"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy)
12/24/2016 at 13:25 • Filed to: None
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"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy)
12/24/2016 at 13:25 • Filed to: None | 0
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Hey Oppos, I had to fix my wife’s Passat this week and I threw together a short video on what I had to do to get out of a jam. I’m new to creating content that way, please let me know what I can do better for next time, or if there are things I should correct in this one. Thanks!
Oh, and VW can suck it hard for their crappy electro-mechanical parking brake. Looks good on paper, does not last IRL.
SteveLehto
> deekster_caddy
12/24/2016 at 13:44 |
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It was much better than I expected (don’t take that the wrong way - there’s just all kinds of stuff out there). This will sound dumb (at first) BUT you need to point out stuff at the most elementary level. Not everyone knows what the caliper is and so on. As you are talking, you could quite easily point at the things you reference (you did this later on but the more the merrier).
Also, don’t be shy about editing for time. The 30 seconds you spent deciphering the size of the torx socket will have lost some viewers. Slice out a chunk of it and make it move faster.
Not sure how you have it titled but if you have it on youtube and want views. label it clearly and tag it properly. People WILL find it if they are looking for something up this aisle.
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deekster_caddy
> SteveLehto
12/24/2016 at 13:47 |
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Thanks! I’m not hunting for views, just trying to post something helpful as when I had issues I couldn’t find much information about this problem. I definitely felt that dead time when I couldn’t read the torx socket number too.
Urambo Tauro
> deekster_caddy
12/24/2016 at 13:59 |
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Not bad!
You might want to try using a drill for fasteners, though. Not only does it help speed up your own work, watching fasteners turn can really drag down a video. But don’t leave it out completely. It’s really helpful when watching a video to get a sense of how many fasteners there are and where to find them. EricTheCarGuy uses a neat technique where the video is edited with the fastener removals in quick succession: zzip! (cut) zzip! (cut) zzip! (cut) zzip!
I noticed that this was kind of a one-take vid, but like Steve suggested, if you can get into editing, it’ll greatly improve the pacing.
Oh, and get a helper or a stand for the camera for when you run out of hands. ;)
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SteveLehto
> deekster_caddy
12/24/2016 at 14:09 |
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I’ve been shooting videos of my podcasts for a couple years now and still have very little idea of what I am doing video-wise. But I have accomplished a few things. My average view duration (across the entire channel and several hundred thousand views) is 7 1/2 minutes. I also have one video with over a million minutes of watch time.
The tricky part is figuring out in advance which ones are going to do well.
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deekster_caddy
> Urambo Tauro
12/24/2016 at 14:31 |
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Thanks! It was off the cuff, thought about making it while I was in the midde of fixing it, a tripod and drill are great ideas, I have both but didn’t think to get them out... does youtube have editing tools to speed up sections or do I need to do that pre-upload?
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Urambo Tauro
> deekster_caddy
12/24/2016 at 14:48 |
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I honestly don’t know anything about video editing, so I can only comment from a viewer standpoint. But I like how you used annotations for tool sizes. That’s a good help for new wrenchers who might mistake M8 for “MA” triplesquare and get hung up on trying to find one.
Steve in Manhattan
> deekster_caddy
12/24/2016 at 15:25 |
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I for one, thought it was fine. There’s a thingy on YouTube to make it less shaky - did you do that?
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deekster_caddy
> Steve in Manhattan
12/24/2016 at 16:39 |
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I’ve used it before, usually it’s suggested to me by Youtube but it wasn’t this time. Was it too shaky?
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Steve in Manhattan
> deekster_caddy
12/24/2016 at 18:21 |
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A bit ... go back to the video and see if you can edit it on a pulldown.