Hi Gianrico,

> For your video tuts, try to record with relax and a lot of
> pauses and second takes. Then edit this material in a video app.

Yup, that definitely helps! :) Using this method (especially hitting pause after every 20 seconds or so) really helped a lot.

But it still isn't what I would call "easy" for me to do yet... All together it will still take me probably around 2 days to produce one that I am satisfied with.

I would think that eventually as I get more practice at it, it will take less time.


> I prefer (and, I think, other non English users) the 'static'
> step by step tutorials (like Rhino), that give me the time to
> 'try, retry an understand'.

It's a tough choice for me, because a lot of other people have told me that they prefer videos...

I would like to eventually have some translations of the audio tracks into different languages, that should help.

The problem with the written down step-by-step ones, is that I think they will take actually quite a bit more effort for me to do than the videos. You end up with quite a lot of writing and a lot of screenshots in that format.

It can also be more difficult for me to convey the same information written down, it can cumbersome to explain all the little details.

- Michael

>I would like to eventually have some translations of the audio tracks into different languages, that should help.

I'd be glad to translate the audio track of your tuts into Italian. I promise I will exactly repeat your every "um"! :)
Cheers
Daniele

Hi Michael,
ok, for the 'static' tuts I think that some volunteer will 'unreel' (??) the videos down in some pdf file.

For your footage, another trick is: FORGET the record.
Press 'Record' and forget; sure you have hours of recording time on your HDD.
If you think you have to record something or have to do well until some point, sure you fail many times.
The so called 'red light panic' ;-)

Another thing you can do is:
- Record all the stuffs, taking care of audio.
- Use SW like SoundForge (pro/lite) or Wavosaur, (free and very good)
- Edit the audio, correct, re-record until you are satisfied.
- Now you have a 'master' audio track (the hard part!).
- Record the video, simply following your master audio track.
- Edit the video, if necessary.

For the best results, clean the audio track and apply a little 'compression' on dynamics.
An audio track that 'sounds good' is 80% of this kind of Multimedia file.
I sent you a file 'enhanced' in moi mailbox

This is a time consuming process but let you proceed constantly and without hassle.

Good luck
Gianrico