my computerĭisplay) into separate video files. That I could record my camera, microphone, and X11 screen (i.e. With a talking head” videos, which superimpose a shot of a human head onto aĬapture of a desktop computer’s screen. I’ll go into moreĭetail about FFmpeg later, but at this point it’s enough to know that FFmpeg isĪ powerful command-line tool that can record and edit videos.Īfter a while, I’d realised that what I wanted to produce are “screencasts Undeterred, the following day, I experimented with using FFmpeg to record and mix videos. Unfortunately, it soon became obvious that common video production tools such as OBS hadn’t been ported to OpenBSD. Immediately started looking into how one might go about recording videos. Realising that I’d need to produce videos of my own at some point, I They become even less engaging when there’s no person to look at and all youĬan hear is a disembodied, poorly amplified, and fuzzy-sounding mumble.īy Sam Ainsworth that showed me that a different, rather more engaging, Long been of the opinion that bullet point presentations are unengaging,Īs they’re designed for the speaker’s benefit, not the audience’s. Were mostly bullet point laden PowerPoint slides with poor quality audio. Videos I was watching were worse than the equivalent live talk: they However, within a couple of hours of attending my first online conference in June 2020, theĬhallenges of video production had become clear to me.
Hadn’t even watched enough videos to form an opinion of what was To give you an idea of how unfamiliar I was with video production, 12 monthsĪgo I not only had no experience of creating videos but I Technique I’ve used for videos such as Virtual Machine Warmup Understand about video recording and the “automatic video editing” In this article I’m going to explain what I’ve come to Talks: suddenly, people like me have had to think about how to produce Amongst the many consequences of COVID-19 has been the suspension of in-person
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