why is there no videos?

**mwrabbit** · 05-16-2008, 11:00 PM

i would of thought with a bunch computer geeks on here, there would be more video and less pics. don't get me wrong, a picture is worth a thousand words. so, if a video is made up of thousands of pictures, then wouldn't a video be worth just that much more? i love this site and have learned lots in just a weeks time. especially the section on fabrication. i can't wait to start my own project.

**rgarjr** · 05-17-2008, 12:24 AM

for vids there's always youtube

**mwrabbit** · 05-17-2008, 01:39 AM

youtube has also been somewhat awesome and if you know the right words to search, then you can find anything. but i have tried searching many ways and haven't found to much on there. just was thinking that even with youtube, we here could use links to click to get there and have some of our own vids playing showing the how to things and even could listen to people talk it through. this is just a thought and like i have said earlier, everyone here is awesome and has written many great things on here. keep up the great work and if anyone has any vids on how to things, please let me know or add some interesting links here for me to get to.

**2k1Toaster** · 05-17-2008, 03:25 AM

I know myself and a lot of other fellow geeks, we arent the attention grabbing idiots that you find in youtube videos. We prefer silent recognition. Only movie I ever posted on here, no speaking audio. I dont even like the CCTV cameras at malls/stores, give me the creeps.

**RedGTiVR6** · 05-17-2008, 09:51 AM

What would videos show that pictures won't in this kind of forum? Many times you're showing your fabrication work on a screen in your dash, or how you have something wired up. I know I don't like to have to sit and watch a video for a few minutes when I could look at pictures. not to mention, pictures are static...unchanging. If I want to look at something in more detail, i can do that with a picture, not with a video. Not to mention, video quality online v. picture quality online? No contest. WAY more detail in a photo.

**mwrabbit** · 05-17-2008, 06:15 PM

videos do have pause if you need to keep something still to really observe something in more detail. i just like vids cause you also get someone explaining how and why they are doing something the whole time the vid is moving instead of reading it and then going to a pic to see what they mean. sometimes it's hard to understand pics if your like myself and new at all this, everything just looks amazing. youtube has a very limited amount of vids showing how to fiberglass or bondo and yet when i got there, i was able to tell allot more about how those things work in a real live situation. as you can probably tell, i'm a hands on type of guy and just a little nervous to try something like these new things on my new toy. (jeep) i have seen lots of great pics on here too and refer back to those allot also. as far as better quality with a vid then a pic, maybe so, then why don't do both cause a vid would just be 1 addition to this forums and pics take up alot of course the size of pics versus vids might not be good for a vid and is why i suggested to just add a link to click and goto something like youtube.

**RedGTiVR6** · 05-18-2008, 11:37 AM

another reason is time. It takes a bit longer to shoot and edit and post a video than it does to shoot and post a simple picture.

I can tell you right now, if we had shot video and explained everything on our build, we would still be building. Instead you just post pictures and give them a descriptive title.

No everyone has the time to shoot a video and go into great detail talking about what they've done.

Not to mention, a digital camera is about a dime a dozen these days, a digital VIDEO camera isn't.

And the 30 second clips on a camera at 320 x 280 doesn't count...lol

**brucedog** · 05-18-2008, 12:12 PM

Off-topic comment here:

I just received my VADO digital video recorder from Creative ($99). Takes 640x480. Two hours good quality, One hour best quality. When full, files are 2 gig.

Like their ad says "about the size of deck of cards", and verrry light. Easy to transfer files to PC with built-in USB...

I tried it insoors and outdoors yesterday. Surprisingly good colo, detail, and sound outdoors. Indoors all good but color a bit washed, still good low-light sensitivity.

http://us.creative.com/products/prod...WT.mc_id=14227

Just thought I'd add my 2cents on cute new toy...

Blessings at all of ya.

**mwrabbit** · 05-18-2008, 12:59 PM

time is diffidently a factor in vids and your right, i would prefer spending more time on the project itself. it's just me being new at this and i do prefer watching a vid instead of just pics and am searching diligently for a place to find some besides youtube since that doesn't have many. mainly on fabricating and the proper installation of stereo equipment.