Video - Behind the scenes of an electronic video blog

[zapta]

Mjlorton put this video with interesting look behind the scene of an electronic video blog. It also includes tips for aspiring video bloggers.



BTW, if you are a 'what-have-you' counter you will be disappointed.

[Maxlor]

Martin's new lighting setup is way too bright!

[EEVblog]

I'm not sure what the background noise noise, but it's fairly distracting in his new lab.

[smashedProton]

Martin's blog isnt anywhere technical enough for my taste..   

[Maxlor]

Martin's blog isnt anywhere technical enough for my taste..   

It suits me, but then I'm a newbie when it comes to EE. I just wish sometimes he'd get to the point a bit more quickly, and that he'd not say "certainly" 3 times per sentence But seriously, I'm just teasing, I'm happy that his videos exist, and happy that doing them makes him enough money to keep making them.

[Bored@Work]

I'm not sure what the background noise noise, but it's fairly distracting in his new lab.

My first guess is fan noise, or noise from some DVD / hard disk drive. Maybe the PC near the desk? The noise changed a bit when he moved the camera, but it must be present in the whole room.

[mariush]

I think some of the lamps he uses have fans - there's some high power led lamps on the wall behind the camera, when he talks to the camera.

Everything's led based around him as far as I remember and those heat up quite well.

But I agree, the lightning could be a bit warmer and the noise doesn't really bother me but I do notice it. Guess a lapel microphone could solve that.

[c4757p]

Or a bandstop filter.

[BravoV]

Martin's blog isnt anywhere technical enough for my taste..   

Its not the material, its Martin's speed of presenting it in the video, quite slow to my own "personal" preference, I guess I'm in the minority group. 

[robrenz]

Martin's blog isnt anywhere technical enough for my taste..   

Its not the material, its Martin's speed of presenting it in the video, quite slow to my own "personal" preference, I guess I'm in the minority group. 

+2  I don't think you are the minority

[echen1024]

Martin's blog isnt anywhere technical enough for my taste..   

Its not the material, its Martin's speed of presenting it in the video, quite slow to my own "personal" preference, I guess I'm in the minority group. 

+2  I don't think you are the minority

Not minority. With dave's videos, I watch it end to end like a movie. With his, I always fastforward to the part I want.

[Icarus]

Dave's trick is that.  His knowledge is hard to obtain. For instance "tin whiskers" thing or "why we need x1 probes ?" episode etc...
Any body can tell you how to use a multimeter but Dave teach you how to calculate uncertainty of a multimeter.
I belive that is why EEVBlog is very enjoyable to watch

[nessatse]

Martin's blog isnt anywhere technical enough for my taste..   

Its not the material, its Martin's speed of presenting it in the video, quite slow to my own "personal" preference, I guess I'm in the minority group. 

You are not alone, I have not been able to watch any of his videos for more that five minutes before lapsing into a coma.  Aside from that, I find his knowledge of electronics somewhat err.. lacking.

[ablacon64]

I don't like much long youtube videos. I'm pretty impatient for videos, prefer reading so I can easily jump/cut the blablabla. I watch videos from the forum's guys because they're very interesting and full of good information per second.

Now imagine watching a Dave's video, followed by Mike's , another from w2aew, and robrenz, and lots of other good folks here? Man, that's half a work's day.    It's time well spent, of course, but I gotta work for a living...

[idpromnut]

You are not alone, I have not been able to watch any of his videos for more that five minutes before lapsing into a coma.  Aside from that, I find his knowledge of electronics somewhat err.. lacking.

If you watch Martin's video, he actually mentions that his background is in IT, and that his videos have been a journey in understanding electronics as well as presenting. I'm in a similar position, minus the guts to get in front of a camera and talk about it   

[rdl]

I kind of like his videos. Sometimes anyway. His biggest problem is that they're usually way too long for the subject. He could probably edit most of them down to 1/3 the size he posted them at. He also seems to lack focus. He bounces around from one thing to another and seems to try to cover too many subjects. Six months ago he posted Part 1 of Building a Bench Power Supply. Part 2 is yet to appear.