Ho Joe,

It IS the former.

I watch YT instructional videos so seeing the characters is really
important they appear in larger enough size in the video.

The video I included does not appear large enough even for those with 20/20
clear vision and supposedly appearing in 1080p.

What I'm learning from this journey is few YT creators are ensuring others
(who've never used the program being taught) can easily see the words in
that program.

For some time, others have stated it was a high def issue but you've
conformed what I suspected.

So, when you're advised to "just watch some YT videos" that's of little
help if the YT videos have words on screen which appear tiny, albeit in
high def.

Have you found a work-around? If I press the Ctrl key and press the + sign
the screen is enlarged but the words on the screen are not.

Thank you!

Charles.

Date:    Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:26:07 -0400
From:    Joe Hourclé <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Trying to learn via You Tube video tutorials

Are you asking about how to view the videos so you can actually read them,
or how to make tutorials that aren’t crap?

I don’t have advice for the first one, unfortunately, as most video
compression codexes really suck for this type of content

If you’re making your own, there used to be some applications that were
more geared to this sort of content.  Most of them used static frames with
voiceovers, so they resulted in smaller overall sizes.   There were
protocols such as SMIL that could be used to sync up the images and the
audio:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language

Unfortunately, the main use seemed to be so that streaming radio players
could display ads at at the appropriate time, and Microsoft never put
support into their web browser (and Google had plans to remove it at one
point) so you have to rely on plugins to view them

There used to be tools that would basically ‘record’ your desktop and as
you interacted with it, and then let you go back and annotate (arrows,
circles, etc) but I don’t remember the names, and as it was probably 10
years ago it’s possible that there’s something better at this point

There are also some programs that will convert PowerPoint presentations to
SMIL, so if you’re willing to just take a lot of screenshots yourself, you
could go that route

...

I should also mention that when I make presentations (for keynote or
PowerPoint), I set my display’s resolution as LOW as I can before taking
screen shots, or I enable ‘text zoom’ or equivalent to increase the font
size.  I will also take two screen shots for most things that I’m trying to
show, one that shows the whole screen for context, and then a second one
that’s cropped tighter around the content so it’s easier for people to read

-Joe

Sent from a mobile device with a crappy on screen keyboard and obnoxious
"autocorrect"