Hex video tuts " 2005-05-12 - By Doug Schafer
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Thanks Orio, I could not have said it better and agree completely.
I'd only add that a few clear, sufficiently large, still images could be
helpful too . . . to show the menus, tools, locations, setups, settings,
keystrokes, etc. to help us all learn a new application.
Maybe the included .pdf's will answer more of my questions, but it would be
good to have partial access to them now to help me with the purchase
decision.
I like to feel I've made a wise decision to buy something because I know
about it, not hope it will be what I expect when it arrives.
My thanks to all who have answered so many questions already on the
EoviaHexagon and Carrara email Yahoo lists...including Eovia responses.
Doug
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 02:36:31 +0200
From: Orio <webgroups@(protected)>
Subject: Requests to tutorial makers
Since it is likely that some of the developers or the software, or some
of the content/tutorials producers are reading this list, I have a
couple requests that I would like to submit to your kind attention:
- please use audio in your video tutorials, or alternatively, please
insest ballons with text information of what's going on, or even better,
make flash tutorials instead of QT movies, and use the stop feature
after every action, so that the viewer has the time to elaborate in his
brain what he just saw with his eyes;
The reason I ask for that, is that the "box modeling" tutorial that is
linked in the tutorials PDF, is both exciting and a nightmare. It is
exciting because it shows precisely, I think, what most new users expect
to be able to learn: how to start with a simple primitive and create
more complex shapes. It is a nightmare, because it is absolutely
impossible to understand anything of what it is going on within it,
unless one already knows the tools and how to operate them. But then: if
someone already knows, what good is the tutorial?
The tutorial should make viewers learn, not stare at. Let's call things
with their proper names, that is not a tutorial, it is a quite good and
captivating demo "reel". Something that could be shown with great effect
in a Fair or Trade show. Not something useful to learn from.
second request is:
- please provide a written version of your tutorials, as PDF. Fact is,
videos are fancy and cool, but unless somebody has two computers with
the monitors next to each other, they are very awkward to operate
together with a software: you need to constantly swap between the two
(and it can degrade the software performance also).
With a PDF, one can print a hard copy and have it open in front of the
screen while learning the software.
Also, do not underestimate the fact that especially with full screen
grabs, the videos show the instrument icons at very tiny and often
compression-degraded sizes.
The moral: sometimes the most technically advanced solution for a task
is not also the most convenient one.
thank you for listening,
Orio
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