AMD Geode/Video 1

This page is about the Repairing an AMD Geode: Part 1 video.

See the parent article for details about what's happening in the video.

See AMD Geode/Video 1/Script for a textual description of the video.

Because of prolonged production time I released what I had so far as part 1 before starting with part 2.

Footage was shot from November 21 2021 through November 30 2021.

Editing was done from December 2021 through February 2022.

Mistakes

Overall I made the following mistakes during production:

• I didn't write a script
• I didn't film any usable B-roll
• I didn't make any kind of time for interjections
• There's no soft transitioning between scenes
• I didn't lock exposure on a bunch of clips
• I didn't white balance clips properly
• I didn't know what type of clips I needed in advance
• I didn't even know what type of video I was making

Achievements

As a counter to mistakes, here's some things I did do well:

• I filmed enough stuff to get the video done
• The video doesn't require a technical background to understand
• Listening doesn't lose important details
• I finished it

Audience feedback

After release and during production I generally got the following feedback:

• People liked the cat

That's about it. Which means the video didn't have any huge flaws.

Workflow

By the end of production my workflow looked like this:

1. Insert clips in to rough order and length
2. Record voice-over in Audacity
3. Match the audio up with the clips
4. Tighten the timings a bit until things feel more natural

Most of the time and hesitancy of editing goes in to me not wanting to do the voice-over.

In the end I had to repeat this since the audio recording I did wasn't clean enough.

I really didn't enjoy constantly re-doing audio and re-writing subtitles and the script. It would have been better to do this as I edited to some extent, especially since I rarely went back and changed major things.

Tools

I used the following tools to make this video:

• Pentax K-5 camera
• Scarlett Solo with a VXLR adapter
• Rode Lavalier GO microphone
• Gophert NPS-1601 power supply
• protech QM1571 multimeter
• Siglent SDS1102CML+ oscilloscope
• Pinecil soldering iron
• Logitech C270 camera as a microscope
• Kdenlive 19.12 (newer versions can't export WebM VP8)
• Audacity for recording and cleaning audio
• Aegisub for subtitles
• Inkscape for title cards and other text overlay

Overall progress

To do

• Post: Audio described version with Carlos as me

Done

• Scene: Introduction
• Scene: Board showoff
• Scene: Powering the board
• Scene: RAM
• Scene: BIOS removal
• Scene: Battery removal
• Scene: Keyboard
• Scene: Surprise cat
• Scene: Ethernet
• Scene: Breadboard serial cable
• Scene: VGA probing
• Scene: VGA board check
• Scene: SD card over IDE attempt
• Scene: Molex USB connector
• Scene: USB powering
• Scene: USB measurement
• Scene: VREF on datasheet, VGA schematics on OLPC
• Scene: Looking for VREF
• Scene: Probing BGA
• Scene: Null modem cable (Didn't film, just show eBay image)
• Scene: CompactFlash (Show eBay image)
• Scene: DOS (Didn't film, add to wiki?)
• Scene: Linux and VGA
• Scene: Probing VGA again
• Scene: Solder mess-up
• Post: Test viewing
• Post: Insert mention of original IBM computer in intro for context
• Post: Outro/ending/credits
• Post: Fix badly drawn schematic (Kdenlive doesn't like JPEGs)
• Post: Note about audio gear
• Post: Note about scope and webcam
• Post: Wiki page, all details
• Post: Finalize video, audio, script and subtitles for 00:00 to 03:00
• Post: Finish script description
• Post: Fix video glitch from webcam footage
• Post: Re-do the schematic image for better contrast
• Post: Decide not to do music

• Post: Finalize video, audio, script and subtitles for 03:00 to 06:00
• Post: Clean pass 1 audio
• Post: Finalize video, audio, script and subtitles for 06:00 to 09:00
• Post: Finalize video, audio, script and subtitles for 09:00 to 11:00
• Post: Release
• Post: Clean up script