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Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:26 am
by chrisb
Welcome cookie-cutter, and thanks for the contribution. I would sign every point of these.
Adding to 1 and 8: it is best to use the default toolbars. If for some reason this is not the case, then it should at least be stated very clearly to avoid confusion.

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:10 pm
by jruiz
chrisb wrote: Wed May 08, 2019 7:16 am My first suggestion is
  • Mention the FreeCAD version used

    Every tutorial should start with clearly stating for which version it was made. Video tutorials should state it in the description or at least within the first 15 seconds.
I think a norm to be adopted would be to start any video tutorial with "About FreeCAD" information.
Regards.

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:25 pm
by kisolre
Yes, because most of the time no one reads the description of the video.

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 11:37 am
by GeoffG
I've seen a number of tutorial videos for other software packages where the tutor/demonstrator has a webcam image of themselves on the screen during the tutorial/demo. A lot of the time it just shows them looking at the screen and talking, but at other times they are looking straight into the webcam when they are trying to introduce a new topic, explain something, or just adding commentary.

Do you think that this sort of thing would be useful or appropriate in a FreeCAD tutorial?

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 12:35 pm
by chrisb
sliptonic does this, and his videos are highly appreciated. I like to know who is talking to me, although I don't need to see the author all the time.

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:41 pm
by lpburke86
chrisb wrote: Tue May 05, 2020 12:35 pm sliptonic does this, and his videos are highly appreciated. I like to know who is talking to me, although I don't need to see the author all the time.

Its also done to aid the hearing impaired in being able to access the videos at the same time. Closed Captions don't always work properly, so if they can see the person speaking, they can at least read their lips...

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:29 pm
by russ_hensel
kisolre wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:25 pm Yes, because most of the time no one reads the description of the video.
Perhaps, but I always do even though they usually have very little content. Is this a chicken and egg problem?

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 8:24 am
by ioblak
All video links are black areas that cannot be clicked on.
Do you have an idea why? (also applies to other members and youtube channels)

I ask the forum moderator to solve this problem.

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:56 pm
by m_brown
And please be specific about what you are doing, not just what you are thinking.
Tutorials should be something the viewer can learn new skills from, not guessing how you caused something to happen.

Re: Guidelines for videos and tutorials

Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:49 pm
by Flavpagurus
Greetings,

I am new to FreeCAD. I am trying to do all the tutorials but the links given via Chrisb discussions are not working for me (no errors: I just get a blank page with no signs of activity). Is it because I am in America (in the US)?

I have been doing almost all of them with regards to modeling and beside this downloading issue of Chrisb's PDF for the Sketcher Tutorial I am finding that I got confused by the Assembly 4 module I have added because I suppose that the tutorial may be referencing tools and ways of simplifying the parts tree structure from earlier add_on version. I have tried to follow the discussion around assembly 4 and other upgrades from Assembly 2 to assembly 3 but they are of very high levels for me and the tree structure is probably the area of FreeCAD I struggle the most to visualize and have a grasp on. Also I am truly not at the point where I can adventure myself in following scripts to create simple parts to import and link.

Is there any draft version or portion of a draft version or other references that could help a new user that starts for scratch from Assembly_4 add_on on FreeCAD 0.21.1 ?

Thank you (I will try to make any future post shorter)

Francois