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I didn’t watch that particular video so I don’t know if it’s a problem or not There are some alternate video codecs that are meant for cartoons that might have less of a problem, but I have no idea if YouTube uses them or does any sort of detection to determine when it should switch to one of the alternatives (I haven’t done video creation work for over a decade, and that was all posted to our own QuickTime & Real servers, not hosted by YouTube) And I’m currently getting my internet access through phone tethering, so not really set up to go survey a bunch of high res video to analyze quality As for zooming in on text, I regularly make use of MacOS’s zoom. It’s in system preferences under Accessibility. Once enabled it’s cmd-opt-8 to toggle it, and cmd-opt-+ / cmd-opt-= to enlarge/reduce the zoom level It’s not like the fake ‘enhance’ from CSI or whatever, but it might help you make it larger and then you can squint and try to figure out what it says -Joe Sent from a mobile device with a crappy on screen keyboard and obnoxious "autocorrect" > On Oct 27, 2020, at 5:44 PM, charles meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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"