If someone wants to look at it longer he can hit the pause button and keep it up as long as he wants. Three to five seconds should be long enough for someone to hit pause.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, bob therriault <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Harvey, > > The 8 second pause only leaves the last frame up for an extra 8 seconds. It > doesn't keep viewers from navigating where ever they like. If this were > incorporated into a J lab then the pause would hold up the tutorial, but I > can't think it would be too much of a problem on the wiki page. > > I haven't seen a way to grab the last frame in Youtube. At first I thought > that it was because I had a fade to black at the end of the video, but I > uploaded without the fade and it still grabbed black. I'll keep looking for > solutions. In the meantime would a 5 second pause be acceptable, or do you > see it as that big an issue? > > Cheers, bob > > On -Mar8-2010, at -Mar8-20102:56 PM, PackRat wrote: > > >> I added an eight second pause through youTube at the end (didn't > >> even know I could do that before your comment!) I'll do this for all > >> of the animations, as I don't see a downside to this (yet). Let me > >> know if one pops up. > > > > I'm not sure I favor an 8-sec pause. Wouldn't that force the viewer to > > have to wait 8 secs, whether they want to or not? Why can't you just > > stop with the final result on the screen? I'm not familiar enough with > > YouTube to know if this works or not. Windows Media Player, for > > example, always goes back to the initial image, if any. If I remember > > correctly (and that may be a false memory), YouTube stops with the > > final image that was displayed, if any. > > > > Harvey > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
