I saw a YouTube video by a guy who specializes in building D&D characters. He spends twenty minutes going into detail on each one, and then makes the pitch for subscribing to his Patreon account with something like "members get all the details in a convenient list so that you don't have to keep going back to this video." So he's using the same bit of friction that this article is trying to solve, to fill his rice bow…
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#52Do video formats support structured meta data to be embedded in them? If I make a video of me cooking, can I embed the recipe in the video, etc. Not just visually, but i.e. at 10s, I digitally insert the data "Add 1 cup red peppers". It isn't necessary a caption of something said or shown, just extra data. Could a video creator leave substantially more metadata in their videos? I always assumed the pop-up metadata wa…
That sounds a bit like subtitles, or Timed Text. There are simple formats (just a text and the moment it should appear) but some formats support changing the position, color, font… most of the times this would be embedded in an extra sidecar file like an .srt or a .sub
Re: Now I can just print that video
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could also dramatically increase quality, look at the below from the example PDF from the page: > Garlic balsamic chicken, you'll be making over and over. By sear your chicken. I resin wine. Grab yourself a nice large bowl, extra virgin and olive oil. Balsamic glaze. Tomato paste. Honey, fresh lemon juice, garlic, Oregano fresh thyme, coat my chicken with this beautiful balsamic, no balsamic, left behind. Don't yo…
It's a little confused about it though.. It's not clear in the gpt version that "balsamic glaze" is what you are making by mixing the ingredients together, and makes it sound rather like some other ingredient you are mixing in. Granted, we have to decipher that a little bit in the first one too, but its not nearly as bad.
what a time saver!
Re: Now I can just print that video
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could also dramatically increase quality, look at the below from the example PDF from the page: > Garlic balsamic chicken, you'll be making over and over. By sear your chicken. I resin wine. Grab yourself a nice large bowl, extra virgin and olive oil. Balsamic glaze. Tomato paste. Honey, fresh lemon juice, garlic, Oregano fresh thyme, coat my chicken with this beautiful balsamic, no balsamic, left behind. Don't yo…
It's a little confused about it though.. It's not clear in the gpt version that "balsamic glaze" is what you are making by mixing the ingredients together, and makes it sound rather like some other ingredient you are mixing in. Granted, we have to decipher that a little bit in the first one too, but its not nearly as bad.
It's a balsamic vinegar glaze, which is an ingredient, not what you get when you mix the ingredients together.
That's why it refers to a 'balsamic mixture' once it's mixed in with other things. I actually think it's the opposite - the GPT version is clear and the non-GPT version confused you into thinking that a balsamic glaze is Tomato paste. Honey, Lemon, Garlic etc mixed together.
This is what you need: https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-glaze-with-balsamic-vineg...
Re: Now I can just print that video
#55Definitely 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…
oh, it depends
I understand and agree with you but there are situations where full video is better anyways.
example from life: I needed to teardown old laptop to replace thermal paste and I was following some image guide it was all fine until one part stuck and I couldn't figure out what was holding it. there was no way to figure that out from description and images, I needed to find video.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that ideally you want both, or maybe hybrid? like step by step guide constructed from short looped videos showing you how to do that single step?
Re: Now I can just print that video
#56I saw a YouTube video by a guy who specializes in building D&D characters. He spends twenty minutes going into detail on each one, and then makes the pitch for subscribing to his Patreon account with something like "members get all the details in a convenient list so that you don't have to keep going back to this video." So he's using the same bit of friction that this article is trying to solve, to fill his rice bow…
> So he's using the same bit of friction that this article is trying to solve, to fill his rice bowl.
You spelled out exactly what the attention economy is about. Friction. The money is made on friction. Waste - of time, of cognitive effort, of emotions good and bad.
I feel sorry for this guy, but at the same time, I wish people recognized that attention economy isn't about some nebulous attention you have too much of and don't feel when it's being taken. On the contrary, attention is stolen through friction, and the sum of everyone who "fills their rice bowls" this way is why the web and so many processes and activities on-line feel like shit and remain painfully wasteful.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe if your business model includes putting things in an inconvenient format that could best be replaced by a bulleted list, you should rethink your business model.
If that's truly what you're doing, sure. If you can reduce a movie to its screenplay without losing value, that's probably what you should be doing. A recipe is a great complement to a cooking video, but reducing the value of a cooking video's value to the recipe is oversimplified. I wish we'd go the other way, where free text content is complemented by paid-for audio or video commentary. But it has to be a very dull…
> A recipe is a great complement to a cooking video, but reducing the value of a cooking video's value to the recipe is oversimplified.
There is a simple test to make here: is the complimentary recipe released to the viewer, so that they can read it conveniently and at their own pace? If the recipe is truly a complement to otherwise great cooking video, then releasing it is a no-brainer. If it's withheld, then one has to wonder why, and what the video publisher is afraid of.
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#58Definitely 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'm on the other end of this in a way. I think it may come from having to read and write all day every day. Sometimes just having somebody yak at me for a few minutes is useful. I really enjoy watching instructional videos, especially for recipes. The demo of the cooking techniques is almost always hard to write or talk about, and easy to show. In the kitchen it works this way for me: 1. Watch the video once or twice…
Your workflow sounds like literal hell to me. I will do anything in my power to get plain text to avoid exactly the experience you are describing!
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#59Do video formats support structured meta data to be embedded in them? If I make a video of me cooking, can I embed the recipe in the video, etc. Not just visually, but i.e. at 10s, I digitally insert the data "Add 1 cup red peppers". It isn't necessary a caption of something said or shown, just extra data. Could a video creator leave substantially more metadata in their videos? I always assumed the pop-up metadata wa…
It would be better all-around to just have that data in a separate file with timestamps.
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#60I kind of wrote something for this a few years ago: https://github.com/rberenguel/glancer [edited a fat-fingered copy-paste]
The use-case is technical videos (like from conferences) I’m interested, but not enough to invest 20-60 minutes.
Haven’t used it in a few months so the yt-dlp commands may need updating.