Detailed Notes
Welcome back to our latest episode, where we dive into the new season of our podcast and take a behind-the-scenes look at what we do at Develpreneur. In this episode, we focus on podcast production challenges and some valuable lessons we learned. So, let’s unpack some of the key points discussed in this episode.
Podcast Production Challenges: Key Strategies and Highlights * Access to essential platforms for publishing content. * Navigating software updates and ensuring compatibility with editing tools. * Maintaining visual consistency across different platforms and backgrounds. * Optimizing audio quality and testing across multiple devices. * Creating meta-content-like summaries and additional resources for audience engagement.
Recording using video tools First, we explore the visual aspects of our content creation process. Recording tools like Zoom offer flexibility, especially with features like customizable backgrounds that enhance branding. We emphasize the importance of visual consistency to strengthen our brand identity across platforms. You can also use your background canvas to highlight additional content or inject images into your video that you reference in your recordings.
However, transitioning into podcast mode brings forth its own set of considerations. We delve into production issues, mainly focusing on the editorial process. With a shift in responsibilities, we discuss the challenges faced by our new editor, Michael, highlighting the importance of access to essential platforms and the need for streamlined processes.
Software updates emerge as a significant hurdle, reminding us of the necessity to stay current with our tools to avoid last-minute setbacks. Michael’s editing experience and challenges also underscore the importance of thorough testing across various devices to ensure optimal audio quality—a crucial aspect of podcast production because the recording may sound differently on different devices. Moreover, we share practical tips for content creators, such as implementing visual cues and leveraging audio waveforms to streamline editing. These strategies not only enhance efficiency but also improve the overall quality of our content.
Differences between audio and video content creation As we navigate these changes, documentation emerges as a vital component in maintaining workflow consistency. Regular audits and documentation of processes help mitigate challenges associated with transitioning roles or scaling operations. Additionally, we discuss the nuances between podcast and video content creation. While podcasts offer a more conversational format, videos demand a balance between educational content and seamless editing. Visual cues play a pivotal role in guiding the editing process, ensuring a cohesive narrative.
Furthermore, we highlight the importance of meta-content, such as summaries and additional resources, in enhancing audience engagement and providing value beyond the podcast episodes. Michael’s approach to summarizing content and including relevant links exemplifies our commitment to delivering comprehensive and actionable insights to our audience.
In conclusion, our journey into the new season of our podcast is marked by growth, challenges, and valuable insights. As we adapt to changing roles and embrace new tools, we remain dedicated to providing high-quality content that empowers our audience in their professional endeavors.
Stay tuned for more episodes packed with valuable tips, frontline stories, and practical advice. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a budding entrepreneur, our podcast is your go-to resource for navigating the ever-evolving landscape of technology and business.
Thank you for tuning in. We look forward to continuing this journey together. Until next time, keep innovating and exploring new horizons.
Additional Resources for Podcast Production Challenges * If you are looking to start a podcast, check out libsyn (https://libsyn.com/). * Creating Content Channels – Podcast, Blog, Book, Youtube, etc https://develpreneur.com/creating-content-channels-podcast-blog-book-youtube-etc/. * Answer Or Solution – Serving Your Customer https://develpreneur.com/answer-or-solution-serving-your-customer/ * Yes, You Can Make Money With A Podcast https://develpreneur.com/yes-you-can-make-money-with-a-podcast/
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[Music] welcome back if you are and you are watching the video stream well not video the stream the recording we are back we're going to talk about something a little different today uh if you've noticed we are now a couple episodes on the podcast side or a couple episodes into our new season and uh actually we're going to talk about today as we uh flip over into the sort of podcast mode in here in a minute and you'll hear a little bit more of this you see a little bit the background kind of stuff that we're dealing with now one the things you've seen uh I do want to mention that's sort of outside the podcast because this is visual you may notice this backgroundyoutube some things that will brand your look and uh that's going to help you quite a bit and this is one of the things that we're going to continue as we go through this series essentially or this season of changes uh we're going to talk about a few of these things but that's just the visual stuff so now we're going to flip over and talk more about the audio world well hello and welcome back to those of you that are on the podcast side we've just been talking to our video people and they've had to stared our faces so they have to St for through that however you just get the delet tones of our voices this episode we are going to talk about uh basically production type issues we've been talking about in this season develop andur stuff some of the things that we've been changing around one of the things we've changed around Is How We Do the podcast uh we've got our trusty friend Michael who has been doing the sort of taking over the editorial Reigns right now up to this I did the video did the audios for the most part for the the podcast and he would do stuff here and there and I got into a pretty good you know Rhythm and had a good process but now in handing it over we're going to go right into talk to Michael about some of the the snags and such that he uh has run into so welcome oh Grand editor of all now and uh why don't you just start like you know venting a little bit about some of the the issues and challenges you ran into this week sure so one of the biggest challenges I ran into this week was we found out very quickly that I did not have access to a lot of our social media uh platforms to publish uh I had access to make comments publish things make some edits but not actually publish videos for Content so we went through a couple days of oh what's this account uh what's this account information you know and when you set these up initially uh especially when you're first starting out and you're setting up your branding you're setting up your social media sites uh typically you're going to write that down somewhere and you're going to save it in your Google or save it in some password reminder and then you're going to forget about it except if you ever start growing or you add people to your business you're going to need those again so uh make sure you save those off uh use something like keypass or something or put them in uh like a Wiki somewhere internally that you can reference uh if that was was just one of the kind of Hang-Ups we had initially getting started uh the other fun hiccup I ran into which uh kind of runs into what I go through daily is software updates so it's been a hot minute since we've done some video recordings since we worked on the uh school. developer.com and I haven't really done a lot of video editing uh in a while or even audio editing and I found out that all of my software tools got updated and being on the so on Mac found out some of them don't work anymore and I had to go download new versions and get everything set up again so that's something else to keep in mind with is make sure that you're constantly staying up to date on your tools that you're going to be using even if it is checking on them once a month to make sure that they still work uh because you don't want to be in a situation like me where at the 11th hour I'm trying to cut something and all of a sudden whoops stuff doesn't work and now you're starting to hit a deadline and you're like freaking out and it's like oh crap um that was kind of the other thing I ran into uh the other fun thing we ran into is uh I'm going deaf apparently because I can't hear half the audio that comes out of my machine so apparently my speakers are set at Max so when you're doing audio edits and video edits and you're trying to test things set the volume as low always you can go to just hear things and then as you're going through the process uh crank up your audio within your tool and get it as loud as you can get without too much Distortion then test on multiple devices so I tested on iPhones iPads my phone the problem I had initially when I first started doing this was I used headphones because I was not in a quiet space where I could just play through my computer speakers and I found that this uh headphones I had uh actually had an audio booster in them so I was actually hearing things louder than they actually were in the video uh so we kind of went back and forth on that a little bit and uh that was kind of the big issues I ran into getting things started uh the other thing is uh again just getting comfortable with your tools so I'm actually going out and looking for some uh newer tools because uh you know the ones I have kind of work now on the Maxon but may not be what we need going forward if we're if I'm going to be doing a lot more of this all the time there's a there's a couple of great little points that I do want to follow up on the first one was the idea of the initial headaches and it is a lot of us we talk and we talk about this all the time in the in the developing World about automating stuff and building processes and things like that and using the tools are out there the problem is is that when you change everything you've got to make sure that your processes also change accordingly and so if you're like me you automated this a long time ago and the next thing you know you have to change it so now you got to remember what the heck did I automate and this is where we we rly talk about doing like a yeah May every six months or once a year do sort of a essentially like an audit or a you know checking a pulse of your business of what you're working on what you're doing what are the tools you're using now this has turned out to be a great opportunity because it's forcing us to go through this so we have you he sort of wrapped up there talking about there's some tools that he's going to look at Michael's going to go sort of look at what uh one thing may work better for us uh as an organization but also may work better for him because I have you know my set of tools and what I've been working with and what I've gotten comfortable with but they may not be the best they may be the thing that I've gotten used to gotten in a rut and now we're sort of forced as I said to sort of re-evaluate and see what's out there same thing is when you're doing the uh the automation process is make sure that you now this is like a bad word to some of you but document things have somewhere a list of what you're doing how it's working you know what maybe it's where the key the password stored or or things like that and you don't want to have it you know on notepads on your desk but you do want to have somewhere that you can look at it and say Here's the if I want to hand this over here's the five steps or the 10 steps I need to do in order to do so uh if you've ever had something happen where you've had to change a credit card or bank card where you were using that for automated payments you know the pain you know that it's one of these things where you you've got all these automated things going out everything and suddenly everything blows up because you you know swapped a different card or something expired and now you've got to go back and figure out where we all of those automations being done so you could go through it the pain obviously it's less painful for me I just had to hear about it but other than that didn't have to live it but in assuming you're a c preneur or something like that save yourself the trouble of going through some of this and the being cursed by somebody else that's going through it because of you and periodically just sort of like keep track of these things make sure it's easiest when you're building out the process but then periodically go back and say Hey did I change this you know for example did my passwords have to update did I update my password keeper you know things like that that you can run into now one things that we've we looked at that I do want to go into a little bit more on this is that we've now as part of this we've really taken a closer look because we have shifted gears a little bit we've taken a closer look at the podcast and what it looks like in some of its topics and also the video because in the past we've done more it's always been screen shares so I think I'll throw this to a little bit I'm like what are some of the things that that you worked with from the video side now granted podcast people I know you're not seeing all of this but there is a video side and uh we'll be talking about in a way that hopefully will help you if you're doing a video or when you do a video thoughts Michael sure so you're looking at kind of some of the I guess challenges or differences between the video uh of like the presentation side of things versus the podcast yeah sure so one of the nice things about it is the podcast because um this is a little more informal uh it's just more of a conversation we're having we're talking through topics uh coming up with the content or I guess editing the content is a little more streamlined because really we don't want to cut out too much right we want to keep as much in the conversation as possible but when we go through like a course content we're really trying to build the content in such a way that it can stand on its own it can be its uh like an educational how-to videos or uh kind of an educational series that we do the trick with those is like if we're writing code or uh we're showing code presentations sometimes things go off the rails and the computer crashes reboots or uh the we go down a rabbit hole and we spend 20 minutes something that takes a lot more editing because you actually physically have to watch the entire video and go okay where did I make that mistake oops caught it um but in something more like this it's yes we still have to listen to it yes we have to go through it but it's not as labor intensive as much as it is to cut the like a how-to video because you know you and I have done this many of times we'll be doing a presentation on Java or py or Jango and we get to a point where we try to run the application and something breaks now if it breaks in a way that we can kind of explain why something broke that becomes an educational moment but if it breaks to the point that whoops we're dead in the water we really don't want to put that 20 minutes in the video we want to cut uh that out and just really show what it is that the user is there to see um that's kind of the big two takeaways from that yeah that actually leads to one that uh little tips and tricks I guess portion maybe of this when you're doing a a video something that has you know where you at video where you have some visual thing visual cues are awesome uh sometimes there'll be things like people wave their hands uh sometimes they'll they'll you know do like little finger counts things like that are very useful and often our tips of the you know tricks trade whether you're doing something that's going to be like a you know go out on TV or if you're doing a a streaming of some sort or recording of some sort that you're going to go back and do some editing particularly if somebody else is going to edit it because then you can have things you can always say like hey if I do this thing it means that as you're looking at it then you want to you know Jump Ahead to the next time I do this or something like that there's cues that you can put in there that will help you out a good example from a and then also from a uh a video side and a little trick that I learned uh because of the tool that I used with the the with the editing side of video that's not like a high-end tool it's just like you know iMovie a lot of times but you below that you will see the audio and you'll see the little you know Jagged Little Things of your little audio moving along well the nice thing is if you do something that is a very sharp sound like whether you can clap or uh you could like some people wrap on a desk or they'll tap their mic hopefully I didn't just m mute myself when I did that um another thing that is I can video or audio do three two one and you will see like the peaks of that in the audio so it's real easy as I'm scrolling from left to right across the you know trying to jump through my video is to say oh here's where I started the you know the pause or whatever and here's where I came back and a lot of times there'll be things like I'll have a very flat line I'll you know shut the audio off for a while or I'll just shut my mouth for a while or something so you have a very obvious those like boom this is where I can cut it and this is where I'm going to bring it back so those kinds of things you can do it with if you're editing yourself or if you've got somebody else that's editing is figuring out a couple of those cues and some ways to make it easier on the life of the editor so they don't have to listen through the whole thing and it's very often things like hey cut out the last 30 seconds because I didn't want to do it or things like that that with somebody's listening or watching they now have a way to more easily edit out the pieces that you obviously want to edit out so we've we've changed our gears around a little bit um one of the other things that we've gone into or that we we looked at was uh it's two different people and even though we have we've put together content now for several years and we've you know got sort of a a rhythm there is a difference between when one of us writes versus another one or one of us speaks versus the other one and one of the things that we went into this one was now Michael is doing a lot of the related blog work and I wanted you hadn't really done much of these particularly the summaries that we do and the synopsis that we do for the podcast or the even the videos usually they've been more focused so talk a little bit about that what was your experience in taking that uh the sort of like the meta content or the summary content and copy around these things sure so one of the wonderful things that we have because of uh zoom's uh updates is we can now get transcripts from a lot of our video calls and I'm able to take that uh and kind of to put that into like a Word document or something just kind of clean it up so I can read it uh cuz unfortunately Zoom is not perfect at the way that it cuts the uh text however uh still walk through the video sometimes but some of the ones I just kind of skimmed through the text pulled out some of our highlights and went through and wrote some pretty good copy around uh sum summarizing not just what we talked about but also including some additional links and bullet points to help the uh reader or of the podcast or the video kind of quickly pull out oh this is what it's about I want to listen to this or hey that's something I'm really struggling with and then at the end uh of the last few I've actually started adding some additional links out to the developer.com and the school. developer uh.com to help give you more additional references to things that we do things that we've talked about uh in relation to what we've talked about in these podcast and these videos the other thing that is kind of fun uh that I've enjoyed doing is it's like oh yeah like we talked about the other day you know building the business The Branding and stuff like that it's like oh yeah uh where was my link to 99 99 designs uh I've thrown some additional links out to our sites uh because you know we're not just developing uh we are developers we live and breed this every day you know we are Consultants so it it doesn't hurt to actually go out and check out and see what else we do you know maybe one of our side hustles or our other jobs is something that you do and you may have something more personal or even general questions that we can talk about here for you and that brings us to a good uh a good close for this one is sort of that that's what we're looking for that is is what we want to do is we want to provide you all of you guys and gals that are out there with some tips and tricks you know just sort of Frontline stories where uh that's why this episode you know pretty good hey we're starting a new you know making some changes we learned a few things we've got a few bumps and bruises so we'll share those War Stories and some of the lessons learned so hopefully you don't have to have the same bumps and bruises when you go through that so that being said we'll wrap up this little episode we're cruising right along in the podcast world uh season 21 back we're just getting started on this season uh we're continue providing you guys it's not not a uh as much a like you know continuous series of uh instructional as much as we're going to be hitting on a different topic probably every episode for this season or around at least uh as always you can check out developer.com if you want more information or if you would love to see the video side of it and some of occasionally some additional content like there will be on this episode check out the YouTube Go to develop anur d v l p r Nur or you can see that right getting better at pointing into my background uh you can't see that if you're on the podcast though so is apologies for that but um check us out there on YouTube develop anure I've got channels for different topics we'll also have some here that you'll be able to catch up on all of the latest news that being said go out there and have yourself a great a great week and we will talk to you next time and now the rest of you that are still here you get bonus stuff and the bonus I really want to talk about this time is really because it is uh it's the audio it's the video side and not really on the audio side and it is about your recording we are just like working our way through how to record these and what works best for us because we're not in the same room we don't have the ability to be in the same room and so one of the things we did last time is we've uh what what Zoom does by default is that it tracks whoever's talking that's the one that the video feed that you're going to see in a case like this and so you may see me talking like this and then when Michael talks well there we go you also have to make sure you on the right que yes uh we we have to work on our cues a little bit but that's okay uh one of the things I did hopefully uh is I changed over the settings this time we'll see how this works so you may have seen us split the whole time um maybe not but those are things to work out if you want to do U you know something like this is understand the tools are out there what do they do and what do you really want because there is there's a value in the ways that you may approach in specifically a a video because you may want have everybody appar you know showing up at the same time particularly if you have three or four or five people you can think about like the Sports Talk stuff where they've got you know somebody in one corner and somebody in the other Corner another guy over there and another gy over there or you may want to split them or you may have some thing that you want to work on such as as we've got here so those are just some bonus things to think about if you want to go into the the video world it is much much different audio it's it's pretty straightforward it's say you've got an audio level you've got you know your feeds you can there's things you can do there you can do the same thing in the the video world it's just much more complicated once you get into video video editing is a lot more complicated to deal with now audio you still need to deal with things like that your audio is set up correctly so that you're recording the right levels and things like that but if you don't U you know a video again takes it to a new level and it's not like just one Lev of new stuff it's you know it is gargantuan levels of additional stuff because you have to worry about coloring and lighting and all of that kind of stuff obviously we don't have to worry about makeup but a lot of people do and it's things like that that you may want to think about I'm going to wrap up this one one let you guys get back to hey Rob just one more bonus thing go ahead um one thing also when you're doing video recording and video editing make sure you close a lot your background applications that you don't need up because the more processing power you have for your video recordings the better uh video can be very CPU intensive and if you have a lot of things running in the background you can get a lot of skipping a lot of uh you know voice Cuts so just something to be cautious about that that and I guess one final one yet little bonus thing if you're recording and you have a uh in your screen you're doing a screen recording or something like that make sure you like you know turn off notifications and things of that nature I've had that more than a few times we're doing presentations uh if you're not doing something presentation tool takes over the entire screen times you'll suddenly see little popups that are like hey so and so has just messaged you or hey you got email or something like that so good things uh good tips and so if you've got others definitely feel free to throw them down in the comment area we'd love to hear from you you've got something you'd like us to talk about or if you have questions about any of the specifics about how we're going love to hear them uh you shoot us email info developer.com but other than that we're going to wrap this one up go out and have yourself a great day and we'll be back here next time around on chel more cool information while feel free to check out all of the other information that we've got around ser and um you just sort of catch up and if you got any information any questions let us know have a great day [Music]
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[Music]
welcome back if you are and you are
watching the video stream well not video
the stream the recording we are back
we're going to talk about something a
little different today uh if you've
noticed we are now a couple episodes on
the podcast side or a couple episodes
into our new
season and uh actually we're going to
talk about today as we uh flip over into
the sort of podcast mode in here in a
minute and you'll hear a little bit more
of this you see a little bit the
background kind of stuff that we're
dealing with now one the things you've
seen uh I do want to mention that's sort
of outside the podcast because this is
visual you may notice this
backgroundyoutube
some things that will brand your look
and uh that's going to help you quite a
bit and this is one of the things that
we're going to continue as we go through
this series essentially or this season
of changes uh we're going to talk about
a few of these things but that's just
the visual stuff so now we're going to
flip over and talk more about the audio
world well hello and welcome back to
those of you that are on the podcast
side we've just been talking to our
video people and they've had to stared
our faces so they have to St for through
that however you just get the delet
tones of our voices this episode we are
going to talk about uh basically
production type issues we've been
talking about in this season develop
andur stuff some of the things that
we've been changing around one of the
things we've changed around Is How We Do
the podcast uh we've got our trusty
friend Michael who has been doing the
sort of taking over the editorial Reigns
right now up to this I did the video did
the audios for the most part for the the
podcast and he would do stuff here and
there and I got into a pretty good you
know Rhythm and had a good process but
now in handing it over we're going to go
right into talk to Michael about some of
the the snags and such that he uh has
run into so welcome oh Grand editor of
all now and uh why don't you just start
like you know venting a little bit about
some of the the issues and challenges
you ran into this week
sure so one of the biggest challenges I
ran into this week was we found out very
quickly that I did not have access to a
lot of our social media uh platforms to
publish uh I had access to make comments
publish things make some edits but not
actually publish videos for Content so
we went through a couple days of oh
what's this account uh what's this
account information you know and when
you set these up initially uh especially
when you're first starting out and
you're setting up your branding you're
setting up your social media sites uh
typically you're going to write that
down somewhere and you're going to save
it in your Google or save it in some
password reminder and then you're going
to forget about it except if you ever
start growing or you add people to your
business you're going to need those
again so uh make sure you save those off
uh use something like keypass or
something or put them in uh like a Wiki
somewhere internally that you can
reference uh if that was was just one of
the kind of Hang-Ups we had initially
getting started uh the other fun hiccup
I ran into which uh kind of runs into
what I go through daily is software
updates so it's been a hot minute since
we've done some video recordings since
we worked on the uh school.
developer.com and I haven't really done
a lot of video editing uh in a while or
even audio editing and I found out that
all of my software tools got updated and
being on the so on Mac found out some of
them don't work anymore and I had to go
download new versions and get everything
set up again so that's something else to
keep in mind with is make sure that
you're constantly staying up to date on
your tools that you're going to be using
even if it is checking on them once a
month to make sure that they still work
uh because you don't want to be in a
situation like me where at the 11th hour
I'm trying to cut something and all of a
sudden whoops stuff doesn't work and now
you're starting to hit a deadline and
you're like freaking out and it's like
oh crap um that was kind of the other
thing I ran into uh the other fun thing
we ran into is uh I'm going deaf
apparently because I can't hear half the
audio that comes out of my machine so
apparently my speakers are set at Max so
when you're doing audio edits and video
edits and you're trying to test things
set the volume as low always you can go
to just hear things and then as you're
going through the process uh crank up
your audio within your tool and get it
as loud as you can get without too much
Distortion then test on multiple devices
so I tested on iPhones iPads my phone
the problem I had initially when I first
started doing this was I used headphones
because I was not in a quiet space where
I could just play through my computer
speakers and I found that this uh
headphones I had uh actually had an
audio booster in them so I was actually
hearing things louder than they actually
were in the video uh so we kind of went
back and forth on that a little bit and
uh that was kind of the big issues I ran
into getting things started uh the other
thing is uh again just getting
comfortable with your tools so I'm
actually going out and looking for some
uh newer tools because uh you know the
ones I have kind of work now on the
Maxon but may not be what we need going
forward if we're if I'm going to be
doing a lot more of this all the
time there's a there's a couple of great
little points that I do want to follow
up on the first one was the idea
of the initial headaches and it is a lot
of us we talk and we talk about this all
the time in the in the developing World
about automating stuff and building
processes and things like that and using
the tools are out there the problem is
is that when you change everything
you've got to make sure that your
processes also change accordingly and so
if you're like me you automated this a
long time ago and the next thing you
know you have to change it so now you
got to remember what the heck did I
automate and this is where we we rly
talk about doing like a yeah May every
six months or once a year do sort of a
essentially like an audit or a you know
checking a pulse of your business of
what you're working on what you're doing
what are the tools you're using now this
has turned out to be a great opportunity
because it's forcing us to go through
this so we have you he sort of wrapped
up there talking about there's some
tools that he's going to look at
Michael's going to go sort of look at
what uh one thing may work better for us
uh as an organization but also may work
better for him because I have you know
my set of tools and what I've been
working with and what I've gotten
comfortable with but they may not be the
best they may be the thing that I've
gotten used to gotten in a rut and now
we're sort of forced as I said to sort
of re-evaluate and see what's out there
same thing is when you're doing the uh
the automation process is make sure that
you now this is like a bad word to some
of you but document things have
somewhere a list of what you're doing
how it's
working you know what maybe it's where
the key the password stored or or things
like that and you don't want to have it
you know on notepads on your desk but
you do want to have somewhere that you
can look at it and say Here's the if I
want to hand this over here's the five
steps or the 10 steps I need to do in
order to do so uh if you've ever had
something happen where you've had to
change a credit card or bank card where
you were using that for automated
payments you know the pain you know that
it's one of these things where you
you've got all these automated things
going out everything and suddenly
everything blows up because you you know
swapped a different card or something
expired and now you've got to go back
and figure out where we all of those
automations being done so you could go
through it the pain
obviously it's less painful for me I
just had to hear about it but other than
that didn't have to live it but in
assuming you're a c preneur or something
like that save yourself the trouble of
going through some of this and the being
cursed by somebody else that's going
through it because of you and
periodically just sort of like keep
track of these things make sure it's
easiest when you're building out the
process but then periodically go back
and say Hey did I change this you know
for example did my passwords have to
update
did I update my password keeper you know
things like that that you can run into
now one things that we've we looked at
that I do want to go into a little bit
more on this is that we've now as part
of this we've really taken a closer look
because we have shifted gears a little
bit we've taken a closer look at the
podcast and what it looks like in some
of its topics and also the video because
in the past we've done more it's always
been screen shares so I think I'll throw
this to a little bit I'm like what are
some of the things that that you worked
with from the video side now granted
podcast people I know you're not seeing
all of this but there is a video side
and uh we'll be talking about in a way
that hopefully will help you if you're
doing a video or when you do a
video thoughts Michael sure so you're
looking at kind of some of the I guess
challenges or differences between the
video uh of like the presentation side
of things versus the podcast
yeah sure so one of the nice things
about it is the podcast because um this
is a little more informal uh it's just
more of a conversation we're having
we're talking through topics uh coming
up with the content or I guess editing
the content is a little more streamlined
because really we don't want to cut out
too much right we want to keep as much
in the conversation as possible but when
we go through like a course content
we're really trying to build the content
in such a way that it can stand on its
own it can be its uh like an educational
how-to videos or uh kind of an
educational series that we do the trick
with those is like if we're writing code
or uh we're showing code presentations
sometimes things go off the rails and
the computer crashes reboots or uh the
we go down a rabbit hole and we spend 20
minutes something that takes a lot more
editing because you actually physically
have to watch the entire video and go
okay where did I make that mistake oops
caught it um but in something more like
this it's yes we still have to listen to
it yes we have to go through it but it's
not as labor intensive as much as it is
to cut the like a how-to video because
you know you and I have done this many
of times we'll be doing a presentation
on Java or py or Jango and we get to a
point where we try to run the
application and something breaks now if
it breaks in a way that we can kind of
explain why something broke that becomes
an educational moment but if it breaks
to the point that whoops we're dead in
the water we really don't want to put
that 20 minutes in the video we want to
cut uh that out and just really show
what it is that the user is there to see
um that's kind of the big two takeaways
from that yeah that actually leads to
one that uh little tips and tricks I
guess portion maybe of this when you're
doing a a video something that has you
know where you at video where you have
some visual thing visual cues are
awesome uh sometimes there'll be things
like people wave their hands uh
sometimes they'll they'll you know do
like little finger counts things like
that are very useful and often our tips
of the you know tricks trade whether
you're doing something that's going to
be like a you know go out on TV or if
you're doing a a streaming of some sort
or recording of some sort that you're
going to go back and do some editing
particularly if somebody else is going
to edit it because then you can have
things you can always say like hey if I
do this thing it means that as you're
looking at it then you want to you know
Jump Ahead to the next time I do this or
something like that there's cues that
you can put in there that will help you
out a good example from a and then also
from a uh a
video side and a little trick that I
learned uh because of the tool that I
used with the the with the editing side
of video that's not like a high-end tool
it's just like you know iMovie a lot of
times but
you below that you will see the audio
and you'll see the little you know
Jagged Little Things of your little
audio moving along well the nice thing
is if you do something that is a very
sharp sound like whether you can clap or
uh you could like some people wrap on a
desk or they'll tap their mic hopefully
I didn't just m mute myself when I did
that um another thing that is I can
video or audio do three two one and you
will see like the peaks of that in the
audio so it's real easy as I'm scrolling
from left to right across the you know
trying to jump through my video is to
say oh here's where I started the you
know the pause or whatever and here's
where I came back and a lot of times
there'll be things like I'll have a very
flat line I'll you know shut the audio
off for a while or I'll just shut my
mouth for a while or something so you
have a very obvious those like boom this
is where I can cut it and this is where
I'm going to bring it back so those
kinds of things you can do it with if
you're editing yourself or if you've got
somebody else that's editing is figuring
out a couple of those cues and some ways
to make it easier on the life of the
editor so they don't have to listen
through the whole thing and it's very
often things like hey cut out the last
30 seconds because I didn't want to do
it or things like that that with
somebody's listening or watching they
now have a way to more easily edit out
the pieces that you obviously want to
edit out so we've we've changed our
gears around a little bit um one of the
other things that we've gone
into or that we we looked at was uh it's
two different people and even though we
have we've put together content now for
several years and we've you know got
sort of a a rhythm there is a difference
between when one of us writes versus
another one or one of us speaks versus
the other one and one of the things that
we went into this one was now Michael is
doing a lot of the related blog work and
I wanted you hadn't really done much of
these particularly the summaries that we
do and the synopsis that we do for the
podcast or the even the videos usually
they've been more focused so talk a
little bit about that what was your
experience in taking that uh the sort of
like the meta content or the summary
content and copy around these
things sure so one of the wonderful
things that we have because of uh zoom's
uh updates is we can now get transcripts
from a lot of our video calls and I'm
able to take that uh and kind of to put
that into like a Word document or
something just kind of clean it up so I
can read it uh cuz unfortunately Zoom is
not perfect at the way that it cuts the
uh
text however
uh still walk through the video
sometimes but some of the ones I just
kind of skimmed through the text pulled
out some of our highlights and went
through and wrote some pretty good copy
around uh sum summarizing not just what
we talked about but also including some
additional links and bullet points to
help the uh reader or of the podcast or
the video kind of quickly pull out oh
this is what it's about I want to listen
to this or hey that's something I'm
really struggling with and then at the
end uh of the last few I've actually
started adding some additional links out
to the developer.com and the school.
developer uh.com to help give you more
additional references to things that we
do things that we've talked about uh in
relation to what we've talked about in
these podcast and these videos the other
thing that is kind of fun uh that I've
enjoyed doing is it's like oh yeah like
we talked about the other day you know
building the business The Branding and
stuff like that it's like oh yeah uh
where was my link to 99 99 designs uh
I've thrown some additional links out to
our sites uh because you know we're not
just developing uh we are developers we
live and breed this every day you know
we are Consultants so it it doesn't hurt
to actually go out and check out and see
what else we do you know maybe one of
our side hustles or our other jobs is
something that you do and you may have
something more personal or even general
questions that we can talk about here
for
you and that brings us to a good uh a
good close for this one
is sort of that that's what we're
looking for that is is what we want to
do is we want to provide you all of you
guys and gals that are out there with
some tips and tricks you know just sort
of Frontline stories where uh that's why
this episode you know pretty good hey
we're starting a new you know making
some changes we learned a few things
we've got a few bumps and bruises so
we'll share those War Stories and some
of the lessons learned so hopefully you
don't have to have the same bumps and
bruises when you go through that so that
being said we'll wrap up this little
episode we're cruising right along in
the podcast world uh season 21 back
we're just getting started on this
season uh we're continue providing you
guys it's not not a uh as much a like
you know continuous series of uh
instructional as much as we're going to
be hitting on a different topic probably
every episode for this season or around
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yourself a great a great week and we
will talk to you next time and now the
rest of you that are still here you get
bonus stuff and the bonus I really want
to talk about this time is really
because it is uh it's the audio it's the
video side and not really on the audio
side and it is about your
recording we are just like working our
way through how to record these and what
works best for us because we're not in
the same room we don't have the ability
to be in the same room and so one of the
things we did last time is we've uh what
what Zoom does by default is that it
tracks whoever's talking that's the one
that the video feed that you're going to
see in a case like this and so you may
see me talking like this and then when
Michael
talks well there we
go you also have to make sure you on the
right
que yes uh we we have to work on our
cues a little bit but that's okay uh one
of the things I did hopefully uh is I
changed over the settings this time
we'll see how this works so you may have
seen us split the whole time um maybe
not but those are things to work out if
you want to do U you know something like
this is understand the tools are out
there what do they do and what do you
really want because there is there's a
value in the ways that you may approach
in specifically a a video because you
may want have everybody appar you know
showing up at the same time particularly
if you have three or four or five people
you can think about like the Sports Talk
stuff where they've got you know
somebody in one corner and somebody in
the other Corner another guy over there
and another gy over there or you may
want to split them or you may have some
thing that you want to work on such as
as we've got here so those are just some
bonus things to think about if you want
to go into the the video world it is
much much different audio it's it's
pretty straightforward it's say you've
got an audio level
you've got you know your feeds you can
there's things you can do there you can
do the same thing in the the video world
it's just much more complicated once you
get into video video editing is a lot
more complicated to deal with now audio
you still need to deal with things like
that your audio is set up correctly so
that you're recording the right levels
and things like that but if you
don't U you know a video again takes it
to a new level and it's not like just
one Lev of new stuff it's you
know it is gargantuan levels of
additional stuff because you have to
worry about coloring and lighting and
all of that kind of stuff obviously we
don't have to worry about makeup but a
lot of people do and it's things like
that that you may want to think about
I'm going to wrap up this one
one let you guys get back to hey Rob
just one more bonus thing go ahead um
one thing also when you're doing video
recording and video editing make sure
you close a lot your background
applications that you don't need up
because the more processing power you
have for your video recordings the
better uh video can be very CPU
intensive and if you have a lot of
things running in the background you can
get a lot of skipping a lot of uh you
know voice Cuts so just something to be
cautious about
that that and I guess one final one yet
little bonus thing if you're recording
and you have a uh in your screen you're
doing a screen recording or something
like that make sure you like you know
turn off notifications and things of
that nature I've had that more than a
few times we're doing presentations uh
if you're not doing something
presentation tool takes over the entire
screen times you'll suddenly see little
popups that are like hey so and so has
just messaged you or hey you got email
or something like that so good things uh
good tips and so if you've got others
definitely feel free to throw them down
in the comment area we'd love to hear
from you you've got something you'd like
us to talk about or if you have
questions about any of the specifics
about how we're going love to hear them
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