I have to decide if I'm going to do it with a decent modern camera, and control it all in software or if I'm going to use video cameras from the 70s and 80s and a vintage video mixer.
I think I'm going with tube cameras.
Discussion
Loading...
Post
I have to decide if I'm going to do it with a decent modern camera, and control it all in software or if I'm going to use video cameras from the 70s and 80s and a vintage video mixer.
I think I'm going with tube cameras.
Way before I started #NETV, in the very early days of peertube, before COVID, before I was running a coffee shop in the mountains, when I thought I'd be an engineering manager in #BigTech for the rest of my life, I was planning to stream and do videos about computers and video games in the style of Cathode Ray Dude or LGR.
I turned a portion of our living room into a video studio. I bought some vintage computers, and set up an absolutely Bangin' windows 98 box.
I got some video cameras from the 70s and 80s and built a rig so that I could capture and mix footage from my PCs and these 70s and 80s cameras.
I had it all pretty much ready to go just before Christmas 2019, I was just waiting on some parts to arrive from China for a PC build that would serve as my primary streaming rig.
I registered a twitch account, I did a couple of test streams to an audience of one or two to find my feet. I was getting ready to turn making media into my Whole Thing.
And then it was Feb of 2020, and I caught COVID at SFO before anyone even knew it was in the country, and didn't get out of bed for a month.
And then it was March of 2020, and the world entered lockdown and the coffee shop in my adopted hometown closed and I threw the life I was living out the window in pursuit of a harder and more fulfilling one.
I'm glad I did!
Our house in GA was too small for me to have a studio area. It was too small for me to have a toy making area, even.
I made toys at the coffee shop, and I did my day job, and I learned how to run a coffee shop, but I barely had time to make toys and I didn't really have time to do anything else.
So my cameras and my computers and my 3D printers went into storage and my podcasts and media production efforts went dormant and I just tried to survive for a year.
And then I caught a lucky break and we opened the makerspace, and I thought oh man, now I can finally set up all those printers and computers and cameras and start producing media.
Ha!
Have you ever tried to run three businesses while also working a day job? It doesn't work! And you'll never have time to make silly videos for the internet.
So I kept making toys and I kept running our toy store and I tried to also run a makerspace and a coffee shop and an antique mall.
And work a day job.
And I was pretty good at it, but I was very tired, and everything I was doing suffered, and I started being really grumpy.
1+ more replies (not shown)
@ajroach42 aye, that’s the RUB
@ajroach42 Closing every episode with "aye, there's the RUB" and a wink
bonfire.cafe
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
Automatic federation enabled