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Longer videos ?

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:19 pm
by jacek
So YouTube just told me
Congratulations! Your account is now enabled for uploads of longer than 15 minutes. Click the Upload button below to select a video.
I guess there is no limit as there is no one mentioned.

So would you prefer parts still or 3 hours of non-stop me jabbering on ?

Unless this is a bug :lol:

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:23 pm
by EcazS
I've seen 6 hour long videos, doubt there is a limit :lol:

You could make the parts a little bit longer, I don't mind a 20 minute video but 30+ minutes is to long for me.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:23 pm
by master
Long videos are fine.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:51 pm
by jacek
i guess it will be nice not to have to panic at stop at 15:05 :lol:

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 12:08 am
by Temor
Long videos are nice since it saves me from going back to your channel to view the next part, but I love the sudden breaks you take, you always crack a comment or something that makes me laugh. And several videos = more views for you = more subscribers = bigger channel = bigger forums. So its entirely up to you, really.
Save your viewers 5 seconds of their lives OR have the ability to take breaks + get more traffic.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 12:35 am
by jacek
Well I don't particularly care about views or subscribers, but I do like the breaks.

Actually thinking about it I doubt I would be able to get through an hour of video without making any big mistakes ;)

Although, my videos do seem to always be about 2 times longer than I plan so it might just happen :lol:

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:29 am
by GenSwat
EcazS wrote:I've seen 6 hour long videos, doubt there is a limit :lol:

You could make the parts a little bit longer, I don't mind a 20 minute video but 30+ minutes is to long for me.
20 minute I would say max, it will save you from getting mind lock, when your gettin tired of speaking and talking at the same time. You figure, it would probly take you 5 min to write a code no vid.Now you have to type, speak, look ahead/think ahead,track time and edit's if errors or you wanted to update a line of code or 2.

I kinda liked your vides the was they are.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 4:54 am
by Tino
Longers videos are fine. It's the content that matters mostly.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:55 am
by bowersbros

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:59 am
by EcazS
jacek wrote: Although, my videos do seem to always be about 2 times longer than I plan so it might just happen :lol:
:lol:

I can't remember which video it was but you said something like "Ok, this part will probably be the last one around 5 minutes" then I looked at the "time bar" and it said 10 minutes and in related videos there was another part, that made go :lol:

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 8:28 am
by ta2shop
for my part videos are ok, becouse, it gives my time to think about what a am doing and to test the script echo out thing, studi a bit, then when i fil like it a just go ahead with the secound part, and sone, but then again if you make a tutorial about somthin short like the pagination tutorial, i think that for the users it maite by more easy to understand this tutorials if thei are in one pice!
but again totaly up to you ;)

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 9:32 am
by jacek
I guess I will aim for ~20 min parts then.

I think parts are kind of better really, but sometimes I have to stop at a point that is not very natural because of the limit.

If each part has something as a result that you can test, it will be easier to spot where you have gone wrong too.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 9:37 am
by ta2shop
i now, i do that, i stop the video and test out what i got so far, and when i dont understand somthing, i just go back on the video (50 times) til a getit :lol:

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:51 pm
by Temor
bowersbros wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwtX4gW3-xU

I guess no limit exists? ;)


Nope.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:54 pm
by Tino
I stopped watching that after the first five seconds because it hurt my eyes...

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:55 pm
by Temor
Tino wrote:I stopped watching that after the first five seconds because it hurt my eyes...
No man in his right mind would watch 20 days of blinking colors.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:57 pm
by Tino
Exactly :lol:

And no man would go through the trouble of creating and uploading that.

Meaning the one who uploaded it was, in fact, a woman.

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:59 pm
by Temor
Tino wrote:Exactly :lol:

And no man would go through the trouble of creating and uploading that.

Meaning the one who uploaded it was, in fact, a woman.
It has to be! Must have taken days to upload, and no woman would keep her computer running for more than a day straight, so she must have done it on her boyfriends/husbands computer.

Must have been a stress to the computer to actually compile that video. Poor computer :(

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 2:01 pm
by Tino
It's also from three years ago, meaning the hardware was slightly worse than now, too!

I too feel sad for that computer :(

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 2:44 pm
by EcazS
Temor wrote: It has to be! Must have taken days to upload, and no woman would keep her computer running for more than a day straight, so she must have done it on her boyfriends/husbands computer.
And it must have been in the kitchen!...*cough*

Re: Longer videos ?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 2:46 pm
by Tino
I think that's enough gender discrimination for now :lol: