My friend and I are going to make a series of maker videos in the coming months. Before I start working directly with him, I want to develop a bit of experience with maker video editing. In the last few months, I’ve become fascinated with these maker videos.
I want to get some practice making good videos about building things before we start our School Bus conversion. We are planning that the moment we get our drop-shipping store to monthly profitability with a team to manage the day to day.
Here are my favorite makers:
This is my first shot at making a maker video. I purposely have kept the video unlisted as I it’s just an easy, fast experiment to learn some of the mistakes before I’m really trying to make something great.
What is Happening Here
In this video I just fix a pair of scissors with Sugru.
Sugru is just some putty that cures to be really durable rubber. It’s great stuff for fixing all sorts of problems.
It’s a very simple project on purpose. All I’m doing is gluing scissors together using a single product. The reason for making a video wasn’t to make the best maker video of all time, but to do something quick so I could practice making and publishing a maker video. The best way to learn is to make mistakes doing.
Maker Video Editing Experiment
Maker Video Lessons Learned:
- Manual Focus – The wacky focus is due to the autofocus moving around. When sped up it really takes away from the shot. Also, the autofocus is wrong often so it tends to grab the wrong place. I switched the camera towards the end of the project from auto focus to manual focus and the last few seconds were much better.
- Speed up Rates – Most of this is sped up to 300% I feel l like this is a bit fast, but it’s in the ball park of right on.
- Editing Time – These videos take FAR less time to edit than my previous travel videos. This is a much less intense editing style. Very good news.
If you found this useful or have any tips for doing great maker videos, please share them in the comments. I’d love to hear from you.
