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Idea for a first YouTube Video
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: jonovid on March 24, 2024, 03:38:40 am ---if you must do it full time specialize in one thing really well . know your subject better than the average viewer.
do you have a voice for radio or a face for television? then welcome to the entertainment industry. if not, don't give up your day job IMO.
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As someone who's made > 200 technical videos as part of his job: early on I made the very deliberate decision not to appear on camera, despite many, many, many people telling me that my audience needed to see my face in order to "engage" with me or to keep their attention. I told them that if the content itself wasn't engaging or interesting on its own, seeing my face wasn't going to make it any better* .... :-DD
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKxVoO5jUTlvsVtDcqrVn0ybqBVlLj2z8
There are successful video creators who appear in person (Keysight's Daniel Bogdanoff or Johnnie Hancock, and of course Dave) and others whose face you rarely see (Alan, W2AEW). So I think there is room for both types of videos: you have to choose what works best for you.
* For better or for worse, it is actually my voice in all of the videos. I don't have the budget to hire a voice actor :)
Sredni:
Nice presentations.
I agree, the face is not necessary if your content is good.
May I ask you what you use to record these videos?
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 22, 2024, 10:05:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: armandine2 on March 22, 2024, 08:57:41 pm ---I imagine a Jerry Walker style intro section - and a clean-starched-shirted presenter :-+
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I don't know Jerry Walker, but it wouldnt be a clean starched presenter.
As my daughter once said with a strong tone of incredulity, "I didn't know you had an iron!" . I pointed out that I had owned it longer than I had owned her.
I might even wear a 50yo T-shirt, but I could sell it for a surprisingly large amount of money. FFI, spelunk in the TEA thread :)
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So this is just a "cunning plan" to sell a collectable t-shirt?
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: Sredni on March 25, 2024, 01:53:24 am ---May I ask you what you use to record these videos?
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Almost every video I do is "narrated / animated PowerPoint" which I record using Camtasia. Quite frankly, I probably use < 5% of Camtasia's features: the "editing" is just me cutting out the parts where I made mistakes. I'm assuming that most other screen recording tools would also work.
I do occasionally make "live action" videos and edit those with Camtasia as well.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_FschnxSBa4
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pauldenisowski_keurig-meets-the-rs-hmc8015-activity-7095861292766281728-ti3_/
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 25, 2024, 02:02:54 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 22, 2024, 10:05:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: armandine2 on March 22, 2024, 08:57:41 pm ---I imagine a Jerry Walker style intro section - and a clean-starched-shirted presenter :-+
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I don't know Jerry Walker, but it wouldnt be a clean starched presenter.
As my daughter once said with a strong tone of incredulity, "I didn't know you had an iron!" . I pointed out that I had owned it longer than I had owned her.
I might even wear a 50yo T-shirt, but I could sell it for a surprisingly large amount of money. FFI, spelunk in the TEA thread :)
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So this is just a "cunning plan" to sell a collectable t-shirt?
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Not really; it is too fragile, and I could only just squeeze into it.
Eminently fleabayable, though.
There is a picture of it in this forum, but people have asked me not to post it again :)
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