RE: how useful are video tutorials/screencasts?

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

To counter people's objections about videos being long 
and time-consuming - or having extraneous material 
(presenter goofiness or advertising or whatever), 
there are utilities that allow you to speed up 
and slow down Flash and other video formats, while 
keeping the audio tone sounding human (not chipmunk). 

One that I've actually used is Enounce MySpeed.
I think it's about 30 bucks.
As near as I can tell, it works on Flash videos 
that you are streaming from the web, but I don't 
believe it works on a downloaded file that you 
are running from your local hard disk (say, with 
Windows Media Player or some-such).  

I've used it on canned webinar and instructional 
material and it's reasonably good at what it does. 

Depending on the presenter, I've found that I can 
follow what's going on at speeds between 1.3 and 1.7 
times baseline. More than that and it's a struggle 
no matter how clear the presenter. But, you can 
fast-forward to skim unimportant sections at very 
high speed, before slowing below 2x to resume 
learning. 

 - kevin



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