Videos without scenery transitions, please!
Your videos are great, but they have a very annoying problem, from my point of view: the scenery transition every now and then.
Transitions makes the run on a tradmill less "real".
Also, a runner loves to learn the paths he loves most. After a few runs he will learn where every stone, bush, bench, curve is. And all these milestones will help him in adjusting his speed and effort to reach his daily goal.
With video transitions this impossible.
Just to have an excellent idea of how nice a transitionless video is, please take a look at this video on youtube:
Thank you for the suggestion and to the link to the treadmill videos. This is something we have tested and by far the videos WITH cuts were more preferred by people. The reason is that it increases variety while skipping over the more repetitive parts or nausea inducing sharp turns. This is something we’ll keep in mind though, especially if more people have opinions to share.
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Anonymous commented
Totally agree - the transitions should be optional or if not possible removed. I want to pretend I'm running in these places - transitions destroy the illusion. Guess it's time to cancel.
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CHE commented
I like the transitions. I think it makes it smoother.
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Astrid.wendth commented
I agree; the transitions are very frustrating for me. Why not offer full, uninterrupted video option along with the current video option? Or let users control the transition intervals. For example, every ten minutes rather than after random numbers of seconds.
I would also prefer the panorama scenes at the end of the workout only rather than randomly spliced throughout.
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Mike Hardesty commented
I have to agree sometimes it is off putting when I see something in the distance and think to myself I'm going to run fast until I get to that tree / post / end of the block then it transitions into a completely different place before I get there