Hi everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another tech-torial for you, this time
I wanted to talk about speeding through your videos. So possibly even for the
sake of my own videos a lot of people are looking for how to do something.
my videos as you may already know are not the purpose for entertainment but more
for education. Although I do try and keep it a little bit interesting when I can
on such a boring topic. But when you're trying to learn something and go through
a lot of training videos and learning things and you want to get to a really
good part faster, you can speed through the videos a lot faster and there's a
couple of ways of doing this. YouTube and other players have their own built in
controllers. But there's also some other extension that I'll be able to show you as well.
So all this coming up. Stick around.
So the first thing I want to show you is the built-in video controller.
So let's have a look at my screen.
So looking at the screen here. If I am to play through video.
I wanted to start with an ad because we saw that here. When we're clicking on a video, usually it starts with an ad.
Under the COG wheel here for the settings, if you click on that, normally we would see the speed
controller there. But we don't see it at this time because it's an ad.
So once we get into the actual video, if we click on the COG wheel you'll see several options
now where previously we were only seen the subtitles. Now other than switching
some of these other options on and off like autoplay and so on, you can click on
playback speed where it's set to normal by default. Here you can slow it down if
you'd like to really slow it down more or you can speed it up and this will go
up to a maximum of 2x. So you can actually see the video going faster but
I have it on mute so it doesn't distract from the video. Now one of the things
that a lot of people find with this is when you're playing it at two times the
speed is that people will sound a lot more like chipmunks and that can be hard
to decipher. But the other thing is it's also could be a little bit choppy and
you might be missing parts of the video as well. So there is a plug-in that we
can look at as well for this, and there's two reasons why you might want to go to
a plug-in, which I will show you, and one of them is if you want to go beyond two times.
I'm not sure why if you're capable of doing that and you're able to build
up and you're used to two times, two times we'll become slow for you and
after listening to something at 2x speed for a while and you want to drop
back to normal speed normal is going to be way too slow for you because you're
so used to seeing everything at 2x. So you may want to build it up more beyond
that and this plug-in I'll show you is capable of doing that, as well as just
making things a little bit more smoother. So let's put this back to normal speed
for now and I will pause that video. So let's have a look at the plugins.
To access to plugins you click the three dots up in the top and you can go to
settings and extensions
Three lines here you can go down to the bottom there's open the Chrome Web Store
So here we're gonna search.
So the video speed controller. Now there's a couple of
things that come up here but the one I'm looking for is down here. I'm not gonna
try to pronounce who it's created by. I'll totally butcher that but that's the
one there it shows the icon that looks like the right one.
So we will click add to Chrome.
and we want to add the extension
and you can see even though the warning on there.
That's something that my disclaimer as well to you is
that adding extensions to your browser are always a security risk that you're taking.
So if you want to add an extension to Chrome, do so at your own risk.
Look at them, read the reviews, see how they are.
Because it's opening up information to the developer or to
Google or other websites and developers. So you want to be very careful about
adding extensions. So as much good as they can bring, they could create a lot
of problems and not necessarily on purpose by evil intentions from the
Creator but just by accident because of security vulnerabilities that they open.
Alright so now this is added we can back out of here and refresh our browser
and now there's a little one that shows there as you put the mouse over it.
it's playing an ad right now. Previously we could not speed through the ads but
if we hover over here we see the plus and minus signs
and we're able to speed through it you can see it's actually going I just
paused it by accident here. But we can speed through it and you can see here
that we can actually go away beyond the 2x speed and you can see that he's
definitely everyone's talking fast. So we can actually speed through
advertisements using this plugin where with the built-in speed controller we
could not speed through advertisements. You can also slow it down and this can
go up to 16 times faster, rather than the built-in one that's limited to two times faster.
So here we can pause that and we can drop it back down to our normal
speed just so we have more control over that. Now you can hide this by when you
hover over it and hit the X at the end. It's hidden and it's gone. So if you want
to get that back there's the icon up here in the top right corner and go into
the settings and it tells you here show/hide controller by default is the
letter V. So if we're on the video and we hit V, now you can see that it just
appeared back again. Also in the settings you have keyboard shortcuts for decreasing
the speed increasing it, by what increment that you want to increase or
decrease by, and these are the default settings. So maybe you want to change the
default so instead of increasing or decreasing by 0.1 maybe you want to go
by 0.25 or 0.5. The built-in controller is by 0.25 So rewinding advanced all
these things you have keyboard shortcuts and you can add other shortcuts as well.
You can hide the controller by default. Remembering the playback speeds
and you can have black listed sites where the extension would be disabled.
So you can add or remove those websites to that list and of course down here you
want to remember to save your settings afterwards.
Now it's also got a little bit more information about this as well that you
can read about later but the bottom line is with this controller here, it will
actually make your videos apparently sound a lot more crisp. I haven't really
played with that a lot myself but it was something important that for my viewers
you guys want to see some of the videos a little bit faster you can speed
through it back to up to two times using a built in but if that's still not fast
enough or you want to go even faster or get rid of the chipmunk sound, then you can use
the add-in extension from Google Chrome which is this video controller. Sorry the
videos speed controller. So personally for me I'm fine with the built in speed
controller and don't want to risk having unnecessary plugins on my desktop. But I
find it very useful even just playing something back at 1.25
times for me it's still pretty natural. I don't notice how much of a difference
but it does shave 1/8 of the time off so if you look at it that way and you've
got 8 hours of video footage to go through, you just saved yourself an hour
of time. So an hour out of your day.
So hopefully this helps you and speeding
through my videos and other videos and even saving you time speeding through
ads that you can't otherwise skip. And you can actually change the speed during
the ad at the same time. You don't have to set it before.
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