[Bf-webcontent] Watching videos

[David Haymond]

I completely agree, and I think it should be a fairly high priority. A
consistent series of scripted demo videos on the Blender Foundation YouTube
channel will greatly add value and professionalism to the new website.


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Gerard Maguire <
nexial.protagonist at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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