Changing the videos

[Martin Wynne]

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I am changing to making the videos with a spoken commentary (as in the live demos) instead of the interactive text format. The first one is about creating an inside half-scissors, which Godders asked about. It's now at:

https://85a.uk/templot/companion/inside_half_scissors.php

The interactive format is just too time consuming to record and edit and write the text. Which is why it is many months since I last made a proper one. Many viewers said that they actually preferred the spoken format as in the live demos, despite the videos being littered with odd pauses, mouse fumblings and silly mistakes. For the interactive videos I used to spend a lot of time editing all that out, and re-recording sections if needed. But you can't do that with a spoken commentary unless you record the voice-over afterwards. Which would surely require hours of work to create a script which synchronised with the screen.

So no editing in future. You just get exactly what I record -- if it's too bad I shall just have to delete the whole thing and make another.

cheers,

Martin.

 

[Martin Wynne]

So no editing in future. You just get exactly what I record -- if it's too bad I shall just have to delete the whole thing and make another.

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I was being a bit defeatist there. It's quite possible to insert some interactive text into a spoken commentary if you wait for a gap in it. Plenty of those in my commentaries.

In the half-scissors video I made a couple of silly mistakes, which I later corrected. I have now inserted some notes in the video where they occur. For the video to pause while you read them, it has to be hosted on FlashBackConnect, so here it is:

https://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=mfdtbGQi4SW6e_TzW0SJlw2

It is still time-consuming to do, so I'm intending to do it only for mistakes or important additional information. The main idea of course is that all the details should be in the commentary.

cheers,

Martin.