You're getting 21 syllables out literally within the first three seconds of the video starting. You're speaking at a very quick pace, which demonstrates a degree of passion and engagement, but the beginning of the video feels like I've been dropped into the middle of a passionate, fast-paced college lecture with no background about the who / what / why. I peeked at a couple of your older videos, which feature brief introductions that appear to be missing here.
Are you trying to produce tutorials, or deep-dive technical videos? Are you trying to inform me how to build a lean, low-dependency web API with Python, or trying to persuade me of the benefits of doing so?
I'm confused, I look at the video description. Aha! The missing piece! This needs to be at the beginning of the video, not in the description - it answers all of the questions I'm being bombarded with.
You enunciate and verbally emphasize well, but could use some slowing down. I'm no stranger to the need to put videos at 1.25x to not fall asleep, but this is the first time I can remember needing to put a video at 0.75x to hear, understand, and comprehend what was being said, having lacked the context that was provided in your video description, but nowhere in your fast-paced video itself.
You do a good job at explaining not only what's occurring on screen as it happens, but what you're doing as you do it, too. I think your tone itself is perfectly fine for technical content, but the presentation, especially at the very beginning, but the pace and depth of the introductory phase of the video felt like being shoved into the deep end of a pool with no warning; it was jarring how quickly and rapidly I was hit with content before I could even contextualize what I was getting into.
Vouched and upvoted; your desire to improve as a response to critical feedback is laudable. Keep up the good work.
I knew that was a bad idea. I wanted to keep the video under 30 mins, and I sped the entire thing up abou 118%, as well as cut like, almost my entire introduction out of the start.
Thanks for pointing all these things out, now I know from the other perspective why and what I should and shouldnt cut out. Because I honestly was second guessing cutting all my introduction out to save 3 minutes, but I wasnt sure if 3 minutes was too long of just talking and I would lose attention, and also I needed to cut just a ton of content out to get below 30 mins.
Thanks a lot for the feed back.
Do you think videos like these need more animations/ visuals to be more entertaining or understandable? Or do you think content like this doesnt require those kinds of attention keeping tactics? I mean I try to be visual with code output and stuff like that, but I wasnt sure If i need to up my editing skills because its lacking important audio/visual production qualilty.
Thanks again so much for the feedback, Im going to keep all that you said at the for front of my next videos and try to eventually be a bit more digestable.
I don't think this type of content necessarily benefits from a bunch of animations and visuals. Your target audience seems to be technical enough to follow along with a terminal or IDE, especially with you explaining what you're doing and what's happening.
ReadTheError•6mo ago
Thanks for your time.