DukeProtocol asked me to put up this poll, and I thought it a good idea. What is your preference on the length of tutorials, or do you have one? Is there an ideal range of lengths for tutorials, or does it depend on the subject?…
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Apollos,
The way I feel about it, if it takes all day and 7 files to get the point across, then so be it as long as the format doesn’t change. I have learned more with your 2 beginner tutorials than with any others out there. I like the way you present the material and the overall look of the tutorials is really professional. Just keep doing what you are doing is all I ask…Who knows, maybe you can get me to draw a straight line some day…lol.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:06 pm
penix1,
I’ll do a tutorial on straight line drawing in your honor! Thanks for the positive feedback, it motivates me to keep it up. I’ll keep doing them if you keep watching them.
August 1st, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Hi Apollos,
Well, I didn’t know that do I have to say again people’ve already said many times? I think about: “I’ve learnt more from even one of your great Video Tutarials, than I’ve known from everywhere else about Blender.” But it’s totally true! I don’t know how you do, but you are the Best Blender-”teacher”, or narrator, or anyting like that I’ve ever known about! You speak clearly, and understandable, and although I’m not a native speaker, I managed to, well, You managed me to understand Blender better. But I encouraged posting this comment because of the site isn’t so popular, yet, I think. So not many of comments are posted… And non at least becouse of encouraging you, not to stop creating your Video Tutarials! And at last my opinion of the two polls is: Just much more Blender, and if it is needed to be an hour a video to be understandable, and complex, I won’t mind it! (And I think nobody else would mind it…)
I’m really waitng for part 3!
Just keep it up!
August 1st, 2007 at 5:34 pm
I voted depends on the subject because:
1: vast expansive subjects like Basics, DO take a lot of time and effort to cover, so 1 hour per tutorial for that
2: (I’ve been sending Apollos, sample tutorials from myself recently), tutorials like mine on creating just a single simple object should 2-10 mins.
3: If the tutorial covers creating a complex object it should be 20-40 mins.
so, every tutorial’s length depends on the complexity of creation and level of user it is made for.
August 1st, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Duke: Agreed. That’s my preference too. It’s interesting that the choice has been neck and neck with long tutes all day.
This says two things to me (politics of statistics
)
1) People value video tutorials in any form, on any subject.
2) People want as many hours of instruction as they can get. Period.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Wizek, welcome to Blender Underground!
You can bet I’ll keep it up. I’m looking for ways to spend more time on this site and on video tutorials in general. Thanks so much for the kind words, and you can look forward to more tutorials as often as can be managed.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:17 pm
I think, with well presented tutorials, it doesn’t matter how long they are. We’re watching them on a PC! If we can only watch the one hour tutorial in 4 15 minute segments, it’s not hard to drag that slider along, is it?
It would be nice if it were possible to split the video file into chapters or indexes that the media player used could recognize.
But, to be honest, the tutorials you’ve done are so gripping that you don’t even notice that they’re an hour long!
I agree with Duke. It depends on the subject at hand.
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:55 am
Hey Dave,
kaveh has provided Quicktime conversions of the Basics tutorials with chapters! Check the links for Part 1 and Part 2, or head over to river-valley.tv and see them there.
Perhaps I should post about it to let everyone know…
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:05 am
Lol, I was reading the feed for the comment and wanted to add the same comment
How were the chapters added btw?
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:22 am
Hi Duke
My colleague at river-valley.tv put the chapters in. I think in QuickTime Pro. Very simple.
August 3rd, 2007 at 8:42 am
Oh ok. But BOO for the proprietary software of “The Man” which requires money to use.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:39 pm