I have a new video tutorial up - Its on Subdivision Surfaces. If 1 = newbie and 5 = expert I would rate this tutorial suitable for people in the 1.5-2.0 range. It also explains the new edge crease functions in Blender version 2.34. Its a big file 75Mb and approx. 30min. in length (I’ll try to keep it shorter next time).
The only thing I can open it in is virtualdub quicktime and Media player both have errors and shut down. When I open it in virtualdub there are several errors and it comes up with a picture of the opening screen. The animation lasts for 3 seconds and in that the mouse moves to the top of the screen.
The only thing I can open it in is virtualdub quicktime and Media player both have errors and shut down. When I open it in virtualdub there are several errors and it comes up with a picture of the opening screen. The animation lasts for 3 seconds and in that the mouse moves to the top of the screen.
I created it the same way I created the first one and it plays here under both linux and windows. I will download it again and recheck the file perhaps it was corrupted during the upload. Sorry for the inconvenience.
It looks like we may have saturated them a little – over 40 people were downloading!! I’m getting about 12 kBit/sec now – still about 1.5 hours to download.
from my experience… I say to you GreyBeard:
get as many mirrors as you can!
+even think about a script that uploads your file to all the mirrors. this could even be done from your main server, which would be more indepentend… + faster.
Have you tried using CamStuidio v. 2.0? It can record and save to swf format which lowers the megs for the video. You can also load an avi into it and save it out to swf. It would make downloading easier. However it is only for windows as far as I know. Also Rendersoft sold out to Macromedia but their last version 2.0 was open source. If you would like to try it, I found a site which you can get the 2.0 version here: http://ettc.valdosta.edu/Technical/freebies.htm
Don’t try and make the videos shorter as you suggested. This is exactly what I needed when I was first starting out. Who cares if it may take some people (including me) hours of downloading. It will save days if the material is good enough (I really like the LSCM video). Thank you for these videos, they are a great supplement to the blender learning community.
I don’t understand - the video won’t play under windows or you feel the tutorial was for linux. I have downloaded the file on a windows machine and it worked fine here. If you are referring to the latter question the windows version and the linux version have no differences in what I showed (I do use the rounded theme however). If you wouldn’t mind clarifying.
and it plays here under both linux and windows. I will download it again and recheck the file perhaps it was corrupted during the upload. Sorry for the inconvenience.
i have two 10 mbits connection but natted --> no hosting possible 
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