Comment by Ken_Adler | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Ken_Adler | Hacker News Reader

Can confirm the "new way of working" when it comes to video clips ...

I have made it a part of my worklife to share with co-workers EDITED video highlights of zoom calls and training sessions. This includes conference talks I find on youtube (e.g. Kubecon talks) that I want to have colleagues view.

I can usually cut down an hour talk/call. to around 5-20 minutes of good high impact content.

Historically, I just record in the cloud on Zoom (using all the nice extra features around auto-transcript, recording speaker and shared screen separately, etc... ) and edit it in Adobe Premier.

I've got the manual workflow down where this is something I don't do every day.. but several times a week is fine. Editing ain't pretty, but it is effective.

Since the lockdown, I have been working on the other end of the "pipeline"... the INPUT to Zoom. After a couple of false starts (OBS, CamTwist, Wirecast...). I ended up implementing Ecamm Studio Pro....

Looking forward to exploring your tool....

Can you talk about the value you've gotten out of doing this? It sounds very interesting, but also fairly effort-intensive. Does it also help you remember meeting takeaways, because you're actively reviewing your recent day or two?

I do it mostly so I don't have to repeat myself. :)

I use the clips so that others can gain from the kernals of wisdom those clips provide... without having to commit to some portion of an hour to find the kernal themselves.

Saves everyone time and enforces compliance to decisions made )

Also, of course, by manually editing down a deeply technical discussion from an hour to 20 minutes helps me REALLY listen and understand what the speaker is saying....and so it also helps me to continue improve my knowledge...

As a fellow workflow efficiency nerd.. I salute you. Would love to learn about your manual workflows sometime.

Do you have any examples of talks that you've edited?

I'll look to see if there is anything I can share publicly...

I can't help but think you've found a more complicated and less efficient way to achieve the same thing as writing up an off-the cuff talk afterwards.

Personally I loathe the spoken word as a medium for efficient transmission of information. Reading and skim-reading is an order of magnitude faster.

And writing up something I've spoken is the perfect way to focus and clarify.

LOL.... I know what you are saying,

It's interesting how different people process information.

All I can say is that it works for me.... and I find it to be highly impactful on my co-workers etc.

There is something about capturing nuance that "multimedia" really helps with....

So my mission is to reduce the effort it takes for me to do this to less then it takes to just write up and share notes...

I do this for my video courses. 10 hours of raw material becomes around 4 hours of course video.

It’s super labor intensive but once you get in the flow it’s surprisingly easy/quick. Especially if you’re okay cutting 10h down to 6h instead of 4h.

And yes it makes you know the material incredibly well. Way better even than the prep for and creating of the raw stuff.

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