The first video is called “10 Tips & Hidden Features”:
There are some other Kirby Courses in the pipeline already, like an introduction to the Modules plugin. I list the video ideas in this Trello board: https://trello.com/b/dfAmcIrY
If you have any other ideas I’d love to hear them. Also, any feedback regarding the first video would be awesome.
I’m glad even the pros learn something new in the video as I feared most things were just hidden from me for a long time.
After the structure and modules videos I think I will upload a small example website video, maybe subdivided into shorter videos. “Templates”, “Blueprints”, “Plugins”, … There’s a lot of things to learn from other developers I think. If somebody else wants to do this I’d gladly turn this into a community channel.
That’s the sole reason I buy templates sometimes, it’s really interesting to see how other developers solve problems.
I didn’t know about any of those features. Amazing!
Seriously, great job! We wanted to do such videos for a long time, but never managed to actually produce them. It’s quite a lot of work to get them done in such a nice way, so you are really doing the community a huge favor!
Good video. I knew some of the things covered, but learned some as well. Some more of these roundups could be worthwhile. I also like the idea of “focus” videos.
Just saw the Trello board, good idea. I like the idea of a video about the structure field.
I just uploaded the next Kirby Course: Structure Field: Introduction. @grantpalin, @thesmithy and a few others requested this so I hope this helps you getting started:
For everyone that already knows how to use the structure field:
I’m in the progress of recording a video about the modules plugin and the recently updated and renamed sortable field. Since the delete subpages issue is now resolved, the modules are a must-have for every complex Kirby website in my opinion.
Very very awesome video again! I really like the structure (pun intended) and that it’s so easy to follow. Still a very good overview over the structure field.
I did not learn anything this time but it’s probably great for new Kirby users. I also liked the honesty about the limitations of the structure field and how to solve these limitations by using plugins.
About the video itself I like:
The sound quality and volume.
The length. A perfect short video seems to be 6-7 min.
The not live mistake approach. Nothing like “Ooops, I will correct this, wait a minute… soon you will see some awesomeness, just wait for it… my capslock has stuck!!! now there we are… where were we now!?”
The graphics like the logo etc. Gives a good impression.
The white cat with blue eyes called Thomas Günther.
I am not happy with the sound quality at all to be honest, but I plan to purchase a better microphone at some point. If anybody has a suggestion for a good microphone, please let me know! Maybe this one? @HYR helped me a lot with the ScreenFlow suggestion already. I used it for this video and it was a lot faster than Premiere.
The “no mistakes” approach is super time consuming, but I hate to watch tutorials myself where I scream “You just forgot a letter! That’s why it doesn’t work!” at the screen.
I’ll just take the last one as a compliment… I guess
That mic is probably a good choice as it sounds quite nice and is also easy to setup and use. Rode also has a dynamic USB mic called the “Rode Podcaster”. But it’s very large and heavy and you need to be very close to it (advantage: it picks up less noise from computer fans, the street etc.).
This series is really off to a fantastic start with the first two videos. I can only agree with the others that the quality of the videos is awesome and you manage to explain features in a very straight-forward way, that is easy to understand but yet informative and fun. It also pays off that you put a lot of effort into the production.
For the mic: I think the sound quality isn’t too bad. I bought a Røde NT a couple months ago and I’m pretty happy with it. I think it’s quite similar to the Podcaster, which Lukas recommended and both are good choices.