Yes. I second that. Having the daughter as a narrator is perfect. No offense,
Steve.
Regards,
Tarek Hoteit
> On Mar 8, 2023, at 10:09 AM, W2HX via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> I loved it. I would only suggest a human narrator like your daughter would
> be great. But I don't like the computer generated narration (I am right about
> the computer narrator, aren't I?).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lewis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 11:54 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> Cc: Steve Lewis <lewiss...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [cctalk] Re: on the origin of home computers
>
> Adrian,
>
>> There's a long tail to the video with no video and blank audio. After
>> a while, a section of audio from the main flow is repeated.
>
> Thanks, yeah that was a left over to compare an alternate ending. One
> idea is to make it such that the video can "loop" seamlessly for continuous
> play, at say a museum. And the plan is to put it under Creative Commons
> since I'm told that's the best way to help ensure it can be re-used without
> question.
>
> The plan was to keep it to 10min - at one point we had it up to 30min!!
> Minus the inadvertent excess, it'll be exactly 15min. A part2 might focus
> more on the Z80 and 6502 lines themselves, or I was thinking a kind of bio on
> the actual engineers involved ("the names and faces").
>
> Canada is represented also :) And I just recalled, the "TK-80" (training kit
> Z80 board) is also a "made in Japan" item (and led to the PC-8001 in '79), it
> probably needs a flag (and I wanted to show a France flag for the Micral-N --
> but in the effort to keep it closer to 10min, we just couldn't cover every
> item to keep a reasonable tempo). So then we debated to not have popup flags
> at all, but I felt it was important to note that there was international
> involvement here.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 5:55 AM Adrian Godwin via cctalk <
>> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> Not really technical, but a couple of presentation points :
>>
>> There's a long tail to the video with no video and blank audio. After
>> a while, a section of audio from the main flow is repeated.
>>
>> It seems to be common to consider Youtube videos more approachable if
>> they're up to about 10 minutes long. You might benefit by splitting it
>> into
>> 2 parts.
>>
>> And even further off topic .. I see that the pictorial guide includes
>> machines from GB and Japan (and I think a Sharp is mentioned in the
>> description). Although GB was heavily influenced by USA machines it
>> did have it's own distinct history and so, I think, did Japan. Russia
>> also had clones of well known machines and their own designs. Did any
>> other countries have a history that was more complex than picking the
>> best known parts of the international trade ?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:24 AM Steve Lewis via cctalk <
>> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> We're making final touches on a short history-video we've been
>>> making
>> about
>>> home computers (my daughter, in middle school, has been helping).
>>>
>>> If anyone has time/interest to do a review, the draft listing is here:
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9mgSVJZoFc
>>>
>>> Unless anyone spots a gross technical error, we're hoping to render
>>> the final sometime this weekend or sometime this month.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
