I was in the 2nd class and had the course on DVD which I loved because I played them on 1.5x speed so you could blow through them at a faster speed an not have so many pauses in the presentations.
The Con. Ed is something you have to download and it play on a flash player at regular speed.... and it's killing me :excruciating:
is there a way to have the flash player play faster?
help me mr. wizard!!!
Time to be contrary again ....
and this is not aimed at Rankin personally, but to surveyors as a group, but ....
Why are surveyors always looking for a way to short cut continuing ed? And I suppose it's not just surveyors, I've known engineers that want to take the shortcuts as well.
Just an observation - nothing more and nothing personal.
Time to be contrary again ....
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> Why are surveyors always looking for a way to short cut continuing ed?
Ooooo .... Oooooo.... waving hand franticly to get the attention of the teacher ... I know!
Most people want to reduce the time spent in lectures and seminars because the instructors (mostly) are really bad at teaching.
Dave we both have been to some real snooze-rs. Back before I started teaching the classes going to one with a bad instructor was boring as hell with little or no learning going on. Now that I know how much difference little things can make, it is downright painful to go to a bad seminar.
Just my two cents worth.
Larry P
Time to be contrary again ....
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I agree. I got a chance to listen to a good set of lectures on tape, and it was a real joy to fast-forward through some segments of it. This particular teacher liked to bloviate about how intelligent he was sometimes ad nauseum. (No offense to him, as he was an extremely intelligent gentleman but I wanted to learn about his topic more; and less about how he “even achieved a US patent on a design for a positioning system utilizing a spherical coordinate system rather than the Cartesian Coordinate System generally used on machinery worldwide.”….as someone recently put it on this site.)
I enjoy Larry P's lectures....and wish I could go to the one on how to talk and not be boring....;-)
> I was in the 2nd class and had the course on DVD which I loved because I played them on 1.5x speed so you could blow through them at a faster speed an not have so many pauses in the presentations.
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> The Con. Ed is something you have to download and it play on a flash player at regular speed.... and it's killing me :excruciating:
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> is there a way to have the flash player play faster?
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> help me mr. wizard!!!
OK, I'm only going off what you posted, so this may or may not work in your circumstance. If it is a flash file, you can download a program called Internet Download Manager. It has an option to download all kinds of media files, one being FLV files(flash video files). You'll need a player once you download the FLV, I would suggest VLC. It plays all kinds of media files. With both of those, you should be able to download and watch the flash files at your leisure. You should be able to increase the playback speed as well.
Hope this helps you with what you are trying to do.
I was in the 1st class and ran through the videos at normal speed the first run through. Before the exam, I ran through the videos again - like you, at about 1.5 speed - for review. It saved a lot of time.
I'm not sure why, but the voices sounded normal, not squeeky.
VLC should do what you want.
www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html?
Time to be contrary again ....
I don't think rankin is short-cutting the information. A couple of the videos in the initial training were delivered very slowly. The presenters were surveyors, so the info was good, but a couple of them were completely uncomfortable with the camera and at the opposite end of the scale from "dynamic". Speeding up the video was about the only way to get the info in a normal-time manner and to keep from nodding off.
Most of it wasn't like that, but a couple of 'em... you need FF.