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I'd say "by hand"... Maybe you think it's too boring to be made
manually? ;-)
Making me download over 20mb (!) to see some "speaking heads".
Here's another link:
"Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online"
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/video.html
I'm curious if any of you have patience to listen the whole thing. As
for me, I drop after 5 minutes.
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Isn't this done using "Breeze" - Adobe's tool for making this kind of thing?
Its a pretty clever piece of technology and it must be pretty hard for the
Adobe guys to have to stand up in front of camera and talk about this
kind of thing.
Which is a real shame because I completely agree with Gregory (and
Jacob Nielson) that the end
result is really frustrating because the speed at which you get the
information is
much slower than reading - and its difficult to skip ahead to the
bits you're interested in.
In the last few years the standard of writing and communication on Macromedias
site had really improved but every so often I click on a useful
looking link which
takes me straight to a breeze presentation and I give up straight away.
While I was writing this it occured to me that a tool which automatically
created a "photo-story" might solve this problem - you'd still get
the visual impact but
you'd be able to skim ahead to the bits you want.
Do other people find these Breeze presentations useful? - I'd be
really interested to
know if you do.
Joe
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