Video Experiment #1

I have been fiddling around a bit with video since the end of last year with the thought of maybe adding that to the content collection. The trouble is I know nothing about video editing, and I have not had the time to learn, so the few efforts at doing video were straight to Telegram or straight to the trash bin. Video editing is a completely different set of skills from audio editing and much more frustrating. The main challenge is figuring out how to make short videos that can be posted on SubscribeStar because they have a low limit on video size. That means trial and error to get the time and quality right. The original file for this video was a gig, which is about three times too big for what is allowed here. Let me know how it looks. I had to reduce the quality quite a bit, but it still looked okay on my desktop, but we shall see how it looks here. I am torn on the video stuff. The cool kids do videos, but most of the videos I see look like hostage tapes, but maybe my tastes are not aligned with the world. The ones I like are the ones where the guy walks around talking and maybe showing some things he sees on his walk or even doing the selfie stick thing. One of the Duran guys does his daily videos as he wanders around Cyprus or Athens. The other idea I have is to do short presentation videos on certain topics. Maybe five- or ten-minute presentations on the stuff that is core to this thing. They would be best for a free audience so they can be passed to the curious. That is more work than it looks as you have to put together the images and video and then time it all out with an audio tract. So far, it feels like there is more work to it than this sort of video. For now, all of this will be for the green door club. That way if it is terrible, the world does not see my terrible mistakes. On the other hand, if after some trial and error I decide to not do this, I do not have people telling me I should stop writing and focus my attention on doing videos that I do not want to do. I still get e-mails from people telling me that no one reads anymore, and I should focus on doing podcasts.

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