<div dir="ltr">Mine didn't take quite as much time as Kathy's. I've done some video work over the years and although it had been a while I had some equivalent to muscle memory in doing it. My first video involved setting up a template and familiarizing myself with iMovie (which it turns out is far different from Final Cut) but it took maybe .... five hours. My second one took about 3 hours between setting up the test data, doing a walk through a few takes before I got a clean one. Note that the version I published wasn't without verbal gaffe. I think some time could be shaved off the tool side as comfort levels increase but that will probably get taken up with more detailed script writing and takes. If it's a feature that doesn't require setting up accounts and preparing samples for review that will reduce the time as will familiarity. I was reviewing features I was mostly familiar with already but wanted to try out variations of in so that I could be sure I either did or didn't need to go over them in the video. So, I would say 1-3 hours is a reasonable estimate depending on the feature being reviewed if you're using an established template.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Kathy Lussier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klussier@masslnc.org" target="_blank">klussier@masslnc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<span class=""><br>
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Do you have a sense of how much longer, both for somebody doing such a<br>
video for the first time and for somebody who has a couple under their<br>
belts?<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On 10/23/2017 04:14 PM, Galen Charlton wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Rogan Hamby <<a href="mailto:rogan.hamby@gmail.com" target="_blank">rogan.hamby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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That wasn't without spending resources. You can think "I'm going to do this<br>
quick and dirty" but once you start you want a certain degree of polish and<br>
by the time all is said and done it's a bigger commitment than you'd planned<br>
on. Takeaway - these aren't tiny projects to do. A five minute video can<br>
take substantially longer between setup, video work, etc...<br>
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Do you have a sense of how much longer, both for somebody doing such a<br>
video for the first time and for somebody who has a couple under their<br>
belts?<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Galen<br>
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