Ton, I made this 5 years ago and it has had almost 41,000 hits. I don't like the quality anymore. I have higher standards now. It is only 5 or 6 minutes long. I would like to remake it though. I don't think I will have a chance until next weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRwrEU6KDYY
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a friendly mail from a Linux user I had. He failed using Blender > for a simple video task. > http://download.blender.org/institute/firsttime.pdf > > I'm happy that KDEnlive worked for him, and I explained to him that > Blender is an advanced 3D creation suite which you have to invest time in > to understand it well. > > Nevertheless, three lessons we can learn from this: > > 1) Meaningless tooltips > > The "System info" menu has as tooltip "Generate system info". That's > insufficient. It leaves very relevant information to the notifier button > that's very easy too miss. > > 2) Meaningless error message > > "Report Error. File format is not supported in...". > > What is that supposed to mean? Errors can easily give more details, > especially mentioning the function or operator that throws the error and/or > about the context or editor it is in. > > 3) Blender support section: Tutorials. > > http://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/ > > There is no beginner tutorial on blender.org for newbies how to quickly > get a video edited. > Anyone knows one? Then I'll add it there. > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute > Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
