filePro videos on youtube

[Michael Schwartz (PC Support & Services)]

> Please take them down!  :-(
> 
> Is that John Essak or is there another John from the 2019 conference?  I
> did not recognize him.
> 
> These videos give filePro, as an application, no justice.  What I found:
> 
>  1. No properly defined objectives
>  2. some of them start 1/2 way into a subject one cannot identify relevancy
>  3. they appear more like videos for one personal collection than for
>     public consumption
>  4. not a good idea to present a video and the speaker goes off about
>     his 50 year ago experience with single drive access ...
>  5. even for me, one that knows filePro well enough to understand what
>     the speaker is addressing, was hard to associate to
>  6. flat - not exactly a collection of charismatic speakers
>  7. not a good idea to upload a video where audience argues with speaker
>     about the "how to" and "knows best" ...
> 
> in other words, if I were to learn anything from these videos it would
> be - run, run as fast as you can there is nothing for you
> here.
> 
> There is a good chance that some of the points I mention above are due
> to the fact that most videos just start way into the
> conversation and it is hard to understand where the speaker comes from
> nor how he got there.  One can tell that no effort
> was made to edit, cut, sort and publish these videos.
> 
> Probably, I checked looking for videos more like those uploaded by
> others that focus on one or two things and address those
> two "predefined" things.
> 
> Honestly, how many of you have seen these videos beginning to end?

     Circa 2000,  when John Esak produced these videos, they were at least a good first attempt to do some video training on filePro.  I have watched all the videos, especially John's intermediate and advanced videos, which are not on YouTube.  I certainly did learn some tricks, especially from the advanced videos.

    I recommend my filePro students watch the videos as part of their training.  John does ramble a bit, but feedback from my students is that they learned a lot from the videos.  The students have questions from the videos, but that is to be expected.  They are worth it to me just for the value of the questions they generate.  

     Around 2000 I started to do some filePro training videos myself, but John Esak was further along with his videos.  My bachelor's degree is in communications, so I've taken a lot of media production courses including a courses like, "Multi-media production scripting" and  "Defining educational objectives".  Most likely my videos would have been more polished than John's were, but I didn't think there would be any benefit to the community (or to me, financially) if I was to compete with John's videos.

     That does get me thinking, though.  Perhaps it is time for some new filePro videos.  I don't have time to start on such a project right now, but would welcome any efforts by anybody to produce at least a few new "intro to filePro" videos and post them on YouTube...

     Good food for thought...

Thanks!

Mike Schwartz