Hi guys, this is Steve Martin from
www.sidemounting.com. This article was brought to my attention so happy to explain this more as I hate it when people get the wrong information about what I am offering now and what was offered before.
Firstly the new video series is not "the same" as the one before.. far from it. Simple put… I started again so I could FUTURE PROOF my online video training series. It would need to be more user friendly and be easy to update as time passes and the dive industry develops. My old video series consisted of just 6 videos, 5 being 1 to 1.5 hours long and 6th being 8 hours in duration. The new series has currently 165 videos with close to 22 hours of content and the average video length being just over 7 minutes making each video easier to watch and re-watch as well as index. All course lesson videos are now available through a state-of-the-art online eLearning training system.There is now 22 hours of content as oppose to just over 14 hours before, the new content has voice-over for every single clip including underwater sections, the old 14 hours of video content (approx 6 hours of that, anything underwater was completely silent and just showing people doing skills) etc.
Each second of video has a “high quality audio” voiceover added, designed to maximum your learning experience.Has a more modular design, with smaller more manageable videos lengths, average being just 7 minutes. New updates are added easily to each video series and members immediately notified of new content as it gets released. All workshop videos were shot in 4K and converted to 1080p during editing, this allows for amazing high detailed close-ups. All content was professionally edited using AVID Media Composer which gives smooth transitions, slow-motion effects all greatly improving your learning experience and save on your valuable time when watching. All lessons come completely subtitled in English, these are optional, you just select them in the video player.
All new video content, plus the best clips from the old series. Since the release of my old video series (April 2015), new video content was shot between May 2015 to August 2016 (1.5 years) this includes, students in training and 2 months of
additional footage that was shot solely for the purpose of these
new online training products.
Here are the highlights of requested improvements by customers using my old training series.
• Underwater clips should have narration or commentary added to them.
• Training videos should be shorter in length, broken into sections and easier to find.
• Like to see more close-up video of equipment configuration and slow motion of skills being done.
• Videos need consistent sound quality, if your video based training was professional edited it would be amazing!!
• Like to see more on diver making ascents and ascent techniques.
• Like to see more on diver trimming and sliding d-rings/cylinder trimming.
• Want more configuration setup and skills for trimix divers and divers carrying/using 5 or 6 cylinders.
• Avoid using black bungee on a black background, make knot tying easier to see.
All these requests have been fully implemented into my new video series plus much,
much more!!
My old videos used Google plus circles to protect the material from being stolen, unfortunately YouTube (private video) stopped with the circles and google+, so I made a whole new series, and went with Vimeo instead. and I created a full webpage for it where you can track the progress. The new videos are completely new, a lot more material, and much more professionally made" So for existing customers I gave them a super-discount 75% OFF to get access to what they had before + a lot of new material.
I am happy to explain further if needed, hope to see all my exisiting customers return. You will find feedback from people using the new online training series released 1st January 2017 on my homepage
www.sidemounting.com, just scroll down until you see "
The reviews are in for my new video series" there are 5 pictures to view.
Regards, Steve