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Re: Now I can just print that video

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Definitely would use this. Instructional video instead of step-by-step text is a personal pet peeve. I know it's a lot easier to just record a video to show something like "how to replace the battery on a cordless vacuum" or "removing a sink basin nut" but it's often such a painful experience for consumption (watch a moment, pause, scrub back and watch again, pause, continue, pause, all with potentially gloved hands…

People have a mental cap on what text should cost. If someone creates instructional content that provides thousands of dollars in value, they can sell videos for $200+, but a book version is hard to sell over $50, even if both provide the same value. Even for free content it is easier to monetize YouTube than it is to monetize a blog. If we want people to create more text-based material, it needs to have similar fina…

I think part of this is how society consumes information. In the 80s, you mostly had books. Sure, there were some video courses, but a majority of the learning was through books.

Now, people consume most of their information in video formats. Think about the rise of Vine, Youtube, TikTok, and the 100s of others out there just like them.

They are growing like weeds, because that's apparently how the public now likes to consume media, info, etc.

Re: Now I can just print that video

#122
post #22

Definitely would use this. Instructional video instead of step-by-step text is a personal pet peeve. I know it's a lot easier to just record a video to show something like "how to replace the battery on a cordless vacuum" or "removing a sink basin nut" but it's often such a painful experience for consumption (watch a moment, pause, scrub back and watch again, pause, continue, pause, all with potentially gloved hands…

I agree 100% with this. Having both video and text is ideal, but if it has to be one or the other, text is much better.

Re: Now I can just print that video

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The copyright notice on the output is a poor choice, since you almost certainly do not own the copyright to any of the content. You've gone to impressive lengths to ensure that the result is true to the source material, which means that there is no claim to this being a transformative work.

(Very cool and useful project, though.)

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