Affinity Publisher - viewing learning videos

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, Pšenda said:

This is perhaps obvious, the text in the application will always remain legible - it is text. But when you compress a video that captures a large screen into a small screen, some pixels are lost and readability is lost.

I was just wondering how much the difference would be for the OP if the YT video was viewed at the highest available pixel resolution, which I assume would be 1080p HD.

I'm also not sure which YT videos the OP is viewing, or if the official Affinity ones are available to the OP, like those at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/publisher/desktop/. Many (if not all) of those are available at even higher video resolutions like 4K UHDTV (3840 x 2160 pixels), so they should be a good fit for whatever the resolution of the small screen is set to use.

[Alfred]

26 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I'm also not sure which YT videos the OP is viewing, or if the official Affinity ones are available to the OP, like those at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/publisher/desktop/. Many (if not all) of those are available at even higher video resolutions like 4K UHDTV (3840 x 2160 pixels), so they should be a good fit for whatever the resolution of the small screen is set to use.

Your link points to videos which are hosted on Vimeo. I don’t think the YouTube versions of the official videos are available in 4K.

[R C-R]

25 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Your link points to videos which are hosted on Vimeo. I don’t think the YouTube versions of the official videos are available in 4K.

Yes, that's why I wondered if the OP could access them via Vimeo. Most if not all of them are available in both 2K & 4K video resolutions.

[Alfred]

15 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Yes, that's why I wondered if the OP could access them via Vimeo. Most if not all of them are available in both 2K & 4K video resolutions.

I’d be very surprised if they aren’t all available in the same range of formats for all three desktop apps.

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[R C-R]

8 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I’d be very surprised if they aren’t all available in the same range of formats for all three desktop apps.

They are for me on my Mac using the Safari web browser, but I do not know if that would be true for @chasm using whatever 'older version of Firefox' is being used on that 15" laptop. If it's native screen resolution is 2560x1440 then I think the text should be sharp enough to be readable if the 2K setting is used.

It might help if we knew the screen specs for that laptop, or if anything is better if some other browser could be used with it.

Otherwise, I am out of ideas.

[chasm]

Trying to catch up with the much appreciated posts.

The Official Affinity videos are where I started but the text on screen is tiny. I shared that link with a friend who connected his laptop to a 31" screen and the text appears tiny to him also, as seen below here. I'm not on a Mac but a PC running Windows 10. Thanks.

 

[R C-R]

9 minutes ago, chasm said:

The Official Affinity videos are where I started but the text on screen is tiny. I shared that link with a friend who connected his laptop to a 31" screen and the text appears tiny to him also, as seen below here.

Could you post a screenshot for one of these videos showing the entire screen of your 15" computer, & also tell us which video that is?

It is very hard to tell anything from that screenshot unless somehow it is already showing all of the screen.

[chasm]

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/publisher/desktop/video/390003719/

This (above) is the Affinity learning video link and how it looks on my laptop screen when it fully loads. Thanks.

[Alfred]

Drag the grey scrollbar button as far down as it will go. You should then see a control console below the video frame, and clicking on the ‘four arrows’ button will make the video go fullscreen.

[Pšenda]

36 minutes ago, chasm said:

my laptop screen

And what is the resolution of your screen?

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

It might help if we knew the screen specs for that laptop

 

[R C-R]

58 minutes ago, chasm said:

... and how it looks on my laptop screen when it fully loads.

From that, it looks like your laptop is set to an odd screen resolution, one that is much wider than it is tall; far from the aspect ratio of any of the standard screen resolutions I know about. Any idea of what that resolution is or why it is using it?

[chasm]

My laptop resolution is 1280 x 720.

[R C-R]

4 minutes ago, chasm said:

My laptop resolution is 1280 x 720.

Your screenshot above here seems to be about 1280 by 674, with an aspect ratio of about 1.9:1. I do not see how that could be a full screen capture if the screen itself is really set to 1280x720 px, an aspect ratio of about 1.8:1. Where are the other 46 or so pixels?

So are you sure you screen is using that resolution?

[chasm]

As the OP, could we please pivot on this discussion and turn attention to the better still graphics which teach newbies how to use Apub with graphics in large size so you can easily see the words and the icons to be used for various tasks? I'm trying to roadmap which skills to master first to reach my goal of creating visually engaging flyers to attract people's attention. I've learned I should master   Master Pages - Text Frames -   Text Styles, Paragraph and Character Styles so if you can pls share how I can download and print PDFs of still graphics of how to master those skills that would be appreciated. I can see the Affinity Publisher serif videos better at a work PC (22" screen) with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 but my laptop does not offer that high a resolution. Thank you for all your kind help!

[chasm]

Hi RC-R,

This is what I see in W10 - Display Settings on the laptop.

Thank you!

 

[chasm]

Hi Hens - Very generous and kind of you. Thank you!

[Alfred]

54 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Your screenshot above here seems to be about 1280 by 674, with an aspect ratio of about 1.9:1.

It is exactly 1280 by 674 pixels, so the aspect ratio is 16:8.425.

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

I do not see how that could be a full screen capture if the screen itself is really set to 1280x720 px, an aspect ratio of about 1.8:1.

The aspect ratio for Standard HD (1280 by 720 pixels) is 16:9.

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

Where are the other 46 or so pixels?

A very good question!

[chasm]

Where are the other 46 or so pixels? - How does one ascertain that? In W10, I click Display > Display Settings and see 1280 x 720. That's all.

 

[R C-R]

44 minutes ago, chasm said:

Where are the other 46 or so pixels? - How does one ascertain that? In W10, I click Display > Display Settings and see 1280 x 720. That's all.

I do not know enough about the Windows OS display options to help you with that but from what @Alfred mentioned earlier about scrolling down to see the full screen video button, it might help if you let us know what happens if you do that & press the button, possibly adding a screen capture of that.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

The aspect ratio for Standard HD (1280 by 720 pixels) is 16:9.

Just curious, but on Windows systems are there other 1280x720 resolutions available that are not identified as Standard HD, like maybe ones that use non-square pixels?

[Catshill]

One of the best things I did was to get a second monitor. I could not go back now.

[Pšenda]

11 hours ago, R C-R said:

Where are the other 46 or so pixels?

Task bar?

To @chasm - try hide this. 

[Pšenda]

12 hours ago, chasm said:

My laptop resolution is 1280 x 720.

For information - see tech specs

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/full-feature-list/

[Alfred]

10 hours ago, R C-R said:

Just curious, but on Windows systems are there other 1280x720 resolutions available that are not identified as Standard HD, like maybe ones that use non-square pixels?

There may be, although I wonder how that would work out for things like keeping circles circular. There certainly are aspect ratios other than the 16:9 used for (Full or Standard) HD: the aspect ratio for the screen on my first Windows laptop was 16:10.

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, Pšenda said:

19 hours ago, R C-R said:

Where are the other 46 or so pixels?

Task bar?

To @chasm - try hide this. 

But if @chasm posted a screenshot of the entire laptop screen, wouldn't the task bar show in it? (Just curious. I am not a Windows user so I don't know how that works, or the size of the task bar.)

7 hours ago, Pšenda said:

For information - see tech specs

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/full-feature-list/

It is the same for all three Affinity apps for both Macs & Windows versions: the minimum display size is 1280x768, so the laptop @chasm is using can't run any of them anyway.