Hi,
Intro - I have a question about converting your official Audacity Help Pages/Tutorials to short videos and wonder if this has been done already, maybe at youtube somewhere? Of course, I know there are MANY help videos at youtube and have 100s of thousands of views, yet I see many as being made up to 8 years ago. As for me, my most popular video on my youtube channel has 124k views and took me just 3 mins to make (this video is growing in view counts all as time carries on, as opposed to getting views when published, then being forgotten).
1, For example, on this page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_editing_an_existing_file.html there are 3,014 words which at 200wpm will take 15 mins to read…
So, I am wondering if I made a video, whether I could get that video to just 2-3 minutes. It may be a challenge.
2, Another challenge is to make two different styles of Help Video A, Instructional videos and B, Constructivist help videos - in other words how a child may just ‘play’ with the audacity screen, click on things and see what happens. I did this a week ago while listening to some music, my mind was wandering and I started using audacity as a sound word processor copy/pasting – and having a lot of fun. The extension being how far a user (like a child or a user who cannot read the text) will get on using Audacity to the full. A ie adding a new track for labels…
3, I have started a tentative Audacity Audio Editor 2.2.0 playlist on youtube, just three video right now. Video one published 4 weeks ago is once again started off with a few views and then gathering views as time passes - very encouraging.
I’d be delighted to hear from any other Audacity users who are making or thinking of making Help Videos with version 2.2.0 onwards. I’m sure we would all like Audacity to appeal to a whole new generation of users, especially those who are young.
As a former classroom school teacher my heart goes out to anyone who wants to learn, and especially those people who are SO CLOSE to getting it right.
… One example from a comment on my video, “I’m using 2.2 and everytime I try to record it starts the recording at the end of the existing audio instead of creating a new layer” … Of course SHIFT+R would have done it, but the user did not know, or could not figure it out…
Many Thanks, Mike
ps I have used the words ''Audacity Audio Editor 2.2.0" as a lead term and ''Help Videos" - Of course there are many words like ‘Tutorial Tips Support ‘How to’ etc…’ And even searching the is forum with keyword help returns zero results ie http://forum.audacityteam.org/search.php?keywords=help
refs: My video with 124k views https://youtu.be/xkpzHJGE4Dk
Audacity Audio Editor 2.2.0 Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8J9oi-nz2_Uui617Ven_qg_qbSfUfKaC
Note - I use Audacity 2.2.0 on a windows 10 laptop …