tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82415370319978799992024-03-13T11:07:12.725+00:00mike downes - we make videos to help people learnmike downes - we make videos to help people learn at youtube.com/mikedownes the mike downes pageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1038125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-31523156041773997372021-01-08T12:01:00.008+00:002021-01-08T12:46:30.711+00:00Google Meet How to Reset your Microphone Muted by your System Settings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxVpg8uc4pg/X_gk8vkE7-I/AAAAAAAExUs/mndB-ODIRfcKnM3k87--DcmXTM7PANGBQCLcBGAsYHQ/s687/google%2Bmeet%2Bvideo%2Bimage%2Bfrom%2Bsearch_mike%2Bdownes%2Bmedia.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="687" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxVpg8uc4pg/X_gk8vkE7-I/AAAAAAAExUs/mndB-ODIRfcKnM3k87--DcmXTM7PANGBQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/google%2Bmeet%2Bvideo%2Bimage%2Bfrom%2Bsearch_mike%2Bdownes%2Bmedia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div><br /></div><div>In this video, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNEslsrCmFU" target="_blank">Google Meet How to reset your microphone muted by your windows system</a></div><div><br /></div><div>If you've had this error 'your microphone has been muted by your system settings' click the microphone to learn more.</div><div><br /></div><div>Once you click it you get this pop-up which looks like, 'this your microphone has been muted by your system settings - go to your computer's settings to unmute your microphone and adjust its level.'</div><div><br /></div><div>I found this quite difficult to do this is the solution - you right-click on your sound icon in windows bar, open sound settings and then you get the bigger versions. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then when you get to sound scroll down to the part which goes past input and microphone down to advanced sound options. </div><div><br /></div><div>When you click that there is a reset button have a look in the list sometimes I get three or four Chrome entries. Here in this example, all I've got is Google Chrome.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sometimes, I found I can fiddle around with the input level but hit reset then reload your Google Meet browser just right-click and reload (or keyboard f5) and then you should find that this message has gone and the little red thing has gone that was it. All done.</div><div><br /></div><div>Good luck with it, it was a tip from me to whoever finds it - and so far over 200,000 of you have watched. Thank You.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another method, that is a pinned comment on the video (from user Notchim1)</div><div><br /></div><div>If your microphone is muted:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Open Control Panel.</li><li>Open Sound.</li><li>Click the Recording tab.</li><li>Double-click on the microphone you are using in the list of recording devices:</li><li>Click the Levels tab.</li><li>Click the microphone icon, shown muted below: The icon will change to show as unmuted:</li><li>Click Apply, then OK. Long But More Affective.</li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="326" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BNEslsrCmFU" width="580"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div>A Note about this video (dated 8 Jan 2021) .</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The video was published to youtube on 14 May 2020</li><li>Which has seen 210,313 views which are MOSTLY weekday views, see chart below.</li><li>There have been 593 comments on the video, most saying thanks and how they were late for class and in trouble with the teacher if microphone was muted.</li><li>This shows a trend in WFH work from home data since teh last year in 2020 has been all about staying at home to beat the coronavirus covid-19</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-roYewFrzsdQ/X_hI3Xl16HI/AAAAAAAExVc/V1vr72pisUgt-3X8VxUBDxxMUtnWij_pQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/Screenshot_20210108-115720.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1080" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-roYewFrzsdQ/X_hI3Xl16HI/AAAAAAAExVc/V1vr72pisUgt-3X8VxUBDxxMUtnWij_pQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screenshot_20210108-115720.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>posted by mike downes 8 Jan 2021</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-68335264299570921382019-02-19T10:20:00.000+00:002019-04-02T23:01:06.316+01:00Learn Google Earth Studio with Mike Downes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Google Earth Studio is a fantastic new tool animation tool for Google Earth Imagery.<br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-35641360049743705262018-08-19T08:22:00.002+01:002018-09-12T11:52:27.370+01:00The Gboard Google Keyboard Mini Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In this Mini Series, we take a look at the Google Keyboard Gboard. This series was born out of the simple idea how when I type I hit the emoji key by accident - I went looking for a solution and in the process found a whole interesting bag full of nice surprises.<br />
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As an overview, expect these topics:<br />
- Themes (Part 1)<br />
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- Physical Keyboard with Virtual Overlay<br />
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As usual, I'm using Android 7.0 on a Moto G4<br />
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If you need it, Gboard - the Google Keyboard <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin&hl=en_GB" target="_blank">play.google.com/store</a><br />
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Our mobile keyboard is one of the main ways we communicate and record ourselves, for some fascinating background go take a look at <a href="https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=UvfEHFvTeJc" target="_blank">The Typewriter (In the 21st Century)</a> and you can also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhPeIleY7w8" target="_blank">watch the trailer</a><br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-87857395011078631082018-08-12T19:05:00.003+01:002019-07-23T07:36:47.953+01:00The Zoom H2n Mini Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Having purchased a new Zoom H2n on the 11 July 2018, it's now been 30 days of learning and testing. Here's a small mini series with plenty of examples - four videos with total play time of 25 minutes.<br />
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The Zoom H2n as a model was launched in 2011, so not a new item at all - yet I would say an ESSENTIAL device if you are passionate about audio recording.<br />
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Of course if you follow this blog and my youtube channel, you will have seen I bought a Zoom H1 in 2013. And a lot of audio for me has been recording with my Moto G4 inbuilt microphone.<br />
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There are a few more paragraphs and links at the bottom of each video.<br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-8512428153852313332018-08-08T09:37:00.000+01:002018-08-08T09:48:24.293+01:00The Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15 Mini Series - The Freedom and Autonomy to Create<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In this post we are going to explore Desktop Video Editing.<br />
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Videos 1 to 6 on the playlist are the Mini Series to help you learn while the remainder give some background on how to use Vegas Movie Studio.<br />
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These days I use a variety of methods to produce videos for youtube like screen recordings on mobile and desktop, then editing on mobile using PowerDirector or on Desktop with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15.0<br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-13633102667147261502018-07-26T14:41:00.002+01:002019-07-23T07:38:32.389+01:00YouTube Hashtags at Video Search<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hashtags at YouTube have been around for a long while - yet what's new, how to add a hashtag into a title or description text and have those hashtags appear above the title.<br />
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Used in moderation quite useful, so what's the best way? I am leaning towards a three step approach<br />
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Any more hashtags a too many in my opinion. What's alarming how google youtube have a limit of 50 hashtags - I say alarming as in my view, that limit should be MUCH lower - like 5 I would say.<br />
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2, if title and text description then TITLE ONLY<br />
3, if no title, hashtag(s) in text description then ABOVE TITLE ONLY<br />
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Links: Official Help Page <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6390658?hl=en" target="_blank">Use Hashtags for Video Search</a><br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-34335110598196077772018-07-10T07:13:00.002+01:002019-07-23T07:35:45.954+01:00About The Mike Downes Page<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I'm working on a new site called <a href="https://www.themikedownespagez.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">the mike downes page</a>, postes this in the About area, it reads..<br />
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<b>From the very beginning</b> my YouTube channel has been called The Mike Downes Page. That was on 8 Oct 2010.<br />
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At this time of writing, today the 6 July 18, there are 953 public videos spread across around 150 playlists with 1 million views and 1.3 million watched minutes.<br />
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At youtube.com/mikedownes you will see my name as the public custom URL, yet it's really called themikedownespage, just click and see the name hidden in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/themikedownespage/videos" target="_blank">this URL</a>.<br />
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Although any youtube channel gives the channel some tabs like: Home, Videos, Playlists, Discussion and About, it's still quite limited to display what you need or talk about the videos that people are finding useful or even forgotten.<br />
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Think of a channel as a library or a store - there are lots there yet if not presented nicely, it's very hard to locate what you are looking for - just image an internet without a Search Engine /o\<br />
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Even more troublesome is how youtube will be watched across mobile, tablet, desktop and a big TV. For a mindful video creator, they need to think about matching what and how they make a video to how it will be watched (see below for some data).<br />
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For me, I use two phrases:<br />
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<li>at the mike downes page we make videos to help people learn and </li>
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To best understand it all, think of my channel and this site as one big page - I especially like how old newspapers look, see this one called the World News Herald - full of optimism and promise.<br />
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There are loads of images of <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?newwindow=1&hl=en-GB&biw=1366&bih=700&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=t5I0W7DkHKvIgAapn6HAAg&q=old+newspaper&oq=old+newspaper&gs_l=img.3..35i39k1l2j0l2j0i67k1j0j0i67k1j0l3.94707.96922.0.98311.13.13.0.0.0.0.163.1449.6j7.13.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.12.1289...0i8i30k1.0.OB8Q0qE__6Q#imgrc=_" target="_blank">old newspapers</a>. All of them look back to a day when reading the news and learning about the world was so innocent.<br />
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For some reason on this theme I'm reminded of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair" target="_blank">World's Fair</a> in the era of the 1850s to early 1900s, 'World Expositions with technological inventions and advancements.<br />
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Fast forward to 2018, and are we not seeing the same happening all over again with the smart phone and the wizardry it can achieve? Yet in my view, the average user has a magnificent phone, yet use it as little more than a thing to talk and text from - it's so much more, like a thousand times more than that.<br />
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As a timeline, I started teaching in UK Schools September 1998, the same time as Google <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" target="_blank">was founded</a>. I saw the internet grow, and as I did, I taught it to seven to eleven year old children.<br />
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For a look back then, read this news article from 2006 of me in a school classroom in Warwick, England. There was no internet in that classroom back then. I had to wheel in a large data projector on a trolley and attached it to a laptop preloaded anything I wished to teach.<br />
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I spent twenty years in and around the UK Primary School Classroom. I started out in 1992 teaching black and white photography on Summer Camp in North Carolina, USA - an experience that has never left me. From there, qualified teacher status from the University of Warwick, and an honours degree.<br />
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In April 2010, I started a blog called <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/" target="_blank">what's in kenilworth</a>. It was my attempt to document what was in this small Warwickshire town. I also commented on local changes and issues as they happened.<br />
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There are now 1,031 published posts, although after the first few years, I started posting much wider issues like changes in social policing and topics on technology and video making.<br />
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From early 2012, I was invited to test for Google Hangouts on prelease software. In the last six years I have tested lots of software while looking to brainstorm and innovate then feedback to Google and other companies.<br />
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Getting back to youtube, many of my first videos were nothing more than mere video tests. That developed into making short videos to give people a few tips on how to solve a problem or learn a new skill on something they were finding difficult.<br />
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An example is the <a href="https://youtu.be/xkpzHJGE4Dk" target="_blank">How to clean audio with audacity</a> - it's the most watched video at the mike downes page.<br />
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Now youtube.com/mikedownes has passed one million views and growing all the time, I'd like to add more structure on how I make video to help people learn. I'm in progress right now creating this new site.<br />
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All of my top videos are made by recording my screen either on android or windows desktop.<br />
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One thing you will notice - I do not appear on camera. You and me are side by side looking at the lesson or the problem to be solved. I am not looking to entertain and get people to like me, if it's all going well I may throw in a smile or two.<br />
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I think that's why I have chosen this widescreen banner of the countryside - you and me standing shoulder to shoulder taking on the world. It's my photo by the way, taken with an android phone :)<br />
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The priority for me is to make sure:<br />
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<ul>
<li>the student will learn effectively in as short a time as possible yet leave nothing out</li>
<li>nothing gets in the way in the learning process</li>
<li>whatever I say is concise, clear and has a single meaning without any bias, hidden agenda or a double entendre</li>
</ul>
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To aid with the planning for myself and anyone else who is interested, let me share some back room data ...<br />
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Every day around 1,500 people show up, watch 1.4 videos and leave. Thanks to youtube analytics and the new <a href="http://studio.youtube.com/" target="_blank">studio.youtube.com</a> I can track pretty much everything.<br />
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I am located in England. I make a video, upload them to my YouTube account and have also been accepted on the YPP YouTube Partner Program.<br />
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In what seems a few short minutes, my video is available all over the world - that's pretty incredible is it not?<br />
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My videos are watched in most if not all countries. From my channel watch time in the last 28 days, we have this data:<br />
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<ul>
<li>USA 29% (of that Computer 57%, Mobile Phone 34%, Tablet 7%)</li>
<li>India 17% (of that Mobile Phone 71%, Computer 26%, Tablet 1%)</li>
<li>UK 7% (of that Computer 56%, Mobile Phone 29%, Tablet 12%)</li>
</ul>
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My videos are watched worldwide on these devices:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Computer 52% (low 26 - high 57%)</li>
<li>Mobile Phone 41% (low 29 - 71%)</li>
<li>Tablet 5%</li>
<li>TV 1%</li>
</ul>
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What you will notice is the extreme difference from the West to the East. Look how Mobile watch time in UK/USA is 29/34% compared to 71% in India. And how I can make a mobile portrait video and get complaints from those in the UK/USA, yet none from those in India/Pakistan.<br />
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For gender, my channel has a Male 83%, Female 17% - my aim a balanced fifty fifty.<br />
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I see the audience to my channel as intelligent people who have come along to learn something or solve a problem they are having.<br />
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That is definitely reflected in the comments - usually specific questions from a video they have watched or a simple, yet heartfelt <i>thanks</i>.<br />
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Mike Downes<br />
Friday 6 July 2018, 4:25pm ..<br />
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New playlist here called, 'Top Videos in the last 28 days curated 3 July 2018.<br />
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Using youtube analytics at youtube, the account holder can see exactly what is being watched in realtime, 7, 28, 90, 365 days and so on. It's an immense free feature that youtube provide.<br />
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In this list of ten videos there are changing trends (on my channel). For the first time Color Inversion has overtaken How to Clean Audio.<br />
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I, as the account holder, can also see using <a href="https://studio.youtube.com/" target="_blank">studio.youtube.com</a> how 1,200-1,500 unique viewers visit each day to watch 1.4 videos.<br />
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We can also see how ALL the top ten videos and simple screen recordings (of mobile or desktop) designed to teach the viewer something..<br />
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This is a new series on video making education. We take a recent video and talk about how it's made. We look for clues that made it effective and watchable. We then take these lessons and use them to make better videos ourselves.<br />
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<b>Episode 1</b> - The Royal Visit (this post)<br />
<b>Episode 2</b> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A9Ikm43YtI" target="_blank">Ancient Maya</a><br />
<b>Episode 3</b> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1q_ArvGhis" target="_blank">Nat and Friends Will Computers</a><br />
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In this example, it's the recent <a href="https://youtu.be/HkbFt9FFnYs" target="_blank">Royal visit to Australia and Vanuatu</a> uploaded by the The Royal Family UK. To get the best out of this lesson, watch this video, it's 3 mins long and form the basis for the in depth video lesson deconstruct.<br />
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I have used the term 'video deconstruct' privately for years as that's what I call it when i watch a film or video and figure how it was made.<br />
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And as this video is 19 mins, i fully expect people to watch it at x1.25 or x1.5 speed -- i watch many videos at this speed. I also have tried to speak clearly as a i can as this will allow a very decent auto captions, subtitles, transcript at youtube. That helps me auto-write a text blog post.<br />
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In the next episode, we look at the National Geographic's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6eBJjdca14" target="_blank">Ancient Maya 101</a> also at<br />
<a href="https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/101-videos/ancient-maya-101">https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/101-videos/ancient-maya-101</a><br />
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The audio has transcript has 3,429 words, therefore in 19 mins = 180 words per minute. I make this observation, as typing a blog post like this takes time. Making a video and speaking clearly is another way of getting quite accurate written text.<br />
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In the previous post, YouTube and Me - One in a Billion, there were 6,245 spoken words at 37:30 mins = 167wpm meaning I was speaking faster this time.<br />
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YouTube and Me - One in a Billion<br />
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37:30<br />
Transcript<br />
<br />
in this talk we're going to learn about<br />
a person's journey through YouTube it's<br />
called YouTube and me one-in-a-billion<br />
you'll see that it's recorded 2nd of May<br />
so what you're going to expect from me<br />
Mike downs is a set of slides I've been<br />
working on in the last month never<br />
really know enquire ously whether<br />
they're going to go to the public eye<br />
but here we are and this is youtube and<br />
this is the public so when we're talking<br />
about this word of me what I really mean<br />
and I'm defining this quite honestly for<br />
myself and that is the beauty of me is<br />
you or me the one person or account the<br />
user on their journey through YouTube to<br />
use that platform as a creator and a<br />
viewer you can also see at the bottom<br />
the document was started on the 31st of<br />
March I'm trying to be accurate of<br />
what's on screen and not throw anything<br />
else in because this talk is about<br />
people time and the future I personally<br />
started looking at the top part here on<br />
YouTube about 8 years ago now if a<br />
person was or is 13 now they're only 5<br />
and if you look at this typical<br />
demographic of a YouTube viewer you'll<br />
see that the 13 to 17 is quite small but<br />
in eight years time these people could<br />
be 21 and moving through the system and<br />
YouTube is a thing which has such an<br />
incredible amount of I don't know<br />
hearsay hype opinions in it so I've<br />
tried to be very and I think it's this<br />
is the next slide and we just see<br />
something yeah I've tried to be very<br />
sober rational and scientific in this<br />
approach so if you look and this is a<br />
quick summary for everyone's benefit to<br />
make sense and that is at the end of<br />
last year you had this Logan pool thing<br />
going on you had huge changes with this<br />
four key for k1k thing in January and<br />
I'm not going to look at all of the<br />
parts of the slide because you can go<br />
and look at them again but you can see<br />
that after these priorities and the<br />
preventing harm thing with YouTube<br />
we've got Robert Kinsel here am chief of<br />
business at YouTube being wheeled out to<br />
do a few talks and in the timeline that<br />
we're talking I take a deep sigh there<br />
is because of course the YouTube San<br />
Bruno saw a violent attack on it which<br />
was just at the start of April Robert<br />
Kim saw here was did as a couple of<br />
things after that in the sort of mid to<br />
late April there's another update in an<br />
April and here and I'm going to say that<br />
we're today more or less on the 2nd of<br />
May so what I'm trying to get at in this<br />
slide is that if you look at where we<br />
are right now at the start of May<br />
there's already huge things coming out<br />
not included in this talk but I'll say<br />
out loud is Susan CIO has just said that<br />
there's 1.8 billion<br />
YouTube users and so what you're about<br />
to see in this talk if I can keep it<br />
very level about the facts that I've<br />
found out and how I wish to be<br />
challenged on them you might find that<br />
some of them are really interesting you<br />
might want to know more about them or<br />
Quanah so you might be a person who goes<br />
oh what i knew that but the thing is is<br />
we're going to find out keeping it<br />
moving along is that with YouTube in the<br />
center here it can be a place where you<br />
really want to put your head in your<br />
hands and say you know as Ron Gogh did<br />
old man in sorrow<br />
you know you get fed up with it equally<br />
if you go on that journey and you're<br />
happy you got Emily here from metric<br />
who's putting her arms up and saying yes<br />
you know I've achieved it so this is a<br />
slide that you're going to keep seeing<br />
in this talk and the reason you are is<br />
because there are some questions that<br />
are being raised one of the the first<br />
one of the three questions I'm raising<br />
is talking about monetization and<br />
advertising revenue this is still an<br />
introduction part the talk by the way so<br />
in other words if we're saying what and<br />
this might be meeting list at the moment<br />
but I will expand and show on screen my<br />
rationale what view ranking would you be<br />
if you just been accepted as a YouTube<br />
partner program meeting the monetization<br />
benchmark of 4,000 watch minutes and<br />
1000 subscribers what view ranking would<br />
you be if you were trying to make a<br />
living on a UK minimum wage or what view<br />
ranking would you be if you were a<br />
full-time paid YouTube creator on a UK<br />
average wave wage the thing is that you<br />
look at this and you rightly say I don't<br />
know what what are you talking about and<br />
that's why<br />
quite honestly I built a load of slides<br />
into it so at the end of this talk<br />
you're going to appreciate<br />
there are 1.5 billion YouTube account<br />
holders now at the moment news just in<br />
news flash<br />
that's gone up to 1.8 billion that's<br />
fine but you know we'll talk about<br />
numbers here number 2 it's possible to<br />
rank many of these YouTube users by<br />
subscriber rank and view rank number 3<br />
to monetize your channel you will need<br />
to be view ranked about three and a half<br />
million I will expand and show you where<br />
I got that number next one to earn a UK<br />
minimum wage you could be view ranked<br />
about fifty thousand on the planet on ad<br />
revenue alone again I will expand it in<br />
a moment next one to earn a UK average<br />
wage you may be view ranked about 20,000<br />
by ad revenue alone please challenge me<br />
on these numbers I will expand them in a<br />
moment<br />
if you have one view you know in other<br />
words you upload a video and you get a<br />
view you could be ranked view ranked at<br />
about twenty two point three millionth<br />
in the world therefore you're in the top<br />
1.5 percent by views I accept that you<br />
don't know what I'm talking about and<br />
this is meaningless as a slice let's<br />
move on one slide here one idea that I<br />
want to be challenged on or we can<br />
challenge each other is if you make<br />
which I've just said one video then you<br />
are already in the top 3% of the YouTube<br />
worldwide platform as about 97% of the<br />
1.5 billion have not uploaded even one<br />
public video<br />
that is something to think on and that's<br />
why it is static on the screen here<br />
without any fancy graphics let's have a<br />
look getting to be more ambiguous should<br />
we say which you have you know kind of<br />
just like expanding on the same idea if<br />
a channel has one view is ranked well<br />
I'm going to skip the acts of course or<br />
said that have an eye does this mean<br />
that 98.5 percent of the YouTube users<br />
worldwide who are logged in have never<br />
uploaded or made a video public at<br />
YouTube this is a big deal because if<br />
you're talking about a platform which<br />
I'm about to expand on so that was an<br />
introduction again step back think<br />
YouTube is a platform that sits on<br />
planet earth in the words of Duran Duran<br />
you're looking at planet Earth I'm not<br />
even going to do the bop bop forgetting<br />
YouTube for a moment but focusing very<br />
closely on the world population it's<br />
about more or less about seven point six<br />
billion you can see at the bottom here<br />
that I've got some updated things the<br />
Internet users on this planet are about<br />
3.8 billion and I've put the zeroes in<br />
here because you are I sit right over<br />
here on the right hand side is one<br />
person seven point six billion is a big<br />
number compared to you or I or the<br />
people we know world seven point six<br />
Internet users 3.8 billion YouTube users<br />
1.5 billion for the purpose of this talk<br />
what I'm trying to get to here is that<br />
YouTube of course is a big platform if<br />
50 percent of the world population is<br />
connected to the Internet 40 of those<br />
connected are YouTube users trying to<br />
get an idea to figure out what is<br />
happening in the world because we're<br />
drilling down onto things like this<br />
using live internet stats or whatever<br />
it's called there's a reference thing at<br />
the end of the slide show we can see<br />
that by 2016 which could you could argue<br />
two years ago<br />
they're ranked by the internet users<br />
here you can see on screen the one I<br />
want to highlight here without wasting<br />
people's time on slides is that in the<br />
last year alone India have had an<br />
increase of a hundred and eight million<br />
users if you take that Robert Kinsel<br />
talk he said the one in India that a<br />
hundred and thirty five YouTube creators<br />
are now listed with over 1 million subs<br />
I would argue it's more like 250<br />
compared to only 2 last year it shows<br />
that the world white platform is growing<br />
so how can we get down to a level where<br />
we can start making sense and<br />
rationalizing that well we can use a<br />
website called social blade where I've<br />
gone along and I've thought about the<br />
number one channel in the whole world<br />
and also how that relates all the way<br />
down to the channel or the group of<br />
channels that are about 1.5 billion<br />
ranking using video views not<br />
subscribers is something I'm looking at<br />
what you see on the top right of the<br />
screen is my own public social blade<br />
screen user screen if you like at this<br />
time of made 108 yeah 865 videos I've<br />
got nearly a million views I am ranked<br />
at one point six million in the world in<br />
actual fact when I had a relook at this<br />
slide I've just increased nearly twenty<br />
thousand what you'll notice is that<br />
really I can skip the slide because this<br />
is a more close-up slide of the one that<br />
I've just had what we can do is start to<br />
think about your own channel at the<br />
bottom it says go to social blade and<br />
visit your own channel and see your own<br />
view rank because views are the things<br />
that you might get paid on views in my<br />
mind are far far more important than<br />
subscribers that's my opinion<br />
sweet sorrow is this thing an oxymoron<br />
by Shakespeare saying that the sweetness<br />
is to say Wow Wow well I am 1.6 million<br />
thin the world is that a good thing or<br />
is that a bad thing well you might say<br />
1.6 million to have 1.6 million above me<br />
that's terrible but if you think that<br />
there are one point four nine eight<br />
billion people below me in terms of<br />
views then I'm really near the top I<br />
mean that is a it's quite difficult<br />
numbers the numbers are so so big<br />
let's keep moving and let's say that<br />
with me personally I'm looking at a new<br />
project or 500 feet pictures but I have<br />
a really really huge dilemma because<br />
what I do about making this public on a<br />
youtube channel because quite honestly<br />
the bar means that here is my new<br />
channel on screen it's called 500 feet<br />
pictures I have made a channel at the<br />
moment it's got two subscribers probably<br />
me and a friend it's got zero watch<br />
hours zero views because there's zero<br />
videos but to reach this benchmark I<br />
need a thousand subscribers 4000 watch<br />
outs are more or less in my calculation<br />
about two hundred thousand views before<br />
I can even be considered on the YouTube<br />
Partner Program so what do I do<br />
on the right hand side you see my<br />
existing channel already has nearly two<br />
thousand subscribers not a lot but it<br />
nearly has 1 million views which is a<br />
million views more than this channel as<br />
a dilemma here and this is why I'm<br />
making this talk to try and highlight it<br />
to other people if we're going to look<br />
at some visualization<br />
then if a channel has one view and it is<br />
VAT ranked at 22 millionth it's in the<br />
top 1.5 how can we make sense of it how<br />
can we visualize it please at the bottom<br />
it says check my maths check my<br />
reasoning is this data fair and<br />
reasonable based on something like<br />
social blade if we trust social blade<br />
I started to think about this because in<br />
terms of my training I am a teacher you<br />
know small children so what I would do<br />
is I would go away and I could say right<br />
you've got these huge huge numbers how<br />
can you make sense of them if we said<br />
and I need to look at the scale here I<br />
wanted to build a simple scale model to<br />
represent one a million and a billion<br />
users something that people could<br />
understand I chose a person who is 1.5<br />
meters high if you think and I've also<br />
put the tape measure at the side here<br />
this is a visualization that the 1.5<br />
meters equals the 1.5 billion users 1<br />
centimeter which you know is probably<br />
the width of your thumb or your one of<br />
your fingers represents in this model 10<br />
million users a millimeter which is what<br />
the the depth or the thinness or the<br />
thickness of your actual fingernail is 1<br />
million users but what you see that if<br />
we're going back to this 20 2.3 million<br />
is that the width of these two sharpies<br />
actually means that this 22 millimeters<br />
represents the 20 2.3 million users at<br />
YouTube who have actually made a video<br />
or got more than one view what I'm<br />
trying to get out here is that the pink<br />
line at the bottom is the whole of<br />
YouTube but you're talking about a very<br />
very skinny thin distance for the people<br />
or the percentage of the people 1.5 who<br />
have actually made videos in the first<br />
place so you could conclude conclude<br />
that all of these people down here are<br />
watches or people who use the platform<br />
purely to watch something I wanted to<br />
visualize it again to say look using a<br />
scale that if one millimeter was a user<br />
over the whole of the world horizontally<br />
then one millimeter per user would equal<br />
50<br />
thousand kilometers which is the 1.5<br />
billion you can look at this and you can<br />
say okay you know what does this mean is<br />
it useful to me it might be useful to<br />
some people watching this slide it might<br />
not be but you can see all the people<br />
who make videos are actually in this dot<br />
thing here into the length of that I<br />
wanted to keep going keep looking at the<br />
different angles of this literally<br />
because the world isn't flat its round<br />
and if you use that same scale to<br />
visualize some big big numbers with one<br />
millimeter you can actually stretch that<br />
to 15,000 kilometers over the world from<br />
top to bottom or left to right but the<br />
important thing is that the YouTube<br />
users who actually make videos is<br />
represented in this tiny tiny tiny<br />
little yellow band which is absolutely<br />
nothing compared to the size of the<br />
total users again if it works for you<br />
great if it doesn't it doesn't I will do<br />
another slide remember I'm focusing part<br />
of this talk on young YouTube users<br />
coming through who wish to think about<br />
the platform in general and get some<br />
education on it so if I said in this<br />
scale model that one millimeter equals<br />
or / user / 21.1 km/h Heathrow Airport<br />
get on a bike and literally cycle for 90<br />
minutes across London and you'll see all<br />
of them but remember as your wheel turns<br />
each user is only a millimeter thick<br />
just trying to get an idea of how many<br />
people there are in the YouTube platform<br />
okay look we have got to a level where<br />
we're just taking a step back if you're<br />
still you know with some of this and<br />
looking at my rationale my slides or my<br />
ideas we need to say look YouTube has<br />
got a huge huge user base what other<br />
groups are out there that we could case<br />
study about wishing to think about<br />
anything to do with numbers and big<br />
groups well<br />
if you wanted to take something quite<br />
popular in the world if you like the 265<br />
million people play football if you<br />
think that this data was in July 2007<br />
you've got 265 million people who have<br />
an interest or play football in 2018 the<br />
World Cup is coming to Russia there are<br />
32 teams of 23 players that means about<br />
736 players which means doing the math<br />
of 2.6 5 billion who play football for<br />
fun that represents a very very small<br />
number as one in every 360,000 people<br />
who play football might end up in the<br />
World Cup the reason I'm making the<br />
slide is to say if you start doing<br />
something you like what is your<br />
expectation of getting very good or at a<br />
very high level of it a visualization<br />
here in terms of education away I would<br />
say imagine this this is Wembley Stadium<br />
it's in London there are 90,000 people<br />
in the crowd or in that stadium right<br />
now but there's only 22 of them who will<br />
eventually be kicking the football<br />
around as players on that pitch that<br />
represents point zero two percent of the<br />
amount of people in that stadium the<br />
reason I'm making it is this if we go on<br />
and we say that we want to have a go at<br />
YouTube how could we compare that to<br />
something else and the reason I've used<br />
this is weekly leisure time if you went<br />
out to play this football three hours<br />
say on a Tuesday night you had a bit of<br />
practice you wanted to top that up with<br />
some gym work that's three that's six<br />
hours of your time and then you played<br />
the football match in the traveling or<br />
messing around so on the Saturday you've<br />
just spent 10 hours of your time doing a<br />
leisure activity how much time could be<br />
spent on YouTube as a creator every<br />
single week 10 hours in many ways is<br />
just to give away I think quite honestly<br />
people are watching TV that's sky rhotic<br />
and you know watching screens and stuff<br />
for leisure is about what 25 hours a<br />
week I don't know that's a guess you<br />
know from<br />
the research that I did what I'm trying<br />
to get to is the travel that we have<br />
through this platform in terms of single<br />
single people what you'll find here is<br />
we've got a chap here young ladies a<br />
teenager and here's a busker and he is<br />
starting to do something that he's<br />
passionate about you'll notice that he's<br />
got ginger hair he's got a guitar and<br />
he's got his guitar box open and he's<br />
hoping for a little bit of money in<br />
there this chap here carried on and<br />
carried on once a few years back he got<br />
in your you know clue eros that cause<br />
it's on screen that Ed Sheeran Eirias<br />
look in a some Pancras railway station<br />
before he was famous on YouTube as well<br />
playing his guitar and then eventually<br />
he ends up in Wembley Stadium on his<br />
solo concert playing so what I'm trying<br />
to get to is that anyone can do this but<br />
not everyone can do it<br />
because they need a bit of luck or they<br />
need a bit of talent or they need to be<br />
seen but what I'm saying is that for<br />
that one person who wants to try then<br />
there are examples out there not a lot<br />
but there are examples we can take<br />
another one here with Jessie J she here<br />
she is look in her bedroom in 2009<br />
playing a song that's at the moment had<br />
about 9.2 million<br />
nothing big deal about it she sat there<br />
obviously a gazillion times talented<br />
more than me and she's having a song and<br />
a sing and youtube mama knows best<br />
the reason I've used it is because she's<br />
also I don't think it's her solo concept<br />
she's in there and she does extremely<br />
well and she's in front of 80,000 people<br />
then weirdly but brilliantly is she only<br />
in the last couple of weeks she drops<br />
off the radar but appears again in China<br />
start singing and wins their equivalent<br />
of x-factor what I'm trying to say here<br />
is how YouTube can be a platform for you<br />
or I or anybody else who wants to try<br />
something we've got to understand the<br />
individual journeys before we start<br />
understanding how we feel about those<br />
whether we are hands in the air we have<br />
done it or we are trying abyssal<br />
our heart out but we're upset or we're a<br />
bit down with it and we've got our head<br />
in her hands you know I'm not gonna lie<br />
I've been going for like you know many<br />
many years now and you know I'd love to<br />
have had a gazillion bits more views and<br />
success than I had but it's not about me<br />
it's about the story that I'm telling so<br />
if you want to do your work and this is<br />
the bar where we get back on it so it's<br />
coffee break over if you like how do we<br />
know anything about the YouTube users<br />
without this website and this is the<br />
best one I've come across socialblade we<br />
really wouldn't know we really really<br />
wouldn't know not a lot we'd be guessing<br />
a lot and that is that if you look at<br />
social blade you can search for any user<br />
you can have a look at the top 50 100<br />
500 YouTube channels bottom left down<br />
here and after watch the mouse pointer<br />
thing is that on the bottom left there<br />
is a YouTube money calculator and we can<br />
start to do some work and that work is a<br />
little bit weird really because you're<br />
talking about guesses and I want to iron<br />
out those guesses this is another<br />
example of hell with my channel you can<br />
see that I'm 1.6 million you know I've<br />
looked at your own channel already said<br />
that this one I've highlighted just one<br />
tiny thing you can look at similar<br />
channels to yourself you can sort them<br />
by subscribers or you can sort them by<br />
video views if you look at mine in the<br />
right hand column sorry the left hand<br />
column by subscribers they are all about<br />
1925 or so but you can see that the<br />
views vary hugely similarly on the right<br />
we've got 949 thousand views but on the<br />
left the subscribers go up and down<br />
there's somebody here with the same<br />
amount of views similar to me but<br />
they've only got 123 subscribers there's<br />
someone down here with three thousand<br />
subscribers what I'm trying to get at is<br />
a picture a broad picture of how data<br />
starts to work so if we used a brief<br />
method of using your own personal<br />
YouTube analytics your own sorry public<br />
example of social blade maybe<br />
the top 500 youtubers we could use the<br />
YouTube money calculator and then use<br />
simple math and logic we could start<br />
ranking these 1.5 billion users from 1<br />
all the way down to 1.5 billion more or<br />
less and draw some conclusions so the<br />
easy part is going to social blade and<br />
if we at the top here sort by video<br />
views we very clearly get who is at the<br />
number one spot all the way down to who<br />
is at the number 500th spot that is very<br />
very easy but as I said we're not<br />
dealing with 500 we are dealing with<br />
millions and billions so I went away and<br />
this is why it's taken a bit of time and<br />
started looking around not with anything<br />
complicated but with straightforward<br />
common-sense and I came up with<br />
something like this in other words we<br />
start off with view ranks with somebody<br />
at the very very top who we know has got<br />
35 billion views and they are view<br />
ranked as number one we can easily go<br />
down and start ranking them up to about<br />
496 500 then going on who I kind of like<br />
know already and what guesses I've made<br />
and what you know looks I've done this<br />
of course is up to about 40 different<br />
cells here 40 different rows view<br />
ranking from number 1 all the way down<br />
to this odd one down here where<br />
somebody's subscribed to my channel not<br />
saying who they are who has got 5 views<br />
I've used social blade and I found they<br />
are ranked as 21 sorry 22 point 1 4 7<br />
millionth somebody down here with 0<br />
views is supposedly ranked at twenty two<br />
point three million twenty two point<br />
eight you get the idea<br />
notice it's not to scale because if I<br />
start off with you rank one and I go<br />
down to view rank twenty two point eight<br />
million then I would need 23 million<br />
rows and I haven't done that look it<br />
says at the bottom check this for<br />
yourself because these are just my<br />
guesses I am Mike downs who has gone to<br />
a computer and had a little look and<br />
that is where I've started this was<br />
slide 5 by the way<br />
where I started to view rank these<br />
things and I've said what is the<br />
accepted benchmark to monetize your<br />
channel in terms of view ranking<br />
let's quite honestly you know make a<br />
hand-written<br />
payoff to what I've got so far please<br />
please please check this for yourself<br />
top right these notes are made using a<br />
CPM cost per mile from my own channel<br />
then calculating similar calculations<br />
for others and I'm literally got my<br />
hands in the air my hands raised to you<br />
saying there are huge huge errors but if<br />
I am 10 or 20 percent out we are talking<br />
millions or thousands they'll not the<br />
hair's width so is this a decent rule of<br />
thumb number one you've got the top top<br />
channel in the world but from my<br />
calculations I have calculated that if<br />
you are ranked view ranked at about<br />
20,000 in the world you may be earning a<br />
UK average wave wave there excuse me a<br />
UK average wage that is about 27,000 UK<br />
work it out for American or whatever<br />
your your numbers are I wanted to get a<br />
feeling if you are making a UK minimum<br />
wage at these numbers you are more or<br />
less ranked at about 50,000 in the world<br />
to get monetized I would say again big<br />
big general rule of thumb you could be<br />
considered to be view ranked at about<br />
3.5 million to be monetized based on<br />
about 550 views a day more or less about<br />
200,000 a year this all vary hugely<br />
creator to create a depending on your<br />
content your advertising your place<br />
located in the world many many factors<br />
but I'm trying to look at a decent rule<br />
of thumb once again this could make you<br />
feel wonderful because you're earning<br />
say full-time or average wages or it<br />
might make you feel terrible because<br />
quite honestly you're not even man<br />
attire<br />
and you think you never ever can be that<br />
is why I wanted to get some of this<br />
thinking out into the open and have a<br />
discussion about it or to see because<br />
those people who are considering this<br />
right now could be 13 years of age and<br />
if they're going to put a couple of<br />
years into it I would write out rightly<br />
sort of give some advice to say you know<br />
do your due diligence and find these<br />
things out an observation on this slide<br />
many top youtubers have a higher sub<br />
rank subscriber rank than view rank what<br />
that actually means in my way in a<br />
general way is that people sub maybe to<br />
say it's very cool or very useful to<br />
them<br />
but they don't actually watch that<br />
channel if you like you can look down on<br />
this these two nameless examples and say<br />
that this person here has got three<br />
point five millionth view rank but<br />
they've got a subscriber rank<br />
substantially higher than 3.5 million in<br />
other words six hundred and fifty four<br />
thousand this very popular creator here<br />
is four hundred and ninety six view rank<br />
but their subscriber Inc is two three<br />
four so in a statistical world and<br />
that's why this little seesaw is on the<br />
left hand side is to say that for every<br />
example I can give you where the view<br />
rank is lower than the sub rank the<br />
opposite must be true because in a<br />
balance statistic what everything irons<br />
out so I could show you a ton if I find<br />
them of subscribers that are really<br />
really really high sorry I forgot a low<br />
number yes so let's say the subscriber<br />
rank was either ten millionth but their<br />
view rank was incredibly high so keep<br />
this moving along to popular YouTube<br />
creators this is a pure observation I'm<br />
sure they won't mind it's public<br />
information which one is to frank home<br />
which one is Casey the answer here you<br />
can clearly see on the side here is Phil<br />
and Casey meaning that Phil DeFranco<br />
site has a subscriber rank of 444 and a<br />
view rank of 447 that's extremely<br />
balanced where if you look at the Casey<br />
channel they have got a well he's got a<br />
502 view rank but he's subscriber rank<br />
is half that at two to five<br />
again maybe he bangs out you know this<br />
idea of getting nine million subscribers<br />
or more and 2.1 billion maybe this one<br />
up here's got 2.2 billion views but less<br />
subscribers of course six million is six<br />
million more than me my point is look at<br />
the data and to be into a position where<br />
if you wish to get paid then is the<br />
YouTube Partner something for you as<br />
they I'm not a Google employee I'm not a<br />
YouTube employee I'm just a guy I'm a<br />
former teacher who happens to have a<br />
YouTube channel so hey this might be one<br />
person's opinions but I wanted to be<br />
remember very sober and very rational<br />
because if we are talking about dollars<br />
being sent to your bank account then<br />
this is a very very tentative reckoning<br />
and I do not like talking about money in<br />
public or even generally because I'm an<br />
educator I deal in pure pure information<br />
this is very much an applied example the<br />
slide you're looking at covers over the<br />
name and the details of this creator but<br />
what I can say in this example is that<br />
using the general social blade user<br />
profile we can see that there is 1500 to<br />
23,000 UK pounds a year we must use a<br />
second example and to put that user<br />
number or name into the YouTube social<br />
blade money calculator addresses on the<br />
bottom of the screen figure out how many<br />
daily views use a CPM to come up with an<br />
idea my summary here is this particular<br />
nameless channel is doing income revenue<br />
of about eighteen thousand dollars<br />
thirteen thousand UK pounds please bear<br />
in mind the little graphic on the Left<br />
where we've got a person who's a new<br />
creator if this person was the sole<br />
person who owned and run filmed and<br />
uploaded and everything to this channel<br />
they in theory would keep the revenue<br />
but if this person was a co-creator with<br />
one or two people maybe a head a camera<br />
operator may be a business operator<br />
maybe you know an editor<br />
they must split that revenue so if you<br />
want to make parts on money or full-time<br />
money you've really got to think of how<br />
your business model works and of course<br />
for advertisers<br />
is very troublesome with that said when<br />
I say troublesome I mean it can go up<br />
and down and all sorts of different<br />
things with with views we're nearly at<br />
the end here so look the creator blog<br />
comes up with certain things and once<br />
again that's why I've said check for<br />
yourself<br />
and this is the thing that before I get<br />
into the the details and I know your<br />
eyes are reading already even if this is<br />
true what do you care about these<br />
incredible people who are earning like<br />
half a million dollars or million<br />
dollars a year because you know if it's<br />
not you or me then why should we care<br />
and that the only conclusion I can say<br />
is that forewarned is forearmed meaning<br />
that if YouTube creator blog comes out<br />
with a statement that says over the last<br />
year channels earning 5 figures annually<br />
grew more than 35 percent while channels<br />
earning six figures annually grew more<br />
than 40 percent while we're proud of<br />
this progress I know we have more work<br />
to do that's all well and good because I<br />
do trust that if you know big people are<br />
making ton of money then it will filter<br />
down and the smaller people will get<br />
some eventually but in my rationale if<br />
you look at the statement of what six<br />
figures are then that must be by<br />
mathematical definition from a hundred<br />
thousand to 999 they grew 40% doing a<br />
lot of work I believe that there are or<br />
or view ranks for those people who are<br />
doing this sort of money there are about<br />
a thousand to ten thousand people in the<br />
world doing this at the moment of our<br />
view rank if the people are earning<br />
between $10,000 and should we say nine<br />
to say a hundred thousand dollars I<br />
reckon the view rank that you're looking<br />
out between about ten thousand to two<br />
hundred thousand so I'm trying to get a<br />
feeling of in this 1.5 billion people<br />
what are the numbers talking about<br />
because this number down here where we<br />
say therefore earning over five hundred<br />
thousand dollars or over a million<br />
dollars I reckon through my estimations<br />
am I looking my calculations there are<br />
about seven hundred people in the world<br />
earning more than five hundred thousand<br />
three hundred people or accounts earning<br />
more than a million on ad revenue alone<br />
this is hugely<br />
hugely off please please please top<br />
center check this for yourself feedback<br />
to me leave a comment because it's a big<br />
deal with a big platform but if you look<br />
at it and you think where am i where can<br />
I measure myself with the world well if<br />
you've never started then you might have<br />
in your head in your hands already if<br />
you are delusions you might be shouting<br />
in the air but you might be lucky there<br />
are people who have done a million<br />
subscribers or a million views within<br />
record time but there are other people<br />
who haven't and if you're on your own<br />
you know sat at home or sat wherever you<br />
are do know what you're doing think<br />
about being level I don't want to<br />
discourage and I don't want to inspire I<br />
just want to be level and I want to be<br />
neutral that was it folks this is a talk<br />
given to me with a lot of references<br />
there are some of the references here if<br />
you want something this talking already<br />
then by all means leave a comment get<br />
hold of me<br />
this was youtuber me one-in-a-billion by<br />
YouTube Mike downs recorded more or less<br />
on the 2nd of May 2018 and oh yes let's<br />
go back to look at what you've just seen<br />
because I'm finishing this up number two<br />
that do that's what you've seen so far<br />
you've been here hopefully and learnt<br />
something about this in a very general<br />
way about the journey of one person<br />
through YouTube my next series on this<br />
will be YouTube and maybe it won't be<br />
one in a billion it will be simply<br />
called the video which will look at the<br />
ways videos are made the types of video<br />
we've got and quite honestly when we<br />
look at all of those things considered<br />
in YouTube it's about sharing videos and<br />
about people and I will call it and I've<br />
got this written down here that I think<br />
YouTube is a human and machine<br />
popularity platform but I hope it's more<br />
than that and I hope that I can continue<br />
to make videos that will help people<br />
learn thank you very much ..<br />
<br />
.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-32788068711438398392018-03-11T15:49:00.003+00:002018-04-11T16:12:59.655+01:00Crowdsourcing Bike Locks in Google Drive - The Decathlon Demo<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Decathlon UK published a short video on 2 March 2018 called Advice: How to choose your bike lock (the full video and transcript is blow).<br />
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Around the same time, I made a few videos showing how if you open an image in Google Drive you can now add targeted annotations (see these videos below).<br />
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This opens up an opportunity to test out and demo a Decathlon Store Bike Lock Display Image with a Crowdsourced set of annotations (visit the demo <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ACoen6W49u9oSA9dF4xvPecTHgXz7ssW/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><b>image at google drive</b></a>).<br />
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The image in drive is also embedded below..<br />
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Anyone can add a comment and start a discussion based on an area of the image you see in the post.<br />
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On looking at the decathlon website for bike locks, we see all the products with photos, specs, maybe a review and the latest price.<br />
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The purpose of this idea is to see if something useful can be made that does cannot be immediately found in the official help video or at the website.<br />
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The file I have created could be valuable for Decathlon Customers, Staff and even Google themselves to refine adding comments to images in Drive.<br />
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<b>Decathlon UK - Advice: How to choose your bike lock</b>, English Transcript<br />
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Peter, Cycling Enthusiast to camera, ‘Today I’m going to help you choose a bike lock. There are three elements to consider when thinking about buying a bike lock<br />
<ol>
<li>The level of security that you require</li>
<li>The number of bikes which you will be storing and</li>
<li>The type of lock you want to buy</li>
</ol>
There are four main types of bike locks available<br />
<ol>
<li>a cable lock</li>
<li>a D lock</li>
<li>a chain lock and</li>
<li>a folder lock</li>
</ol>
Generally, bike locks are broken into two main categories<br />
<ol>
<li>Ones which give security and safety for accessories or small parts, for helmets and the second category </li>
<li>Strong bike locks to secure the bike to an immovable object to prevent theft</li>
</ol>
For the main lock of your bike we would always recommend a strong lock such as a D lock or a chain lock - this really does help secure your bike very well.<br />
<br />
And finally, the environment in which you are securing your bike really plays it’s part, so always try to make sure you secure your bike in a well lit area where it can really help deter thieves from taking your bike.<br />
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Locks tend to come with a security rating with a number found in the packaging generally ranging from 0 to 10, 10 being the strongest, 0 being the weakest. Of course, zero risk is not possible. So always make sure you can use a main D lock or chain lock to secure your bike and a secondary cable lock to slow down thieves.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-80927980831355495072018-01-17T19:33:00.000+00:002018-02-18T17:34:26.397+00:00Android Split Screen Combinations Part One and Two<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">where two screen become one on android 7.0 onwards</td></tr>
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If you’ve a curious mind, then you often cannot stop thinking about things - in this case how an Android Screen can be Split into two halves to display two apps at the same time, side by side.<br />
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So what’s the best use of this feature and what makes the perfect match?<br />
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I’ve done some thinking on the topic, as googling for what other people have written has turned up precious little.<br />
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In other words, no more than a few ‘How to..’ posts from tech news websites (around Feb to Oct 2016).<br />
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Google Android themselves produce a few lines too at the help page, nothing more than a ‘hold the square, choose an app, see two at the same time’.
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Part One in the video looks at how having 70 Apps (in my case), will produce some Birthday Paradox math that means (70x69)/2= 2,415 possible combinations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">screens from mike downes own moto g4</td></tr>
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Where your most used 10 Apps will produce (10x9)/2= 45 combinations.<br />
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From the people I know, not one has said, ‘Yes wow, that android split screen thing is something I use all the time’.. In fact a few have said, ‘No idea what it is..’<br />
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In Part Two in the videos I look at the question I googled, ‘how many times do you need to do something before it becomes a habit’ and the incredible answer of:<br />
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"On average, it takes more than 2 months before a new behavior becomes automatic — <b>66 days</b> to be exact. And how long it takes a new habit to form can vary widely depending on the behavior, the person, and the circumstances. In Lally's study, it took anywhere from 18 days to 254 days for people to form a new habit" (<a href="https://jamesclear.com/new-habit" target="_blank">jamesclear</a>).</blockquote>
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Which means even if you (or me) learned Split Screen and started to use it - it may take a whopping 66 days before the behaviour in us was automatic.<br />
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On a lighter note, what are the most well known combinations in life? As Forrest Gump always said, ‘Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots.’<br />
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I also consider where we have come from before computers. Like watching a TV, then having that addictive second screen (to follow a hashtag on twitter).<br />
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And also the time when we had just books and a pen and some paper.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">collage of split screen examples</td></tr>
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One theme is the simple act of reading in one place, thinking then writing in another.<br />
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Everyone has a mobile that is SO PERSONAL to them.<br />
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For me, Split Screen is getting to me more autonomous. I am privileged in that my Moto G4 has a 5.5 inch screen - that’s pretty big as mobiles go.<br />
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I’m still working on the chart of How Useful? versus How Much Time?<br />
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In Part Two, I talk about how Maps/Dialler is very useful yet short lived, less than a minute maybe (where it’s see a phone number, open Split Screen with phone dialler and make the call).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">useful against time</td></tr>
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A Most Useful and Long Time use maybe YouTube Live Video and Twitter - where you are watching an event then following the hashtag and tweeting.<br />
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This is a mini version of the old school BIG TV and 2nd Screen tablet/laptop.<br />
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I make video lessons to help people learn - in this case, I helped myself learn about Android Split Screen and then shared it publicly.<br />
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Seven or eight years ago, there was a buzz and beta and all this openness and transparency. Change happens and I’m not convinced we are all that PUBLIC beta and open anymore.<br />
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Maybe the planet has SO MANY on the web now, it’s just so hard to find what you need. Or how we never seem to get past page 2 of google on anything we search for. I digress..<br />
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<b>Bottom line for now</b> - How I need to ruminate on Android Split Screen for a while, let it fade a bit and usually I have more to give.<br />
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Doing simple math, 66 Days from now is 24 March 18 - I will diary note that and ask myself the same question again, ‘What is the perfect combination for using Android Split Screen?’<br />
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<b>The Playlist has a 60 sec trailer then parts One and Two</b> ..<br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-38284332236454784012018-01-15T13:25:00.000+00:002018-02-18T17:34:58.375+00:00Android Accessibility Help Videos<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Android Magnification Zoom</td></tr>
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There are some quite brilliant Android Accessibility features hidden in plain sight - by that I mean found in Settings, System, Accessibility.<br />
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I make video lessons to Help People Learn - to Learn you need to practice until you cannot get it wrong! I do not follow trends, I follow what is essential to turn the phone in your pocket to a tool that will be vital and essential to enhancing your day.<br />
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Video Playlist below, today's video on Magnification at the top..<br />
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<b>Playlist</b> - three videos<br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-79913069398578672132018-01-15T10:44:00.000+00:002018-02-18T17:35:31.334+00:00Mixing Voice and Music for Video<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mixing voice and music with audacity</td></tr>
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If you watch or make videos where someone is talking and there is music playing in the background, then read on.<br />
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I make video lessons to help people learn, mostly with me just talking, and mostly like never to I add music too.<br />
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That said, I do get irritated with my own pauses where I breath or make other noises, we all do. So what if some music was added to break that silence? Something nicely blended not too much high, not too low - just right.<br />
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I searched for some magic formula, quickly saw there wasn't one, then settled on a few ideas<br />
Voice only<br />
Audio Ducking - music rises up and then down as voice speaks and pauses<br />
A Voice and Music with set volume (maybe at 15-20%)<br />
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Here's a two part video set on what I found out using mobile and desktop, with a variety of software like: PowerDirector, Audacity, Vegas Movie Studio<br />
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Many thanks to the wistia article, '<a href="https://wistia.com/blog/background-music-volume" target="_blank">Video Background Music: Getting the Volume Perfect</a>' where I offer this quote:<br />
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"I watch a ton of videos that use ducking, where the music level comes down when someone is talking on screen, then instantly rises when they finish. This technique ensures that the music is not overpowering the voices on screen, but it fails by constantly calling attention to the music.' </blockquote>
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"Personally, I keep the music at a consistent volume throughout the video. For this technique to work, you really have to find the right piece of music. Unless the video is highly specialized, I look for music that's simple and free from distracting elements (for example, group "whoa"-ing). In this case, I mix the music volume as high as I can get away with while making sure it doesn't overpower the narrative.</blockquote>
<b>Mini Conclusion</b> - For me ducking looks like too much work, where carefully chosen music at a consistent volume will work if music is set at around 15-20% compared to 100% voice. But, choose music carefully as the wrong track will get annoying fast.<br />
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There is a lot of meme behaviour here too, as one chap commented on my video, 'the person that convinced youtubers to always add background music to their videos should be 'spoken to'.. if I wanted music I would play music on a separate app'.<br />
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Which is a great point, maybe we were bred into this from MTV etc with all these adrenaline fuelled action videos where everyone seemed to have a heavy metal guitar over the top. Quite alien to me as a former school teacher - I mean how many teachers stand there in class with a backing track..<br />
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<b>Part 1 on Mobile</b><br />
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<b> Part 2 on Desktop</b><br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-27315023416694427582018-01-12T12:57:00.001+00:002018-02-18T17:35:57.024+00:00G Suite New Ideas New Ways to use Apps on Mobile and Desktop<div>
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G Suite New Ideas New Ways to use Apps on Mobile and Desktop</div>
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This is a collection of ideas I have found using Gogle Docs, Slides, Drawings.<br />
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Techniques that can be used in these G Suite Apps whether on Desktop or Mobile - usually where new things crop up that were only available in other desktop software.</div>
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Examples like: making a simple collage, adding a border to a photo, drop shadows and reflections etc..</div>
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And also the subtle differences between working on the same doc on desktop or mobile. There is a new playlist below.</div>
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As those who follow me will know, I screen recorder my mobile and desktop to make video lessons. G Suite Apps presented on the android split screen provide a new way to get a serious message out in a fast way - something would take many hours to video edit.</div>
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When Android Nougat 7.0 introduced Split Screen (around mid 2016) there were many hit and fade news articles - but very little case study examples. It worries me how we live in a BIG NEWS OMG WOW one hour and all is forgotten the day after.<br />
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edit, One example of a decent split screen case study is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uGzpx5SlW8" target="_blank">Android N Split Screen Feature</a> where the guy talks through maps, camera, photos, keep, twitter, youtube etc. I particularly like the CAMERA - KEEP use where he film a video AND read his script, just like a teleprompter ..<br />
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I have 841 public videos at my youtube channel - there are many more on G Suite Drive Docs, these two have been popular..<br />
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<li>How to embed a video stored in Google Drive using iframe <a href="https://youtu.be/scXfKLWisGU" target="_blank">3 Nov 14</a></li>
<li>How to use Google Docs Voice Typing <a href="https://youtu.be/S0UZ_smHc4o" target="_blank">8 Sep 15</a></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-33562407118905268062018-01-12T11:01:00.001+00:002018-01-12T13:09:57.231+00:00Finding a Drone Font for Police<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On reading a tweet from Devon and Cornwall Police, there was a line, '<a href="https://twitter.com/DC_Police/status/951080647686328320" target="_blank">insert drone emoji here</a>' which got me searching. I've drawn a blank on emoji (so far).<br />
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However, I have found a brilliant <a href="https://www.dafontfree.net/download-drone-f11118.htm" target="_blank">drone font</a> and it's free. Thought it maybe useful for the odd bullet point or illustration on a poster or collage.<br />
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I am a novice when it comes to character fonts, one easy way - just type a line on your keyboard like '¬!"£$%^&*()_+' and then do the same swapping to the drone front, '<span style="font-family: "drone"; font-size: 16pt;">¬!”£$%^&*()_+</span><br />
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' Then just copy and paste what you like the look of.<br />
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Therefore * = <span style="font-family: "drone"; font-size: 21.3333px;">* </span> For more:<br />
<span style="font-family: "drone"; font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">`1234567890-=</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "drone"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">`1234567890-=<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">QWERTYUIOP{}<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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From my short test on win10, I can open the drone font and copy/paste in MS Word, Picasa, Photoshop and Blogger (that I am using here). Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook does NOT work (as I said I am a coding skill set novice).<br />
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I know there are Apps that make Emoji - just not tried them so far.<br />
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download the drone font <a href="https://www.dafontfree.net/freefonts-drone-f11118.htm" target="_blank">from dafont</a>, extract the files and install drone.ttf<br />
more fonts like <a href="https://www.dafontfree.net/find.php?q=drone" target="_blank">drone attack</a>..<br />
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/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-92141126436969330862018-01-09T16:59:00.004+00:002018-01-12T13:10:53.899+00:00Saving Mobile Data with Datally<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Datally is a new data saving mobile app that was introduced by google on <a href="https://www.blog.google/topics/next-billion-users/meet-datally-new-way-understand-control-and-save-mobile-data/" target="_blank">30 November 2017</a>.<br />
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I've made five help videos to support those people who wish to learn.<br />
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Data is a really big deal for those people who have limited access to WiFi and need to watch every MB.<br />
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<b>Refs</b> <a href="https://datally.google.com/" target="_blank">datally.google.com</a> Get the app on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.freighter&hl=en_GB" target="_blank">android play store</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-23392693230700350312018-01-09T15:45:00.001+00:002018-01-12T13:13:16.530+00:00Audacity 2.2.0 and beyond from Nov 2017<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It’s easy, real easy to record decent audio - I use my Moto G4 phone, a few JVC HA EBR25 / EBR80 Sports headset plugged into the phone or my Win10 laptop. I also have a Zoom H1 pro Mic.<br />
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Yet all of this makes me so lazy as it’s simple to record my voice and be understood.<br />
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Does this mean software like Audacity is used even less, I think not.<br />
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In my opinion, it opens up a cavern of opportunity for everyone to record audio, edit it effectively an publish something that polished and listenable, whether as audio only or as a track on a produced video.<br />
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I would encourage anyone who has not edited audio before to give it a go. You can do pretty much anything like take out all the mistakes, delete stuff and change the order for a greater sense of purpose and understanding.<br />
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Audio editing like video editing allows you the magic of playing with time - to speed it up and slow it down and change the order. Just like that 90 minute football game edited into a few minutes of highlights.<br />
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On November 2017, the team at Audacity released a whole new look where I made a thirteen help videos so far, see the playlist below. As I said in the video notes:<br />
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This a series of help videos for learning how to use Audacity and to have as much fun as possible. Video will assume little or no knowledge and are designed to make Audacity appeal to a whole new generation of users.<br />
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For me personally, I’m a novice audio editor, yet seem to have used Audacity for the last eight years, so I cannot be that bad. I tend to make help videos that are short, to the point and solve a problem or a user’s question.<br />
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My favourite for versions 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 is the new Color Themes and the Waveform Colorways. As audio is not that visual, it’s vital to look at Audacity in a form that you find attractive - get that right and it boosts confidence.<br />
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I have a second playlist too, 12 videos including the popular, How to Clean Audio using Audacity: Noise Removal, Normalise and Compressor (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpzHJGE4Dk" target="_blank">31 May 13</a>).<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-13321255800198543632018-01-09T13:07:00.002+00:002018-01-12T13:12:05.402+00:00Exploring the BeFunky Photo Editor Mobile App on Android<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I’ve used BeFunky on and off since 2009 I think, always on desktop, from memory maybe it was a downloaded application.<br />
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Yet here I am in 2018 talking BeFunky again, which seems to have found it’s way to me partly from memory as that’s what I search for after looking at the Storyboard comic strip images.<br />
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And partly on a quest to find out what Apps are out there to add photo effects to straight photos.<br />
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Google Photos will add one tap filters like Auto and twelve more where Snapseed offers effects then another ten or so too filters, however they do not extend to the graphic art look.<br />
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Enter the BeFunky Android App (also available on iOS) where I’ve made the six video playlist below.<br />
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The important part here, we are talking and using MOBILE not DESKTOP. From a few emails to and from BeFunky Support, it seems they work very hard on the Desktop BeFunky service, where the mobile app is an extension to desktop offering fewer tools.<br />
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All well and good, yet for people on the go, they will never get to desktop at all if they are out and about.<br />
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Take a look at the lead slide of the Hare in the field on the horizon. It was taken Sept 2014 with a Nikon D80 at 300mm.<br />
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Back then all desktop with a Pop Art effect. If I repeated that today, I could do it all in that field using a USB OTG cable to my mobile loading the image from SD Card and have that quartered pop art in a few mins.<br />
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Summing up, BeFunky is an example of how anyone can use a mobile phone to it’s full potential.<br />
I have no real interest, and certainly no energy for people who chase and drop Apps. As an educator, I’m looking at what Apps will be used time and time again and those in which we cannot live without.<br />
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In my personal toolbox, I’m looking for an app that changes a photo into something that proves a point or helps tell a story, teach a lesson fast and immediately.<br />
It also gets me thinking about how people are not comfortable with reality, they may prefer a little exaggeration or a literal blurring of it.<br />
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Take a look at this photo of a UK Police Car as tweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/DC_ARVSgt/status/944854377789034496" target="_blank">Sgt Harry Tangye</a>. It’s already a strong image with lovely symmetry, yet in my view, you can see too much with so much crisp detail.<br />
It took me a few mins to think about how that image could be used to say something else. In this case advertise the officer’s twitter handle overlaid onto a blur and a frame.<br />
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Refs: BeFunky <a href="https://www.befunky.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, befunky <a href="https://www.befunky.com/mobile/" target="_blank">mobile</a> with links to apps android and iOS.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-76525568353920333242018-01-06T18:40:00.000+00:002018-01-06T19:14:03.732+00:00U Scanner by Cyberlink is so Useful to Photo Scan Deskew Save pretty much anything<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I heard about and downloaded <a href="https://u.cyberlink.com/products/uscanner" target="_blank">U Scanner</a> by Cyberlink on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyberlink.yousnap" target="_blank">Android</a> on 14 Dec 17 (iOS is also available).<br />
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After a five minute test, I upgraded to Premium and paid £1.23 UK (no watermarks and no ads). For that price it would hardly break the bank.<br />
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I've made three videos on the playlist below and also include the official video.<br />
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There is some real magic involved here - and it will catch a lot of people out. U Scanner (and similar apps) let you import ANY photo into the app - which opens up a case of ethics - Is it fair to use U Scanner to process and deskew and save image that is not yours?<br />
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In these examples, I believe it is. The UK Police posted some photos on twitter for the positive use of technology. Both have a small hidden image - see the lead slide which has a mobile phone with 25 Apps on screen. They are hard to read, so use U Scanner and save.<br />
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In this example of a <a href="https://twitter.com/EssexOSG/status/947498090730311687" target="_blank">Police Drone</a> supporting Fire and Rescue, there is incredible detail - you can now read the most of the fine details on screen. Of course the responsibility, in my opinion, is on understanding your 'camera's resolution' knowing how the photo you post in public MAY BE SAVED or VIEWED at it's HIGHEST resolution.<br />
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As a classroom teacher, I used an old school whiteboard with dry wipe pens - IF ONLY I had U Scanner back then, could have saved EVERY SINGLE DAY and each lesson. Of course, I moved on to a digital projector, so all lesson notes were saved already. And yes I did use dusty white chalk too.<br />
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<b>Autonomy</b> - U Scanner and any other App like it provides a vital tool to your mobile armoury. When the need arises, make sure you are thinking right. In the final example using a pain relief tablet box, a simple photo through U Scanner makes that tiny text more accessible and therefore readable.<br />
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<a href="https://u.cyberlink.com/products/uscanner">https://u.cyberlink.com/products/uscanner</a><br />
<a href="https://u.cyberlink.com/download">https://u.cyberlink.com/download</a><br />
Play Google '<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/search_results_cluster_apps?clp=ggESChBkb2N1bWVudCBzY2FubmVy:S:ANO1ljJJQ78" target="_blank">document scanner</a>' search in appsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-82058498745027073832018-01-06T16:37:00.002+00:002018-01-06T19:15:05.833+00:00The Storyboard Android App by Google Research Is it Still a Thing?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Happy New Year People! It's 6 Jan 2018 already and last month on 11 Dec 17, Research at Google published a new android app to Transform your videos into Instant Comics.<br />
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I've made a few tests and demos and published a video playlist below. I will add more videos soon, especially as I have a backlog of ideas queued up as the seasonal vacation interrupted the flow.<br />
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I have no idea how this App has been used and if it's used at all? How could I unless there was a gallery of comic strips to browse?<br />
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Which begs the question in the title - Is it still a thing? It was only launched 26 days ago - yet in the Install, Try and Forget mentality of Apps, how do we see the examples? I'll email feedback and see what they say.<br />
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<b>Next Steps</b> - I've started to look deeper into the six visual styles and how we can predict what happens when we load a video. The lead slide and test card are two examples - on their own quite meaningless, yet for the student, quite important with an eye on design.<br />
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My own view, and given the time, it's just scratching the surface of this idea - how we can take a short video and make a captivating comic strip.<br />
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I've used <a href="https://twitter.com/dc_arvsgt" target="_blank">Sgt Harry Tangye</a>'s Bank Holiday Shift as one example. The slide shows just nine images with five text boxes which gives a fast idea how effective the storyboard can be.<br />
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<b>The Fun Element</b> comes with the 'I wonder what it will look like?' An example is the Nat and Friends video Will Computers Ever Hear which is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-RiOqgG68" target="_blank">11:37</a> long - that's 697 seconds. So if Storyboard created a comic every 5 seconds, that would be 139. Based on an average of 5 images per strip that's 697 images in total.<br />
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Yet in practice, you load the video, wait, then pull to refresh as we know. A lot easier.<br />
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Looking much wider and we need to, how we can use other Apps and Services like Google Drawings, Picasa, Comic Strip Pro and BeFunky to enhance what we already have made with Storyboard or make new comic strips based on still images.<br />
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There are a lot of double positives here, where we may try and test and demo and come up with very little that is new. Or where Storyboard maybe a WONDERFUL App, yet people may pass it by as 'too much work'.<br />
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This 'age of instant' we live in is a real worry as those of us who remember taking photos with a film camera will know we have to wait an hour, a day or a week to see any photos at all - not the REALTIME large screens that are on the back of every mobile phone and most DSLRs these days.<br />
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I have a backlog of topics and posts so that's it for this one..<br />
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<iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" gesture="media" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r8cOeKzw5wI" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-1806441690512913632017-09-19T15:12:00.001+01:002017-12-17T20:45:27.013+00:00Google Maps - Now with Video<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Video on maps with <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/tmvWoLdj7kM2" target="_blank">Baby Elephant</a> and <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/bE64qWvkKMM2" target="_blank">Guinea Pigs</a> at Twycross Zoo, UK</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve added </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113797508378819391794/photos/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">71 videos </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to google maps and made 45 post in my </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/collection/osYhP?hl=en" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Local Guides Resources</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Community.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve also created a youtube playlist called, How to Add Video to Google Maps which contains </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8J9oi-nz2_VPvcVjcu4uPcFhxNa52kFT" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28 videos</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which are embedded below (where video 28 is the oldest video - these numbers are a guide as of time or writing, will serve for this post).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This ‘How to post’ includes fives videos all recorded in portrait than do very little to show good practice. And keen eyes will spot the final ‘personal review’ video is timed at 58 seconds - and therefore will NOt to allowed to be posted at Maps without cutting off the last 28 seconds.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What has truly amazed me, how Google Local Guides have NOT TALKED ABOUT their own superb product </span><a href="https://photos.google.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">photos.google.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the brilliant Photo Assistant </span><a href="https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128862?co=GENIE.Platform=Android&hl=en&visit_id=1-636414233342883519-1326580534&rd=1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a Movie</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tool. All you have to do is select up to 50 videos from google photos and the app does the rest even including music - it’s SO FAST and SO EASY.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For another example using Google Photos Create a Movie, take a look at this local food store tour that’s been open just three weeks, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Qp5sFF4S0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Welcome to New Street Co-op</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I wanted to keep this video edit to exactly what Google Photos gave me, not changing anything at all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summary - I learned about adding video to google maps four weeks ago (on 23 Aug 17), I tried it out and added 71 videos myself. I think the feature brings Maps to LIFE in a living breathing 3 dimensional way.</span></div>
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-47509357225498695392017-08-13T21:41:00.000+01:002017-08-24T10:06:07.518+01:00People, their choices in their surroundings over time<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also on that slide, fifteen labels taking a few themes like: going on holiday by aircraft, dates from the advent of the internet and technology with a few examples and some key Decathlon dates.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a mindset, I’m thinking (and I hope you can too) and putting yourself into that exact date and time. Something that Marty and Doc had to adapt to pretty fast. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think people have not really changed that much in the last sixty years - what’s changed is the choices they can make. That is, if they are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aware</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">those choices</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the first place.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Key is to learn About and From this timeline while looking to tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - When I was an undergraduate at University of Warwick studying to be a teacher, some friends who were Religious Studies students told me about a phrase idea called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">learn about </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. They were studying the beliefs and religions of the world. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can apply this idea to virtually anything. As an example, let’s talk London 2012 and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_double_trap" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Double Trap</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> where I was fortunate enough to ask Gold Medallist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wilson_(sport_shooter)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter Wilson</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a few questions (blog post dated </span><a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2012/12/peter-wilson-mbe-on-his-gold-medal-in.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">29 Dec 2012</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with a live video from 8 Aug 2012). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve posted </span><a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/search/label/decathlon" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">three times</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> recently on how to cope with and access the modern world, here we look at the wider Decathlon angle looking back to 1950. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the last few thousand years I would imagine planet earth, has always been a large sphere and had life wandering about on it. Here it is </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#/media/File:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in 1972</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - which in our little story was a very interesting time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">London, UK to Alicante, Spain</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a two hour flight (at 900 miles). In 2017, with inflight wifi, the world seems much smaller - video call on a plane at 30,000 feet no problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Edit 24 Aug 17 - News just in, Decathlon are opening a store in Brossard, Montreal, Canada which will open 1 April 2018 in the <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/RK1C1AabCCq" target="_blank">Mail Champlain</a> Mall (as say <a href="https://www.retaildetail.eu/en/news/general/decathlon-heads-us-and-canada" target="_blank">retaildetail.eu</a></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">).</span><br />
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Going back in time - a lot is known, unlike the future ..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241537031997879999.post-39314485880240477372017-08-11T13:33:00.000+01:002017-08-11T14:17:30.038+01:00Making Good Audio with the Moto G4 using RecForge II Pro and the Zoom H1<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Of the seven hundred public videos I have on youtube, the 1st, 2nd and 9th most watched video is about cleaning audio.<br />
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For example, watch the most viewed <i>How to clean audio with Audacity: Noise Removal, Normalise and Compressor</i> at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpzHJGE4Dk" target="_blank">this link</a>.<br />
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It's with that in mind I've started to listen to everyday sounds and how best to record them. One recent example, standing in a bathroom where the ceiling fan, water faucet, paper towel and plastic bin and made very distinct sound. Listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CizY5BXl3HE" target="_blank">this one</a>.<br />
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And then we had the walk in the countryside a few days ago where I made four recordings using the Moto G4 with RecForge II Pro, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd8TynyA5yA" target="_blank">Sounds of the Countryside</a>.<br />
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The next step and to satisfy my curiosity was running a set of tests comparing the Moto G4 Mic with the Zoom H1.<br />
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What started out as a Zoom H1 compared to Moto G4 - which is better quickly turned into a Could the Moto G4 be used as an adequate, if not brilliant day to day microphone? Where the Zoom H1 set of recordings are made as control audio.<br />
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Take a look at the size of the microphones themselves with large XY Stereo set on Zoom H1 and the small pinhole mic on Moto G4. Much is seen as the same on a DSLR Lens with large multi part glass compared to small dot of a camera on a mobile phone.<br />
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Any recorded sound must hit those mics and be converted into an electric signal to be recorded. Many mics these days are tiny (as seen on the lapel of TV presenters) and many are not (like the new China Radio telescope with a diameter of 500m, see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dImAn267q4" target="_blank">my video</a>.<br />
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Light and sound have a lot in common - they both travel in straight lines and bounce off objects to reach out ears. Of course light will reflect off a surface, but only an image is seen clearly on the calm water of a lake or a mirror or glass. Any sound is made through a series of vibrations, sent through the air, solid or a liquid to be heard.<br />
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As a timeline, we have<br />
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<li>a sound is made, travels through the air and reaches the microphone</li>
<li>we hope this sound is a pure form (like a voice) and not hindered by distractions (like wind, traffic, other voices etc).</li>
<li>on hitting an intended surface, like a microphone, there and 100s of different types - as illustrated with just two like the Zoom H1 XY and the front pinhole mic of the Moto G4</li>
<li>after mic uptake we have: software, processor and storage (bitrate - wav mp3, kHz etc)</li>
<li>once stored, audio will be played back and heard through speakers, a headset etc</li>
<li>and if not as required, we use some other software like audacity to clean that audio, or to change pitch, tempo or a 100 other settings.</li>
<li>then we listen again, if happy - save</li>
<li>ready to use as required as that single file of as a component in something else like: music, film, podcast etc..</li>
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I make these simple observations, not to take you back to Science 101, but to slow us down to think about getting back to basics. In a busy world with a mobile in our pocket, we tend to see that device as it's simplest and most urgent form, often to just make calls and to text.<br />
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That's a huge shame - our phone is a multi purpose tool capable of hundreds of different tasks each and every day.<br />
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There are six videos on my Make Good Audio Playlist. This post and these videos are all about <b>listening</b> - thinking about sound, best ways to capture, then save it. To do that - turn off your eyes for a moment and <b>listen</b>.<br />
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And you need patience and time. Without that you have nothing.<br />
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<b>Conclusion of my testing</b> - I would have no hesitation in trusting the Moto G4 Microphone and RecForge II Pro in recording decent audio in an situation. That's not to say I will not use the Zoom H1, rather when I hear and need to record the audio - it's out and about with the Moto G4 in my pocket (with the Zoom H1 somewhere at home). Old adage - the best camera, microphone, paintbrush, pencil etc is the one you have with you ..<br />
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For an extension, and one I play all the time - taking photos with a Nikon DSLR versus the Moto G4. Nikon will provide a RAW NEF file that are essential for me. Yet, out on the walk the other day I took 80 photos and only 4 of them were from DSLR. Another day it will be 80 with DSLR and zero from mobile.<br />
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As a footnote, every video that's uploaded to youtube will have an automated transcript made, providing words can be detected. For my Introduction video, I believe the English Language text to be 100% correct. <br />
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This has huge benefits, not only the obvious of being understood and helping people to learn across the globe, but to be found in search in the first place (as transcripts are search indexed). As said at Google IO 2017, 'to reach the next billion users, use simple global english' (slight paraphrase I am sure by me, maybe 'use simple global language' maybe better.<br />
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Here are those words in full, so you can see the vocabulary. For the youtube support page, visit this link, <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6373554?hl=en-GB" target="_blank">Use automatic captioning</a>.<br />
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0:03 straightforward test between the zoom h1<br />
0:06 audio versus the Moto G for audio has<br />
0:10 turned out to be really for me a is the<br />
0:15 Moto G for front-facing microphone using<br />
0:18 rec forge pro 2 really adequate in fact<br />
0:22 really quite good for recording all<br />
0:25 purpose audio in your hand in your<br />
0:28 pocket so I'm outdoors<br />
0:30 both of these microphones are on a table<br />
0:32 in front of me and to demonstrate one<br />
0:34 feature is by moving my voice all the<br />
0:38 way over here and so you've got one side<br />
0:40 of the h1 where there's probably no<br />
0:42 difference on the g4 back to the center<br />
0:45 again we can go all the way over this<br />
0:47 side and you've probably got my voice<br />
0:49 from the other side again no difference<br />
0:51 maybe dropping off for the g4 back in<br />
0:54 the middle so that's it just off to<br />
0:58 write the blog post and include<br />
0:59 everything on YouTube and on the blog<br />
1:03 altogether so that was a comparison<br />
1:05 between recording audio g4 moto and the<br />
1:09 zoom h1 along with the ambient sound and<br />
1:13 the birds.<br />
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On taking a short walk on a country path through woodland, there are so many choices driven by your senses. What do you photograph or video at the time or write about later?<br />
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One option, just relax and see where the moment takes you. While out yesterday, I had nothing in mind, albeit to be 'out' in the first place. That's often the hardest step to take.<br />
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All I really wanted, to walk and see things for the first time. The Woodland in August is so different than any other time - that said, I could easily say the same about every month or season of any year.<br />
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Without really thinking my mobile came out the pocket being drawn by the Hornbeam Catkins. That was the first of seventy six photos, four audio recordings, three videos and one photosphere.<br />
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They had moved the stile, to be more exact - it had disappeared. Styles are quite iconic on a walk, they signal the end of one thing and the beginning of the next. To be fair, I know this path is on a pony route, so fair enough.<br />
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Next were the toadstools, four were sat in a row. Nine photos later then two trees.<br />
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What caught my attention, the farm machinery in the next field - something I could not see. That's what made me start recording the audio. How the tractor, the farmer's voices were all intermixed with the wind in the trees and the bird song. There were discussions on how best to attach the pickup reel to the tow mechanism.<br />
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In the video I made, you will hear four audio sets, this slide will help tell them apart and look at the waveforms. Post edit was made in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 13.0 on Win10. Audio recorded using Moto G4, then using Audacity to Normalise and Compressor (no noise reduction).<br />
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0:00 Audio One - Tractor, Birdsong<br />
1:36 Audio Two - Light Aircraft, Wind in Trees<br />
2:49 Audio Three - Strong Wind in Trees, high level aircraft<br />
3:58 Audio 4 - More high level aircraft, squeak of trees in wind<br />
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<b>Listen here</b>..<br />
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