[VIDEO TUTORIAL] How to fill in your Profile
Posted on: February 20, 2007How nice of Hamlet Au|James Wagner Au to blog about my Video Tutorials in New World Notes, notably that you can hear my "real voice" in them. I figured there was no other way around it and subtitles in silence put me to sleep, so there ya go. Now's a good time for me to share the newest:
A fine example of help that should be more obvious, but isn't wasn't.
I've had some fresh suggestions from my previous vidtut post — and have many comments 'cross my blog and elsewheres to reply to! So as time allows — this week looks to be extra-busy with sundry duties — I want to make more. And when I can't, that's when I hope fellow Lindens or Residents can step in and create a positive difference. I'm doing this with the intention of energizing, catalyzing; as Jim Cramer says:
I'm not here just to entertain you but to educate you.
Even if you don't make movies and just enjoy watching them, I seek your knowledge: if you've seen any Second Life Video Tutorials you've really enjoyed, please let me know about them. I'm compiling a list of resources which I want to publish for future convenience.
For me to know I've saved you time is GREAT. Let's keep rock 'n' rolling!
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February 20th, 2007 at 5:35 AM PST
> I’m compiling a list of resources which I want to publish for future convenience.
YES PLEASE! I still bang my head (in a bad way) over how gems of information about SL are scattered across the web. Things are improving, and the time and effort you've been putting in shines!
February 20th, 2007 at 5:56 AM PST
I really enjoyed this camera tutorial: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2LMcryDCIYk
February 20th, 2007 at 1:04 PM PST
Yeah, your tuts are really useful, I use the camera controls all the time; thanks to you I know how to, and I use the hold-space-to-take-small-steps-thing a lot, when I want to stand exactly on a mountain top
I'd never known about that one if it wasn't for you.
So hooray to Torley!
February 20th, 2007 at 1:14 PM PST
and the other one from naturalselection.com might be worth adding too.
looking forward to your overview
February 21st, 2007 at 1:48 AM PST
Let me say I'm a big fan of your video tuts, Torley.
It's nice hearing a natural voice in a tutorial.
Also… :O If I'd have been on HI right then I'd have recognized you and… probably made a mess of your fine tutorial..
February 21st, 2007 at 12:49 PM PST
Hi Torley,
Could you add your keyboard shortcuts to something like the comments after you do your videos? That would be REALLY helpful.
Even better would be a list of all the Client shortcuts.
A big thank you for all your efforts.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:35 PM PST
Storm: Will do, it'll likely be refreshed over the ages, but I've got a start on it. I'm also planning to do a Video Tutorial-related article for the next issue of The Second Opinion, mentioning some of what I've found thus far, so please lookout for that!
rikomatic: Thanx, got it bookmarked.
Daedalus: I gotta use the shorthand "tuts" more… I DO THE SAME THING WITH MOUNTAIN TOPS! Ah. *big smile*
iphi: Yup! I severely appreciate NSS' work, they set a beautiful example.
Elix: Thrilled you find it natural, I didn't want to be like, robo-stilted. I like freeflowing filming, so purrhaps we coulda made it part of the final cut!
Shockwave: Great idea, having a text summary with said details — will remember it for next times!
Thanks ultrafantastically to each and all of you for watching and helping me too!
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:17 PM PST
Your tutorials are very nicely done. What software do you use to smoothly zoom in on details during post-production?
Actually there is a way to use a voice in podcasts that is alternative to the one you have in RL. While it is not perfect, it is getting better and better, just like the rendering of one's avatar. I use it to speak the intro and outro of my podcasts (here's one about democracy in SL, for example if you want to sample). It is the synthetic text-to-speech voice from Dragon NaturallySpeaking! You can choose male, or female, pitch, and tweak the pronounciation, and intonation just writing text that when read out by the robot sounds the way you want, even if wrongly spelled,,, or with extra commas.
I also use Dragon in SL to dictate into the chat input field, and it works very, very well, enabling me to talk faster than anybody else I ever met in-world.
Try it out, and let me know
'Davidorban Agnon'
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:11 PM PST
I love the video Torley! Your voice is AWESOME! You should have your own radio show. I was cracking up and learning ALL AT THE SAME TIME!
February 24th, 2007 at 2:07 PM PST
@David: Thanxies! I'm a big fan of Sony Vegas for zooming. Zooming came out of necessity because showing the whole screen at smaller resolutions which are compact enough to stream also obliterates fine detail. Plus, it's beneficial to show, close-up, what's needed to be interacted with. Thanx for the synthvoice tip too, I used to follow some of that tech when my career was electronic music. Do you get lots of comments noticing how fast you're "typing"?
@Oz: THANKYOU! Now you know what I sound like. Hehehe well up next is gonna be Linden Lab podcasting; I actually don't know how I feel without VISUALS yet, but it'll give me, and many fellow Lindens I hope, an opportunity to speak on topics of interests in an entertaining + educational way.