[Bf-webcontent] Watching videos

[Gerard Maguire]

Leaving the page and viewing the videos in YouTube is not ideal.
Are there any bandwidth issues for running videos "on the page" ?


On 23 November 2013 09:06, Johan Ekström <anuga at anuga.se> wrote:

> And then add a Shadowbox / Lightbox (js, jquery) to the page for
> displaying the videos, it adds that the cool overlay effect that Nkansah
> suggested.
>
>
> On Saturday, November 23, 2013, Elijah Salberg wrote:
>
>> Yes! That is exactly what I was thinking. I think every 3d software
>> except Blender has videos showing the features.
>> Perhaps Andrew Price or Jonathan Williamson could make the features
>> videos.
>> Doesn't really matter who, though. So long as someone does.
>>
>>
>> On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:50 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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