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by robmccoll 1016 days ago
I didn't create the tool, so I can't claim to know the author's intentions. To me, this would be very useful in a variety of circumstances:

- the 15 minute video containing 3 minutes of useful information

- tutorials that you're trying to follow step-by-step that have been tightly edited such that actually doing each step while following along is impossible

- the video equivalent of listicles in which you're really only interested in the list, not the padding

- quickly getting an idea of whether or not it's worth your time to watch a lengthy video by quickly scrubbing through the content