Video Creation - DaVinci Resolve
The podcast episodes were recorded in Zoom, which consisted of three, sometimes four, 40 minute videos, due to Zoom time restrictions on group recordings.
This meant twelve or sixteen different sound files, as Zoom provides separate sound files per participant.
The biggest challenge in creating and editing the videos, was ensuring a seamless audio and visual experience. Some scenes were recorded several times, thus the timing of the cuts and edits from the video and sound files, needed to be perfect to maintain continuity, especially when scenes needed to be deleted. Otherwise one of the hosts may have referred to something they'd said before, which was no longer in the final cut.
All visual imagery (player graphics etc.) for the channel, including the logo and YouTube thumbnails were created.
Here's a scene with a video overlay, timed to appear and fade in time with the presenters comment.
This scene involved a joke where one of the presenters was imitating Stan Laurel, where Stan Laurel's head was superimposed on the presenters head.
The timing and transition effects of the images, as well as the presenter layouts were meticulously edited.
This again posed a challenge, as each presenter shared their own screens during recordings, and there were differences in aspect ratio. Various tiling and border effects in DaVinci Resolve were used to mitigate this.
The Results
When the episodes were reduced to run between 20 - 25 minutes, the watch times increased from 25% to 80%. The team was unable to post consistently, as this was a hobby, hence subscriber numbers remained low, however the quality of the content and its development can be seen with each episode from the YouTube channel, from Visit Site link below.
