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I get the concept, but can you possibly elaborate on the why? Is this to save time watching movies?

I hate the type of ‘instructional videos’ that have (likely programmatically) edited all and any short pause in the audio making the video appear as a 30+min continuous speak.

I mostly interpret this as ‘see me see me - I’m good!’ in stead of ‘let me try to educate you about this subject’.

All the natural pauses between sentences gives a much better and natural flow.

This also includes ‘oups I made a mistake .. and fixed it like this…’

Just like the line breaks in this comment serves a purpose;-)

One great example of a really good tutorial is Eivind Fonn’s Spacemacs ABC videos: https://youtu.be/2y9NLIbNf_I

Here’s my worst example of how not to teach: https://youtu.be/qtIqKaDlqXo

This series is also bad as there is way too much zoom in and out (which distract all but the presenter!)

https://youtu.be/qtIqKaDlqXo

I hear you, but there's a middle ground I think.

A bunch of non-breaking quick cuts is of course jarring and could be better, but what you describe with "mistakes and all" is too far down the other end in my mind. I would not want to sit through someone having to backpedal like that.

But to each their own, we all learn differently.

I completely disagree. When I'm trying to learn something, I'd much rather sit through a short, efficient video than a 1 hour unedited video of someone including mistakes and rambling. Hell I generally don't even have the patience for videos in the first place and default to searching for text first unless I'm specifically looking for audio. But to each their own.

Well, no, although a digest-maker for feature films would be an interesting concept!

It's for videos you make yourself, to remove silent parts automatically. In interviews for example, it's useful to simply remove silences.

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