Comments on: Why I Gave Up Video (And Why I’m Back)

By: Nikki

Nikki — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:24:23 +0000

Last time I made a face to camera video and posted it online the viewing stats dropped dramatically, needless to say my confidence took a bit of a battering I am about to embark on a big video making session in the next couple of weeks as I know I can do better than last time and really want my clients to have the face to face experience.
I think I’ve clocked up more than 500 hours of procrastination and will just have to jump into it.
Great article!!!

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By: Sean DSouza

Sean DSouza — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:19:06 +0000

Not a problem.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:31:12 +0000

Oops! Sorry, I pasted the link in twice. Darn that live typing…

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:29:11 +0000

Thanks Sean,

I can certainly relate to that. A few years ago I made our first movie for a Guggenheim design competition on no budget and taught myself Windows Movie Maker as I went (from zilch knowledge), working till 3 or 4 or 5 in the morning after hours, cutting in early rough CGI animations that I had no time to rerender and was unhappy with. As we say in the profession. ‘Better a good set of plans today, than a perfect set tomorrow.’

Then I got Swine Flu the day I had to submit it and was shivering uncontrollably with cold fever sweats and that battery operated monkey cymbal clasher going hammer and tongs in the squishy tender parts of my brain .

Divine assistance was required so I prayed for help, miraculously got it all tied together, uploaded it to YouTube and chose some roylaty free music with minutes to spare… and the music works perfectly with the scene transitions. The song is called ‘O come, Emmanuel’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6tT7xqBiEs

Live video is definitely easier! And it doesn’t matter how you look or sound- or how you look in photos- ‘cos that’s how you see yourself in the mirror is always better than the way the world sees you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6tT7xqBiEs

By: Sean DSouza

Sean DSouza — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:12:07 +0000

Oh, Painter used to be my favorite program. I used Painter way back in 1993, I think. I started out with Painter 3, then went on to Painter 4. I still have the latest copy of Painter, but I don’t use it as much.

By: Sean DSouza

Sean DSouza — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:08:04 +0000

Let me see what I can come up with in future–on short videos. Thanks for letting me know what you’d like to see and keep going on your current work.

By: Sean DSouza

Sean DSouza — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:05:17 +0000

Thank you for being persistent on a consistent basis. Keep going, Ann.

By: Sean DSouza

Sean DSouza — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:03:59 +0000

Heh heh.

By: Joan A Hamilton

Joan A Hamilton — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:38:21 +0000

I know exactly what you mean by 580 hours later you have one video. I started making them for a course I’m teaching on Painting Digital Watercolours with Corel Painter in mid Dec. and it still takes me 8 hours to produce a couple (if I’m lucky). At least I get to record my screen, which is me painting and not my face. Then I narrate them afterwards and add captions, callouts and Zooms etc.
I have to do it this way because I find it really hard to talk and paint at the same time. It beats screen captures and lots of text though for PDF’s. My students want both!
I like your videos and appeciate how much work goes into them. It does get easier!

By: Franz

Franz — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:54:46 +0000

Great article Sean. And damn necessary, too!
In fact we have just rebranded my web site (www.franzandrini.com) and for the first time introduced a video channel ( I call it Channel 60). However, I prefer, for the beginning, just simple up to 2 min long videos of my classes, testimonies from the students-sort of a peep into the yoga teaching I do. I feel those short and personal (not too professional), taken by the HD cell phone camera with a good resolution are fun to watch. None of painful editing for short messages. Well, the professional ones are shoot for the specific work and for special offers.
Maybe you can elaborate more on short and personal videos in your future newsletter. Would love to improve on that.
Keep the great work.
Light,
Franz

By: Ann Halloran

Ann Halloran — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:25:14 +0000

Hi Sean

Somewhere deep in your Brain Alchemy workshop, you made the comment “do one thing twenty times, not twenty things one time”. Brilliant. One of the ways I apply this is through my video content.

Each month I write a 3 step article on how to boost your management skills.

One day I opened those articles on my laptop, put a camera facing me in front of it, and read what I had written. A bit like a teleprompt. I made videos of lots of my articles and they are now dotted around my site.

I think it’s good to have a mix of audio, video, text and pictures on a website.

So thanks for your great advice!

Ann