[Bf-webcontent] Watching videos

[Jonathan Williamson]

I agree David. I think this would be ideal. Using tutorials like it is now
is better than nothing, but I think it'd be far better to have consistently
focused demo videos that are unaffiliated with any companies or individuals
(including Blender Cookie, like some of them are now).

Jonathan Williamson
http://cgcookie.com


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:50 PM, David Haymond <
haymondtechnologies at gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally, I think that the Blender Foundation should create a series of
> short (<3 minutes) videos on each subject, with a professional style,
> onscreen graphics, and recorded by the same person. That would greatly aid
> the unity of the features page. As it stands right now, the videos link to
> all kinds of videos from many different authors...bad idea.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Gerard Maguire <
> nexial.protagonist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On the features page the simulations video has this text beneath it on
>> you tube. "Neither Blender's internal render engine nor Yafaray produced
>> acceptable results, so I decided to use LuxRender in unbiased MLT mode."
>>  This would seem to imply that one of the Blender features is inadequate.
>> Does anyone consider this to be appropriate ?
>>
>>
>> On 22 November 2013 22:55, Gerard Maguire <
>> nexial.protagonist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to suggest that a review of the videos on the features page
>>> takes place as soon as is possible. As an example, the video about
>>> compositor is over an hour in length.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22 November 2013 21:40, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> The features page is nice.
>>>>
>>>> With regards to watching videos, I think the link to bring up the video
>>>> should be in a nice overlay in which the video displays instead of moving
>>>> the user to YouTube straight.
>>>>
>>>> All the links there are currently target=_blank now
>>>>
>>>> plus.google.com/+Nkansahrexford
>>>>
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