From blog to vlog?

Well, maybe not exactly vlog.  I've decided to try to create a youtube channel.  More accurately, the youtube channel that I already have that has a few videos from trackdays, a few videos of my wife's horse, and one really shitty "shakey cam" video I took with my iphone is going to get regular content.  Why?  Well, that really shitty iphone video is now up to 11k views.  Apparently, if you make a video on something that interests people they'll watch it in "droves" even if the vid quality is shit.  That particular video happened to be a quick one on how to enable a feature on a computer that a lot of tech youtubers MENTIONED, but never demonstrated how to ENABLE.  I think I have a few other ideas of videos of that nature I can post, and I'm also going to start filming a lot of everything else I do to see what people are interested in.  One of my old coworkers seems to think I do enough interesting stuff that at least some part of my life will be of interest to someone at the very least, and there's even a possibility that ALL of it will catch on as some sort of "lifestyle channel," because apparently that's a thing.

To that end, I've got myself a license to adobe premiere, and I'm learning to use that.  I've even posted my first on-purpose video of me putting a barrel in my AR10, and have received feedback from a few friends on how to make the productions better.  Now that my wife has seen me doing this, even SHE is interested in making videos of mostly the vlog type, so I've hooked her up with a little setup for vlogging with her iphone, and she needs to come up the curve with premiere too.

My plan with all of this is more or less to just have a camera running when I'm doing what I do, and maybe ramble while I'm doing it and/or just voiceover it afterwards.  I'm going to try to be as inobtrusive as is possible with the camera work and then just kinda make it watchable in premiere.  We'll see how it goes!

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