Videos

[mg75]

Bill,

Have you considered making an instructional DVD?
I see demand for it.

[Harley]

Bill,

Have you considered making an instructional DVD?
I see demand for it.

I've tried doing instructional videos for my business and after a while gave up.

For every hour of stuffing around you need to do in preparation, you'd be lucky to get 15 seconds of worthwhile video stuff - plus you have to get someone else involved.

I've found it hard enough and time consuming doing just still pics of jigs etc to post here.

Bill would obviously answer this for himself, but I would imagine his time is already limited doing design, plans, answering forum questions, running this site and keeping his War Office happy.

I reckon Bill's plans and question/answers on this forum are detail enough anyhow, plus I'd have a hard job not PL'ing up my Video/TV to do the re-runs, watch the vid and do the work.

Not the answer you wanted is it?

Harley

[DAVID_L_PERRY]

.........I reckon Bill's plans and question/answers on this forum are detail enough ..........

+1
Quite simply the best set of plans and source of hands on info you can get...

And always being updated with latest builders ideas...

Dave

[bgavin]

Making your own videos is like filming your own pornos... you can't run the camera and star in the production at the same time.

If you have a friend who does good video (and I mean good video), have him shoot your explanations of jigs, etc. Let him handle the lighting and details. You are the talent, and should concentrate on what you do best.

There is a time and place to outsource a service. This is one of them. Kinda like not doing your own dental work.

[Harley]

....you can't run the camera and star in the production at the same time.

If you have a friend who does good video (and I mean good video), have him shoot your explanations of jigs, etc. Let him handle the lighting and details...

There is a time and place to outsource a service. This is one of them.

Totally agree.

But even if you get the good video friend, there's still a swag of preparation to do and it's definitely a project in its own right, not something you can do alongside a normal build...in my imagination.

Bruce, perhaps Bill could commission you and I to star in this build film seeing he'd probably be too busy - imagine the fame, not to mention the fantastic movie star rates we'd get.... We could do two types of cabs, you travel here for the first one, and I travel there for the second...all expenses paid I would imagine

Supertramp had a great song for this scenario.

Harley

[Dave Non-Zero]

Are you two still talking about porn? Hmm....

[Sydney]

As one who has just finished a 2 and 1/2 year job doing CGI and video editing - I can tell you that it can be extremely time consuming and expensive. The cost for the the project I was on was over $130,000 for a 52 minute DVD.
As BGAVIN and HARLEY both correctly surmised it takes experienced talent to produce a good video and a lot of very expensive specialized equipment.
If you are fortunate enough to know people who work in television or teach film at a college you can sometimes find ways to trim costs. College film student projects, and internships and the like.