YouTube Tutorials

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August 14, 2014
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Hey guys and girls,

This may be better presented on ETC and I am sure the gatekeeper will decide and move it if it does. But I am curious how many of you when faced with a design challenge or situationwill go on YouTube and search for a tutorial clip. Is it effective for you?I am toying around with the idea of creating tutorial clips and sharing almost 30 years of experience on Pro. But I am still a working stiff so it would take time out of work schedule to do it. And of course, in the New World Order, nobody pays for training unless they are in a classroom. At my age, to build a following where advertisers would want to run ads on my YouTube channel is highly unlikely. Writing books is futile as many tried that early on in Pro/E world.

I am just asking for opinions if it's worth the time deviation, if anyone else has done it and does it even matter in a world of free labor? Thoughts?

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StephenW

23-Emerald III

I'm subscribed. First video I looked at was sketcher orientation. A guy just asked me about that last week. I'm gonna send him there.

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JoshuaHouser

16-Pearl

Looking good Dean!

I've only reviewed the variable draft video so far. The video quality is good as well as the sound. The time of the video works well for me, as I would usually want quick answers. This makes it easy to search for functionality I'm interested in.

Best of luck, I hope you can continue to make these videos. I will share the channel internally and externally.

Joshua Houser

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DeanLong

Author

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Guys and girls,

Thanks for the subscriptions! That is kind of cool.....makes a bit mushy.

Question: Do you prefer short "to the point" littleclips or feature length webinar type demos? I ask because, contrary to the PR and Marketing hype, designing something well takes preparation, thought and time to do. I have had a couple people give feedback that they would have preferredthe first little demos I did to go faster. But they are only 4 - 6 minutes. How much faster can they be and also be effective?

Thanks for any input you can share.

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rrich

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Keep it under 10 min. 3-5min is sweet spot.

Ron

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rrich

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If you need more than 10 min then make title Sketcher part 1 of X and put a link to all the part on every post.

Ron

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cdspk

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I also prefer to use Youtube as a backup to text/image based pages. For my student site I use a Wordpress blog as it's very easy to develop and modify and I embed the youtube vids in the page. I use text on the vids rather than voice over so you can pause the vid, has worked for me for many years and has turned into a substantial site, the issue is always updating to the next release - try and make things as generic as poss. we do a lot of surface modelling where this works well,

Cheers, Sean

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