WEBVTT captioned by anush and sachac NOTE Introduction 00:00.000 --> 00:01.233 Hey, I'm Gopar 00:01.266 --> 00:00:03.244 and today I'm going to talk about 00:00:03.245 --> 00:00:04.700 being an Emacs influencer 00:04.733 --> 00:07.066 and try to convince you to be one too. 00:07.100 --> 00:08.466 Hopefully that goes well. 00:08.500 --> 00:12.433 If not, we'll see at the end of the talk. NOTE Knowledge grows when it is shared 00:12.466 --> 00:14.833 But first, I want to share something, 00:14.866 --> 00:17.500 and that is: that knowledge grows when it is shared. 00:17.533 --> 00:19.500 This is usually how I end my videos. 00:19.533 --> 00:21.233 Some of you may be familiar with this. 00:21.266 --> 00:25.466 I say this quote because I believe there is truth to it. 00:25.500 --> 00:27.833 The more you share something, the more you reinforce it, 00:27.866 --> 00:30.466 and the more the knowledge grows, not just for you, 00:30.500 --> 00:33.466 but for everybody else around it with who you share it with. 00:33.500 --> 00:34.400 With that being said, 00:34.400 --> 00:36.300 there's only one question I want to ask you. NOTE When's the last time you shared something? 00:36.333 --> 00:39.300 That is: what is the last time you shared something? 00:39.333 --> 00:41.333 Now, the sharing of knowledge 00:41.366 --> 00:43.000 doesn't just have to be about Emacs. 00:43.000 --> 00:45.633 It can just be about other things that you learn in life. 00:45.666 --> 00:47.200 There's plenty of things 00:47.200 --> 00:50.833 that I share with people that I've learned in life, 00:50.866 --> 00:53.500 and I hope that they learn from what I'm saying as well. 00:53.533 --> 00:54.866 Learn from the mistakes in others 00:54.900 --> 00:56.100 type of deal, things like that. 00:56.133 --> 00:58.333 But anyway, since this is EmacsConf, 00:58.366 --> 01:01.066 we're gonna keep it to Emacs-related, 01:01.100 --> 01:02.633 so we're going to find ways 01:02.666 --> 01:04.700 on how to share all that Emacs knowledge 01:04.733 --> 01:07.200 that is locked up inside you guys' brain. NOTE Sharing Emacs 01:07.200 --> 01:09.266 So sharing Emacs, how can we do that? 01:09.300 --> 01:10.800 Well, there's a few ways. 01:10.800 --> 01:13.666 We can do meetups and conferences, aka EmacsConf, 01:13.700 --> 01:16.033 like we're doing now. So hopefully one of you guys 01:16.066 --> 01:18.300 might be incentivized to share the knowledge 01:18.333 --> 01:20.700 that you have in the next upcoming year, 01:20.733 --> 01:23.466 or the future ones, or be a repeated presenter. 01:23.500 --> 00:01:25.960 The list goes on and on. 00:01:25.961 --> 01:30.233 Blog posts. So, one of the easier entries to [??] 01:30.266 --> 01:31.200 because it is writing 01:31.200 --> 01:32.666 and you don't have to do video, 01:32.700 --> 01:34.900 not like the other formats that I'm about to present. 01:34.933 --> 01:37.400 Tweeting is also an easier format as well 01:37.400 --> 01:40.000 because it's even smaller than a blog post, more condensed, 01:40.000 --> 01:43.433 and you can use hashtags. When I was learning, 01:43.466 --> 01:46.000 when I was reading the Org Mode manual, 01:46.000 --> 01:49.733 I would use the hashtag #OrgTip on on Twitter. 01:49.766 --> 01:52.666 Even if you search right now, 01:52.700 --> 01:53.933 I believe you'll find some of my tweets. 01:53.966 --> 01:55.866 But yeah, that's one way 01:55.900 --> 01:57.633 that you can go about it: simple tweets 01:57.666 --> 02:00.100 that you find, little things, little nuggets of gold 02:00.133 --> 02:02.500 as I would say. Of course, there's podcasts, 02:02.533 --> 00:02:03.855 which I'm pretty sure 00:02:03.856 --> 00:02:06.200 the Emacs community would love to have, 02:06.200 --> 02:08.500 so if anybody wants to pick up a podcast 02:08.533 --> 02:12.133 go right ahead. Twitch live streaming, 02:12.166 --> 02:13.900 which is... Twitch is a platform 02:13.933 --> 02:15.233 in which you can do live streaming 02:15.266 --> 02:16.900 for those who are not familiar. 02:16.933 --> 02:19.500 And people, I've seen people use the Emacs tag in there 02:19.533 --> 02:21.833 and, you know, just pop up, say hello, 02:21.866 --> 02:23.133 ask questions, things like that. 02:23.166 --> 02:24.700 You can be working on the configuration 02:24.733 --> 02:26.033 or just reading Emacs source code, 02:26.066 --> 02:28.233 you know, fun stuff like that. 02:28.266 --> 02:29.700 Videos, which is what I do, 02:29.733 --> 02:31.833 which I will touch on in a second. 02:31.866 --> 02:33.800 There's probably more formats 02:33.800 --> 02:35.000 that I'm not thinking at the moment 02:35.000 --> 02:36.866 and that you guys can probably fill in the gaps. 02:36.900 --> 02:38.633 But yeah, these are just some of the ways 02:38.666 --> 02:41.533 that we can share Emacs. So how do we get started? NOTE My background 02:41.566 --> 02:42.700 Well, before we get started, 02:42.733 --> 02:44.633 I want to talk about my credentials, right? 02:44.666 --> 02:45.700 I mean, who is this guy 02:45.733 --> 02:47.633 that you're just listening in this little square 02:47.666 --> 02:49.800 talking about creating videos? 02:49.800 --> 02:52.633 Well, I run a channel called goparism on YouTube. 02:52.666 --> 02:55.333 It has around 2700 subscribers at the moment. 02:55.366 --> 02:57.500 I kind of know a little bit of the flow. 02:57.533 --> 03:00.333 I'm not an expert, but I've done enough videos 03:00.366 --> 03:03.300 that I kind of understand the flow of all of 03:03.333 --> 03:06.733 at least the simple way of doing it, which I want to share. NOTE Why you should make Emacs videos (or other formats) 03:06.766 --> 03:08.733 So right now you're probably thinking, 03:08.766 --> 03:11.000 OK, I get that you want to sell us 03:11.000 --> 03:12.900 on the whole video making formats 03:12.933 --> 03:15.433 or you know sharing just Emacs in general, 03:15.466 --> 03:19.533 but I'm a beginner, I'm an intermediate, I'm advanced, 03:19.566 --> 03:21.633 I don't know if I can provide input. 03:21.666 --> 03:23.700 Each of those, I want to tackle each of those, 03:23.733 --> 03:26.200 and say that yeah, each of you have input. 03:26.200 --> 03:28.000 You know, for a beginner it might be say, 03:28.000 --> 03:29.500 oh, an intermediate and an advanced person 03:29.533 --> 03:30.933 already has information. 03:30.966 --> 03:32.933 Intermediate might say, oh, I'm not at that level yet. 03:32.966 --> 03:35.700 An advanced person might say, oh, I have nothing to say. 03:35.733 --> 03:38.100 You know, I don't... What I know, 03:38.133 --> 03:39.033 everybody else knows. 03:39.066 --> 03:43.200 So I want to, you know, dispel all that and just tell you that, 03:43.200 --> 03:44.066 hey, it doesn't matter. NOTE Beginners 03:44.100 --> 03:48.300 So for beginners, you guys are in a beautiful place, 03:48.333 --> 03:51.333 which is that you have a clean slate. 03:51.366 --> 03:55.233 So the way I imagine is that every Emacs user 03:55.266 --> 03:58.300 is presented[??] upon themselves, 03:58.333 --> 04:00.133 you know, kind of like this world. 04:00.166 --> 04:02.066 And in this world, you can either build a road 04:02.100 --> 04:06.266 that goes to the mountains, the city, or to the beach. 04:06.300 --> 04:08.666 Some of us have decided which way we want to go. 04:08.700 --> 04:09.733 Some of us might be building 04:09.766 --> 04:13.333 the road to the city, to the beach, for example. 04:13.366 --> 04:16.400 If someone starts a road to the city, 04:16.400 --> 04:19.533 they are probably stuck in their ways, right? 04:19.566 --> 04:21.933 And then what leads them to the goal to the city, 04:21.966 --> 04:24.400 they're not going to make a detour towards the mountain 04:24.400 --> 04:26.300 or towards the beach to get to the city. 04:26.333 --> 04:27.833 They just want the straightest path. 04:27.866 --> 04:32.200 And when you are used to doing things a certain way, 04:32.200 --> 04:33.533 you're going to have a ton of vision. 04:33.566 --> 04:35.433 So as a beginner, you don't have any of that 04:35.466 --> 04:36.933 because you're just starting brand new. 04:36.966 --> 04:40.700 Everything is, you know, a world of possibilities. 04:40.733 --> 04:43.066 So I would say that this is a very big advantage. 04:43.100 --> 04:46.400 The second one is that people enjoy the journey, right? 04:46.400 --> 04:49.033 People want to see someone grow from this spot 04:49.066 --> 04:51.300 to the next level, etc, etc. 04:51.333 --> 04:53.466 This is one of the reasons why we watch movies, 04:53.500 --> 04:54.866 TV shows, anime, right? 04:54.900 --> 04:57.400 Because there's a character that needs a problem 04:57.400 --> 04:59.900 and they're working their way up to solve that problem. 04:59.933 --> 05:01.633 If we just get to see the ending 05:01.666 --> 05:03.000 of where they solve the problem, 05:03.000 --> 05:04.300 we don't really feel anything 05:04.333 --> 05:05.733 because we weren't part of that journey. 05:05.766 --> 05:08.866 I would say that starting from scratch 05:08.900 --> 05:10.800 is a pretty good place to be. 05:10.800 --> 05:12.700 Of course, if you're going 05:12.733 --> 05:14.300 to be writing or making videos 05:14.333 --> 05:16.500 or anything related to Emacs, you kind of have to force... 05:16.533 --> 05:19.500 If you want to teach people, you kind of have to learn it. 05:19.533 --> 05:20.800 You're kind of forced to learn, 05:20.800 --> 05:22.933 which is always encouraged. NOTE Intermediate 05:22.966 --> 05:25.900 For intermediates now, you might be saying, 05:25.933 --> 05:28.400 hey, I'm a little past intermediate. 05:28.400 --> 05:30.033 I'm sorry, past beginner, 05:30.066 --> 05:32.133 but I don't feel confident enough to share. 05:32.166 --> 05:34.666 Well, let's say that you're wrong. Once you're intermediate, 05:34.700 --> 05:37.300 you're probably fiddling with your Emacs config, 05:37.333 --> 05:39.266 maybe doing something with Org Mode, 05:39.300 --> 05:40.500 like a lot of people are doing it, 05:40.533 --> 05:43.500 and you can document, talk about the things that you do, 05:43.533 --> 05:46.466 and also those functions that you write in Elisp 05:46.500 --> 05:49.000 to just improve quality of life, things like that. 05:49.000 --> 05:51.100 There's a whole list of things that you can do. 05:51.133 --> 05:54.233 These are just two things out of a plethora. 05:54.266 --> 05:56.100 of items that you can talk about. NOTE Advanced 05:56.133 --> 05:59.833 For my advanced folks, you guys are in a position 05:59.866 --> 06:02.900 where you guys know more about the Emacs internals. 06:02.933 --> 06:05.100 You might have read the source code. 06:05.133 --> 06:08.133 You might know a Emacs manual section pretty well 06:08.166 --> 06:09.833 that you can talk about. 06:09.866 --> 06:11.866 Usually when you're at the advanced 06:11.900 --> 06:12.600 or intermediate level, 06:12.600 --> 06:15.466 you start, or at least some people start writing packages. 06:15.500 --> 06:17.400 You can talk about the best practices 06:17.400 --> 06:20.133 for creating packages, the troubles that you face, you know, 06:20.166 --> 06:22.833 the things that you learn, things like that. NOTE Impostor syndrome 06:22.866 --> 06:25.133 Now that I've given a little bit of examples 06:25.166 --> 06:27.400 for each of these tiers, there's probably still 06:27.400 --> 06:30.400 something going on in each of you guys' mind, 06:30.400 --> 06:32.400 which is something all of us get to face, 06:32.400 --> 06:37.033 and that is impostor syndrome. Now, with impostor syndrome, 06:37.066 --> 06:40.100 the sad reality is that we all have it at some point, 06:40.133 --> 06:41.000 we're going to, you know, 06:41.000 --> 06:43.266 at the beginner, intermediate, or even advanced stage, 06:43.300 --> 06:43.833 it doesn't matter, 06:43.866 --> 06:46.800 there's always that little voice of imposter syndrome saying, 06:46.800 --> 06:49.333 hey, "You're probably not good enough" or not... 06:49.366 --> 06:50.933 but questioning if you're good enough 06:50.966 --> 06:53.800 or if you deserve to be at this level and things like that. 06:53.800 --> 06:56.266 I believe it's very common with software engineers. 06:56.300 --> 06:59.233 The other sad thing is that it will never go away 06:59.266 --> 07:02.200 But the way I see it with impostor syndrome 07:02.200 --> 07:03.433 is that we embrace it. 07:03.466 --> 07:04.833 If we are getting an impostor syndrome, 07:04.866 --> 07:07.500 it's because we're pushing ourself to a next level 07:07.533 --> 07:12.000 that we haven't been able to to overcome or to progress in. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.733 If you're pushing yourself, you will get impostor syndrome. 07:14.766 --> 07:16.900 Like, hey, am I good enough to lead this project? 07:16.933 --> 07:19.500 To finish this? To optimize this part 07:19.533 --> 07:21.900 or whatever? I feel it's a good way. 07:21.933 --> 07:24.466 Impostor syndrome, yeah, it feels horrible, 07:24.500 --> 07:26.033 but I believe that if you have it, 07:26.066 --> 07:28.433 it's because you're doing something right. NOTE Process for recording 07:28.466 --> 07:29.533 Okay, now that we've gotten 07:29.566 --> 07:32.833 that out of the way, what's the process for recording? 07:32.866 --> 07:34.800 Well, it's actually a lot simpler than you think. 07:34.800 --> 07:36.866 There's three steps, and one of them 07:36.900 --> 07:37.866 you might not even have to do, 07:37.900 --> 07:39.866 depending on how you want to go about it. 07:39.900 --> 07:40.733 The first one is that you have 07:40.766 --> 07:42.933 to record your voice and screen, 07:42.966 --> 07:45.200 because if you do want to make video, 07:45.200 --> 07:46.300 people have to see what you're doing 07:46.333 --> 07:48.100 and they have to hear what you're talking, 07:48.133 --> 07:50.900 otherwise it's going to be not as engaging. 07:50.933 --> 07:52.800 Of course, you can make the face optional 07:52.800 --> 07:54.066 when recording videos. 07:54.100 --> 07:56.033 If you watch some of my videos, sometimes 07:56.066 --> 07:57.600 I show my face, sometimes I don't. 07:57.600 --> 08:02.300 It just really depends on the mood of what I'm doing 08:02.333 --> 08:05.433 when I'm recording the video. But yeah, completely up to you. 08:05.466 --> 08:08.333 After recording, you can edit if desired. 08:08.366 --> 08:10.600 I remember when I first started making the videos, 08:10.600 --> 08:13.100 I was not editing them at all. 08:13.133 --> 08:15.433 I was just one shot and upload. 08:15.466 --> 08:16.866 That can either be good or bad 08:16.900 --> 08:19.233 depending on how you view it, 08:19.266 --> 08:22.500 but it is what it is. Nowadays I do some light editing, 08:22.533 --> 08:26.066 mainly just to remove the silences 08:26.100 --> 08:29.633 or when I'm going through debugging something. 08:29.666 --> 08:32.900 Third one is to upload it, 08:32.933 --> 08:34.100 which might be the easiest section, 08:34.133 --> 08:35.666 depending on your goals. 08:35.700 --> 08:38.100 At minimum, you would put title, description, 08:38.133 --> 08:39.133 and a little bit more. 08:39.166 --> 08:42.466 You'll get why I see it can be as easy 08:42.500 --> 08:44.233 or as complicated as you want, 08:44.266 --> 08:46.400 which I'll go over later at the end. NOTE Details: recording 08:46.400 --> 08:50.100 Let's go over details for recording. 08:50.133 --> 08:53.833 For recording, thankfully, all OSes, 08:53.866 --> 08:56.466 or at least the major OSes, have free recording software, 08:56.500 --> 08:59.066 or you can go a little fancy and get paid [software], 08:59.100 --> 09:01.400 which usually, you know, depending on your viewpoint, 09:01.400 --> 09:03.266 might make things easier or not. 09:03.300 --> 09:05.400 Personally, I use, I'm on Mac, 09:05.400 --> 09:07.000 so I use the built-in screen recording, 09:07.000 --> 09:08.800 which, if you do Command-Shift-5, 09:08.800 --> 09:13.066 it will pop up a little dialog, and if you did it just now, 09:13.100 --> 09:14.400 you can press the Escape key 09:14.400 --> 09:16.933 to get rid of it, and life goes on. 09:16.966 --> 09:20.600 Also for all major 3 OSes, OBS 09:20.600 --> 09:22.600 is a pretty popular choice not just for streaming, 09:22.600 --> 09:23.866 but for recording as well. 09:23.900 --> 09:25.633 That's something you might want to look at. 09:25.666 --> 09:29.700 If you do decide to record videos. 09:29.733 --> 09:32.066 All up to you. These are just things 09:32.100 --> 09:35.300 that I've come along or encountered along the way. 09:35.333 --> 09:36.666 When it comes to recording, NOTE Tips: Recording 09:36.700 --> 09:38.933 I do have some tips that might help you out. 09:38.966 --> 09:40.833 At least, if I could go back in time, 09:40.866 --> 09:43.333 this is what I would tell myself: that 09:43.366 --> 09:44.700 audio quality matter matters. 09:44.733 --> 09:46.700 If possible, get an external mic. 09:46.733 --> 09:48.300 That is not always feasible, 09:48.333 --> 09:50.033 because extra mic costs money, 09:50.066 --> 09:51.066 and when you're starting out with YouTube, 09:51.100 --> 09:54.000 you are not going to make a penny. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.533 YouTube has very high restrictions 09:57.566 --> 10:01.033 or bars that you need to pass 10:01.066 --> 10:03.866 before you start getting any revenue. For example, 10:03.900 --> 10:06.633 my channel, I still haven't met those bars, 10:06.666 --> 10:08.433 so i'm still not generating any revenue. 10:08.466 --> 10:11.100 Anything that I buy is just out of pocket. 10:11.133 --> 10:13.700 Since I work from home, I already had a mic 10:13.733 --> 10:15.533 and things like that set up. 10:15.566 --> 10:17.333 I just use that for recording videos. 10:17.366 --> 10:20.266 But if you have... You can use 10:20.300 --> 10:23.333 the built-in mic in your laptop if you have one. 10:23.366 --> 10:25.233 I would strongly suggest if you do that, 10:25.266 --> 10:28.233 try to minimize the noise. Go into a quiet room 10:28.266 --> 10:30.700 and make sure there's no washing machine 10:30.733 --> 10:32.700 or anything going off right now, 10:32.733 --> 10:35.266 because people do not... They can handle, 10:35.300 --> 10:36.866 you know, not the greatest quality of video. 10:36.900 --> 10:38.400 But when it comes to audio, picky 10:38.400 --> 10:40.733 people are a lot more pickier when it comes to that. 10:40.766 --> 10:43.100 Next is don't start with recording the face. 10:43.133 --> 10:44.700 Voice and screen are just fine. 10:44.733 --> 10:49.000 Personally, I feel when I started recording my face, 10:49.000 --> 10:51.133 it made it harder in a sense, 10:51.166 --> 10:53.666 because now I was just not only concentrating 10:53.700 --> 10:55.433 on what I was showing, how it was sounding, 10:55.466 --> 10:58.000 but how I look, if I was making any faces like that. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.233 It's just one less thing to have on your brain 11:01.266 --> 11:02.133 when you're recording. 11:02.166 --> 11:05.133 Another thing is that when I started recording, 11:05.166 --> 11:08.266 I was very passionate or excited about doing this. 11:08.300 --> 11:10.866 What I would do is--I took that to the advantage-- 11:10.900 --> 11:13.700 is that I just recorded a lot of videos 11:13.733 --> 11:16.333 in one go or in sessions. 11:16.366 --> 11:18.300 As soon as I recorded, start the next one, 11:18.333 --> 11:20.866 next one, et cetera. I strongly believe that helped 11:20.900 --> 11:22.100 because later down the road, 11:22.133 --> 11:24.833 once I got busy with work or life or whatever, 11:24.866 --> 11:26.866 I didn't really have to worry about making time. 11:26.900 --> 11:28.433 I already had a batch ready to go 11:28.466 --> 11:31.500 that I can just slowly pull out and edit and upload. 11:31.533 --> 11:35.033 That's something helpful whenever you know work is slow 11:35.066 --> 11:37.333 or your vacations or things like that, you want to record, 11:37.366 --> 11:39.266 just go for it. 11:39.300 --> 11:43.066 Another one is when you are editing, you can use pauses 11:43.100 --> 11:45.666 so that it's easier to edit 11:45.700 --> 00:11:48.159 because what happens to... At least this 00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:48.880 is what happened to me 00:11:48.881 --> 11:49.700 when I was beginning, 11:49.733 --> 11:53.000 I would say, oh I can mumble fumble, 11:53.000 --> 00:11:54.500 you know, do a lot of verbal fillers, 00:11:54.501 --> 00:11:55.833 and I can just edit it, 11:55.866 --> 11:57.233 but if you don't do any pauses 11:57.266 --> 00:12:01.560 it's hard to fix the mistakes, 00:12:01.561 --> 12:03.400 the things that you don't want people seeing 12:03.400 --> 00:12:05.839 because then it doesn't blend well 00:12:05.840 --> 12:08.300 if you do editing. If you do any editing, 12:08.333 --> 12:09.500 you know what I'm talking about, 12:09.533 --> 12:12.033 because then there's chops of audio 12:12.066 --> 00:12:13.840 from the previous clip. 00:12:13.841 --> 12:17.266 Trying to edit... There's ways to mitigate that, 12:17.300 --> 12:19.500 but my editing skills are very minimal. 12:19.533 --> 12:21.833 It's just what I need to know to get things done. 12:21.866 --> 12:25.066 Just using pauses helps out a lot. 12:25.100 --> 12:26.066 Another thing is that 12:26.100 --> 12:30.133 some people want to record in like super-high quality, 12:30.166 --> 12:32.633 you know, get the highest quality possible for the video. 12:32.666 --> 12:34.900 I would say instead of focusing on the video recording, 12:34.933 --> 12:36.900 focus on the audio, like I mentioned, 12:36.933 --> 00:12:37.819 because at the end of the day, 00:12:37.820 --> 12:41.033 we're in Emacs and we're only sharing text. 12:41.066 --> 12:43.833 You know, there's only so much definition 12:43.866 --> 12:44.700 that you can show on text. 12:44.733 --> 12:48.400 If anything, just increase the font. Simple as that. 12:48.400 --> 12:50.666 My personal favorite, 12:50.700 --> 12:53.233 or at least the one that I still encounter even now, 12:53.266 --> 12:56.733 is that when I'm recording, my voice still feels dry. 12:56.766 --> 12:59.533 Right when I'm about to record, 12:59.566 --> 13:01.800 all of a sudden, I get dry. I need to drink water. 13:01.800 --> 13:03.900 It feels uncomfortable. I get nervous 13:03.933 --> 13:06.000 because it's something new. I'm staring at myself. 13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.599 It's like, oh man, all the... I mentioned just extra things 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:10.119 that I need to worry about. 00:13:10.120 --> 13:13.466 But all of this goes less with practice. 13:13.500 --> 13:15.300 The more you do it, the more comfortable you are. 13:15.333 --> 13:17.066 It's just like everything else. 13:17.100 --> 13:18.400 When you start learning guitar, 13:18.400 --> 13:21.600 your fingers are very hard. When you start learning piano, 13:21.600 --> 13:24.866 the independence of fingers don't want to work. 13:24.900 --> 13:25.866 When you're learning drums, 13:25.900 --> 13:27.466 each limb needs to be independent. 13:27.500 --> 13:29.266 It's very hard. You have to start very slow. 13:29.300 --> 13:31.033 Everything in life, you know, practice 13:31.066 --> 00:13:33.439 and it will get better. All right now . NOTE Details: Editing 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:34.852 Editing, well, like I mentioned, 00:13:34.853 --> 00:13:36.939 this is not always going to be necessary, 00:13:36.940 --> 00:13:37.894 depending on your style. 00:13:37.895 --> 00:13:41.100 There's some Youtube Emacs creators 13:41.133 --> 00:13:43.959 that simply record everything in one go. 00:13:43.960 --> 13:46.533 They might get up, get a coffee or something, 13:46.566 --> 13:48.100 and they'll just leave that in the clip, 13:48.133 --> 13:49.400 which is totally fine. 13:49.400 --> 13:51.933 No shame. It's the way they they want to do the video. 13:51.966 --> 13:54.666 Sometimes they just don't have any time 13:54.700 --> 00:13:56.925 to edit the videos themselves 00:13:56.926 --> 00:13:57.900 or pay someone else to do it. 13:57.933 --> 00:14:00.466 What's the best next thing? just leave it as is, 00:14:00.467 --> 00:14:04.300 upload, and that's fine. That completely works. 14:04.333 --> 14:07.466 I will say that if you do end up editing 14:07.500 --> 14:09.666 or deciding to edit, and you want software 14:09.700 --> 14:11.266 I would say check out DaVinci Resolve. 14:11.300 --> 14:14.666 It's free. It's available on the three major OSes. 14:14.700 --> 14:19.000 Honestly, DaVinci Resolve by itself 14:19.000 --> 14:20.833 has a plethora of features. 14:20.866 --> 14:27.233 I personally, I only use like 5% max of the features. 14:27.266 --> 14:29.433 It's professional, 14:29.466 --> 14:33.000 it's like professional studio all the way, things like that. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.466 But yeah, I would say DaVinci Resolve 14:35.500 --> 00:14:38.319 is a pretty solid choice. NOTE Tips: Editing 00:14:38.320 --> 14:40.933 Okay, what about the tips for editing? 14:40.966 --> 14:42.833 Well, most of them are pretty straightforward. 14:42.866 --> 00:14:46.039 Just learn enough to get going, like in all things. 00:14:46.040 --> 14:48.266 Like if you have a band practice 14:48.300 --> 14:50.333 and you're rehearsing a song, 14:50.366 --> 14:52.100 you just need to know the chords, 14:52.133 --> 14:53.233 you don't need to know improvise, 14:53.266 --> 14:55.733 just enough to get you through this gig 14:55.766 --> 14:57.933 that you're playing. That's pretty much it. 14:57.966 --> 14:59.900 Of course, learn the keyboard shortcuts. 14:59.933 --> 15:02.266 We all come from Emacs, so we all know how valuable, 15:02.300 --> 15:05.133 how much we treasure shortcuts to avoid the mouse. 15:05.166 --> 15:06.833 unfortunately since you're editing, 15:06.866 --> 15:08.433 you will still have to use the mouse, 15:08.466 --> 15:10.666 but the more keyboard shortcuts you use, 15:10.700 --> 15:13.633 the less the mouse is used. So there's that. 15:13.666 --> 15:17.100 One thing is that--I didn't know you can actually do this 15:17.133 --> 15:18.900 until I started editing-- 15:18.933 --> 15:22.733 is that you can play the speed of the video in 2x. 15:22.766 --> 15:24.900 For me this is great because 15:24.933 --> 15:28.200 since I'm mainly just listening for pauses in my video, 15:28.200 --> 15:29.900 I just wait until there's silence. 15:29.933 --> 15:31.233 Oh, that's the part I need to trim, 15:31.266 --> 15:35.233 or that's the part I need to remove. Simple as that. 15:35.266 --> 15:37.800 Also batch edit, the same thing 15:37.800 --> 15:41.500 as I said about recording videos, just do it in batch. 15:41.533 --> 15:44.000 You can also just batch edit as well. NOTE Details: Uploading 15:44.000 --> 15:48.033 Uploading, the final step. YouTube, 15:48.066 --> 15:49.600 if you do end up using YouTube 15:49.600 --> 15:52.466 which is the most popular choice for uploading videos, 15:52.500 --> 00:15:55.119 is that the uploading process 00:15:55.120 --> 15:56.000 is pretty straightforward. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.433 I imagine this is the same for every other platform 15:58.466 --> 16:01.000 that you choose. It's pretty straightforward, 16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.119 but it can be a little complicated 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:06.819 depending on what you want to do. NOTE Tips: Uploading 00:16:06.820 --> 16:09.066 What are my tips for uploading? 16:09.100 --> 16:10.866 Well, first of all, at minimum, 16:10.900 --> 16:13.266 you need to have a descriptive title 16:13.300 --> 16:16.100 and a description of what you talk about in the video, 16:16.133 --> 16:20.733 just to help out with SEO and things like that 16:20.766 --> 16:24.433 when people are searching for Emacs on YouTube. 16:24.466 --> 00:16:25.479 Also, if possible, use a thumbnail. 00:16:25.480 --> 16:29.466 There's a whole community about Emacs creators 16:29.500 --> 16:32.100 discussing best practices to get the highest engagement, 16:32.133 --> 16:34.733 how to get people watching your videos, things like that, 16:34.766 --> 00:16:35.579 and one of the things 00:16:35.580 --> 16:39.133 is they highly recommend a thumbnail. 16:39.166 --> 16:42.666 If you mainly watch, or if you watch any Emacs content, 16:42.700 --> 16:45.000 a lot of us do not use thumbnails, 16:45.000 --> 16:46.333 and that's perfectly fine. 16:46.366 --> 16:48.633 I think the Emacs community is pretty used 16:48.666 --> 16:51.133 to just watching videos with just a thumbnail, 16:51.166 --> 16:52.933 it's just a screenshot of the video, 16:52.966 --> 00:16:55.019 and we just go there for the content, right? 00:16:55.020 --> 16:57.900 We're not really going there for anything else, 16:57.933 --> 00:17:01.899 for the knowledge that the person is spreading. 00:17:01.900 --> 17:04.433 I say that it can be as simple or as complex, 17:04.466 --> 00:17:07.219 because if your goal is to potentially 00:17:07.220 --> 17:08.633 earn revenue down the line, 17:08.666 --> 17:11.933 you will want to spend some time configuring 17:11.966 --> 00:17:17.459 some of the settings for uploading, like the tags, 00:17:17.460 --> 17:18.733 I forget what they're called, but they're 17:18.766 --> 00:17:20.875 a little embedded so that people can watch 00:17:20.876 --> 00:17:22.233 other videos and things like that. 17:22.266 --> 17:25.500 So there's a plethora of options, an abundance of options. 17:25.533 --> 17:27.300 Honestly, there's too many, 17:27.333 --> 17:31.300 but it all depends if you potentially want 17:31.333 --> 17:33.066 to make some type of income in the future 17:33.100 --> 17:35.033 with Emacs, making videos on Emacs. 17:35.066 --> 17:37.700 And yeah, that's just something 17:37.733 --> 17:39.666 that you will have to discover 17:39.700 --> 17:42.633 and read and learn more about what the Emacs community, 17:42.666 --> 00:17:45.133 Emacs creator community suggest, 00:17:45.134 --> 00:17:47.200 and best practices and things like that. 17:47.200 --> 17:48.933 But if anybody ever wants to talk about it, 17:48.966 --> 17:50.266 feel free to reach out to me. 17:50.300 --> 00:17:54.579 I would love to talk about things 00:17:54.580 --> 00:17:55.740 about YouTube and all this, 00:17:55.741 --> 00:17:58.440 because I find it interesting. Potentially, hopefully, 00:17:58.441 --> 00:18:01.259 one day, I'll be able to make some revenue. 00:18:01.260 --> 18:03.066 Hopefully, maybe some of you guys 18:03.100 --> 18:04.266 might knock it out of the park 18:04.300 --> 18:06.133 with what I'm going to talk about next. NOTE Your secret sauce 18:06.166 --> 18:10.866 That is your secret sauce. This is your ultimate weapon 18:10.900 --> 18:13.466 as to get viewers, to get subscribers, you know, 18:13.500 --> 18:14.733 to get anybody that wants 18:14.766 --> 18:17.266 to watch your... to reach a higher audience. 18:17.300 --> 18:20.200 That can be your humor. You might be naturally funny. 18:20.200 --> 18:21.500 You can make comments. 18:21.533 --> 18:24.700 You have a natural skill on the way you talk, 18:24.733 --> 18:26.300 on the way you articulate things, 18:26.333 --> 18:29.300 so you might be able to get people drawn to that, 18:29.333 --> 18:32.733 or you might be someone who just does animations 18:32.766 --> 18:35.700 for your videos, which does highly well as well. 18:35.733 --> 18:38.633 or you can do a mix of all these. 18:38.666 --> 18:40.500 You can just insert your superpower 18:40.533 --> 18:42.700 whatever you want. You can go ahead 18:42.733 --> 18:45.266 and use that to your advantage 18:45.300 --> 18:47.100 to grow user base, a viewer base. 18:47.133 --> 18:50.000 Hopefully, if all things align, 18:50.000 --> 18:52.600 you'll be able to get paid 18:52.600 --> 18:56.200 to also create Emacs videos soon, spread the knowledge, 18:56.200 --> 18:58.800 which would be pretty cool--become an Emacs influencer, 18:58.800 --> 19:00.200 which is the goal, right? Okay. 19:00.200 --> 19:03.800 I believe I painted this in a pretty good light, 19:03.800 --> 19:04.900 at least personal opinion. NOTE Cons of YouTube 19:04.933 --> 19:07.900 But like everything, every good also has a bad. 19:07.933 --> 19:09.666 Nothing is always perfect. 19:09.700 --> 19:11.633 That's also the same for Youtube. 19:11.666 --> 19:14.466 What are the bads of Youtube? 19:14.500 --> 19:18.266 Well, it's not going to be an overnight success. 19:18.300 --> 19:21.533 That is very very rare. You're not going to create a video 19:21.566 --> 19:24.900 and then all of a sudden get like a hundred thousand views. 19:24.933 --> 19:27.200 I believe by from what I've seen in the community 19:27.200 --> 19:29.033 if a video gets over 10k 19:29.066 --> 19:33.100 that it means that it did really well in the Emacs community. 19:33.133 --> 19:38.300 I think on average is under 3k for a video within... 19:38.333 --> 19:40.466 This is within the time span of 19:40.500 --> 19:43.333 I'd say like two weeks or so or a month, around there. 19:43.366 --> 19:46.066 So it varies. All these metrics you'll learn 19:46.100 --> 19:48.466 if you really actually want to be able 19:48.500 --> 19:50.066 to create something in the Emacs... 19:50.100 --> 19:53.266 But like I said, it does take work and it does take time. 19:53.300 --> 19:56.733 Another thing is that negative feedback people are very quick 19:56.766 --> 20:00.533 as we all have been accustomed to that. 20:00.566 --> 20:04.300 People are do not shy from being very negative. 20:04.333 --> 20:07.833 It is so easy to just say negative and mean things online 20:07.866 --> 20:09.900 because there's no repercussions. 20:09.933 --> 20:12.666 I don't understand why people do that, but it is what it is. 20:12.700 --> 20:17.500 But most of these comments are from the younger population. 20:17.533 --> 20:20.700 You know, just ignore them. 20:20.733 --> 20:22.866 Most of the time, they're just ignorant. 20:22.900 --> 20:24.066 They don't know what they're saying. 20:24.100 --> 20:27.800 It will help you get them, you know, grow some thick skin. 20:27.800 --> 20:30.133 If you already have thick skin, then you don't. 20:30.166 --> 20:31.833 This is not going to be a problem. 20:31.866 --> 20:35.233 But most of the negative comments that I've receive our 20:35.266 --> 20:38.066 or childish, I would say, 20:38.100 --> 20:42.700 that it's not really based on anything that has substance. 20:42.733 --> 20:44.400 Yeah, just ignore it. It's fine. 20:44.400 --> 20:46.066 It's not going to affect your day. 20:46.100 --> 20:47.100 "Don't let it affect your day" 20:47.133 --> 20:48.866 is the most important thing. 20:48.900 --> 20:51.466 Third, like I was mentioning, revenue is very hard 20:51.500 --> 20:54.700 to get monetized on by YouTube standards. 20:54.733 --> 20:58.600 That will definitely take some time and dedication. 20:58.600 --> 21:01.300 But if you really want it, you will work for it. 21:01.333 --> 21:03.266 Hopefully all of us, 21:03.300 --> 21:05.866 the people that are constantly creating content 21:05.900 --> 21:09.233 via these platforms are able to get compensated 21:09.266 --> 21:10.400 in some way or another, 21:10.400 --> 21:13.000 because we do share it because we love it, 21:13.000 --> 21:15.833 but also it would be nice to get some compensation. 21:15.866 --> 21:17.933 I'm not speaking for everybody. I'm speaking personally 21:17.966 --> 21:22.133 because time is a valuable asset. 21:22.166 --> 21:23.866 You can choose what you want to spend it 21:23.900 --> 21:25.866 and right now I'm having fun making videos. 21:25.900 --> 21:29.733 That's what I'm deciding to spend it. 21:29.766 --> 21:31.866 But yeah now, with all this that I've said, 21:31.900 --> 21:36.033 there's only one question that I want to ask all of you, 21:36.066 --> 21:40.266 and that is: what are you going to share?