1. I thought making a short video blog entry wouldn’t take long. Then I spent two hours figuring out the best spot to shoot it and then doing trial runs to see how it looked.
2. Wow, do I need a new webcam. My old Logitech QuickCam just doesn’t cut it.
3. You need some serious balls to talk in front of a camera for ten minutes.
4. I need some decent video editing tools to make things look more professional. (And better lighting.) Badly. Anyone have any suggestions? (Windows)
5. If you make a mistake with no editing tools, you’re kinda screwed. Especially 8 or 9 minutes into a ten-minute segment.
6. It’s a lot easier to make a fool of yourself if you’re alone in a dark room and not on a stage somewhere.
7. I look and sound way better in person. (I hope.)
8. Ten minutes goes by scarily fast, even when you don’t have much to say.
9. Once recording the video is complete, you still have a good hour or more of uploading, encoding, tagging, describing, etc. Viddler is pretty slick, though.
10. Watching yourself on video is rough. I thought I was a helluva lot wittier when I was recording it.

Curious as to what I’m talking about? Check out this week’s roundup blog post at Protagonize.

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