[evergreen-outreach] road to 3.0 video series

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi,

> Do you have a sense of how much longer, both for somebody doing such a
> video for the first time and for somebody who has a couple under their
> belts?
It took about eight hours to do my first video. It had been a few years 
since I had used any video editing software, so some of this time was 
spent familiarizing myself with new software that would allow me to 
stitch together tracks and make edits. This also included the time to 
find the music and images that were used throughout the series. Each 
time we do a series, this task will only need to be done once. I also 
think some of that time was spent getting the YouTube Channel set up.

Interestingly, even though I didn't have to do those starter tasks for 
the second video, it also took about eight hours to complete that one. 
In this case, I was working on a feature with which I was somewhat 
unfamiliar and also found some bugs along the way, one of which needed 
to be fixed before I could continue (it was fixed in fairly short 
order.) There was a lot of exploring and learning the feature that was 
happening while I created that video.

If somebody already experienced with their video editing software were 
working on a video where the opening / ending sequences were already in 
place and on a topic with which  they were very familiar, they might be 
able to cut that time in half to maybe four hours? But how often do 
things go that seamlessly on any given task?

Although I think it was a good idea to try out the PR videos for the 3.0 
release since we wanted to do a little more fanfare around the release, 
the time commitment coupled with the short timeframe between beta, when 
we know what all of the features are that made the release, and the full 
release makes it difficult to pull together. My first plan was to do the 
small staff client enhancements video that kicked off the series, but 
one of the features I wanted to highlight in the series didn't make the 
beta cutoff. I think there were a couple of other features from the 
Roadmap we wanted to highlight that ultimately didn't make it in.

I had planned to get some videos done before the beta release was 
complete, but I'm also very busy during that period trying to test new 
features so that they can actually make it into the release. I imagine 
that would be a problem for me with any videos centered around a release.

If we do another series of videos (as opposed to just releasing one or 
two as the mood strikes us), I would like to do something that isn't as 
time sensitive where we can have all (or most) of our videos done before 
we start releasing them to the public.  We could then release them on a 
schedule and maybe include teasers on what's coming up in the video 
scheduled for the following week. I was thinking it might be nice to do 
a series that just highlights thing we love about Evergreen, features 
that make Evergreen stand out from other ILSes.

Kathy





On 10/23/2017 04:14 PM, Galen Charlton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That wasn't without spending resources.  You can think "I'm going to do this
>> quick and dirty" but once you start you want a certain degree of polish and
>> by the time all is said and done it's a bigger commitment than you'd planned
>> on.  Takeaway - these aren't tiny projects to do.  A five minute video can
>> take substantially longer between setup, video work, etc...
> Do you have a sense of how much longer, both for somebody doing such a
> video for the first time and for somebody who has a couple under their
> belts?
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen

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