making universal assets for video editing, the global file tray in screenflow (ftw!)

I’ve been really trying hard to get my act together to keep to a schedule when it comes to putting out videos on time — the main issue has been the thought of the edit, that’s why I’ve been doing a lot of straight takes where i don’t have to edit things — create a template and stick to it, ideally thou, i’d have lots of templates to choose from especially for the scheduled days.

I’ve just started to play around with screenflow 9 a lot more in the last week and utilise the global library which allows me to use assets across files — basically if i make anything in screenflow then I’ll have assets to just quickly drag and drop in, this makes it easier then to add in a subscribe button or layer up an effect, end scene or fade in transition.

I want to build up on the templates I’ve already got and then have a number of these rendered effects on the time line, keeping the edit time to a minimal because I only need to find the timings i need and drag the effects to the place — just building up a library of .mov files that i make in screenflow, export and keep them in the global library.

It’s working pretty sweet, apart from the fact that the viewer of the global library is pretty sucky so naming conventions are important - like for instance if the video aspect is 1080/720 or a custom look, I’m working on it, maybe i can put these out as a pack on gumroad as well, leading up to do custom work in the near future.

As much as I’d like to improve the main camera shot and have a secondary shot for ‘making’ videos for raspberry pi related projects i want to build I’m focusing on setting up the editing side of things right now so i can secure some editing positions. I know that i can be creating assets for OBS too.

I’d love to be streaming this stuff too but i really need failover for my internet and a separate machine for the streaming part — I’m feeling strongly pulled towards dedicated hardware for streaming right now instead of a PC unit, something that i can a sim in or BOND with multiples to do the stream side and just feed that an HDMI feed in from elsewhere.

I know I’m dropping the ball on the streaming front because i can actually crowdsourced a bunch of ideas and potential work if I’m live doing it and people who have time can learn a bunch of skills too (or me learn faster ways of doing it from the wisdom of the crowd!)

Anyway, this is what i got done today!

__humble x

ps. I’m starting to put all my courses on skillshare and udemy (paid and free) over on Hive account@wetrainonline — I use this to feed an rss to twitter as well, so a random one is posted nightly if you wanna catch up with the back log.