Greetings one and all!

Currently in the process of setting up a dedicated space here on Substack for those who enjoy email updates and the features that this lovely platform offers.

Have set up a monthly paid subscription for those who are keen and able to help out.

Talk soon!
Phil

LIVE Panels for June

Talk soon!
Phil

Breakdown of the Remastering process

Long-form

The 1st “The Bard Inn” LIVE panel (remastered version of ep1 from 2024) took about 8+ hours to process just the 2.5hr longform video into a final version, uploaded to YouTube with graphics and text assets etc.

The number guests with different audio inputs, each one needing to be individually adjusted. Eg 6 people with 7 questions = 42 individual speaking segments all needing to be normalised and edited - including removing audio spikes (coughs and mic bumps etc…)

And then working through cutting out redundancies like dead space, then adding in-video graphics, uploading to YouTube + thumbnails, text assets (descriptions, titles, guest links, hashtags…thanks AI 😘) and collaborator links to optimise for algorithmic spread into the YouTube universe.

Medium-form

Then comes the cutting up of the 2.5hr long-form into medium-form (usually 10-20min segments by question). These sometimes need some further editing to keep them tight in presentation. Think of the long-form being the general hangout that plays in the background while you cook, whereas the medium-form are more for attentive watching, that give more immediate value in a smaller portion.

There were about 11 of these medium-form from Ep1, and each needs a little tweaking, their own graphics and text assets. This has taken about another 6 hours, with approx 3 hours to go. These are then scheduled for release each week. YouTube loves consistency.

The process is time-intensive, but the workflow is tightening up as I continue. Am learning about healthy doses of computer time haha. Especially video editing, yoicks. Fried eyeballs man 😳\

At this rate, I’ll be able to schedule approx 3 videos per week.

Phil 🙏