Tables are turned for me; I will be in an office and therefore will be unable to run it tomorrow.
But it would be great if you and @mkolar could get together and balance your talks; like one showing plug-ins running and succeeding, whereas the other highlights a failed validator and the kind of information provided to the user at that point. Some overlap isnāt a big deal though, so donāt sweat it.
About the meeting just now; gotomeeting functionality worked well! Looks like weāll be able to rather seamlessly transition between me showing slides and you guys screencapturing. Got around 5-10 fps on average. There was also an annotation feature you could use to draw on the screen. Milan had to locally install the gotomeeting software though (as did I), youāll probably need that too @tokejepsen, hope thatās ok. Luckily our viewers wonāt have to do that.
Some of the things that struck me as really good to include from your content @mkolar:
Both Maya and Houdini in the mix
That one software explained it from the ground up, whereas the other mainly highlighted that it works here too.
Highlighting of the correlation between what we see in the GUI versus what we see in Maya
(How easy it was to integrate with Houdini, if there is time)
Next week (should we say Saturday morning, to give us enough slack to postpone if need be?) weāll run it through a few times again but this time āfor realā where we actually try and think about time and not stopping.
@tokejepsen does that work for you? That would be Saturday morning, the 20th of February.
Just wanted to hop in between all the discussion going on that Iām very excited about this webinar and am looking forward to everyoneās examples. The topics sound extremely interesting and I think it will be a good introduction for many.
Looking forward to it.
Aside from @marcus of course also thanks a lot to @mkolar and @tokejepsen for taking the time with this and sharing into the community. Also seeing ftrackās support and interest in this is great, shout out to their team as well.
Audio and video are excellent; tone of voice is very professional and calm.
About the footage in the first part; do you have any alternative footage, without āgoreā? Iām concerned about our audiences potentially getting stomach ache looking at a what is currently in there. It might sound silly, but it would extend our reach if we could instead use something PG-13.
The validation errors in the last bit, and that you are showign how to fix them; awesome
About the way you are fixing them, seeing as ārepairā and the wrench is a deprecated feature, would it be possible to instead use Actions for this?
Thought that might be a problem:) Got a backup shot Iāll prep.
This is how production works here atm. Iāve been meaning to progress to Actions, but havenāt had the time. Iāll see what I can do, but maybe a disclaimer would do as well?
I know, it makes sense, but Iām wondering whether it would be possible, just for this webinar, to do the very same thing using Actions. Iād like to avoid a million questions about how to use it and why there isnāt any documentation for repair, whereas Actions is up and coming and more happily supported.
Practically, I would imagine you moving the repair() functionality into an action, and adding that to the same plug-in. What do you think?
Itās either that, or I think we shouldnāt show repair at all.
@tokejepsen and @mkolar, if youād like your pictures in the slides like in the slides WIP, could you post or send me a circular version of the picture youād like to include? Make it 100x100 px.
Alternatively we could not have images, though I think it is a bit more approachable to have it there.
@benminall How does images and copyright work with a webinar? Is it safe to use random images off of Google, or should we stick to text and handmade illustrations?
Would be good to have a run through so everybody familiar with gotowebinar eg viewing and answering questions changing presenters, unless you already have
