I am wondering if there would be any call for video tutorials (with spoken comentary) for Vue? I have seen a few of Shoop's, and it got me to thinking about a full set of tutorial videos from Begginer upwards. I have been playing with the idea, and have found some software that is up to the job. i have been playing around with a few ideas and I find that I can record and then DivX 'Fullscreen!' video to quite small sizes (about 12 Meg for 15 minutes video time - this will probably come down a lot smaller if i change resolution to 800 X 600) which would allow even those on Dial up to access them. I like to teach others about Vue as its a passion of mine, and I was wondering what the response may be... If its favourable I will get to work on a begginer tutorial straight away. My intention is not to charge for the first one, but thereafter a small charge may be imposed dependant on how long each one takes to prepare. The reason for this is that I won't just sit infront of Vue and 'play' and explain what I'm doing. I will structure a course properly, and plan each module carefully before releasing it. Would this interest anyone?? Kutter.

I fully support that idea Kutter. Start with a simple video tutorial that's free, so that people can see what they can expect.

Seems like a great idea. Would the tutorials be for Vue 4 or Vue Pro. :o)

GO FOR IT ... bloody fantastic idea. There are a lot of nice AVI screen capture utilities out there nowadays. Just do a nice voice-over and you're set. :) -Tim

Hey Kutter. i think that is a great idea, as long as the tutorials are full of worthwhile content. In other words, a basic rehash of the manual won't be worth much, but if you could explore new techniques and applications of the tools they would be super cool. I would suggest a project based approach to tutorials like this. Perhaps you could walk viewers through techniques to create difference scenes, with 4 - 6 tutorials for each. Maybe an underwater series, an outer space series, a shoreline/coastal scene, etc. And rather than being particular, like "put in exactly these numbers in these boxes", you could show variations like "here are 3 different ways to make a dust storm, now add one to your scene". Something like that could be very cool.

Contact e-on maybe they will hire you. :O) `shoop

Thx for you input folks. I suspect that a lot of people would like to learn this way, and perhaps they could become a regular thing here at Renderosity... Who knows, its just really an idea at the moment. Quoll, thx for your suggestions my friend. I do intend to 're-hash' the manual, but only for the sake of completeness. My intention other than that is to do exactly as you suggest, and base the tutorials around techniques and application of the different areas in Vue. I would like very much for someone to be able to learn Vue 'from scratch' as it were from my tutorials alone, and this will of course involve covering the stuff in the manual. Although it will be done from 'my' side of the fence... (i have to admit as to never reading the entire manual myself!) :) I am no profesional when it comes to Vue, I can only give 'my own' perspective of how it all works. Some things still confuse me enourmously, but I feel I know enough to ground people fairly well in different aspects, and give them enough understanding to go and experiment on their own. I wont be touching areas that I am not 100% conversant with. If I have to guess, whats the point. Later tutorials will definately be on specific projects, as this is a great way to teach. Each person doing the tutorials will have something tangible for their time listning to me rant on and on :) But for the first few, my intention is to enable almost anyone to be able to pick up Vue and start to create something they are happy with. Thanx again, Kutter.

Sounds great Kutter. I have one more suggestion. Having created a lot of tutorials myself I am painfully aware of how ambitious I can be when planning a series of tutorials, and then how busy and unable I am to complete them all when i actually start producing them. ; ) You create some very rich art and have a lot ot offer other Vue artists who are already confortable with the program. i would hate to see you get halfway through the basic "manual" stuff and then run out of time to complete them, much less offer your more advanced knowledge to the community. Or worse yet to get caught in a loop where just as you finish the Vue4 basics Vue 5 comes out and you start again. : ) Perhaps you could do one or two "manual" videos, then one or two more advanced ones, and alternate like that? Whatever you choose, best of luck to you. I'm really interested to see the results because I am working on creating some video training myself (not of Vue) and would love to see more of this in the community.

Great Idea Kutter. I'll watch/subscribe/whatever.

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Although it's being produced through my company, it'll be priced at a shareware level. Hopefully ready to ship in time for Christmas providing commercial work doesn't get in the way. :-)

There's a prototype tutorial available here.