Hi, I have been very interested in this thread (being that I am in the Community TV business). Instructional videos are fine, but what we might want to think about is an advocacy video. Teaching people how to use software can fill up a 29 minute time slot rather quickly (and still not cover the entire subject!). I would be willing to help out in any way I can. Walt P.S. That hurdle that you're talking about: x usually equals about 60. At 09:05 PM 9/19/2002 -0400, you wrote:

Hi

I've been listening to this thread and perhaps it is just generational disconnect but I cannot visualize what you could do with video that you could not do better with text/html/jpegs etc.

Video is good if there is something to be viewed (for example, a trip to a foreign country, a beating heart in a Physiology course, the characteristic gait of a patient with Parkinson's disease, a football play etc.)

But, in my experience, what you need if you are trying to learn how to do something, is usually a cookbook (this highlights a general weakness of man pages, they tend to leave out real-life examples). Furthermore, when something is textual, you and retrace easily and chose the pace.

The problem now is that, if I am right, we would be competing with howtos! :-)

Another problem is that, if Jeff's grandmother is like my wife (probably both about the same age), there is no way she is going to either watch a video or read a document on anything technical (This is a corollary of the advice to never give your wife a present which plugs in).

So I'd like to ask those video enthusiasts out there to give a specific example of what a five/fifteen minute video might actually contain.

doug

PS Another hurdle I anticipate is that it usually takes n minutes to make 1 minute of good video where n is a large number :-(

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