Not a Christmas Video!

Hey Doc, do you ever read your personal messages on patreon? I've sent you a few but never got a reply...

drdeath

Not really. The liquid portion of the fill is generally propylene glycol- same stuff as used in 'vape' juice and non-toxic automotive antifreeze. It doesn't start to gel 'til something like minus-50 F and won't freeze 'til around -70F.

Doc Nickel

Pretty much all liquids have SOME freezing point...

Douglas Biggers

The card thing works for me. I don't necessarily speak paintball, but I do understand it along with a little "firearm" having spent some time around gun nuts.

RivCA

Watching you fire paintballs into the snow bank got me wondering, do paintballs freeze when it gets cold enough?

PixelThis

Really cool.

FrankHarr

It would be great to watch all this fascinating process)) Thanks for sharing! Great job!

YourMagnet_adult_version

The only thing I would change is the one out of focus shot of the part. I like the use of cards; there's something about the voiceless descriptions that keeps my attention. And I like the music! A selection from the whole video would be a great ad for your business.

Neat video! Personally, I would like a voice-over and fewer cards. That allows me to focus on the action and not read. Not a paintballer (more of a bang stick guy) so more detail wouild be cool.

John Arpin

And yeah, I know there's plenty of tweaks one can do with voiceovers- again, I'm new at this. Walk before you can run, and all that. :)

Doc Nickel

Not sure what happened with the "hiss" at the beginning- I'd actually forgotten to switch on the mic when shooting that shot. No big, you didn't miss anything but the occasional screw-thread squeak.

Doc Nickel

Actually, in my marker, the seal was still in good shape. The project started when a fellow on MCB dug out an old marker he'd last used 25 years ago, which leaked badly, and the local tech couldn't fix it because parts weren't available.

Doc Nickel

Verry nice. Other than the hiss from the AGC being wide-open on the camera's mic during the first part of the video, the audio was fine; other than thinking to myself " Doc's gotta be using royalty free music, 'cause that's no FFDP track I ever heard". I agree with the previous posters that more cards and maybe a demo of the marker with the worn part still in it would have been cool. Quinn over on BlondieHacks does a good job with the voice-over stuff; sometimes she'll pause the video when she has more to say than video to say it over. So timing can be altered some without hurting the flow. . . . Just say'n

And you are doing well.

Douglas Biggers

The only thing missing is a short video of how the marker behaves with the old, worn out seal. Oh, and keep the cards. It's so refreshing to not hear someone drone on about what's happening.

Trygve Henriksen

Understood. I don't think it needs a _lot_ more... and it depends on who your target audiences are, of course. And I do sorta like the personal touch of having the cards as something you hold up on camera as opposed to subtitles or silent-movie style whole-screen cards, but as you note it's sorta hard to add those in later if you decide something wants more detail.

Joseph Kesselman

Meant to do more cards, but it's tough keeping the running mental list of shots, scenes, stills, and whatnot.

Doc Nickel

No worries on the music, I'm using specifically "royalty free" stuff intended for use on YT. On the narration, I'm still very green at this- doing voiceover while I'm recording is a nonstarter, and adding a voiceover track afterward is tricky too- trying to get timing right, in cases where the clip doesn't last as long as the dialogue or vice-versa. I'm workin' on it.

Doc Nickel

Nice. I'm not a paintballer, so the disassembly/reassembly was new to me, but it all made sense; simple machines are simple machines, even when precision parts are involved. I think the moment most likely to confuse someone who hasn't seen it was the swaging operation; you might want to consider a few more what's-going-on cards or subtitles. I have to admit I ran the vid sped up a bit, but only by about the same amount I do most such, which probably means your pacing is right on target.

Joseph Kesselman

- Nice editing, other than a slight "Focus you @#$%!". - Pretty impressive you're doing the the Gcode by hand. - You'll wanna watch what music you use for YT, as copyright trolls can be a pita. - A little narration/description of the teardown process would have been interesting, coming from someone that doesn't speak "paintball gun", not that the sport would interest me with my vision issues.

Douglas Biggers

Interesting, and I even understood most of it. You may still be learning, but your videos are very watchable.

Carl G Knoblock