In creating tutorials, the key is exercising restraint.
This is especially important when dealing with Emacs, which is a classic case of an almost complete lack of restraint concerning the hierarchical organization of features. EmacsWiki is another great example of a huge tangled ball of knots.
Most experts forget exactly how impenetrable a new subject can seem to a beginner. I commend the tutor for not forgetting this!
I'm trying to balance out the two and spent quite a while trying to tease out stuff that's not too superficial but at the same time is not too deep for beginners to follow.
Like most of these things, it's going to be impossible to please everyone but if there is a sizeable fraction of people who find this useful, I think it's served its purpose.
As for me, thinking through the whole thing in advance, trying stuff out and preparing the material helps me clarify my own knowledge.
Otherwise, thanks! I usually find screencasts to be way too low-bandwidth for technical information, but these are very good. Cheers!
When I started the tutorials, the archive didn't automatically create the .mp4 files. Either that or the processing was so way back in the queue that I thought it didn't. Someone complained about the webm files not playing under ios devices so I made the mkv ones which they were happy with. I put this along with the rest of my workflow rules and it's been there since https://gist.github.com/2466292
But you're right, now that the archive automatically generates the h.264 videos, I should probably drop the mkv files and just upload the webm ones.
Do the mp4s work fine under ios? I don't have any Apple devices to test this with.
Do you mean a TOC in the blog post or directly in the video for a few seconds? If the former, I did try to add a "list of things covered" in the post.
Do you think that a video with TOC/intro and content is a good idea ?
Also, there are more and more videos of Vim too. Emacs is my favorite text editor, followed by Vim. All this is great news :)
That's where I learned about ace-jump-mode and undo-tree-mode, both of which I cannot live without anymore :)
