Very informative and enjoyable. I echo the narration sentiment, maybe a
little more life in the voice would hold attention.
My only other comment is some of the information pictures go by pretty
quickly. It'd be neat even in a slower slideshow version so I could take
the time to read the ads and pictures :-) Of course that's coming from an
enthusiast perspective. Regular viewer runtime suggestions are good (your
10-15m YouTube algorithm).
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 12:43 PM Tarek Hoteit via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> 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
> >>>
> >>
>
