Tutorials - How to take better advantage of them

Tutorials
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There are tons of great tutorials out there with great advice of how to do things in SketchUp. Many times, you must watch them multiple times in order to take advantage of them you must watch them multiple times. In this thread, I hope to share ideas of how to pause them so that you can take advantage them and apply the techniques provided by the creators.

In many cases, the creator of the tutorials have posted them as gif or mp4 videos. In this thread, I (and hopefully many of your) will share techniques for being able to view the tutorials while you are working in SketchUp by being able to pause them at various points so that you can use the techniques being presented.

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OK guys, I have figured out a way to view Box’s videos while you are using SketchUp with the ability to pause them during the process:

*First I went through his “Out of the Box” thread on both SketchUcation and SketchUp and saved the videos to a folder on my hard drive.

  • For gif files: I installed GIF Viewer. That allows me to open one of the gif files with the ability to pause the video while I am trying to “imitate” the process in SketchUp

  • For the mp4 files: I installed the Windows Media Player. That allows me to pause a mp4 movie video while I am trying to “imitate” the process in SketchUp.

  • Unfortunately for the YouTube videos, I could not download/save then so I could not come up with a similar process for them.

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Hope this is usable process for those who want to watch on of the great videos and “practice” the process in SketchUp.

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You need a browser extension called Internet Download Manager

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I downloaded and installed IDM but so far I am not seeing how to download a video from YouTube. Do you have any clues?

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I got things working correctly now after watching this video:[Search Videos]

I really appreciate you pointing out this extension. I am now able to download Box’s YouTube videos and then play them with Media Player since they are mp4 files. :+1: :+1:

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OK, here is a little more information about playing tutorial videos while you are in SketchUp:

View tutorial movies while using SketchUp
View tutorial movies while using SketchUp800Ă—532 196 KB

Download tutorial movies from YouTube
Download tutorial movies from YouTube800Ă—532 143 KB

Hope this is helpful for those who want to play and pause tutorial videos while you are using SketchUp. Being able to control the video player size and pausing the videos is very helpful. IMO :grinning_face:

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For those of you who create the great tutorials that we all view and enjoy, would you mind sharing what software you use to create toy videos (both gif and mo4 files)?

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For actual video (mp4 - not GIF), I use MacOS’s native screen capture capabilities with Quick Time. You can capture a portion of the screen, have it highlight mouse clicks, and capture audio with it.

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Thanks @RTCool but I use Windows 11 and want to find a good tool for creating mp4 and gif files.

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I use Licecap for and Screen to gif

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Yes, +1 for Licecap for GIFs