YouTube after show videos

[Sparky_root]

sweet - thanks!

[Bucho]

These are neato.

[littlp]

I really enjoy these videos. I'm grateful for the extra work involved in the after shows. Wonderful work all around.

[DJQuad]

Originally Posted by MichaelApproved

The new videos will be a combination after show with a fun ink blot test. This adds new content, instead of duplicating it. It's also more visual which works great for video and it's limited to 1 video a day so it doesn't blow up your YouTube feed.

Clearly ink blot tests bring a lot of new listeners.

The objective of putting content on YouTube is to attract new listeners from clip highlights. Do you really think 1 weird ink blot test will get tons of listeners or would you get more from 4 different show highlights with multiple tags, keywords, etc, so new people can find it?

The current YouTube subscribers already listen to KATG. The point is to attract new subscribers. 4 show highlights from a show do that, not 1 silly ink blot.

[MichaelApproved]

Originally Posted by DJQuad

Clearly ink blot tests bring a lot of new listeners.

The objective of putting content on YouTube is to attract new listeners from clip highlights. Do you really think 1 weird ink blot test will get tons of listeners or would you get more from 4 different show highlights with multiple tags, keywords, etc, so new people can find it?

The current YouTube subscribers already listen to KATG. The point is to attract new subscribers. 4 show highlights from a show do that, not 1 silly ink blot.

We tried posting highlights from the show for a few months. It worked fine for new listeners but didn't add much for current listeners. The after show works well for both current listeners and new listeners. It's also easier to produce.

[littlp]

Originally Posted by MichaelApproved

We tried posting highlights from the show for a few months. It worked fine for new listeners but didn't add much for current listeners. The after show works well for both current listeners and new listeners. It's also easier to produce.

I agree with this. I was interested at first in watching the videos but I did get bored after a little bit because I had already heard the show. I was still grateful for the effort; it just seemed like too much to watch so many clips. I really, really like the aftershow and it does seem so much easier to handle as I can't even imagine how long it took to pull specific clips and edit them all together from the over an hour long shows. I definitely feel like this is a great idea that will help pull in new listeners.

[DJQuad]

Originally Posted by littlp

I agree with this. I was interested at first in watching the videos but I did get bored after a little bit because I had already heard the show.

You're a current listener - of course you already heard the show. The point of their channel was to attract new listeners and what better way to do that than with show highlights.

Michael was right though, it does take a lot of production to keep doing that.

[MichaelApproved]

Originally Posted by DJQuad

You're a current listener - of course you already heard the show. The point of their channel was to attract new listeners and what better way to do that than with show highlights.

Michael was right though, it does take a lot of production to keep doing that.

Highlights mainly attract new listeners. This new format also attracts new listeners while entertaining current listeners and keeping production costs down.

[DJQuad]

I'm not sure if you use Sony Vegas or not, but there's a way to auto-switch between camera views based on voice recognition while encoding. Like if all the video tracks are loaded in Vegas, when Chemda talks, it switches to her cam, then if Keet talks, it switches to his. It basically just makes their layer active/visible in Vegas just before it encodes the video.

You have to give it a sample of something to "recognize" for the guest cam (around 10 seconds of audio), but it should save a ton of time of production time.

I hope that made sense. Admittedly I have no idea what happens if they talk at the same time, but I hope the universe doesn't implode.

[MichaelApproved]

Originally Posted by DJQuad

I'm not sure if you use Sony Vegas or not, but there's a way to auto-switch between camera views based on voice recognition while encoding. Like if all the video tracks are loaded in Vegas, when Chemda talks, it switches to her cam, then if Keet talks, it switches to his. It basically just makes their layer active/visible in Vegas just before it encodes the video.

You have to give it a sample of something to "recognize" for the guest cam (around 10 seconds of audio), but it should save a ton of time of production time.

I hope that made sense. Admittedly I have no idea what happens if they talk at the same time, but I hope the universe doesn't implode.

We're using Adobe Premier Pro. The audio from the cameras comes directly from the sound board and it's not separated by camera. Each camera has the exact same audio so it's not possible to do the switch.

It's possible to get audio from the camera instead but it works better this way because audio in the video file acts as a backup recording. Sometimes Keith's recording gets corrupted and the clean camera audio from the soundboard saves the day.

It also helps get production of the video moving faster since we get started with the video feed (which has clean audio) without having to wait for a finished audio file.