Actually I'm just trying to get some ideas from people of how they approach learning by video. Some tutorials I follow step by step (especially with a new software). And now I'm moving more and more away from that and just take notes and applying it to my projects. It is more a "fear" of missing something in the tutorial.
Personally I think the best approach is to watch a tutorial in order to understand a particular method or technique and then try to apply what you've learned to your own project. I see a lot of people who follow tutorials to the letter, going along step by step doing exactly what the instructor is showing and making the…