Jonj1611 opened this issue on Aug 10, 2009 · 41 posts
3DNeo posted Sat, 15 August 2009 at 11:51 PM
Quote - Ami's presentation was fine, particularly in that overwhelmingly hectic environment. I prefer a presentation by a real user to one by a slick PR/sales person. It was informative and useful. I like her geekatplay tutorials too, its like learning from a friend.
I read some of her blog too - another amazing woman who has to be a cross between an angel and a juggler. Not easy taking care of a family and having a career too, good thing women can multi-task so well :)
As for CobraEye's comment - I thought personal attacks are against TOS? perhaps something for a coordinator/moderator to act upon?
Agreed. I have ALWAYS said how much I LOVE the work and effort the guys at geekatplay.com do. Another great person I know is Peggy Walters that helped in editing their book for English corrections and technical detail. Both fine people it seems and very professional. As others, I have and use their video tutorials a lot and find them quite useful.
There are a few constructive tips I have though to help them some:
Slow down the mouse movements and speed. Sometimes they go too fast to get a good grasp.
Like on the shows videos with Ami, doing some audio edits would help such as normalizing and isolating the main voice and running a filter pass on the audio track to eliminate or heavily reduce the background noise. This can all be done by simply using an audio editor to turn them into tracks, running the filters and merging. I think it would help the quality a lot for some of them.
When doing a live event, either capture direct or use an HD camera that is zoomed on the screen or focus area. By using HD, you can do a lot of edits and have much greater detail and control, especially in software.
Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing them. :)
Jeff
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