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Originally Posted by Trollheart
The thing is, some of the mods whose job it is to approve your entry have slower, older computers and I certainly got a right bollocking for crashing at least one of them. If you go through anybody's journal with videos, even Unknown Soldier's, where he groups four videos together at the end of the review, your PC will stutter and the page will freeze for a few seconds. And my PC is a good one: AMD six-core Phenom II. Now, multiply that by the amount of journals these guys have to approve, and if it keeps happening two things are going to happen: you'll get a warning not to use so many videos or spoiler them or, worst case scenario, your entries will not be approved or will take a while to be.
If you're determined to use all your videos unspoilered, I'd PM the mods who will be approving them (Janszoon, Loathsome Pete, Urban, Vanilla, Goofle etc) and ask if they're ok with that. If you don't do this, you run the risk of getting under their skin, which is never a good thing. But also bear in mind that people reading your journal may struggle with a bunch of videos and this may cause them not to bother coming back. You could always do a bit of a survey I guess, see who is affected by it and how.
I rarely use videos anymore. I feel my writing should say enough about the music without having to "draw pictures" with video. After all, if someone really wants to hear what you're writing about, YouTube is only a click away...
Yes, but is it complete yet? I'll certainly think about it, as I said originally I might link the two.
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Do you know of a limit of videos per-page that would do that?
I don't have that problem of my computer freezing then crashing, just curious if there is a limit.
The one thing I have mind when writing a journal is how much time does it take for a reader to go through a post. Both reading and listening to the song or album if they chose to do so. I'm sure there are readers who either read and listen to everything, or they're there just to read, or they're there just to check out the videos. I figure
e.g. if a reader spent 5 minutes a journal and went through a dozen journals that is an hour or however you want to figure it — (How much on listening to the songs or album + reading time) X how many journals. I provide videos as a time saver to find it. I am sure the popular stuff they can find on their own, but sometime less popular videos won't show immediate in the search returns. They're found in, what people like to call, "
the other side of YouTube."
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Originally Posted by aux-in
I'm working on my next write-up for my Journal. What I'm trying to decide is...I am a visual person as well, so I'm not sure the spoiler tags will be right for me. OK, I am sure...I really don't want to do that. I am new to this process, but the goal is full creativity. I don't mind if it takes awhile to get approved. It's a journal entry and not a regular forum post, so even if it took a day or two, it just looks better to me to have the videos be ever-present in conjunction to the points I'm trying to make. What say you?
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I guess another way of providing videos other than having them embedded is to provide the link(s), and change them. Include a song title and add them to what you write, like who says
You Can't Do That?
In case you don't know how to fiddle around with them:
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