Members rasputin1963 Posted November 19, 2011 Members Share Posted November 19, 2011 http://vimeo.com/couchmode/user5021932/videos/sort:newest/16237232 You've spent, I dunno, many goodly thousands of dollars in building an important new software, which you hope will be competitive and useful within a pre-existing professional sphere. Done. Then you ask your 15-year-old niece-- she's cute as a bug's ear-- to cobble together a video tutorial demonstrating to users how to use this rather tricky new software. She, in a high-pitched Neo-Val accent, amply laced with New Jersey and Ghettolicious pronunciations, chants the procedure in the earnest, but slightly clueless, voice of a toddler saying her bedtime prayers. She uses Windows MOVIE MAKER to do it, and ensures that all household buzzings and whirrs, and all outdoor car traffic is heard, as she speaks into her $14.00 stem microphone she bought at WAL-MART. Creating a loud wall of brown background noise that sounds like she's broadcasting from the Bikini Atoll. Your niece rehearsed her script for, I dunno, an hour or two, and now has just the slimmest grasp herself on the software procedures she's describing. The question is Why? Why would you spend X amount of dollars on an ambitious (and very good, but complex) new software... Then, at that crucial first meeting of consumer and product, cut yourself off at the knee with a sequence of amateurish online tutorial videos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 19, 2011 Members Share Posted November 19, 2011 Dude, you don't get around much, I can tell. I've seen much rougher, more haphazard, glitchy, um- and uh-laden tutorials from companies that are probably many times bigger than whoever that is. I mean, really, lots worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted November 19, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 19, 2011 All a part of this DIY, burn-hollywood-burn, "everyone's-a-star" ethos the Net has given birth to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 19, 2011 Members Share Posted November 19, 2011 All a part of this DIY, burn-hollywood-burn, "everyone's-a-star" ethos the Net has given birth to. Well, what strikes me as sad is that all these videos are needed in the first place. Sure, there are processes -- like this one, perhaps -- that are best explained via video. But I see stuff all the time that would be much easier and quicker to explain via the written word and maybe a diagram or screenshot or two -- easier, that is, for those who can read and understand the printed word. PS... I'm all for whatever DIY, burn-Hollywood-burn ethos we can whip up, frankly. And let's make sure we get Big Music in that target cluster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lukenskywalker Posted November 19, 2011 Members Share Posted November 19, 2011 NJ and Ghettolicious pronunciations?...whoa, That's music to my ears....I am so THERE dude, Didja get her name, or Zip Code or NJ turnpike exit #....????? Give me a holler if you have any vital statistics like her cup size, or cup size, or cup size...would love to ask her out for a slice of Boardwalk Pizza... Tanks, Luciano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scarecrowbob Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Having recently made my first screen-cap tutorials, my general feeling is that it is a tough thing to do well, but that since tools to make them have become much more freely available there are a lot more bad tutorials. Who knows if she's using WMM and a stick mic to make the thing. Personally, I like Jing, and I use the 2$ headset mic I use with skype. But maybe I'm not seeing what you're seeing. I didn't hear anything egregious. It does sound like a mediocre in-house productions, and is obviously not a gnomon or lynda level production-- even though I've seen some pretty rough stuff come out of gnomon. To be honest I've also seen a lot worse tutorials and I've heard much worse VO work. Who knows how that tut came about-- maybe they honestly are just bad, sucky people who suck at life and what they do... or maybe they just didn't figure that people would be willing to fork out another $500/seat to have real training on the program. Probably somewhere in between. In any case, It looks like a good opportunity for a third party to make some cash. Wanna produce some pro tutorials and sell them via the web? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted November 20, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 {censored}, yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted November 21, 2011 Members Share Posted November 21, 2011 After all these comments I'm almost tempted to watch it - - then I remembered getting a virus from watching that damned Kwiklube video... No use letting the same dog bite you twice, to paraphrase Coco Montoya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted November 21, 2011 Members Share Posted November 21, 2011 that's a great instructional video, I dug it right away that I don't need that software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted November 21, 2011 Members Share Posted November 21, 2011 Dude, you don't get around much, I can tell. My first thought was, why the heck would Ras be watching this... Ras? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted November 21, 2011 Members Share Posted November 21, 2011 in certain aspect of life Ras act much like Gerald Lloyd Kookie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted November 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 22, 2011 My first thought was, why the heck would Ras be watching this... Ras? Besides the music, I'm also a 3D/CGI artist. I especially like to do images of shapely women, create dresses and hair for them, etc. (Hence my interest in that particular software). Here's my latest image: a portrait of "Rotary Rachel" Lichtman, a Hollywood-based radio personality heard every couple of weeks on LUXURIA.MUSIC.COM Can I do a 3D version of any of you guys/gals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted November 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 22, 2011 in certain aspect of life Ras act much like Gerald Lloyd Kookie Man, Angelinissimo, you surely know your American popular culture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ido1957 Posted November 23, 2011 Members Share Posted November 23, 2011 After all these comments I'm almost tempted to watch it - - then I remembered getting a virus from watching that damned Kwiklube video... No use letting the same dog bite you twice, to paraphrase Coco Montoya. I got the same virus - it was effing awful.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted November 23, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 23, 2011 Oh no... was it problematic for me to publish that picture of mine in an earlier post? Craig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted November 24, 2011 Members Share Posted November 24, 2011 The bottom line is that this is an issue of COMMUNICATION. Whether it looks like Windows Movie Maker with a 15 year old narrator or Angelina Jolie is in a Spielberg production, the question is this. DOES IT COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY? ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS CONCISE AND ACCURATE? I understand corporate image and all that cr!@ , but really the end user will be happy with any production that answers his/her basic questions. dAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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