Comment by Rendello
1 day ago
Youtube can be excellent for explanations. A picture's worth a thousand words, and you can fit a lot of decent pictures in a 20 minute video. The signal-to-noise can be high, of course.
1 day ago
Youtube can be excellent for explanations. A picture's worth a thousand words, and you can fit a lot of decent pictures in a 20 minute video. The signal-to-noise can be high, of course.
Unfortunately even the videos that do contain helpful imagery are still dominated by huge sections of low entropy.
For example, one of the most useful applications of video over text is appliance or automotive repair, but the ideal format would be an article interspersed with short video sections, not a video with a talking head and some ~static shaky cam taking up most of the time as the individual drones on about mostly unrelated topics or unimportant details yet you can’t skip past it in case there is something actually pertinent covered in that time.
Ay, there's the rub. Professional video makes tend to be pushed into making videos for a more general audience, and niche topics are left to first-timers who haven't developed video-making skills and (tend to) go on and on.
I've produced a few videos, and I was shocked at how difficult it was to be clear. I have the same problem with writing, but at least it's restricted in a way video making isn't. There's so many ways to make a video about something, and most of them are wrong!