 Everyone how are you all doing today? I don't know what happened at the beginning. My timer seemed to have moved on my countdown timer. Who knows what happened and it was a locked scene as well, never mind. It's a mystery. Hey Paul, great to see you and whoops, I've not got some comments that haven't quite come up yet. As always Mr Paul Duncan, there's lots more moderating to do now that we've got discord as well isn't there? I'll be chatting about discord a little bit later. Hey Carly, hey Jeff in the chat as well. You are too quick off the draw. The comments haven't even come up in my ECAM comments because just too quick. I'm not very prepared this morning. Not that I normally do much preparation but just had a few other things going on beforehand. So there we go. Yeah great to see you all had a really busy week this week as you can tell. Not much content gone out but there you go. I've got lots more catching up to do. I'm just going to get straight on into it. This is my progress so far. 189 videos out of my 365 and we're on day 253 so a lot of catching up to do. I feel like every week I say the same thing. Next week I'm going to have a lot more time and then something always comes up. Just really busy with work once again and the video that I did put out this week apart from last week's live stream obviously was a little bit of a cheat really because I was a guest on the chit chat across the pond podcast with Alison Sheridan so I recorded that on Zoom and then we put that out or I put that out onto my channel and she'll be putting it out onto her website as well but I'll tell you about that in a moment. So quite a leap forward in subscribers actually since New Year. So it does seem that I've noticed in fact let's go straight over shall we to my, can you tell them a bit, discompobulated. There's a word this morning. Let's go over to the stats a minute. I've noticed that my videos, oh look at that, fancy flying overlays. I've noticed that my, where is it, if I look into reach I've noticed that my videos are getting shown a lot more so you can see where it says impressions, oops impressions there we go that's it. Yeah since the start of the year there's just been a sort of increase in the number of impressions of my videos so that is basically how many times YouTube is serving them up as potential options for people to click on. So that's just interesting to note that there has been this sort of, I mean there was a, it was kind of fairly consistent growth here and then it's had a jump up here where there was a, I don't know it seems like YouTube sort of ramps these things up intermittently. I'm not sure what based on or why this thing happens but there you go. It does seem that since since New Year basically this has been a sort of slow optic in the number of times that YouTube is suggesting my videos to people so that has meant that I've had quite a few more views this week compared to other regular weeks or in the last sort of few days. So I think it was around about 60, what we had 60, one new subscribers this week so hello welcome all and that's a lot more than I normally get. A typical week would be, well a recent typical week would be more like sort of 40 or 50 or something like that so yeah all interesting to note. I will talk about the revenue briefly as well because I'm going to just keep tracking this and sharing it with you all. So the total so far is $84 so I'm not retiring yet but it is interesting that some of these videos, let me have a little look at if I go into the revenue section and we'll have a little look at the breakdown again so basically $54 of that is from ad revenue, $22 is from transactions so that's super chats, super stickers and the like. Oh hey Dina, just seeing you sneaking and then yeah $7 is from YouTube Premium. I still as I said before I'm not doing anything with the ads in terms of adjusting them or anything like that until the first month and then I'll go through and turn off some of these so I'll probably be turning off the non-skippable video ads and the bumper ads and the display ads just because those are the ones that I as a viewer find most annoying so I don't want to be annoying people with advertising and stuff like that. Let's have another little look around here so the other thing is it's just interesting to note when you see videos where it's listing the revenue and the top earning videos basically obviously these are all very low numbers at my early stage. This one has got the highest but that included super chats and super sticker and the same for this one here but this one why profiles are better than folders on stream deck. That is my most popular video that I've done. It's consistently good I always get high views of that one and I do think profiles are better than folders but I think most people just go down the folder route with stream deck because it seems like a logical way to go. It's more like a file system so it's what we're familiar with and I know that when I started using stream deck I set everything up with like massively nested folders and lived to regret it and so then I figured that actually just using profiles instead of folders was better and that is my top performing video so it's interesting to see that since I got monetized basically $7.38 has come from that in the past 28 days so yeah that's that's just interesting that these videos that have I mean it was one of my earliest videos as well but they just still there you know as a as a source of passive income really and that's obviously the point of this as it grows and as the subscriber base grows then these will be the same for all of them. I am going to go and strip out some of my videos though at some point because it's really the ones where I'm teaching people stuff about Ecamm and Ecamm has changed so much they develop it so heavily and it's amazing. There's so many things that are that are just massive improvements in it that I need to just basically go and strip out the ones where I'm giving people unnecessary steps that they don't need to be taking whilst they're you know making their stuff in Ecamm so that whole four-hour tutorial that I did or four and a half hour on sort of start to finish with Ecamm that's that's pretty obsolete now given all of the new advances that we've got so yeah I've got to go and remake that at some point I was going to remake that just after new year actually and then they drop the latest beta the 3.10 which has got some more great new features so I may just wait for 3.10 and make the 3.10 full on Ecamm tutorial but let's just see how it goes so yeah that's just a little dig into the stats as I say I'm going to stop quoting my watch hours and views because it's getting a little bit obsolete now or it's not obsolete a bit irrelevant because I was always tracking those on the path to 4,000 watch hours so I'll probably leave that off next week I said that last week but then I forgot this week but I will start tracking the revenue a bit more and sort of sharing that whole thing with you because I know that people do want to know these things and when you're sort of on the path to monetization and everyone talks about you know whether it's a high amount or a low amount that you're going to get from YouTube advertising most people don't actually tell you how much that actually is in real terms so that's the point of doing this. Jim hi Jim nice of you to stop by and I did indeed because yeah there's you don't want people having to sit through adverts to get into a livestream so yeah I did definitely make sure that that was off this time so thanks for letting me know about that last week that'd be really annoying but something happening live but you've got to sit through that so yeah turn that off so so this week yeah I was in fact just yesterday morning in fact I was on the chitchat across the pond podcast with Alison Sheridan now I don't know if you know Alison wait a minute let me come with the right website there you go podfeet.com she makes a number of podcasts all sort of tech Mac centric and so I've known Alison or known about Alison been listening to her podcasts since really since I started using the Mac which was around about 16 years ago 2006 and I was a casualty of vista and that was what caused me to investigate the Mac and then once I started using it I realized you know what and what a fool had been for sticking with Windows for quite so long but when I did start using the Mac I wanted to obviously learn all the new stuff to do with it and there was loads of great Mac podcasts that were just kicking off at around this time and Alison had a podcast called the no silicast which was all sort of Mac centric and then there was another one called the Mac round table which had lots of different Mac podcasters who all came together and did a podcast together and then all of the the other usual suspects Leo LaPorte Mac break weekly all of those sorts of things so I was just listening to all of all of these podcasts like hours and hours and hours every week of Mac podcast to get up to speed with stuff and so as I say I've been a long time listener of Alison's stuff and then I got a it was actually on buy me a coffee and the name on the buy me a coffee she had kindly got gonna bought me a coffee for having watched some of my stream deck content she'd got a stream deck watch some of my stream deck videos found them useful and gone over to buy me a coffee and the name there would just said pod feet and I thought well I definitely know pod feet so I just reached out and said you know or if that's Alison thank you very much and yes you invited me on the show so that's what I was doing yesterday morning and we just basically had a chat so it was on the her chit chat across the pond podcast and so that name came originally because on the round table there's a few others in the UK and so then she started a podcast with Bart Bouchots who's in the in Ireland really amazing guy super geeky and they do a thing I mean they actually do a podcast about coding and teaching people how to code on a podcast or talking about that so that's an interesting concept but works really well so so that's where the name came from but then as well as doing the regular podcast with Bart she also then has on different guests she's had some she's hasn't real stars on there the none other than Mr. Doc Rock makes regular appearances so you know it must be good so yeah she's just she's just awesome and it was a really great conversation and so that is what I was doing tomorrow but what I also did was we recorded it on a zoom and there we go there it is just put up just today so yeah so we recorded it on zoom and then I put that out onto the onto the onto my channel as well and then obviously this is an audio podcast that she does or maybe not obviously but this is an audio podcast that she does but we yeah we did record it I put it out onto my channel and then I think she'll be linking to to that video as well so I highly recommend though if you are a little bit geeky love all things Mac and the similar sorts of stuff that I talk about really you know like productivity different apps and stuff and obviously all the the coding stuff then definitely head over to podfeat.com and check that out because yeah really interesting stuff so that is what I was doing yesterday and that is basically the only video that I did but it did involve some editing and it made me realize why I don't like editing because we basically recorded the the zoom call and then there was a little bit of an intro that we did for the intro for my channel and then we had a little break and then we had a an intro and then we had the actual podcast itself and then I sort of filled in the three gaps at the beginning the middle and the end with a little bit of stuff that I just recorded on the cam to sort of tie it all together and it was painful doing any editing having to take that into I'd use Premiere Pro because I've got that on as part of my Adobe thing and then edit it edit it together there was a couple of bits where I was doing a screen share as well or showing something on the screen or describing it for the audio podcast so then I was trying to resize as both and then only the most basic of editing but yeah I didn't enjoy it but I got it out there I did it hey Keely great to see you no problem watching interested see what I was going to say about discord well yeah hashtag Keely was right there you go so yeah I'd love you to come and jump on and have a little chat about it I was wrong about discord I wasn't really wrong I was wrong I was basically just reluctant should we say that when people were talking about doing stuff on discord I was yeah I've just been a bit reluctant to get on board with it really and it's just a case of it being a learning curve you know like jumping into it I've been on discord technically for I think about a year something like that as a as a user so there's a couple of discord groups that was in and I think I've probably been sort of slightly put off discord by or had been put off discord by the groups that was in that the way that they were set up the way that they were managed and all that sort of stuff it was just a kind of for me with those groups I mean one of them let me just see how many members it's got and I don't know if it told you actually I think I remember seeing it somewhere it was around about 23,000 though so there was 23,000 people in this discord thing it's a trading related to trading stock trading and yet there was yeah something something ridiculous like that and so that's probably where I got the impression that it was a little bit too busy and yeah some of the the way that it was set up is I suppose it's all really comes down to the actual community itself doesn't it that you're setting up there and so if you go into you know a poorly run community or one that's you know really noisy busy and it's just you can't really follow along with it or it's too complicated to actually understand the structure where stuff is then that can put you off the platform and I think that's probably what happened to me because yeah it just all looked a little bit too too much and I wasn't enjoying it being on there so I didn't really adopt it so then when people were talking about you know having a discord for your community or in our case in the case that I've been experiencing recently in Docs community because that's that's that's where I got my my insight into a better way to do things thanks Keeley yeah when people were talking about moving stuff over there I was like well well I'm you know I'm on Facebook already and I know the Facebook groups and it's just sort of easy that way isn't it but it's only once you actually start going into a well-organized well-managed and well-run community that you realize how infinitely better it is than than Facebook I mean there's things about like the interface that I wish I could change certain things about that just the actual look of the discord interface itself in fact let me just come over and pull it up just for any of the uninitiated so I've set up a discord for take one tech as well but I just want to figure out I'm not officially sending out invites or anything like that until I figure out exactly how to do it but or how to implement it properly but I have just set up something roughly totally copied from Keeley's organization of and I should say I should say of Docs organization of his server but we know Keeley did it so there we go that is that this is what I've got for my thing and so I was figuring while I'd have some sections for my YouTube channel any guest appearances on other shows and things like that that aren't directly on my channel video ideas for people to be able to suggest ideas and things like that or ask questions about you know stuff that I might want to cover any courses that I'm doing related to the channel so I've been trying to figure out how to sort of bring this all together I do have all this on my website but I just really appreciate the the ability you know to have all of the conversation about it and then I've got some different sections for stuff that's related to the sort of stuff that I do on my channel so you know talking about studio gear I'm not going to break it down into you know camera audio lighting and all that sort of stuff because it's not something that I cover as heavily on my channel as in as other people so I've just got one for that Ecam live obviously something that I talk about a lot automation so I'm going to be doing a lot more automation stuff on my channel I keep saying that but this is the bulk of the videos that I've got on my list of my whatever it is 150 videos that I've got on my omnifocus list to think it's more than that now actually but the list of videos that I've got to make most of those are still actually the original videos that I put on my list when I started the channel because my whole idea about the the channel was it was going to be about sort of Mac productivity and Mac automation not so much yeah not so much productivity because productivity you can go down a productivity wormhole thinking about new ways to plan your tasks task lists and all these sort of stuff there is a big sort of thing with productivity porn they call it where everybody's just like after the next thing and they just get totally lost with it all and in fact they spend so much time on their productivity that they don't actually do anything so I'm a bit wary about the productivity it's more automation is really the thing and using automation to make you more productive so that's the that's the key but again there is a danger with that you know you can spend hours in keyboard maestro making a macro for something that you're going to use once and spending five hours doing something that would have taken you a minute so there's a balance there as well but in any case I figured that whoops it is he wrong scene so yeah I would have a sort of whole section about automation and the things that I'm going to do and then yeah so productivity would be sort of similar to that so some of the productivity tools I do use monetization so one of the things I'm doing obviously on these live streams is talking about my my channel and the monetization of it and all these sort of things so I'm always an open book with that and sharing what I'm doing and how it's working for me and sort of the growth of it so I thought having a topic around that would be useful and then you've always got to have the little squirrel off topic conversation haven't you and then or YouTube analytics that probably wants to move up there somewhere but I'll sort that out afterwards because you know what an analytics geek I am so I'd have that in there as well so that was kind of how I figured using my yeah setting it all up and then access to this would be I'm still figuring out that I have actually put it into my buying me a coffee already so there is you know you can get the sort of membership through there but I haven't I've only linked in the the roles at the moment but I haven't quite figured out all of the links so I'll probably be hitting keely up about that and asking here for some advice on that one but that was my sort of thought process behind it I don't want to duplicate totally everything that's going on in the other places where I am though as well because obviously this is where all the action is at the moment that let's get live server so buy me a coffee comm slash doc rock to go and get access to that I've need to get is any sort of date that with is yeah you stream link as well but anyway that's that's the easiest way to get there and what I've just found with that is so yes there is already the let's get live Facebook group where we've got obviously everyone there everyone can engage and chat with each other but it is just a stream of posts as Facebook is it's easy to miss notifications on Facebook when I say it's easy to miss them I mean sometimes you just don't get them and then you know what if I go over to a Facebook group I kind of scroll down a little bit but after I've gone down the first you know few posts depending on how much time I've got then I'm just seeing what what happens to be there at the top and any comments and things like that is nowhere near as conversational in the way that you would you get with discord and what I've found is it's it just means that you can easily find the conversations that you're interested in so in the let's get live group I'm not going to go into it because obviously privacy and all that but you can just see all the different threads of the conversations well just coming back to this one you know you would you would see here like if we were in there's nothing in here at the moment the only thing I've got in here is I've just added in all of the different shows that was on in the past so that's where I am with it but like for instance with these you would then be able to go and chat on them but then if you're only interested in the automation stuff you can go straight to that if you're interested in monetization you can go straight to that so that's the the sort of beauty of it really is it is all well organized like that so that is where I am with it anybody wants to come on and have a little chat about discord and how they found it because I know some of you are in there and obviously keely the master I am going to not be making a load of tutorials I'm going to leave that to keely so as soon as they're ready I'll be directing everybody there I've been I've been banned I've been banned so Paul still on the fence with discord well I'm I'm learning to love it personally not learning to love it I am loving it because of the but because of that organization thing the thing about it is though there is a still like for a lot of people a barrier to them getting on it for me because of people and when I say people I'm talking about nobody in particular but it is one of those things that it is like a new platform and people are you know really going to be used to Facebook and things like that it's just so easy because it's there they've got it on their phone and everything like that so there is always that kind of like oh something new barrier for people but I've certainly just been loving it especially for the the LGL community I've found that it's just for me it's worked it's working better than the Facebook group I wish I could just tweak the interface I don't I know you can change things like you know light mode and dark mode I don't know if you can get skins for it to completely change the the look of it and but that's a minor thing for me if the conversation is good all in with discord for the silver line in home place community that's right hashtag keely for the win so yeah I've just been setting this up sort of when I should have been doing other things this week so I got up and I just started thinking oh maybe I should just what I wanted to do was really understand how to go about setting up the discord one of the things that I'm doing in my regular work one of the things that's taking all of my time at the moment is this trading platform that we're launching and part of that has always actually been to have a discord server I've just been delaying doing anything with it so we did set up our discord server to test out some basically some bots that are going to be able to people can basically go and get information about different stocks and things like that so we've had a developer that's been developing these bots for us for discord I've just been not on board with it fully myself in terms of actually getting again all the community setup so it was actually really timely that we did the sort of LGL community we is timely that keely set up the and and Dina sorry I beg your pardon but I know keely's been on about this for months so it was really timely though that we've we've got into it and so so yeah that's I just just set it up this week I intend to sort of roll it out probably next month sometime officially I'll get some feedback yeah I'm gonna wait I've got a I've got a discord tutorial embargo so as soon as keely's got hers out I'll I'll think about it I've also got to learn everything from keely's videos first before I can make mine that's the thing because that's my little trick to be honest I just learn it all and then make the videos we're talking somebody was talking about the beta and beta and about how my I get my beta videos out really quickly and people think oh he must have early access to the beta if he's getting his videos out immediately when it's released well my little trick is I watch Ken and Glenn's beta launch stream in the beta Facebook group and then I immediately go make the video saying exactly what they said so there you go that's my little trick and then everyone says how do you know this so well and it's so soon I've literally just heard it like 30 minutes before so that's my little trick with that yes zoom course so yeah I have had other things to do I've been just fitting this little this the discord thing in around things so it's like every every time we've got a spare five minutes or just tweak this tweak that but yeah had another and another avalanche of a week this week with other work stuff but I will get to it I promise the link in b-mac doesn't work doesn't it hmm that's interesting okay that's good to know I will investigate so have you been notified did you get a did you get a notification in b-mac or is it hmm I'll have to have a little look oh you mean Docs Docs link is that are you talking about in b-mac okay I'll get to the bottom of it I'll try and figure out what you're talking yeah I'm in I'm in trouble I'm in trouble I'm gonna I'm gonna have to come into to class on Sunday with my head held in shame my link in b-mac hey hmm which which link is that I wonder my link in b-mac isn't working so it's actually a link that you got sent out related to discord or is that yeah I didn't set up any I didn't set up any I haven't really I haven't really set this up I'm not I'm sort of talking about this because we're talking about discord but I haven't sort of officially launched this as yet because yeah it's still work to do I've figure out making sure I've got things like the the little moderator bot and all that sort of thing set up so I'm not not really there with it yet so I haven't sent out any notifications about it or anything like that but you'll definitely there I'll hook you up you can give me some back channel back channel advice right yeah that's what I'll need to do yeah so okay okay so it's that's interesting then so is there actually a link in there I should probably not be doing this or just sort of live here should we I haven't even looked to see because what I did was I sneakily went into my membership levels and added in the the different roles so I figured out how to do that but what I didn't do was yes send out any notifications or set up all of the links and that I'll do this afterwards I'm I've just typed I went to go and type by me a coffee and I type by me a Mac so I don't know what I've got on my mind yep there we go so so yeah I've got to I've still got a lot of learning to do with buying me a coffee with discord so yeah just sort of figuring out figuring out how to best get it set up and all the different little tricks and things like that you can do but fortunately there's gonna be there's gonna be a great course coming out discord for creators so I'm just waiting for that and then and then I'll get the lowdown on how this all works but yeah as I say I've got a whole sort of trading server to set up as well so I'm going to learn from mine and then do it and obviously the LGL one and then I'll get that all set up and that one's going to be a bit harder to manage because obviously I would envisage mine being a nice happy place full of happy people who are just there to learn whereas the the trading server is going to be a bit more of a beast really because that will have quite a lot of users on it and all different all different types of people on there that are yeah not necessarily the same as my my take one tech audience who are all lovely people so so yeah that is still on the back burner really I will get it launched as I say I'll give I'll give a select few some backs back channel access to let me know what they think and then probably I'll get that all set up and live by beginning of next month and so well we have two now so that is been my week really in terms of what I've been doing I've done a little bit of the a little bit of the setup of my discord but mainly just working with stuff I'm getting all notifications coming in from this there we go riches riches found his way in lock the doors sweet nice but so it worked in it wasn't working in Chrome but it worked in Safari cool cool right well I'll have to rent you up in there rich you can help me keep the riffraff out yeah so yeah I was like I say still lots lots and lots to learn just looking to looking to learn from from the Masters Keely and Dina dear I'm losing my train of thought a little bit here but shut down there we go so what is planned for the week well I've got another busy week at work this is getting quite I mean it's great to be busy but it's getting quite frustrating really just getting behind with my videos so yeah I mean if I just go back and have a look at my numbers just so that we can understand the mammoth task that I've now got ahead of me 189 videos and it's day 153 so I'm quite far behind I'm like 50 64 videos behind so yeah yeah quite a lot of work to do I'm not going to really be able to do much catching up this week in fact I'll probably slip further behind this week and the other thing is when my parents been here I find that that's thrown out my sleep schedules quite a lot as well because normally I'd go to bed sort of 80 o'clock something like that I found that I've been going to bed later because obviously want to spend time with them it's nearly time for them to go back as well I was hoping they might be able to extend it by a month or two but alas not so they've got to head back next well end of next week actually so there will be a little bit of normality returning to the house in terms of schedules and things like that but definitely going to miss them when they go because it's been there been great seeing them for for the past past couple of months so my sleep schedules should hopefully return to normal a little bit there or everybody's everyone's burst through the doors now Deena's in hey Deena into the discord yeah so um so yeah this next week is going to be another bit of a slow week for video production I know that but um I'm waiting for 3.10 e-cam to come out and then I'm going to remake my whole e-cam tutorial so I know there's quite a few videos in that but then I'll get back to just plowing through all of my yeah when I say I know it's coming out I only know it's coming out because it's beta don't think that this is a sort of top secret back announcement but so yeah I've got that and I just really want to get back to doing and this is something that I've been saying now for I think around about three months I had the conversation probably two months ago actually about having it where every week I have a sort of like five video series on something so all of my sort of beginner's guide to stream deck advanced stream deck and all that sort of stuff they've always been like sort of five videos I like doing them in chunks of five so what I said two months or two and a half months ago was I'd do sort of five videos as a video series in the week so there's one focus for that week um and then have a couple of extra videos that are just random videos maybe answering someone's question or something like that so that is the workflow that I want to get back into that to be quite honest I've just been struggling to get back into it's like this morning well obviously this morning I'm doing the live stream yesterday though I was up and then I had Alison's podcast to do so that was 4am for me she's Pacific time so it was 1am the previous 1pm the previous day for her so I did that podcast yesterday and then I had some editing to do and then I had a consultation so somebody had booked through Buy Me a Coffee so I had that immediately after um I've just found that yeah it's been it's been hard to get back into the sort of swing of just getting up and doing the video I've been getting up and then I've had other stuff to do so yeah this is just me making excuses isn't it I haven't made the time I've had to make the time for other things or I have made the time for other things over this so gotta sort my priorities out um so uh oh yes uh oh uh oh everyone's breaking in uh another five hour marathon well the thing about it is actually so I was thinking about that it was actually when 3.9 came out uh so that yeah the the video that I did for um uh wherever the previous version was 3.8 I suppose um was a four and a half hour video and that was a video all about how to set up ecum from start to finish but then also how to set it up with stream deck build out stream stream deck icons in keynote but a lot of it was also about building overlays and things like that in keynote to use with ecum and it was really quite a long time spent on stuff like that for that 3.8 version of ecum but then in 3.9 where they bought out all of the uh the cool things like camera overlays the screen share overlay what the already said the the screen share overlays was the main one uh and things like adding borders and outlines and things like that uh rounded corners um that's what negated the need for a lot of that keynote stuff uh you know or creating a custom overlays at least I think there's still a place for that depending on excuse me what sort of show you're doing um but yeah really I think that if I was to remake that four and a half hour tutorial now it would probably only be about two two hours three hours something like that just because it's it's so much more efficient now and obviously there's even more stuff coming out in 3.1 as well so uh yeah that's that's the plan I will redo it I always um I was really convinced about doing a four and a half hour video uh you know I wondered how many people would watch it but it has actually been one of my most popular videos because one thing that I found when I was watching videos when I was trying to learn ecum when I first got it aside from just digging into all the menus and going through everything and trying to figure out how to use it I did watch tutorials at the University of YouTube because you know that's that's what I use YouTube for myself um and one thing I found was finding somewhere where you could find out everything from start to finish uh and not feel like you'd missed anything and when you're learning something new there's always that thing of you don't know what you don't know so you could go and learn something and think oh that's great but there might be whole other gaps in your knowledge that you're just uh you know don't even realize is missing um there was a uh I don't want to go to get into politics but there was a a politician in the US who everyone will know when I say the quote who got mocked for this uh particular quote where he said there are no knowns there are no unknowns and there are unknown unknowns and everyone had a little bit of a laugh about it but actually that was the most concise way to say that because there is a whole load of stuff where you think like oh yeah I don't know how to do this thing and so you go and find out how to do it but there's a whole other area of stuff which is the stuff that you don't even know that you don't know and you wouldn't even know to go and find it out so that was my thinking behind that four and a half hour tutorial was if somebody watches that they would be able to start from zero and then have everything up and running with a stream deck all linked in and everything like that all together and as I say it has been one of my uh my most popular videos as well so there are people who go and watch a four and a half hour video on youtube what I'll do this time differently though is with that one I did actually intend to um make it so that I could repurpose all those videos or all that one video rather and split it all up into each individual section but because I just did it all pretty much on the fly I did write down the bullet points with that one because it was quite long I wanted to make sure I got everything covered so I did have bullet points for that one um but then when I was delivering it or recording it rather I was doing it in the same uh you know my usual style of just rambling through it and sometimes it feels like I'm fumbling my way through do you know what I mean um so uh I got through to to the end of it but then when I went to go and try and chop it up it wasn't really sort of uh as cohesive in terms of in little little individual blocks I didn't give enough thought to actually making each section an individual video in itself so when I go do go and remake it again for 3.10 or whatever it happens to be um uh then I'll definitely give a little bit more thought to that and repurposing it I want to try and do that a bit more going forward I mean everyone talks about repurposing content um and I've been talking about it for quite some time the reason why I've never done it is because that comes back to I've still got to go back and find the clips and things like that to edit it um or you know get out the salient point so I've always sort of uh uh yeah shied away from that really because of well editing so uh then um yeah I know I know I know sorry Carly I know that wouldn't be popular but it was just that this thing always does uh this little quote does always sort of stick in my mind because it is it is a thing but I didn't I didn't want to mention names he's not someone that I would normally have in my uh Alex bedside book of quotes you know let me think what uh Donald Romsfeld would what would Donald Romsfeld say uh do you yeah let's let's not go there um so uh so yeah I definitely want to give a bit more thought to to that and I suppose that's one of the things I want to try and do it just in general going forward is just thinking a little bit more about uh um that's it's just I've got to bring this up of course Mr No Pro himself Mr Keith Pelzer you don't know what you don't know yet I think that's he's a much better person to quote I think isn't he so yeah Keith Keith said what would Keith do is much better than what would Donald do isn't it um so yeah one of my things for this year really is to try and uh try and get a bit better at um uh you know getting these little snippets of things that I can repurpose but it still sounds like a lot too much like uh work to me hard work for for this that's where I haven't got the time for it but um who knows maybe there's a maybe there is a way to get this down a little bit better uh so uh yeah there we go uh yeah so I've I've not got much more to say on my uh my progress so far other than um uh yeah just gotta get back at it really and get back into the swing of it I've lost my mojo I'll tell you that much I do feel that way since uh well for the the last quarter of the last year where I sort of got out of the swing of it I do feel like it's been harder to sort of get back into it and just these other things just popping up that have got in the way of it as well repurposing is a chore for sure it certainly is that's why I like just I probably just thinking aloud here the way that I have made all of my shorts before has been uh has worked for me because I can just sort of sit there or stand there as whatever it is and just sort of you know rattle them off and record them as one thing I think probably repurposing for me uh just thinking about it what I should probably do is uh if there is something you know salient that could come out as a little clip out of my main thing is actually just re-record it to be honest it would be easier for me to just at the end of my uh video thinking about like what is the bit that I would clip out of that or if there was some little uh nugget of information that could be repurposed into a little shorter clip or something uh I'm probably better just actually recording that separately at the end so uh maybe that's what I need to do note to self I haven't really thought about that in that context before but that's probably what I need to do because uh yeah just at the end of the video stopping it and starting it again and just recording a few little snippets yeah that's that's maybe what I'll have to do I'll add that into my my workflow development list I do wonder when uh 3.10 just coming back to ecamp when 3.10 is going to come out and um even more intrigued even though we haven't got it yet I'm even more intrigued to learn uh what's going to be in four because you would think with a four you know a major release as opposed to just a dot release that uh four's going to be yet have some interesting new features so I can't wait to see what uh what that is I don't know if she is indeed isn't she well I'll be honest with you I'm I'm all out of things today I'm feeling a little bit a little bit exhausted this morning I had a very long day yesterday basically four a.m until it was about six thirty something like that and uh it was my uh it was my uh my daughter's tenth birthday yesterday I can't believe where the time goes I don't know what it is but somehow having kids seems to make the time go even quicker and it doesn't seem like long since long ago since uh well uh she was just a little girl and she well she still is but you know what I mean it's uh yes it is certainly uh certainly the time seems to gallop on quicker when you've got kids uh let me have a little look do have a gang up and do more than one video at a time not really I have done that before occasionally um so I think the most I've probably done in like a sitting as it were uh was probably three um but generally it's just kind of uh I mean that would be another way to do it really wouldn't it it would just be to block a big bunch of time and uh it just used to really work well for me I say used to look at this in the olden days like uh it doesn't anymore but it this this time that I have in the morning like the time now for me uh coming up to six o'clock this is the sort of quiet time when I can get this all done and it was like a block of time that I was just dedicated to doing it and it still is but I've just seemed to have had like other things that I've just popped up that I've had to sort of allocate some of this time too so um but yeah I could just block some time and then just record five in one day it was uh I suppose uh which would sort of make sense it's just finding that bigger block of time then to go and do it but I suppose then I've got all of the uh I'll have to give this some thought I'm thinking thinking out loud loud here uh what's that I see right yes time stamping I got the time-stamping thing yeah so um uh yeah still just got to I've got to I want to get back to my original workflow my workflow of getting up and making a video because that did actually work kind of kind of good for me the other thing about doing it that way is because I was doing a lot of videos that were just reactions to things or to people or you know a new release had come out and so I'll just get up and make the video so that was the other reason to do them uh you know on the on the date is just a lot of them were sort of direct answers Carly's here for the time-stamping thank you very much so uh so yeah I'm I'm pretty much out now to be honest I'm absolutely exhausted I think that I am going to end this one a little bit earlier than normal I normally wait until at least my little boy Dale's waking up although he has been getting up a little bit later than usual recently so uh I find that the older they get the later they sleep in so uh uh you can pretty much say that Dale my youngest is up first then there's Emily my my younger girl and then the older Jasmine is uh she's always up the latest so uh yeah I'm getting a little bit more of this focused time in the morning so I should be trying to uh maximize it but there we go right I am going to call it a day there though because I think I probably need to go and uh I think I feel like I need to go and have a lie down to be honest absolutely exhausted but I shall uh see a lot of you no doubt over the weekend in uh in our various little meeting places Doc Rock's office hours in fact let me just stick that up for those that are unaware where has it gone uh now look at that now I need to sort out this overlay let me just do that for you there locked there we go I do need to get his proper link up there we go buy me a coffee dot com slash I should be promoting mine really shouldn't I but buy me a coffee dot com slash doc rock to uh join up for his uh uh awesome community that let's get live community look at that you see I'll just expertly move out of the way of the overlay um and uh yeah come and join the discord and see what it's all about because uh it is an awesome community with lots of uh lots of cool people talking about great things oh thank you Carly I will I'll have some nice sweet dreams thank you uh I am actually an expert napper I uh I haven't mentioned that before I don't think on the channel but I might do some videos about that uh I was delighted that uh our friend Mr Rob Falls uh Rob Values himself uh had a channel The Napping Channel uh so it is already yes my it's my weekend already so I'm going to kick back and enjoy it a little bit see you later Rich great to uh see you around and indeed I'll see you all around the schoolyard so for now I'm gonna say uh bye bye if I can just get this thing off the screen look at this I'm hopeless today absolutely hopeless I can't even find my end button hey dog dog's just popped in so I've just got to say hello goodbye I'm ending but we were just saying uh how awesome your your discord was uh thanks to Keeley so I think you owe more than a barrel of wine I think you are a good good couple of barrels but anyway anyway there you go okay okay I'll see a lot of you in in class and have a wonderful day for those watching on the replay there'll be a link to some other great videos over here on the right hand side have a wonderful day everyone bye bye