Rewrite the guides...

[AbsoluteDestiny]

I spent all of last night trying to figure out what quantizer, and quantizer matrix are exactly, for example.

I actually did a very long post on the old forum explaining what quantizers and quantizer matrices are - it's not that easy to work out ^_^

If Phade can did up the post again, it would be cool... it took me ages to write.

[OmniStrata]

Point taken, in that case, I'm NOT doing it...

If they can't read / utilize the guides, I guess they're not trying...

Me personally, I read the instructions on HOW TO USE THE PROGRAMS listed, not all the other technical stuff and I turned out fine...

[Just ask the NES Project peeps... ^_^]

LONG LIVE THE GOOD ENCODE! ^_^

[AbsoluteDestiny]

I am really glad that more and more people are learning from these guides - it makes me proud to go to these forums and see people asking questions about techniques they would never had dreamed of using before - and even better... people answering them because they have read the guides.

It's very cool

I think most people who have worked it out for themselves are willing to give those finding it hard to understand a few pointers (and that is really great) but I think the guides are as detailed as they have to be for people to learn... and they are, does that rule or what

[Luke Valentine]

No one commented on my hilarious image

[EarthCurrent]

No one commented on my hilarious image

I wonder why...???

[jbone]

No one commented on my hilarious image

The one in your signature?

It still breaks the site's signature image rules.

[mexicanjunior]

No matter how good a guide is, there'll always be someone too stupid to understand it.

That would be me

Same here.

[Luke Valentine]

Haha. No one could possibly be too stupid to understand my guide!

[madmallard]

Opinion mode:

You can't really teach applicable knowledge to most people with putting it into context. Ingenuity is not easily drawn out of most people.

There is nothing wrong with wanting a 1 sentence answer to a question. In fact, a person who has gotten this far is further along than most of us half the time. Why? Because they think they know exactly what they want to do, even if they dont know how to do it. I hear people asking for/looking for ideas more than half the time i talk to them (or they talk to me). Get stuck, or whatever.

the tendancy of building a foundation without application of it is that pieces of the basics are forgotten easily from one lesson to the next.

good example. . .akuma productions? where are you? get in on this thread and tell people about how you were asking me to teach you how to use premier over Email last year. . .

[FATTY_VM]

i can see both points to this argument .. here i am a n00b .. with no expiriance using primiere .. but with a firm bases on my idea of what i want my work to be. i have read through half of the guides so far and was looking through the forum for suppliant(sp) information..

but if i looked at it from the other side.. of a person who has been working with these programs and utensels who had learned the ins and outs on their own... id like it if the newcomers to this genre of artistic expression didnt simply get their hand held through a step by step process and come out none the wiser to wtf. they just accomplished. i say the guides for the most part are sufficient as long as their are a few people out their to catch those who make serious attempts and get caught on a few error's or problems.