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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
By the end of production my workflow looked like this:
- Insert clips in to rough order and length
- Record voice-over in Audacity
- Match the audio up with the clips
- 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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
To do[edit | edit source]
- Post: Audio described version with Carlos as me
Done[edit | edit source]
- 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