Well, it's now been a full month since initial launch. I might wish I had gotten more done thus far, but slow and steady wins the race. I'm still sort of in the set up phase -- in more ways than one. This cycle, I did all the things for the first video of the focused BB6A playlist on the channel, so that I could set up the BB6A study page on the website. I also made 7 meta-related videos for the YouTube channel. 4 of those videos dealt with explaining playlist structure for existing conternt playlists, 2 were content introductions for both BB6A playlists (the more focused version, and the full version), and the last video was a new banner video for the channel that condensed all of the content from the initial intro video I had made... the one that ended up around ~45 minutes long. That was too long for the general banner video (in my opinion), hence the new shorter version too.
The desktop computer I'd ordered also came this cycle, so I spent a good bit of time setting it up. This entire ministry progress summary was produced on the new computer. It is many times more powerful than the old tablet it is replacing.
I added transcripts to the webpages for several of the recent videos I'd worked on organizing.
Deciding that the best way to tackle the large pile of work was with a detailed plan, I set out to make exactly that.
I settled on a plan that has three phases. After each phase (at which point some sort of milestone will be reached), a certain set of things will be able to be done that could not be done before. We'll get to the three phases in a sec, but first, some other general notes on what I decided:
I made the call to put off fully scripted videos, the teleprompter, and whiteboard-type-things (that is, the completely ideal video-generation setup, as things seem to me) as long as I need to, until these things are truly ready. But the change is, I'm going to keep going with the SR4 series in the meantime (making "less-optimal" videos without the scripts/teleprompter and whiteboard demonstrations), even though I hadn't intended to make any videos at all until I got the new setup completely operational. That had been the plan even as recently as a week ago.
Basically, I just don't want to let the perfect get in the way of the good, and I very much wish to do some actual ministry production alongside all the tedious busywork tasks I still need to finish here at the beginning of things. If I just do the latter (as I have been for the last little bit), everything is too painful, and burnout sets in. Which is no good.
Now, as to the actual phases:
The Phase I tasks are as follows:
The things that can be accomplished after Phase I is completed:
I actually finished all the Phase I tasks this cycle. We'll go over them shortly.
The Phase II tasks are as follows:
The things that can be accomplished after Phase II is completed:
I'm really looking forward to having a social life again (I've been pretty head-down with nose-to-the-grindstone since I graduated from college several years ago -- in order to get the ministry website/YouTube channel launched), so I'd like to get through Phase II ASAP, so I can start getting involved once more in local church groups. I'm also looking forward to the opportunity to serve in these communities too, as I am able.
The Phase III tasks are as follows:
The things that can be accomplished after Phase III is completed:
Phase III is the last phase. After Phase III I'll be done with everything on my list, and making all new video content with the workflow I've thought out and wish to use in the long-term. Things will then mostly just be a matter of which content I make first.
Both main categories of tasks.
As part of Phase I. In getting this first focused BB6A video organized and formatted, I:
As part of Phase I. There were 7 videos that I made:
Prior to making all these recordings, I had to draft content and make slides (at least for most of them). I made a new "not-displayed" content type to generate .gitignore'd slides for all these videos that won't have actual deployed pages of their own. I had to ensure that the appropriate structure was still followed so that the preprocessor application would still work properly to generate slides for things in this new content type. Needed all the right folder nesting with _index.md files, etc.
After recording the 7 videos, I had to do all the post-processing on the videos, upload them to YouTube with appropriate thumbnails, and then organize them appropriately in the relevant playlists. And so on.
Because I was concatenating several different takes this time to be able to share identical content across the two videos in each of the structure intro video types (discussion vs. no discussion, full BB6A vs. focused BB6A), I bumped into issues I hadn't had before (dealing with variable vs. constant frame rate recordings not concatenating properly, and differing audio channels not concatenating properly). I'll spare you the boring details, but it took a lot of research to fix things, and I had to delete and then completely re-do some processing steps partway through. At least now I think I understand everything better, so hopefully things will only go smoother in the future.
Well, it's now been a full month since initial launch. I might wish I had gotten more done thus far, but slow and steady wins the race. I'm still sort of in the set up phase -- in more ways than one. This cycle, I did all the things for the first video of the focused BB6A playlist on the channel, so that I could set up the BB6A study page on the website. I also made 7 meta-related videos for the YouTube channel. 4 of those videos dealt with explaining playlist structure for existing conternt playlists, 2 were content introductions for both BB6A playlists (the more focused version, and the full version), and the last video was a new banner video for the channel that condensed all of the content from the initial intro video I had made... the one that ended up around ~45 minutes long. That was too long for the general banner video (in my opinion), hence the new shorter version too.
The desktop computer I'd ordered also came this cycle, so I spent a good bit of time setting it up. This entire ministry progress summary was produced on the new computer. It is many times more powerful than the old tablet it is replacing.
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