A simplified navigation-only tutorial

[Anonymouse]

For a car club looking to try MRA on a scenic drive, I have built a tutorial video for MyRoute-App Navigation Next.

It is focused on the very minimum which new users need to know in order to follow a route designed by others; and it includes how to handle the most common user errors. We couldn't find an existing tutorial which fitted this purpose -- the others include route planning, or go through every option in the app etc -- so I made this myself.

I hope this will be useful for others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrb0c8-_gIY

[Mzokk]

Looks good, all achieved using AI and your script?

[Anonymouse]

@Mzokk Yes. AI mimics my voice patterns (speed, intonation etc). But the hard work is designing what to say!

[LennyO]

Nice job!
Here is the MRA Route Experts guide to the colors:

[Jörgen]

Wow, very good and perfect for beginners.
Can I use it for my German Facebook group? The subtitle translates it to German perfectly.

[Anonymouse]

Sure. It's on "free" YouTube hosting (ie they make money by stuffing ads on the start of my video ) so no problems sharing with others.

I subtitled the English manually so I'm glad to hear the German auto translation works well.

[Anonymouse]

@Lenny-O Yes - Nick showed me the official colour guidance. I simplified the wording a bit in my video as part of making everything easier to understand. I think the colour coding is very useful, although I've noticed that some route authors interpret it in slightly different ways (hence the rules).

And in the colour guide it is a bit strange to allow yellow shaping points -- either they are via points (which might have descriptions) or shaping points (which are irrelevant to the driver as long as he/she follow the route).

One complexity is that different terminology seems to turn up in documentation and in the apps, for "way", "via" and "shaping" point. I tried to choose the best options while keeping it very simple.

[LennyO]

@Anonymouse All good, was just sharing

[Mzokk]

@Anonymouse Cracking job.

[Hubert Thoring]

@anonymouse
Hey, that's great

[Hubert Thoring]

@anonymouse

A hint, you don't really need that with the download if you always simply synchronize all routes...

[Nick Carthew]

@Hubert-Thoring Routes sent to you in an email or via social media can be navigated offline without syncing or downloading. If you navigate the route it automatically goes into the download folder. You can only sync routes that are in your route library.

[Anonymouse]

@Hubert-Thoring yes but does that work if they only have a subscription to Navigation Next?

[Hubert Thoring]

@Anonymouse said:

@Hubert-Thoring yes but does that work if they only have a subscription to Navigation Next?

Then probably not then you should use the download option !!️

[white.mouse]

That looks great! Thanks.

[peha]

@Anonymouse Very impressive! If I may ask: What tool exactly did you use to archieve the video (the visuals)? How did the AI produce a correct looking MRA user interface - are these parts screen grab from the phone?

[Anonymouse]

@peha said:

What tool exactly did you use

Still image of presenter generated in ChatGPT. Animated with Heygen using prompts built by ChatGPT and my voice for intonation and speed. Assembled by hand in Adobe Premiere Pro as I just couldn't get enough control in any of the (many) demo-building tools I looked at. The screen grabs are recorded on a phone or desktop and imported into Premiere Pro. I used an iPhone template from videowizard.io to surround it. Background music from Adobe Premiere Pro because I didn't have the time to generate my own.

[peha]

@Anonymouse Thanks for your detailed response. Sounds like you know what you are doing, and the results certainly demonstrate it. Well done!