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Youtube "how to" videos are mostly useless

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pdenisowski:

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--- Quote from: pdenisowski on March 21, 2024, 11:31:20 am --- This is one reason why I script all of my videos - not a single “uhm” or “ah” in any of them :)
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A prepared script helps with not having to improvise and think as you go along. It focuses, it keeps the narration in line. Very few people can improvise well. But also good editing can remove the silences, uhms, coughs and other unwanted moments.

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Absolutely.  Even though I taught classes for years and have given hundreds of in-person presentations, I don't ever try to "wing it" when I record videos.

My usual method is to record the whole thing straight through, backing up a sentence or two every time I make a mistake (and I make lots of mistakes).  I then go back and cut out the "bad parts".  No fancy editing skills necessary - just select the parts that I messed up and hit "delete" :)

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on March 21, 2024, 01:17:38 pm ---i dont have time entertaining nitpicks, you should know what i meant.

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And that is at the root of the entire problem.  Instead of constructing your argument logically, you spew something out, and expect readers/listeners/watchers to know what you meant, instead of read/hear/see what you said.  This is wrong.


--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on March 21, 2024, 01:17:38 pm ---about difficult to find usefull one, i guess its PEBCAK
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No.  I can read and integrate what I read quite fast, and I habitually watch Youtube at 1.25× or 1.5× speed, depending on how clear the accent is.

When you use the poor search engine Youtube implements nowadays –– it isn't precise at all, and prefers its own algorithms over exact word matches ––, after winnowing the search terms down, you typically get about a dozen results.  If only one of these is useful –– and that is commonly the case, except when the same video has been reuploaded by many people in the hopes of monetizing others' work ––, statistically you end up watching the beginning or spots of at least half of the videos.  This takes dozens of seconds per video.

I can read and understand and integrate the abstract of a peer-reviewed article in less than a minute, and estimate the usefulness of a "how-to" page or blog within seconds; let's say less than ten seconds per page.

"Difficult" here means "it takes more time than it needs to, and is thus wasteful and inefficient".  Because I cannot implement my own Youtube search engine (their TOS forbids such, even if it were technically possible, which it isn't), I cannot affect the search situation at all.  The increased amounts of garbage videos means the density of useful videos to garbage videos is steadily decreasing, and thus finding useful videos will require more and more effort, for a shrinking yield.

You know this is happening to yourself too, because when you look at Youtube search results, you will look at the author and view count of each suggested video, simply because most videos are not worth watching, even though Youtube claims they match your search results.

The solution to this problem is telling humans and authors how to do better.  It is not being "the boss of them", it is the internet-age equivalent of not littering.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on March 21, 2024, 12:31:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 21, 2024, 12:10:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on March 21, 2024, 11:40:05 am ---rude or not, they have the right to upload any content as long as youtube allows it. just as i have the right to ignore them. youtube is not yours and there is no rule mandating your content must satisfy others. likes count and subscribers however will follow natural evolution law imho. full stop.

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Strawman arguments.
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read this so you dont fall into the fallacy yourself... https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9288567?hl=en more specifically this.. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6345162 btw you keep imposing archaic speed reading textbook youself. give me writing pdf or book on replacing IC on a samsung galaxy A7 for example... easily said than done. your advice is only valid before the internet.

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That's even less coherent than normal.

Can you explain what you mean by "your advice is only valid before the internet"?

Mechatrommer:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 21, 2024, 02:06:21 pm ---Can you explain what you mean by "your advice is only valid before the internet"?

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:palm: when books and printed materials are the only source of references. granted at the beginning of internet there were only texts exist, but the trend is shifting... until the age of youtube. if you want to limit your choice to printed materials only, then thats your choice, and anybody on your side. we taught kids to take advantages of any type of materials in front of them. but for proper education, yes its still books with established knowledges in it... better for kids to watch sort of education materials in youtube than playing some "claim your chicks" game in the phone. its inevitable. duh why i have to typing all this? maybe because i dont have better things to do than postings in GC :palm:

IanB:

--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on March 21, 2024, 02:39:07 pm ---when books and printed materials are the only source of references. granted at the beginning of internet there were only texts exist, but the trend is shifting... until the age of youtube
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I think maybe you are missing what life was like in the 1960's, 70's and 80's? There was a "YouTube" back then, but it took a different form, and that form was magazines (not textbooks). Newsagent shelves were full of monthly magazines all all conceivable subjects, with several titles covering electronics. Every child who wanted to learn would be buying these magazines.

The magazines would contain projects, reviews, tutorials, industry news, and adverts for all sorts of things to buy to make stuff.

Granted, magazines have not quite gone away, but it is hard to imagine how rich the scene was in previous decades.

One thing to mention about the difference between magazines and YouTube videos, is that magazines have editors to curate the content and maintain quality standards

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