2023-09-17: Supporter Update - Improving Time Management
Added 2023-09-18 14:06:47 +0000 UTCHello, I've been working on a bunch of background stuff again and I'm finally starting to reap some of the rewards of my new server setup with how it can help be organize and plan projects! This is s look at some of that as well as a few other things like continued research on the 501c3 potential, rethinking repair videos, and some second guessing on how to use the camera controller I've been working with recently.
Something else I forgot to note for this video that I forgot to cover, I think I somehow got out of sync on videos with the supporter printout, I was trying to make every month show up in at least two videos which should have resulted in eventually having one month being shown three times since two videos now happens over 28 days. But I've drifted farther ahead instead which has lead to me showing a previous month's printout well into the next month. I'm going to try to reset this in November, so September may only have one recorded printout included in a video.
Additional thoughts after recording this:
On the Atem, another reason I want to switch up recording methods is that I generally use the same basic camera setup every time with the Atem and it's making the videos all too "similar". It's a lot more work, I would actually say more than double, to move around two cameras for every video to give it a different feel. Using just a single camera more often will make the videos more nimble as well.
On MagicCap for windows, I meant getting a physical copy, there is a copy of the software floating around the web I've grabbed.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/5l0Yfi8H6YE
Comments
I think VODs is a great compromise. I watch a lot of your twitch vods and sometime try to catch it live but I don't have a twitch account. Still some of your how to repair videos. Like the one where you show how to rebuild plastic using super glue... Or just basic troubleshooting techniques like using the marker to find cracks in the pcb, or tracing pcb traces with a multimeter... Seems so routine but has been so enlightening for me... Different topic but that cdrom drive where you built the pcb from a picture lol. That was unbelievable.
Atari Fuzz
2023-09-21 22:45:47 +0000 UTCWhat may make more sense is to get back into a routine of getting the stream VoDs uploaded again, I think I'll make a dedicated VoD channel though so people can just block it if they really hate them. Then I can do repairs on streams and upload the entire thing there without editing. My editing bandwidth was one of the driving factors of reducing the video schedule, so trying to add more into the second channel goes against that. I could still see me doing it if it makes sense with say off stream footage that wouldn't go on the VoD channel. I actually totally get wanting to see the maintenance side as well! Old computers are not easy to keep going and fight you on a lot of stuff. Just yesterday I was trying to get a serial port working on my 486, but the 4 floppy card I have in it is causing issues and now just removing it causes the system not to post! That whole process isn't being filmed, but I'll probably do a sanity check diagnosis on stream to figure out what is going on some time. So for the idea of bookmarking while live, that is the primary job of the Atem. It has dedicated start/stop recording buttons that I activate while I'm live. And when I'm editing it's usually obvious where I'm speaking for the video just by looking at the wave forms. So it's not a problem of finding the footage. It's more the way it is presented in the editing software and then the shear massive storage requirements for it. It's about 10GB/minute to record two sets of raw footage and the 4 camera sources on the Atem. It's also essentially doubling the amount of footage I need to archive in the long run. Those problems can be solved by throwing more hard-drives/money at it, but I can also just avoid using it in the first place unless it makes sense (the next video will use it for simultaneous dual camera and VGA capture where it will make syncing camera sources MUCH easier in edit).
Tech Tangents
2023-09-21 14:44:30 +0000 UTCI just wanted to thank you for sharing so many repair videos in the past. I have learned a ton about electronics repair from watching your videos/streams and hope you continue to publish repair content. I understand your concerns though and might suggest posting extra scenes and cuts for your videos to your TTII channel. Perhaps upon release or perhaps on an off schedule. I would defintiely watch even if it wasn't anything novel. While it seems bizarre, part of the appeal of your channel is seeing all the work that goes into maintaining your collection. I personally can't afford such an endeavor currently, even at a smaller scale, because I have such limited space. Watching channels like yours and others is exciting partly because of the great topics your cover, but also just as an opportunity to see whats under the hood of so many devices and hear your technical assessments/reactions of them. Perhaps there is a way to bookmark scenes as you are recording live so that you can save time editing. There is probably a standard way to achieve this but maybe by designing a simple battery powered sine wave generator with satisfying button and speaker. Then as you are recording when you feel you have a great clip for your extra's channel you can push that button. Then in post your could output the timestamps of the sine waves using a python script. I asked chatgpt to write such a script and it produced this but I didn't test.. https://py2.codeskulptor.org/#user50_CHbfweORjm_0.py
Atari Fuzz
2023-09-20 00:30:30 +0000 UTC
