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Paircast automatically transcribe the video's audio to text.

Yes, but then you only have the video's audio but miss out on the actual code being written, meaning you lose a lot of context.

It also records the code being written.

If the text-only experience is good enough, then why bother with encoding and storing a video?

Books are pretty good, why bother with movies?

Although I agree with you, this comment is missing the mark. Books and films are two fundamentally different mediums and have two different audiences, while this is more about supplementing the text version of something with audio/video.

I think that an audio (or video) version would be superior, but more because, assuming there are captions, the audio might be able to describe something beyond the code alone more easily than typing out a note would.

It takes lots and lots of effort to turns books into movies and vice versa.

You don't just take a transcript of the dialogue in the movie to make a book.

It claims you can git checkout code from any point of the lecture/cast

The git commit hash is included at the top of every diff in the transcript. You can `git checkout [the hash]` to get the code at that point.

Ok, that’s actually awesome!

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