Oh hey I had an idea for the new site- Allow people to "tag" the videos. For example, I just watched a video where you illustrate what to do if you don't have enough data points for SCC. I could "tag" that video with "SCC failure low star count 24:10" or something like that, and then if you have a "tag search" function someone else could type in "SCC failure" and land on that video. That would take some of the chore of indexing/tagging out of your hands. You could, of course, approve all tags before they're published, or you could have a group of people you trust to approve tags.
Just a thought.
P.S. For anyone that searches for "SCC failure" and lands on this comment, the video I'm referencing is this one
I think "chapters" is what you're speaking of and I think they'd be great. I'm just mindful that you have hundreds of hours of content, and doing that globally would be a herculean task. I was thinking of outsourcing that to your users, and encouraging tagging with some form of approval.
I think my solution would involve a touch less work with respect to creating, and more importantly maintaining, a FAQ if you will. I think both solutions could add value.
In my solution, in the example I was using above, I would search "SPCC fail" and come up with any video that someone tagged as "SPCC" and "fail". That way I could see multiple reference videos. In this case there's probably only one video necessary, but think of searching for the tag "masked stretch" and coming up with a bunch of videos on different types of objects that use a masked stretch, and maybe I find one that is of the type of object I'm trying to process. It may be the same procedure in general for a galaxy that has too bright of a core, and a nebula that has a blown out spot that needs a bit of reduction, but you do go through the steps in subtly different ways depending on the data being worked on. Having more than one reference may be helpful, even if you have to dig through a couple of videos that aren't before you get to the one that really helps. Tagging can really help, although if you don't have some sort of approval system, where you or a team of monkeys check to make sure that the tag is valid for that video, tags can get out of hand.
Plus, I may tag a video with "mask editor" where you may think that's not important enough to tag, but someone else, frustrated at not being able to figure out how to make a type of mask, may search for "edit mask" and come up with something useful.
I'm just making stuff up based on the video I'm currently watching. :)
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