maaca tv is great idea, guys..

even better idea: come shoot an episode at my place.. You can take  footage of my neices begging me "are you ever gonna put all the peices back in the games or even turn them on this year. you promised last year and the year before."
the second half of the show can be a tour of other's members garages and basements.. Should make for entertaining TV as their wives  point out all the  project games gathering dust  and clogging up the space .

If you're gonna go the podcast route (I'd recommend it) then I suggest you get libsyn.com to host it. You pay a monthly fee, upload your stuff, and it generates an RSS feed for you that can then be submitted to itunes. The cool thing with it is that you don't pay for bandwidth, it's a flat fee!

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maaca tv is great idea, guys..

even better idea: come shoot an episode at my place.. You can take  footage of my neices begging me "are you ever gonna put all the peices back in the games or even turn them on this year. you promised last year and the year before."
the second half of the show can be a tour of other's members garages and basements.. Should make for entertaining TV as their wives  point out all the  project games gathering dust  and clogging up the space .

Actually not a bad idea!!!

I can see it now... Episode 5... ''Pinball Widows!''

I have run Personal Touch Productions (www.personaltouchpro.com) here in Calgaryfor the past 15 years producing online and DVD video.  I think the MAACA TV is a great idea!  Multimeter 101 is a perfect first topic.  My advice would be to make sure you do significant editing to keep it very quick and to the point.  Too much banter often ruins these types of video.  Blah blah blah, information, blah, blah, blah, information is the wrong formula.  Edit it down so you end up with information, information, information, blah, information, information, information, blah.  Less is definately more when it comes to this style of video.

I would also suggest doing a quick time-line (script) containing the information you want to portray in each episode.  It can be as simple as single word headers with expanded info under each one. This will help keep your video moving and on-track.  

You have probably considered all this already and if so, sorry to point out the obvious.  

Spend the time editing the video and cutting it tight.  Take close ups of the machines, parts, equipment, etc that you are talking about and use them as cutaways for your edits.  Editing the same shot/angle to the same shot/angle looks really bad.  Use a 2-3 second cutaway to a close up and it will look sweeeet!!  You can keep the audio running underneath and just cutaway the video to keep the transition smooth.

OK - that's all for now.  If you need anything, please ask.  I would be more than happy to help out with any technical/creative questions you have.  If I can be of any assistance please let me know.  

PS - 20 minutes can be a long time when it comes to web video.  How many online videos have you watched that kept your attention for 20 minutes?  Less is more - oh yeah - I already said that, sorry  

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maaca tv is great idea, guys..

even better idea: come shoot an episode at my place.. You can take  footage of my neices begging me "are you ever gonna put all the peices back in the games or even turn them on this year. you promised last year and the year before."
the second half of the show can be a tour of other's members garages and basements.. Should make for entertaining TV as their wives  point out all the  project games gathering dust  and clogging up the space .

Reality shows at their best. Would prob catch on.

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I have run Personal Touch Productions (www.personaltouchpro.com) here in Calgaryfor the past 15 years producing online and DVD video.  I think the MAACA TV is a great idea!  Multimeter 101 is a perfect first topic.  My advice would be to make sure you do significant editing to keep it very quick and to the point.  Too much banter often ruins these types of video.  Blah blah blah, information, blah, blah, blah, information is the wrong formula.  Edit it down so you end up with information, information, information, blah, information, information, information, blah.  Less is definately more when it comes to this style of video.

I would also suggest doing a quick time-line (script) containing the information you want to portray in each episode.  It can be as simple as single word headers with expanded info under each one. This will help keep your video moving and on-track.  

You have probably considered all this already and if so, sorry to point out the obvious.  

Spend the time editing the video and cutting it tight.  Take close ups of the machines, parts, equipment, etc that you are talking about and use them as cutaways for your edits.  Editing the same shot/angle to the same shot/angle looks really bad.  Use a 2-3 second cutaway to a close up and it will look sweeeet!!  You can keep the audio running underneath and just cutaway the video to keep the transition smooth.

OK - that's all for now.  If you need anything, please ask.  I would be more than happy to help out with any technical/creative questions you have.  If I can be of any assistance please let me know.  

Hard to shoot multiple scenes of people talking/explaining with only one camera. Unless of course you do the same scene over a few times from different angles then use one audio..

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Hard to shoot multiple scenes of people talking/explaining with only one camera. Unless of course you do the same scene over a few times from different angles then use one audio..

Actually you would be surprised.  It is actually easier to film the scene 3 times with one camera (wide shot for audio to begin with then a mid-shot roaming camera and then a close up shot) than it is to have three cameras going at the same time.  With the single camera you can make sure that you have the takes and retakes you need for each shot.  Plan when you want to go to a mid shot roaming or a close up and shoot for the edit.  With the three cameras you have to edit for the shoot which means much more time spent in the edit room getting it the way you want it.

I am assuming a low budget of course.  With a big budget you can shoot three times with three camera and then spend 50+ hours in the edit room.  You are right - that is the best but very time consuming.  I shot a series of home improvement videos entirely with one camera and when we were done you would swear we had a 5 camera shoot going on.  

Key to shooting one camera:  Do it over and over again in the same spaces and with the same movements.  You can use the cutaways close ups to cover up any areas where you just can't piece it together.

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Reality shows at their best. Would prob catch on.

pinball reality would not be complete without a  montage of the postman dropping off packages from BAA, Pinball resource,  FAO, Mantis amusements,etc at my doorstep
and my nephews anxiously going through the packages "is this the peice.. is this the peice.. is this the peice you need to finish the game"
"no" (repeat ad  naseum)
"where does it fit on the playfield?"
"it doesn't"
"IT doesn't!?!?!"
"it can't fit because it's a peice for  a different game"
"r u hiding more machines somewhere else?"
"no, just that one day (after i finish this game) i might want that game and peices are hard to come by"
"peices for machines you don't have and can't finish what you have now!"

[fade to black as nephews storm off upset, still waiting to play their first game]

I would like to see a complete monitor adjustment process, yyou know, convergence, brightness, colour adjustments etc. as well as discharging for safety, capping etc.

Dave (No frizzy hair yet, but somehow the alligator clip and screwdriver just doesn't seem right...)

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I would like to see a complete monitor adjustment process, yyou know, convergence, brightness, colour adjustments etc. as well as discharging for safety, capping etc.

Dave (No frizzy hair yet, but somehow the alligator clip and screwdriver just doesn't seem right...)

I like that... I have some equipment, but the best is a monitor tester for that...