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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?