"Of course, I really very much dislike the trend toward video tutorials (and podcasts) because I end up spending 30 minutes searching for a simple answer that I would otherwise find in 15 seconds of scanning a written document."

Ditto. I'm not sure what's possible with interactive video but it should be possible to have some kind of menu or index. Even if it were only a plain list telling you that 'Render Settings' starts at 10:52, that would be helpful.

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