About to plan to create a video series about FreeBSD to use as a Desktop.

stratact said:
multimedia/kdenlive?
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A quick research on Google for 'screen recording software for freebsd' showed me that it's a viable alternative. I was thinking more along the lines of skreener, but it's not in ports. But frankly, it's on OP to ask for pointers, not on us to unwittingly do the work for him.

Dimitri Chuikov said:
i'm as good as you think at english
www.wordnik.com

handbook — definition, examples, related words and more at Wordnik

All the words
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Umm... Handbook is the official terminology in use. If you want to get on the same page with others, learning the official terminology is very helpful. 'Manual' can mean just about any manual, while 'Handbook' means a very specific manual. And that is an important distinction for clear communication. ?
 
I am a long time FreeBSD user but I rarely reference the handbook. I do refer to the man(ual) pages a lot (what goes in a “manual”).
 
Honestly the incipit looks like totally wrong...

If you want help the community or prospect users this is nice.
If you do for money this is lesser nice.

Making money with YT has becoming every years more difficult because Guugle started to squeeze up YT for maintaining its annual revenue.

To grow your audience you need new content on a regular base, you need decent equipment, at least a decent mic which is not cheap. You need to speak a good English, which is well known Italian do not, plus basic knowledge about video editing.

The people looking for FreeBSD related content maybe are looking for some well known name and not for ZioMario which has been spending the whole year trying to make Linux working on FreeBSD.

You need to build your reputation and looking for someone that endorse you. I think this requires a bit of planning, for instance you may prepare such newbie contents for any BSDConf and start making you visible.

Anyway FreeBSD is a small niche even with everything perfect you may not reach the minimum amount of users and watched hours required to get any income from Guggle.

You have more chance to get a broader audience showing off the beauty of your city if your real goal is making money....
 
Y'know, the reason to learn official terminology is really to help with troubleshooting. In the world of computers, a user can say, 'My computer is not working, I can't see anything on the Internet'. Knowing the correct names of specific points to check is kind of the starting point for troubleshooting. Or, in the world of insurance payouts, you gotta know what scenarios will result in a payout, what won't, and why. To make a case for insurance payouts, you gotta use correct terminology AND logic as dictated by the insurance provider.

My point is, there's plenty of real-life scenarios where learning official terminology is quite beneficial if you want to get anything done. It's not a matter of being polite, it's a matter of not getting ignored. ? Yeah, it takes effort on your end.
 
Trying to make FreeBSD more popular is a good idea.
But if you're thinking money frankly I would not recommend this.
Besides the FreeBSD Foundation already has an office for PR

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Youtube only makes Google rich.

To make even any money you need at least an already famous channel with several hundredthousands subscribers or millions of views within one or two weeks.
Anything less would be you working for free for Google.
The few people who actually got noteworthy amounts of money by publishing videos on youtube were hyped in other media (websites, twitter, facebook, news papers, etc.)
I highly doubt one could induce a mass interest with a "nerdy" video about an OS. ?

Comparing the hundreds of workhours you'll need to put in to produce something halfway viewable with the amount of money that realistically could be expected - 0 (zero) - any other job would pay way better wages.
 
Back in the day, I tried my hand at just subbing 90-second videos (some anime intros/endings). It took me a long time to just get a hang of the process: Software, formats, techniques, and workflow. I was doing that just for myself, as entertainment. My first attempt did not turn out great. The software was there, raw materials to work with - no problem. But putting the whole enchilada together - that was a learning adventure for me.

If OP has plans, and just wants to learn about pitfalls before he begins - great! However, that's not the impression I get. I get the impression that it's just a harebrained scheme that is gonna fail and get abandoned before it takes off. Nothing can stop OP from trying, though. I know this is a harsh comment, but this is Internet.
 
Dimitri Chuikov said:
i'm as good as you think at english
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Oh, your English looks fine, to me.

Dimitri Chuikov said:
No, be rude, the manual it themes the ability to give you more knowledge than any video on YouTube. Why are you exercising.
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Rude might be the fourth of the four words that relate to manual … as if no other word might relate – thank you, Douglas Harper, for what seems to be a sense of humour with Etymonline :)


Back on topic: approaches to learning are many, and varied;

ziomario said:
… the handbook is not tailored for everyone. It's very important to respect the different methods that the human brain uses to process the informations.
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– true. The FreeBSD Handbook is not, never will be, for everyone.
 
grahamperrin@ said:
Oh, your English looks fine, to me.



Rude might be the fourth of the four words that relate to manual … as if no other word might relate – thank you, Douglas Harper, for what seems to be a sense of humour with Etymonline :)


Back on topic: approaches to learning are many, and varied;



– true. The FreeBSD Handbook is not, never will be, for everyone.
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there are people who prefer cooked food to raw food, others want to try elaborate tastes, others simple. I hate the long lists of parameters that should be associated with infinite other parameters. I prefer to compare correlations of variables that differ a little from each other to understand the differences. My mind is heavily based on the abstract thinking. According to the Psychology Dictionary, abstract thinking is the ability to grasp the essential and common characteristics. It serves to bring to mind the different aspects of a situation, to foresee and plan the future, to think symbolically and to draw conclusions. The other side of the coin is the concrete thinking. Have you ever met someone who seems to take everything too literally? He may be more of a concrete thinker. Concrete thinking focuses on what is physically around you. Concrete thinkers see a physical object and think only of what is in front of them. They can see their surroundings, but don't think about what is beyond their point of view.
 
ziomario said:
there are people who prefer cooked food to raw food, others want to try elaborate tastes, others simple. I hate long lists of parameters that should be associated with infinite other parameters. I prefer to compare correlations of variables that differ a little from each other to understand the differences.
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With such sentences, spoken with the right level of emotion, you might fascinate masses of YouTube viewers. Non informational content is keeping consumers viewing while hoping for the next event that is worth throwing popcorn at the screen.
 
getopt said:
With such sentences, spoken with the right level of emotion, you might fascinate masses of YouTube viewers. Non informational content is keeping consumers viewing while hoping for the next event that is worth throwing popcorn at the screen.
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Despite this,I like to work behind the scenes, I like to do the "dirty" work of researching data and information,above all the old ones, to compare them with the new ones to understand how has been the evolution during the years, looking for suitable developers to carry out a project, do continuous experiments from which to obtain informations. Fascinating people isn't high on the list of what I like to do. I think to use an humanistic logic, however, applied to computer science. I feel like an hybrid thing.
 
Sounds like OP may want to :
  • find some examples of training vids he'd want to adapt for his ideas.
  • find someone with video creation skills to collaborate with
    • both have to be able to accept ideas from each other about content and presentation. If OP can't accept suggestions from the video creator about keeping things simple, that project is not gonna work. If video creator has no understanding of the subject matter, they have to be willing to learn at least something, or else the project is not gonna work.
Why do you think Apple was so incredibly successful with their demo vids? What is the secret sauce for effective collaboration?

Even abstract ideas require a concrete business plan to think things through. That's what universities are for - so that the top minds can just take advantage of the infrastructure available to them. The university first puts up the money for research, and then says, "Here's our PhD who will actually do the research, this is the person who will produce valid info".
 
astyle said:
Sounds like OP may want to :
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Here is the original sound:

ziomario said:
I'm not interested to become a successful youtuber. I need only some more money
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astyle
could it be that most well-intended advises to the OP are based just a little to much of what is reasonable.

YT is more a biotop of emotionalized viewers. A somehow life video trying to make FreeBSD work like Linux and failing desperatively all the time could make the stuff for a going virous video. Think about all the "entertaining sound and facial expression" if you just fail so badly. No expertise at all is needed for this.
 
getopt said:
Here is the original sound:



astyle
could it be that most well-intended advises to the OP are based just a little to much of what is reasonable.

YT is more a biotop of emotionalized viewers. A somehow life video trying to make FreeBSD work like Linux and failing desperatively all the time could make the stuff for a going virous video. Think about all the "entertaining sound and facial expression" if you just fail so badly. No expertise at all is needed for this.
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I want more money, too. But FreeBSD forums are not exactly fertile grounds for money-making ideas - they were never meant to be. Dry technical ideas, innovative implementations of the bespoke ideas, and pitfalls with the process - yeah, FreeBSD forums are great for that. But money is a different beast altogether. The best Forums can offer is help with the FreeBSD-based aspect of the overall idea - the software side of things. Persuading someone else to give you money - Forums are just the wrong place to look for advice on that.

There are several online platforms, like GoFundMe (and probably other VC (Venture Capitalism) networking sites) out there. Once again, FreeBSD forums are not the place to look for coaching on how to even navigate waters like that. We have our own waters to navigate - the FreeBSD-based side of things like reading the Handbook, recommending one port over another, or a way to configure the firewall or how to connect with devs. IIRC, the Foundation is not making a secret of the fact that it's possible to mine virtual currency under FreeBSD!

The human side of the Forums is that members are happy to help - within reason. We can help OP take advantage of the freely available knowledge, and even occasionally point out Easter Eggs - but abstract thinking and money are not the easiest thing to connect. There's a multitude of reasons why PhDs are such an exclusive club. Someone who has a PhD (AND funding from a sponsor) will find the FreeBSD forums useful for an Easter Egg or two.
 
If on the other hand you want to help the community without trying to make immediate money you can also adopt and become parent of a new or orphaned port. [ I'll leave kernel hacking to the Gurus]
Note about visibily. When you enter "windows errors" in Google you get 6.000.000.000 returns. When you enter "Freebsd errors" you get only 6.000.000 returns i.e. 1000 times less.
 
bakul said:
Earlier in this thread I had some guesstimates on youtube revenue. Here’s a very informative video about what one youtuber made over a year. Something like 1€/1000 views and about 4€/hour considering the time she spent making videos. [She also happens to be an amazing cyclist doing artistic cycling!]
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jojMiAhueCk
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? ...oh, dear....
Well...

1. It's a pretty girl. ?

2. What's her videos about? Nerd-Stuff? I wouldn't bet on it. ?
Of course there are youtube millionaires. But there are maybe 5 or 8 of them worldwide (I don't know and I don't care.)
Their videos are about something the masses are interested in.
The masses are interested in fluffy pets, sex, other people suffering and facebook, but not to change the OS on their system.
Most don't even know there are different kinds of OS, not even there is such thing as an OS. app. 80% of all user don't even configure anything about their system that was given to them. The desktop wallpaper, at most.
"What's a file?", "Backup???", "Copy-Paste? - Not now! I have no time. I need to type this text twice again. So please stop bothering me with this hacker shit!" ?

3. Doing 1€/1000 clicks does not necessarily means you'll receive 1€ for your very first 1k clicks.
If Google'd paid 1€ for every each 1k clicks, Google would already be broke. ?
And besides 4€/h ain't good wages for some who knows computer stuff you also need to respect the fact this may the case when you do not count your learning effort about videos but already doing them seasoned on a very professional level.

4. You have no proof for that to be true. (You're computer guy. You should know best: Don't believe everything a computer tells you! ?)
If there is a professionell made video telling you how great things are and how much money you can do without any work, did it occur to you this might be some kind of advertisment by Google itself? ?
Dude, in many magazines there are those little advertisments: "Make 8000 €/months by doing light work at home" :-/
Why not call that number?

5. Nobody will/can prevent you from making a video about FreeBSD.
I'd already had checked out which videos about Freebsd already are on Youtube (there are some) and looked at the amount of clicks they have.
Spoiler: It's less than 35M ?

It's good you've discovered FreeBSD. And it's even better you find it's so good, more should work with it.
I - and I presume most others - share the point here.

But maybe getting good into it may have a better chance to earn money by using FreeBSD, instead of talk about it.
If you pick one or the other guy participating in this forum, FreeBSD, or wrote a software or a man page (not me, of course), and ddg("google") them a bit, you'll find the one or the other interesting webpage of interesting people, doing very interesting things.
And you may get one idea or the other what a guy who's capable in computers could do, instead of posting the 754,236,457,639th video on youtube.

Peace out. :cool:
 
ziomario said:
… 13.1 for the desktop usage. …
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A good idea.

If you perceive a gap – and if truly there is a gap – then a few people will appreciate a video, or two, or more.

ziomario said:
… best practice …
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For the spoken voice: closed captions (subtitles) that are accurate.

Automated captions produce mistakes that vary, in quality, from amusing to annoying. Someone says "bhyve", automation hears "beehive" –

it.wikipedia.org

Arnia - Wikipedia

it.wikipedia.org it.wikipedia.org

– and so on.

I imagine that it's possible to take the products of automation and correct them, manually, however I can't guess how long it takes for automation to occur in each language.

ziomario said:
… I'm retired from job. …
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If you don't mind me asking: planning to get another job?

ziomario said:
I'm not interested to become a successful youtuber. I need only some more money to live decently. I'm poor. I need to increase my income by 200 euros for some time. So,I don't want to put a LOT of efforts making videos for youtube. …
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Transcribing speech for any purpose, not necessarily closed captions, can be surprisingly time-consuming. It's a lot of effort, so if you do proceed with any video, I'll not complain about the absence of captions.

That's a big if …

chessguy64 said:
… don't listen to anyone that's being negative saying you shouldn't do it. …
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Where negativity is for the sake of negativity, or selfish, I agree that it's good to ignore.

Re: monetisation, there's (more than) enough advice in this topic, and elsewhere, for me to believe that YouTube is not the way to go.

So, ziomario it's for you to decide how to spend your time of retirement :-) however long this may be.

If you do decide to produce a video, for pleasure, I'll be pleased to listen.
 
Profighost said:
? ...oh, dear....
Well...

1. It's a pretty girl. ?

2. What's her videos about? Nerd-Stuff? I wouldn't bet on it. ?
Of course there are youtube millionaires. But there are maybe 5 or 8 of them worldwide (I don't know and I don't care.)
Their videos are about something the masses are interested in.
The masses are interested in fluffy pets, sex, other people suffering and facebook, but not to change the OS on their system.
Most don't even know there are different kinds of OS, not even there is such thing as an OS. app. 80% of all user don't even configure anything about their system that was given to them. The desktop wallpaper, at most.
"What's a file?", "Backup???", "Copy-Paste? - Not now! I have no time. I need to type this text twice again. So please stop bothering me with this hacker shit!" ?

3. Doing 1€/1000 clicks does not necessarily means you'll receive 1€ for your very first 1k clicks.
If Google'd paid 1€ for every each 1k clicks, Google would already be broke. ?
And besides 4€/h ain't good wages for some who knows computer stuff you also need to respect the fact this may the case when you do not count your learning effort about videos but already doing them seasoned on a very professional level.

4. You have no proof for that to be true. (You're computer guy. You should know best: Don't believe everything a computer tells you! ?)
If there is a professionell made video telling you how great things are and how much money you can do without any work, did it occur to you this might be some kind of advertisment by Google itself? ?
Dude, in many magazines there are those little advertisments: "Make 8000 €/months by doing light work at home" :-/
Why not call that number?

5. Nobody will/can prevent you from making a video about FreeBSD.
I'd already had checked out which videos about Freebsd already are on Youtube (there are some) and looked at the amount of clicks they have.
Spoiler: It's less than 35M ?

It's good you've discovered FreeBSD. And it's even better you find it's so good, more should work with it.
I - and I presume most others - share the point here.

But maybe getting good into it may have a better chance to earn money by using FreeBSD, instead of talk about it.
If you pick one or the other guy participating in this forum, FreeBSD, or wrote a software or a man page (not me, of course), and ddg("google") them a bit, you'll find the one or the other interesting webpage of interesting people, doing very interesting things.
And you may get one idea or the other what a guy who's capable in computers could do, instead of posting the 754,236,457,639th video on youtube.

Peace out. :cool:
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Profighost : on Discord, in the FreeeBSD server's #lobby channel, I saw info on how someone is using Virtual Machines to engage scammers, and drive them nuts. I watched one such video - and yeah, that was narrated by a hot and sassy girl, a brunette who seems like she actually knows how to use a VM to stay safe while messing with the scammers. The point of the vids was frankly that some ppl actually make a sport of that kind of activity. The right personality and appearance - they do matter for TV and youtube. Edit: The Swedish city of Malmo has demonstrated that a good voice for narration matters, too:

My point is, here we all are, doing armchair analysis of OP's intentions. But nothing will come of this unless OP actually puts in some effort, and gets his hands dirty. Either he reads the feedback and decides it's not worth the effort, or he becomes aware of pitfalls, and decides to put in the effort nonetheless.
 
getopt said:
Think about all the "entertaining sound and facial expression" if you just fail so badly. No expertise at all is needed for this.
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FWIW, the best comedians who "fail" for a living are often the best in the business. It takes skill to fail in an entertaining way. Tommy Cooper was probably one of the best :-) I also remember a (US?) Olympic ice skater doing a freestyle demo/entertainment act after the event. She played the part of a hilariously bad skater but clearly had to be very good to pull of the "failures" properly.
 
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