[Bf-webcontent] Watching videos

[Gerard Maguire]

Jonathan, it is good that you have offered this opinion. I was going to
attempt to nudge this conversation in that direction. You have elegantly
and concisely negated the need to do that. I suspect that this will turn
into quite a large project.


On 22 November 2013 23:55, Jonathan Williamson
<jonathan at montagestudio.org>wrote:

> 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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