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Video: Learning to run a broadcast in one hour
🕑 Added 2022-04-10 17:27:49 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZinM9XFoIg
A couple months ago someone I know on twitter told me that they had a bunch of video gear I might be interested in buying, and I was, so they made plans to come by while they were driving through the state for a gig. They also said they had a Newtek Tricaster, and would I like to borrow it for a video?
Of course I said yes, because the Tricaster is extremely cool and has an interesting background both culturally and for me personally, having been involved in a number of projects I liked. I figured I would have them leave it here, do a video when I was ready (months from now), and ship it back.
They show up - it's a 60 pound 4U chassis with a bunch of extremely delicate parts inside. I immediately know I can't keep this thing, it'll be pulverized in shipping, so I tell them they have to take it back if they want it in one piece. But they're in town for a week, so they offer to leave it here for a couple days.
I can't research, script, rehearse and shoot a video in two days to save my life. But I do know how to run a vision mixer, so, with my girlfriend's help on the main camera, I shot this video as fast as I possibly could.
Was it technically shot in "an hour"? Hahaha, no, closer to five - but I had other stuff going on that kept pulling me away, so as far as the *actual time spent touching the device*, an hour is still about right. The video is half that long because I cut out my incorrect explanations and flubbed lines - arguably, I learned to run this (at least for the features I picked up) in 15 or 20 minutes.
It was an absolute blast to make this and if it gets a good response maybe I'll do more stuff like it. I had it edited by that evening, and it sure was nice getting a video made in like 8 hours.
Comments
gn0w1
I like both the unscripted and the scripted videos. But something about how genuinely excited and exuberant you were in this video stands out. If these are fun for you to make, they’re certainly fun for us to watch.
Spencer Moore
I remember Leo Laporte and company using these in the late 2000's to do some pretty early video streaming. I've also seem them used in a utility capacity to provide multi-cam previews for directors.
