On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:54 AM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe they should invent a method of publishing where text and video can be > seamlessly integrated into one presentation so that a good author could play > to the strengths of both...
That's what iBook Author is all about. That said, there's a huge lot of additional work that goes into making a combined multi-media presentation like that when you are trying to achieve the quality level of 'just' a video or written text. It's a big deal, as if just writing a compelling book or producing an excellent video isn't enough already. I've gone through a couple of the Julianne Kost videos on LR4 now. They're good ... she's quick and covers a lot of ground in the introductory ones in a short space of time while letting you see what the potentials are. They're also pretty heavily nuanced: you get more out of them if you work through a few, do some experimentation yourself in the environment, then go back and study the video a couple of times more. My experience from doing the workshops and talking to some of my students several months after is that most of the people I worked with found using a video series to extend their understanding much more rapidly than buying any of the books. The books have their place too ... they become repositories of detailed reference material (and task recipes) which is hard to articulate, find and re-locate in a video presentation. People learn in a lot of different ways. Adobe's chosen the video approach as it seems the fastest bootstrap means for the majority of their customer base with a highly interactive application like Lightroom. And they've done a good job with it so far, from what I see. Other means will surface too. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
