Made And Published First Ever Youtube Video
Like many born in the late 90s my childhood featured more than one embarrassing guest appearance in friends’ youtube videos, but this was my first ever original and independent video creation.
As a video, it is a wholly unimpressive and a shameless attempt to rank for some keywords that will drive traffic back to one of my projects, Hometown Industries Coaching.
But like most of my mundane creations, I love it dearly.
Something that may come as a surprise if you watch the video, and see that it is a straight forward screencast, is that I actually did a fair amount of editing.
When recording the screencast, which possibly required 20 takes, I used the seller central account of a Hometown Industry’s client, instead of just creating a new seller central account for the demo.
I did this because I wanted the screencast to have sales numbers displayed in the background.
This felt necessary to show strangers on the internet that I am an authority on these topics and know what I’m talking about.
Of course, I protected the privacy of this client by blurring out any personal information in the video, and this is where a lot of editing took place.
As a Mac User, my first attempt to do this editing was with the free installation of iMovie.
This did not go well.
I am sure iMovie is great for many things, but blurring out sections of a screen in between changing frames is not one of them.
After abandoning iMovie, I began to look for something else and landed on the Movavi Video Editor Plus 2020.
Movavi has features that make blurring out sections of a video frame a lot easier than iMovie
I used the one week free trial to edit the video and when that ran out I purchased a lifetime license for around $50.
I had a wonderful customer service interaction with the Movavi support team. In my hunt for internet coupons I actually ended up buying a license to a the wrong Movavi video editing software.
When I explained this to the support team they not only switched the licenses but for no reason in particular issued a chargeback on my credit card for $20.
Reflections On The Process:
My first impression of how I feel about video editing is that I kind of hate it.
As a web developer, I am no stranger to tedious tasks. There are those parts of a day where you have to fix or implement something that is annoying or tedious, but you get it over with and then can get back to the things that are more fun and engaging.
To me, video editing felt like those tedious tasks but just all of the time.
Perhaps my beginner and amateurish abilities are what makes the editing process feel so tedious and it will get more fun with time, but playing over the same clip over and over got old quickly.
Regardless of how I feel about the video editing process I will be making more videos.
I believe video will play an important role in building an audience and business around Hometown Industries Coaching, especially as I start to create online courses, but at this time the written word is definitely my preferred medium.