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New version of the Q and A is up
🕑 Added 2020-05-02 00:05:14 +0000 UTCI edited the April 2020 Q and A video, and reposted it at the original post.
And I'd also like to take this opportunity to answer some questions that were left at the comments on this post:
Some of you have made suggestions (both here on Patreon and in private text chats) about alternatives to YouTube I could use. I'll be honest, the main reason I want to avoid YT is that they're a Google company, and I don't trust Google to use its near-monopoly on video-hosting and search engines responsibly. Since I upload these videos "unlisted", the possible reach of YT is not a concern for me, as only you Patreon supporters are supposed to be able to see them. (Which makes me wonder how ShoPro saw it in the first place.)
Some of you may remember I used to use Dailymotion as a hosting site. Might still be using it, but one day about a year (maybe a year and a half ago?), it just stopped working. I couldn't even get the site to upload my video. (And I also found it a little irritating that, in order to restrict the videos to Patreon members, I had to assign a password to each video, and then include the password in the post.
Vimeo, Veoh and Dtube have been suggeted as alternatives. I once tried hosting the videos on the same servers as my DCM Studios and Tetsuko websites, but my ISP started dunning me for storage and bandwidth that were going to go over $100/month! (A 15-minute video can run about 1.5 GB; I don't think the combined data I have at my sites gets even close to that!)
The main thing i'm looking for is embeddability. i want the video to be viewable from its post here on Patreon. So any option that doesn't provide that would not be suitable for my purposes.
I thank you all for your patience and your advice, and I'll keep you posted on my progress.
Speaking of progress, there's a Charlotte illustration I need to get back to...
