Re: what's the current trend?

[Lois Patterson <loisrpatterson -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Talking to someone at AutoDesk at LavaCon, they have video production
automated by script. This helps with UI changes.
On Oct 19, 2015 6:44 PM, "Tony Chung" <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:

> Have you watched TED talks or Lynda.com ? They both have a live transcript
> where you can click the text in transcript to jump to the section of the
> video.
>
> As I said, I'm not a purist. I believe in using video as part of my
> information experience palette. And I'm not alone. Techsmith, Adobe, and
> others are using video almost more than text.
>
> For hardware, I am especially fond of the SAP-Vuzix demo. That was more
> an example of JIT customer service, but could easily integrate augmented
> reality into hardware instructions.
>
> And people don't care too much about pro level qualityâthey just want it to
> give the information they need, with enough clarity to follow along.
>
> -Tony
>
> On Monday, 19 October 2015, Sean Brierley <
> sean -dot- brierley -at- gerberscientific -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > Some thoughts against video.
> >
> >    - It's difficult to make. Everyone expects broadcast quality
> >    - It is almost impossible to edit.
> >    - It is impossible to translate.
> >    - As a user, I must watch a  video sequentially when I can just jump
> >    into text and read the bits I need.
> >
> >
> > Am I off base?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
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