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NOTE Introduction
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Hey, I'm Gopar
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and today I'm going to talk about
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being an Emacs influencer
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and try to convince you to be one too.
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Hopefully that goes well.
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If not, we'll see at the end of the talk.
NOTE Knowledge grows when it is shared
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But first, I want to share something,
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and that is: that knowledge grows when it is shared.
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This is usually how I end my videos.
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Some of you may be familiar with this.
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I say this quote because I believe there is truth to it.
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The more you share something, the more you reinforce it,
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and the more the knowledge grows, not just for you,
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but for everybody else around it with who you share it with.
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With that being said,
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there's only one question I want to ask you.
NOTE When's the last time you shared something?
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That is: what is the last time you shared something?
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Now, the sharing of knowledge
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doesn't just have to be about Emacs.
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It can just be about other things that you learn in life.
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There's plenty of things
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that I share with people that I've learned in life,
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and I hope that they learn from what I'm saying as well.
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Learn from the mistakes in others
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type of deal, things like that.
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But anyway, since this is EmacsConf,
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we're gonna keep it to Emacs-related,
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so we're going to find ways
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on how to share all that Emacs knowledge
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that is locked up inside you guys' brain.
NOTE Sharing Emacs
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So sharing Emacs, how can we do that?
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Well, there's a few ways.
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We can do meetups and conferences, aka EmacsConf,
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like we're doing now. So hopefully one of you guys
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might be incentivized to share the knowledge
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that you have in the next upcoming year,
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or the future ones, or be a repeated presenter.
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The list goes on and on.
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Blog posts. So, one of the easier entries to [??]
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because it is writing
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and you don't have to do video,
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not like the other formats that I'm about to present.
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Tweeting is also an easier format as well
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because it's even smaller than a blog post, more condensed,
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and you can use hashtags. When I was learning,
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when I was reading the Org Mode manual,
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I would use the hashtag #OrgTip on on Twitter.
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Even if you search right now,
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I believe you'll find some of my tweets.
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But yeah, that's one way
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that you can go about it: simple tweets
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that you find, little things, little nuggets of gold
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as I would say. Of course, there's podcasts,
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which I'm pretty sure
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the Emacs community would love to have,
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so if anybody wants to pick up a podcast
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go right ahead. Twitch live streaming,
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which is... Twitch is a platform
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in which you can do live streaming
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for those who are not familiar.
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And people, I've seen people use the Emacs tag in there
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and, you know, just pop up, say hello,
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ask questions, things like that.
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You can be working on the configuration
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or just reading Emacs source code,
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you know, fun stuff like that.
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Videos, which is what I do,
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which I will touch on in a second.
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There's probably more formats
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that I'm not thinking at the moment
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and that you guys can probably fill in the gaps.
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But yeah, these are just some of the ways
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that we can share Emacs. So how do we get started?
NOTE My background
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Well, before we get started,
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I want to talk about my credentials, right?
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I mean, who is this guy
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that you're just listening in this little square
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talking about creating videos?
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Well, I run a channel called goparism on YouTube.
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It has around 2700 subscribers at the moment.
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I kind of know a little bit of the flow.
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I'm not an expert, but I've done enough videos
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that I kind of understand the flow of all of
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at least the simple way of doing it, which I want to share.
NOTE Why you should make Emacs videos (or other formats)
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So right now you're probably thinking,
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OK, I get that you want to sell us
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on the whole video making formats
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or you know sharing just Emacs in general,
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but I'm a beginner, I'm an intermediate, I'm advanced,
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I don't know if I can provide input.
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Each of those, I want to tackle each of those,
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and say that yeah, each of you have input.
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You know, for a beginner it might be say,
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oh, an intermediate and an advanced person
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already has information.
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Intermediate might say, oh, I'm not at that level yet.
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An advanced person might say, oh, I have nothing to say.
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You know, I don't... What I know,
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everybody else knows.
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So I want to, you know, dispel all that and just tell you that,
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hey, it doesn't matter.
NOTE Beginners
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So for beginners, you guys are in a beautiful place,
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which is that you have a clean slate.
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So the way I imagine is that every Emacs user
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is presented[??] upon themselves,
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you know, kind of like this world.
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And in this world, you can either build a road
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that goes to the mountains, the city, or to the beach.
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Some of us have decided which way we want to go.
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Some of us might be building
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the road to the city, to the beach, for example.
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If someone starts a road to the city,
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they are probably stuck in their ways, right?
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And then what leads them to the goal to the city,
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they're not going to make a detour towards the mountain
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or towards the beach to get to the city.
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They just want the straightest path.
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And when you are used to doing things a certain way,
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you're going to have a ton of vision.
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So as a beginner, you don't have any of that
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because you're just starting brand new.
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Everything is, you know, a world of possibilities.
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So I would say that this is a very big advantage.
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The second one is that people enjoy the journey, right?
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People want to see someone grow from this spot
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to the next level, etc, etc.
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This is one of the reasons why we watch movies,
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TV shows, anime, right?
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Because there's a character that needs a problem
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and they're working their way up to solve that problem.
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If we just get to see the ending
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of where they solve the problem,
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we don't really feel anything
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because we weren't part of that journey.
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I would say that starting from scratch
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is a pretty good place to be.
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Of course, if you're going
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to be writing or making videos
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or anything related to Emacs, you kind of have to force...
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If you want to teach people, you kind of have to learn it.
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You're kind of forced to learn,
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which is always encouraged.
NOTE Intermediate
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For intermediates now, you might be saying,
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hey, I'm a little past intermediate.
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I'm sorry, past beginner,
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but I don't feel confident enough to share.
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Well, let's say that you're wrong. Once you're intermediate,
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you're probably fiddling with your Emacs config,
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maybe doing something with Org Mode,
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like a lot of people are doing it,
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and you can document, talk about the things that you do,
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and also those functions that you write in Elisp
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to just improve quality of life, things like that.
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There's a whole list of things that you can do.
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These are just two things out of a plethora.
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of items that you can talk about.
NOTE Advanced
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For my advanced folks, you guys are in a position
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where you guys know more about the Emacs internals.
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You might have read the source code.
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You might know a Emacs manual section pretty well
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that you can talk about.
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Usually when you're at the advanced
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or intermediate level,
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you start, or at least some people start writing packages.
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You can talk about the best practices
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for creating packages, the troubles that you face, you know,
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the things that you learn, things like that.
NOTE Impostor syndrome
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Now that I've given a little bit of examples
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for each of these tiers, there's probably still
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something going on in each of you guys' mind,
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which is something all of us get to face,
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and that is impostor syndrome. Now, with impostor syndrome,
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the sad reality is that we all have it at some point,
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we're going to, you know,
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at the beginner, intermediate, or even advanced stage,
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it doesn't matter,
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there's always that little voice of imposter syndrome saying,
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hey, "You're probably not good enough" or not...
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but questioning if you're good enough
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or if you deserve to be at this level and things like that.
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I believe it's very common with software engineers.
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The other sad thing is that it will never go away
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But the way I see it with impostor syndrome
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is that we embrace it.
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If we are getting an impostor syndrome,
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it's because we're pushing ourself to a next level
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that we haven't been able to to overcome or to progress in.
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If you're pushing yourself, you will get impostor syndrome.
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Like, hey, am I good enough to lead this project?
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To finish this? To optimize this part
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or whatever? I feel it's a good way.
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Impostor syndrome, yeah, it feels horrible,
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but I believe that if you have it,
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it's because you're doing something right.
NOTE Process for recording
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Okay, now that we've gotten
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that out of the way, what's the process for recording?
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Well, it's actually a lot simpler than you think.
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There's three steps, and one of them
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you might not even have to do,
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depending on how you want to go about it.
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The first one is that you have
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to record your voice and screen,
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because if you do want to make video,
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people have to see what you're doing
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and they have to hear what you're talking,
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otherwise it's going to be not as engaging.
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Of course, you can make the face optional
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when recording videos.
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If you watch some of my videos, sometimes
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I show my face, sometimes I don't.
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It just really depends on the mood of what I'm doing
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when I'm recording the video. But yeah, completely up to you.
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After recording, you can edit if desired.
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I remember when I first started making the videos,
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I was not editing them at all.
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I was just one shot and upload.
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That can either be good or bad
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depending on how you view it,
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but it is what it is. Nowadays I do some light editing,
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mainly just to remove the silences
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or when I'm going through debugging something.
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Third one is to upload it,
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which might be the easiest section,
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depending on your goals.
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At minimum, you would put title, description,
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and a little bit more.
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You'll get why I see it can be as easy
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or as complicated as you want,
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which I'll go over later at the end.
NOTE Details: recording
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Let's go over details for recording.
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For recording, thankfully, all OSes,
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or at least the major OSes, have free recording software,
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or you can go a little fancy and get paid [software],
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which usually, you know, depending on your viewpoint,
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might make things easier or not.
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Personally, I use, I'm on Mac,
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so I use the built-in screen recording,
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which, if you do Command-Shift-5,
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it will pop up a little dialog, and if you did it just now,
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you can press the Escape key
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to get rid of it, and life goes on.
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Also for all major 3 OSes, OBS
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is a pretty popular choice not just for streaming,
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but for recording as well.
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That's something you might want to look at.
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If you do decide to record videos.
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All up to you. These are just things
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that I've come along or encountered along the way.
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When it comes to recording,
NOTE Tips: Recording
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I do have some tips that might help you out.
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At least, if I could go back in time,
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this is what I would tell myself: that
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audio quality matter matters.
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If possible, get an external mic.
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That is not always feasible,
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because extra mic costs money,
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and when you're starting out with YouTube,
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you are not going to make a penny.
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YouTube has very high restrictions
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or bars that you need to pass
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before you start getting any revenue. For example,
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my channel, I still haven't met those bars,
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so i'm still not generating any revenue.
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Anything that I buy is just out of pocket.
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Since I work from home, I already had a mic
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and things like that set up.
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I just use that for recording videos.
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But if you have... You can use
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the built-in mic in your laptop if you have one.
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I would strongly suggest if you do that,
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try to minimize the noise. Go into a quiet room
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and make sure there's no washing machine
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or anything going off right now,
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because people do not... They can handle,
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you know, not the greatest quality of video.
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But when it comes to audio, picky
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people are a lot more pickier when it comes to that.
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Next is don't start with recording the face.
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Voice and screen are just fine.
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Personally, I feel when I started recording my face,
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it made it harder in a sense,
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because now I was just not only concentrating
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on what I was showing, how it was sounding,
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but how I look, if I was making any faces like that.
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It's just one less thing to have on your brain
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when you're recording.
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Another thing is that when I started recording,
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I was very passionate or excited about doing this.
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What I would do is--I took that to the advantage--
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is that I just recorded a lot of videos
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in one go or in sessions.
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As soon as I recorded, start the next one,
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next one, et cetera. I strongly believe that helped
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because later down the road,
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once I got busy with work or life or whatever,
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I didn't really have to worry about making time.
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I already had a batch ready to go
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that I can just slowly pull out and edit and upload.
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That's something helpful whenever you know work is slow
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or your vacations or things like that, you want to record,
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just go for it.
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Another one is when you are editing, you can use pauses
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so that it's easier to edit
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because what happens to... At least this
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is what happened to me
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when I was beginning,
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I would say, oh I can mumble fumble,
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you know, do a lot of verbal fillers,
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and I can just edit it,
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but if you don't do any pauses
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it's hard to fix the mistakes,
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the things that you don't want people seeing
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because then it doesn't blend well
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if you do editing. If you do any editing,
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you know what I'm talking about,
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because then there's chops of audio
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from the previous clip.
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Trying to edit... There's ways to mitigate that,
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but my editing skills are very minimal.
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It's just what I need to know to get things done.
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Just using pauses helps out a lot.
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Another thing is that
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some people want to record in like super-high quality,
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you know, get the highest quality possible for the video.
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I would say instead of focusing on the video recording,
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focus on the audio, like I mentioned,
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because at the end of the day,
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we're in Emacs and we're only sharing text.
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You know, there's only so much definition
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that you can show on text.
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If anything, just increase the font. Simple as that.
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My personal favorite,
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or at least the one that I still encounter even now,
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is that when I'm recording, my voice still feels dry.
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Right when I'm about to record,
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all of a sudden, I get dry. I need to drink water.
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It feels uncomfortable. I get nervous
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because it's something new. I'm staring at myself.
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It's like, oh man, all the... I mentioned just extra things
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that I need to worry about.
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But all of this goes less with practice.
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The more you do it, the more comfortable you are.
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It's just like everything else.
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When you start learning guitar,
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your fingers are very hard. When you start learning piano,
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the independence of fingers don't want to work.
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When you're learning drums,
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each limb needs to be independent.
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It's very hard. You have to start very slow.
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Everything in life, you know, practice
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and it will get better. All right now .
NOTE Details: Editing
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Editing, well, like I mentioned,
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this is not always going to be necessary,
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depending on your style.
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There's some Youtube Emacs creators
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that simply record everything in one go.
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They might get up, get a coffee or something,
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and they'll just leave that in the clip,
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which is totally fine.
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No shame. It's the way they they want to do the video.
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Sometimes they just don't have any time
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to edit the videos themselves
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or pay someone else to do it.
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What's the best next thing? just leave it as is,
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upload, and that's fine. That completely works.
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I will say that if you do end up editing
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or deciding to edit, and you want software
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I would say check out DaVinci Resolve.
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It's free. It's available on the three major OSes.
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Honestly, DaVinci Resolve by itself
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has a plethora of features.
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I personally, I only use like 5% max of the features.
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It's professional,
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it's like professional studio all the way, things like that.
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But yeah, I would say DaVinci Resolve
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is a pretty solid choice.
NOTE Tips: Editing
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Okay, what about the tips for editing?
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Well, most of them are pretty straightforward.
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Just learn enough to get going, like in all things.
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Like if you have a band practice
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and you're rehearsing a song,
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you just need to know the chords,
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you don't need to know improvise,
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just enough to get you through this gig
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that you're playing. That's pretty much it.
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Of course, learn the keyboard shortcuts.
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We all come from Emacs, so we all know how valuable,
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how much we treasure shortcuts to avoid the mouse.
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unfortunately since you're editing,
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you will still have to use the mouse,
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but the more keyboard shortcuts you use,
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the less the mouse is used. So there's that.
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One thing is that--I didn't know you can actually do this
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until I started editing--
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is that you can play the speed of the video in 2x.
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For me this is great because
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since I'm mainly just listening for pauses in my video,
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I just wait until there's silence.
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Oh, that's the part I need to trim,
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or that's the part I need to remove. Simple as that.
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Also batch edit, the same thing
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as I said about recording videos, just do it in batch.
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You can also just batch edit as well.
NOTE Details: Uploading
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Uploading, the final step. YouTube,
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if you do end up using YouTube
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which is the most popular choice for uploading videos,
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is that the uploading process
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is pretty straightforward.
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I imagine this is the same for every other platform
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that you choose. It's pretty straightforward,
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but it can be a little complicated
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depending on what you want to do.
NOTE Tips: Uploading
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What are my tips for uploading?
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Well, first of all, at minimum,
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you need to have a descriptive title
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and a description of what you talk about in the video,
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just to help out with SEO and things like that
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when people are searching for Emacs on YouTube.
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Also, if possible, use a thumbnail.
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There's a whole community about Emacs creators
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discussing best practices to get the highest engagement,
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how to get people watching your videos, things like that,
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and one of the things
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is they highly recommend a thumbnail.
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If you mainly watch, or if you watch any Emacs content,
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a lot of us do not use thumbnails,
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and that's perfectly fine.
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I think the Emacs community is pretty used
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to just watching videos with just a thumbnail,
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it's just a screenshot of the video,
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and we just go there for the content, right?
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We're not really going there for anything else,
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for the knowledge that the person is spreading.
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I say that it can be as simple or as complex,
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because if your goal is to potentially
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earn revenue down the line,
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you will want to spend some time configuring
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some of the settings for uploading, like the tags,
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I forget what they're called, but they're
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a little embedded so that people can watch
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other videos and things like that.
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So there's a plethora of options, an abundance of options.
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Honestly, there's too many,
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but it all depends if you potentially want
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to make some type of income in the future
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with Emacs, making videos on Emacs.
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And yeah, that's just something
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that you will have to discover
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and read and learn more about what the Emacs community,
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Emacs creator community suggest,
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and best practices and things like that.
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But if anybody ever wants to talk about it,
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feel free to reach out to me.
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I would love to talk about things
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about YouTube and all this,
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because I find it interesting. Potentially, hopefully,
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one day, I'll be able to make some revenue.
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Hopefully, maybe some of you guys
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might knock it out of the park
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with what I'm going to talk about next.
NOTE Your secret sauce
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That is your secret sauce. This is your ultimate weapon
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as to get viewers, to get subscribers, you know,
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to get anybody that wants
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to watch your... to reach a higher audience.
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That can be your humor. You might be naturally funny.
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You can make comments.
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You have a natural skill on the way you talk,
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on the way you articulate things,
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so you might be able to get people drawn to that,
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or you might be someone who just does animations
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for your videos, which does highly well as well.
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or you can do a mix of all these.
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You can just insert your superpower
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whatever you want. You can go ahead
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and use that to your advantage
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to grow user base, a viewer base.
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Hopefully, if all things align,
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you'll be able to get paid
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to also create Emacs videos soon, spread the knowledge,
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which would be pretty cool--become an Emacs influencer,
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which is the goal, right? Okay.
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I believe I painted this in a pretty good light,
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at least personal opinion.
NOTE Cons of YouTube
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But like everything, every good also has a bad.
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Nothing is always perfect.
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That's also the same for Youtube.
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What are the bads of Youtube?
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Well, it's not going to be an overnight success.
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That is very very rare. You're not going to create a video
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and then all of a sudden get like a hundred thousand views.
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I believe by from what I've seen in the community
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if a video gets over 10k
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that it means that it did really well in the Emacs community.
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I think on average is under 3k for a video within...
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This is within the time span of
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I'd say like two weeks or so or a month, around there.
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So it varies. All these metrics you'll learn
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if you really actually want to be able
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to create something in the Emacs...
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But like I said, it does take work and it does take time.
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Another thing is that negative feedback people are very quick
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as we all have been accustomed to that.
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People are do not shy from being very negative.
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It is so easy to just say negative and mean things online
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because there's no repercussions.
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I don't understand why people do that, but it is what it is.
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But most of these comments are from the younger population.
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You know, just ignore them.
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Most of the time, they're just ignorant.
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They don't know what they're saying.
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It will help you get them, you know, grow some thick skin.
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If you already have thick skin, then you don't.
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This is not going to be a problem.
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But most of the negative comments that I've receive our
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or childish, I would say,
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that it's not really based on anything that has substance.
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Yeah, just ignore it. It's fine.
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It's not going to affect your day.
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"Don't let it affect your day"
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is the most important thing.
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Third, like I was mentioning, revenue is very hard
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to get monetized on by YouTube standards.
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That will definitely take some time and dedication.
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But if you really want it, you will work for it.
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Hopefully all of us,
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the people that are constantly creating content
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via these platforms are able to get compensated
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in some way or another,
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because we do share it because we love it,
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but also it would be nice to get some compensation.
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I'm not speaking for everybody. I'm speaking personally
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because time is a valuable asset.
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You can choose what you want to spend it
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and right now I'm having fun making videos.
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That's what I'm deciding to spend it.
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But yeah now, with all this that I've said,
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there's only one question that I want to ask all of you,
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and that is: what are you going to share?
