[Bf-committers] "Blender, an appraisal from a first time user"

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Douglas,

That would be appreciated, and indeed a but more engaging video would be great!

I agree with the crits that often videos are not working well. What helps is to introduce a video with a clear goal description (visual with text), and short chapter/section pages inbetween. Allows scrubbing that way. 

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands



> On 3 Jan, 2016, at 20:26, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ton, I made this 5 years ago and it has had almost 41,000 hits. I don't
> like the quality anymore. I have higher standards now. It is only 5 or 6
> minutes long. I would like to remake it though. I don't think I will have a
> chance until next weekend.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRwrEU6KDYY
> 
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Here is a friendly mail from a Linux user I had. He failed using Blender
>> for a simple video task.
>> http://download.blender.org/institute/firsttime.pdf
>> 
>> I'm happy that KDEnlive worked for him, and I explained to him that
>> Blender is an advanced 3D creation suite which you have to invest time in
>> to understand it well.
>> 
>> Nevertheless, three lessons we can learn from this:
>> 
>> 1) Meaningless tooltips
>> 
>> The "System info" menu has as tooltip "Generate system info". That's
>> insufficient. It leaves very relevant information to the notifier button
>> that's very easy too miss.
>> 
>> 2) Meaningless error message
>> 
>> "Report Error. File format is not supported in...".
>> 
>> What is that supposed to mean? Errors can easily give more details,
>> especially mentioning the function or operator that throws the error and/or
>> about the context or editor it is in.
>> 
>> 3) Blender support section: Tutorials.
>> 
>> http://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/
>> 
>> There is no beginner tutorial on blender.org for newbies how to quickly
>> get a video edited.
>> Anyone knows one? Then I'll add it there.
>> 
>> -Ton-
>> 
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>> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
>> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
>> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
>> 
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