On Saturday, June 11, 2022 07:53:13 PM [email protected] wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2022 14:31:36 -0400 > > [email protected] wrote: > > A picture or sketch is worth a thousand words, but divide that by 10 for > > each minute of video ;-) > > I love this one! Can I plagiarize it?
Sure. (I'm flattered :-) Someday I might try to claim credit for originating it (I'm a legend in my own mind ;-), , but for now, don't worry about attribution. If it spreads as a meme, and somehow contributes to better documentation (everywhere), that would be wonderful. Thinking about it -- I don't have a sig, I might make that my sig. I'm thinking about how to incorporate into it that very short videos (15 to 60 seconds, with a minimum of "chatter" by the narrator / "host") can be useful in some cases. (Just tell me (either in written text or in the first 5 seconds what I should be seeing, then show me, maybe summarize or repeat in slow(er) motion. Have a good day! > 90% of the videos are poor resolution, often done by people who think that > the eyes of the world are on youtube and that sucking your teeth makes > good diction. Plus, frankly, the ground to cover is way beyond the > texto/video croud bandwidth. I'm all for good printable docs but things > are changing so fast that it has to be dynamic, somehow. > > If I might add another generalization, it's that we are often confronted > with skillfully erected tutorials that explain how to land on mars whereas > we first need to know how to reach escape velocity in earth orbit. For a > long time I kept getting thrown by the idea that rosegarden never could > make a sound on its own. Now I know that it needs fluidsynth and that to > use fluidsynh "I" need qsynth. What I get stuck on these days is more > likely to be qjackctl 'connections' which presume that users know how to > connect equivalent midi hardware. Well, wrong again, I don't have much > hardware either except my computer and a soundcard and have never seen how > a midi RealDevice gets connected to anything. > > 'nuff rant, cheers! _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
