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Heyyyy thanks glad you enjoyed it! I was surprised to wake up and see this on Hacker News today. Thought I'd comment on the video editing: It is all pretty lo

Heyyyy thanks glad you enjoyed it! I was surprised to wake up and see this on Hacker News today. Thought I'd comment on the video editing: It is all pretty low tech. I use Adobe Premiere to edit and mostly just animate transform, scale, and crop effects to achieve everything. Like for the zooms you pointed out I double up a layer of the screencap and then crop and scale. It's a bit painstaking at times. Another little part is when I do the screen recording I set my desktop background to an image with a colored box area of 1280x720. This is the area I know will be "on screen". So I have the windows I want to pull in during the video just outside this area. Then I crop to this box in editing. I think this is better looking than just capturing the whole desktop, and I like the live feel. I'm enjoying evolving this style... I sometimes have thoughts of making some kind of gross homemade video compositing tool in JS. But I haven't gotten there yet...

peteforde 7y ago
Thanks for the tips and tricks. If you ever made a video on how you make videos, I'd be first in line to watch that. I haven't looked at Premiere since the bad old days before it traded places with Final Cut as the default choice for editing. These days, I spend most of my time on Ubuntu and use Kdenlive for my very minimal requirements. The one thing you have that is much harder to teach is great comic timing. I suspect that it will serve you well in many aspects of your life. I don't know if you've been polishing your fast five, but if you ever have an opportunity to try your hand at standup, I'd encourage you to go for it.
IshKebab 7y ago
Check out ShareX, it can easily capture a subset of your screen, and you can hold a modifier (I forget which) to snap to common video resolutions / aspect ratios.
wDcBKgt66V8WDs 7y ago
Everything about this is great, I'm not a big video watcher but I just sat through that whole thing it was gold. The selfie direction flips, the interjections from you in another setting instead of chopping the video (both funny but also a nicer way to do it honestly). The concepts you're showing. All really good. Keep it up I'll be watching!

peteforde 7y ago

Thanks for the tips and tricks. If you ever made a video on how you make videos, I'd be first in line to watch that. I haven't looked at Premiere since the bad old days before it traded places with Final Cut as the default choice for editing. These days, I spend most of my time on Ubuntu and use Kdenlive for my very minimal requirements. The one thing you have that is much harder to teach is great comic timing. I suspect that it will serve you well in many aspects of your life. I don't know if you've been polishing your fast five, but if you ever have an opportunity to try your hand at standup, I'd encourage you to go for it.

IshKebab 7y ago

Check out ShareX, it can easily capture a subset of your screen, and you can hold a modifier (I forget which) to snap to common video resolutions / aspect ratios.

wDcBKgt66V8WDs 7y ago

Everything about this is great, I'm not a big video watcher but I just sat through that whole thing it was gold. The selfie direction flips, the interjections from you in another setting instead of chopping the video (both funny but also a nicer way to do it honestly). The concepts you're showing. All really good. Keep it up I'll be watching!