of the day, when specific legal information is needed for a client, a lawyer needs to be able to search and identify text, not my old videos, lectures, and seminars.

 

To me, the video tutorials have their place and I am an avid consumer.  I link to them as recommendations for others.  However, as has been repeated often in this thread, when it comes time to answer a specific question, we need seachable text.  We need a reference work.  We need a manual or a handbook.

Shame on Daz for neglecting written documentation.

 

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diomede said:

To me, the video tutorials have their place and I am an avid consumer.  I link to them as recommendations for others.  However, as has been repeated often in this thread, when it comes time to answer a specific question, we need seachable text.  We need a reference work.  We need a manual or a handbook.

Shame on Daz for neglecting written documentation.

Amen to all of that. I've used books, online documentation, and videos to learn 3D. Each of them is a vital resource, and none of them are easily substituted by another. I do find videos tend to be more uneven, though. The good ones can be brilliant—I used to buy DVDs from the Gnomon School and never had anything less than an excellent experience. Their instruction tends to excell at both the technical and artistic sides of CGI creation. But I've also struggled through too many poorly structured online videos (and, unfortunately, paid content), or videos with poor recording that makes it a struggle to hear what's being said. Ideally, with a video, I want it in a format I can bookmark or have a PDF transcript.