Through 9/11/22

Video/audio transcript

0:00 - hey guys so right now i’m going to be
0:02 - making the ministry progress summary
0:03 - video here up through the things
0:06 - completed by september 11 2022. so we
0:10 - have quite a list here um this was the
0:12 - very first period since i launched a
0:14 - couple weeks back and so i’m going to be
0:16 - going over all of the things that i’ve
0:17 - gotten done on the ministry front uh
0:20 - kind of between then and now and so
0:21 - you’ll see like i said uh maybe in
0:24 - coming periods we won’t have quite as
0:26 - much as it’s in this one because my
0:28 - focus was torn across many different
0:30 - areas here but we’ll go through the
0:32 - tasks
0:33 - one by one here going over all of the
0:35 - progress that was made here in the last
0:36 - couple weeks all right so starting out
0:38 - here we’re just going to go through the
0:40 - outline real quick so these are going to
0:42 - be the points that i’m talking about
0:43 - here so uh these are all of the kind of
0:46 - the topics that that i got done here and
0:48 - so i’m gonna of course have a little bit
0:50 - more explanation for each of these but
0:51 - i’ll just go ahead and run through the
0:53 - list here up front so i emailed back
0:55 - people who responded to the ministry
0:57 - watch email
0:58 - i had a debate on the forum so we had a
1:01 - couple threads about matters concerning
1:02 - submitting to government authority and
1:04 - what exactly that means for us as
1:05 - christians and then we also had
1:08 - discussion about the forum structure
1:09 - moving forward given that i’ve launched
1:11 - now and i have a couple friends about to
1:14 - also start their teaching ministries i
1:16 - helped a good friend start setting up a
1:17 - ministry website of his own i researched
1:20 - uh and actually bought uh some
1:22 - technology of various forms things that
1:24 - will help future content so maybe that’s
1:26 - a little bit mysterious now but we’ll
1:28 - get into it more things related to uh
1:30 - video recordings and making video
1:32 - recordings better on the content side
1:34 - here
1:35 - and then doing everything to be able to
1:37 - resume the sr4 video series so that is
1:40 - one of the original video series here on
1:41 - the ministry going through part four the
1:43 - satanic rebellion series on ichthys i
1:45 - basically found the
1:47 - uh the planning document that i had
1:49 - lost track of for that series i planned
1:52 - out a bunch of the bible basics 6a
1:55 - content grouping on the youtube channel
1:57 - so that is the bible study that we had
2:00 - in a shared group sense we have about 90
2:02 - somewhat videos up in that series and i
2:04 - kind of figured out how to organize it i
2:06 - organized a whole bunch of stuff on the
2:07 - youtube channel better i sent a question
2:10 - to a nearby school about parking and
2:12 - this is hopefully in line with the
2:13 - in-person bible study that we’ll pick up
2:15 - here eventually and then i’m going to go
2:17 - over the upcoming work that i have here
2:19 - so picking up the initial point here
2:21 - emailing back to people who responded to
2:23 - the ministry launch email so i do want
2:26 - to give a shout out to those people who
2:28 - did take the time to reach out after i
2:29 - launched i got to have a couple
2:31 - conversations with people who i hadn’t
2:33 - talked to in quite a while and it really
2:34 - made my day you know very good to
2:36 - hear from people who haven’t
2:38 - talked to or seen in a couple years and
2:40 - you know we got to share some of what’s
2:42 - going on in each other’s lives and
2:44 - what’s changed since the last time we
2:46 - spoke so shout out to those people and
2:48 - even for everyone else who didn’t reach
2:50 - out but still subscribe to the youtube
2:51 - channel and signed up for the mailing
2:52 - list uh thank you for your support as
2:55 - well so for anyone who’s curious out of
2:57 - about 75 people bcc’d uh many of these
3:00 - people were friends from college or
3:02 - people who had been in bible studies
3:03 - with in churches and things like that
3:05 - well out of about the 75 people i bcced
3:08 - on the launch email we got about five
3:10 - new youtube subscribers and about six
3:11 - people signed up for the mailing list so
3:14 - not tons and tons but you know hey um
3:16 - and as i say here you know starting
3:19 - small is no big deal because i’m not in
3:21 - this for fame or money right i really do
3:23 - hope that some of the resources offered
3:25 - here will be useful for others but we’re
3:28 - not in this to make a big name for
3:30 - ourselves or anything like that so uh i
3:32 - was kind of hoping for i confess for a
3:34 - little bit bigger response but you know
3:36 - if people find it useful that’s good
3:38 - enough for me and so at least some
3:40 - people did and so that at least makes me
3:42 - feel somewhat validated all right so now
3:44 - we’re going to talk about the debate on
3:46 - the forum about matters concerning
3:47 - submitting to government authority and
3:49 - what exactly that means for us as
3:50 - christians so the timing wasn’t really
3:52 - the best here considering i basically
3:54 - just launched when we got really into
3:55 - this so a very good friend of mine and i
3:58 - had an extremely active debate going on
4:01 - the forum
4:02 - probably for the span of probably five
4:04 - days or so uh five or six days in the
4:06 - midst of this two-week cycle here and i
4:08 - spent a lot of my time outside of my uh
4:11 - my normal nine-to-five job i kind of on
4:13 - the forum on these threads um including
4:15 - most of the three day weekend over labor
4:17 - day so we had a monday off but i was
4:20 - pretty heavily enmeshed in this
4:21 - conversation here so i didn’t end up
4:23 - getting a lot done on the ministry front
4:25 - there uh well but of course this is
4:27 - ministry in its own way so we were
4:28 - having a very long conversation about
4:30 - the nature of this and the
4:32 - interpretation of the verses involved
4:33 - and things like that and so here’s just
4:35 - a brief outline of what ended up
4:37 - happening we had an initial whatsapp
4:39 - conversation that’s kind of what sparked
4:40 - this i compiled that into a pdf so that
4:42 - took some time cleaning up the whatsapp
4:44 - transcript so it’s about 50 pages just
4:46 - up front before we really even got into
4:48 - the technical side of things here and
4:50 - then i compiled a conversation i had
4:52 - with a mentor about some of the same
4:53 - topics uh in this conversation you might
4:55 - ask them some questions based on the
4:57 - conversation we were having i started
4:59 - the threads on the forum referencing
5:01 - these compilations then there was lots
5:03 - of back and forth uh kind of each of us
5:05 - representing our own points of view and
5:07 - of course towards the end here uh i had
5:10 - us have a voice chat so i called my
5:12 - friend on whatsapp and uh
5:14 - you know it ended up kind of working out
5:16 - better talking over voice maybe we ought
5:18 - to have done that sooner just because
5:19 - there’s some limitations to
5:21 - understanding tone and intent and such
5:23 - over text alone and you can kind of
5:25 - better pick that up when you have a
5:26 - conversation and so this helped kind of
5:28 - iron things out a little bit better and
5:29 - as i say maybe i’ll learn the lesson
5:31 - here maybe we try to do that a little
5:33 - bit sooner next time but um you know
5:35 - nonetheless uh this was a debate about
5:37 - certain matters of interpretation here
5:38 - so it was a very a
5:40 - good process of iron sharpening iron and
5:43 - us trying to get to the bottom of this
5:45 - matter of the truth here so at the end
5:47 - of it all we had probably on the order
5:48 - of 70 responses on the forum threading
5:50 - and that’s after the 50 pages of
5:52 - whatsapp conversation we had and so i
5:54 - would say at the end of this
5:55 - conversation well over 100 pages of
5:58 - uh responses here and so it was good as
6:00 - i say a worthy use of time and with that
6:03 - being said of course we did learn some
6:05 - things from this at least me especially
6:07 - you know in terms of how i communicated
6:08 - and uh basically not assuming things in
6:10 - the other person’s position and
6:12 - communication styles and learning how to
6:14 - present disagreements in a way that is
6:16 - less likely to be inflammatory things
6:18 - along those lines and of course we can
6:20 - always do better in communication so uh
6:22 - trying to learn um so hopefully in the
6:24 - future we can have even more productive
6:26 - discussions um you know and kind of you
6:28 - know have less misunderstanding before
6:30 - we finally get through to each other
6:31 - that sort of thing so a very good
6:33 - learning experience and of course lots
6:35 - of good interesting discussion on the
6:37 - particular matters here so having
6:39 - mentioned the forum here this is just
6:40 - another plug for anyone who’s interested
6:42 - there is a forum on the website i did go
6:44 - over this in the launch video although
6:45 - that was of course very long itself so
6:47 - this registration page here on the
6:49 - sidebar you get here by going to the
6:51 - community section clicking overview and
6:53 - then from the overview it’s actually the
6:54 - very last thing the table of contents uh
6:56 - this form down here and so the form here
6:59 - is where you can fill out your email
7:01 - address and your phone number if you
7:02 - want to join the forum and the whatsapp
7:03 - group um now i do want to stress that uh
7:06 - most of the conversations on the forum
7:08 - are not entirely like the one that i’m
7:10 - talking about here my friend and i um
7:12 - have kind of a separate part of the
7:14 - forum where we get really technical into
7:16 - stuff if we need to chat through
7:18 - something and uh most of the forum isn’t
7:20 - quite so over the top as us i promise
7:22 - now we are not the most concise of
7:23 - people but there are plenty of other
7:26 - people on the forum
7:27 - who have more normal length
7:29 - conversations than the hundred pages
7:30 - about really complex theological debate
7:32 - but if you’re interested in that well we
7:34 - have that too um so this was the forum
7:36 - debate as i say took up a good bit of my
7:38 - time this particular cycle
7:41 - now we also kind of coming out of this
7:43 - had a bit of just a
7:45 - bit of discussion talking about the
7:47 - forum structure moving forward so i
7:49 - won’t really put everyone to sleep by
7:50 - spending too much time here but now that
7:52 - i formally launched you know a couple
7:54 - weeks back here i had some necessary
7:56 - conversations with folks about exactly
7:58 - what that means for the forum so i’ve
7:59 - been the sysadmin of this forum for
8:01 - about three years now and now that i’ve
8:03 - launched my own ministry it’s kind of
8:05 - being put under the umbrella of the
8:07 - ministry which it wasn’t before um and
8:09 - just a few changes related to that also
8:12 - a couple of my close friends here in
8:14 - this community will probably get their
8:16 - own bible teaching endeavors off the
8:17 - ground pretty soon as well so i just
8:19 - launched here but they’re not going to
8:20 - be too far behind me and so given that
8:22 - we just needed to chat a bit to figure
8:24 - out what that means kind of regarding
8:26 - the community and how we interact there
8:29 - so specifically we’re all going to be
8:30 - teaching as we feel led by the lord
8:32 - right so we may not agree on absolutely
8:34 - all matters but you know we’ll teach as
8:36 - we feel led and it is right and proper
8:38 - for us to be independent right we are
8:40 - not a monolith nor
8:42 - were we ever trying to force each other
8:43 - to be and so given this what happens
8:45 - when you put us all together in the same
8:47 - place we spent a little bit of time
8:48 - addressing this as it will soon be kind
8:50 - of a very relevant matter for us so kind
8:52 - of practical admin stuff not going to
8:54 - spend too much time here but this is the
8:55 - behind the scenes conversations to make
8:57 - sure everything functions smoothly on
8:59 - the community so after this one of those
9:01 - friends that i just mentioned i was
9:03 - helping him
9:04 - start setting up a ministry website of
9:05 - his own so i deploy my website using a
9:08 - static site generator called hugo and uh
9:10 - because i’m helping him set up his site
9:12 - he’s gonna be doing the same because
9:13 - that’s what i know how to do um and so
9:15 - he had already converted all of his
9:16 - content into markdown but we spent a
9:18 - couple hours getting the local web
9:20 - server and the template and theme setup
9:21 - on his computer so he can see what
9:22 - everything looks like as a website so
9:24 - previously he just been editing the
9:26 - markdown files but now everything will
9:27 - come together on a local web server and
9:29 - he can see what it all looks like
9:31 - laid out in terms of a website and so i
9:33 - had to rework some of the templating for
9:35 - him since his content is laid out a bit
9:37 - differently than mine is mine’s actually
9:39 - a little bit more complicated more like
9:40 - levels of nesting and stuff but uh
9:42 - before we do things for real for real so
9:44 - like before we deploy his website push
9:46 - it out on the internet um i will
9:48 - probably want to clean up my theme on
9:49 - github so that i can actually use it as
9:51 - a sub module proper i kind of just
9:53 - overrode some changes kind of quick and
9:56 - dirty here this was the first pass to
9:58 - get things scaffolded for him in the
9:59 - meantime so he can kind of test
10:00 - everything locally but
10:02 - you know one example changes i’ll
10:03 - probably
10:04 - uh switch to using scss rather than css
10:07 - that compiled form that lets you use
10:08 - variables for things uh so that it’s
10:10 - really easy to change the colors across
10:12 - the theme so for example for the sidebar
10:14 - menu you know like sidebar menu or the
10:16 - table of contents here if you want to
10:17 - change the background color for that you
10:19 - can do that with a variable so that you
10:21 - don’t have to go hard-coding css
10:22 - everywhere so i’ll need to think a
10:24 - little bit more it’s my first time
10:26 - actually making a website theme of
10:27 - course and i would like to use it across
10:28 - all my sites as well but that’s it to do
10:30 - to come later now another thing that got
10:33 - done during this period is i made a lot
10:35 - of research and uh i actually bought a
10:38 - couple things relating to technology of
10:40 - various forms things that will help
10:42 - future content so specifically future
10:44 - video content here so i actually ordered
10:46 - a new desktop computer here
10:48 - and this is to help smooth everything
10:49 - out in the workflow
10:51 - and it will do that by just having a lot
10:53 - more processing power so more cpu power
10:56 - a lot more ram um i only had eight
10:57 - gigabytes here i’ve been running with a
11:00 - surface pro tablet i’ve had for gosh
11:02 - probably five or six years now maybe
11:03 - even longer since mid-college it’s
11:05 - getting pretty long in the tooth here so
11:07 - it’s actually served me quite well i
11:08 - don’t have any complaints with it it’s
11:09 - just now that i’m getting into some
11:11 - other things i do believe i need more
11:13 - power so that’s one of the reasons why i
11:14 - got a desktop computer here but it will
11:16 - help with the video processing but
11:18 - actually the straw that broke the
11:19 - camel’s back here uh was realizing that
11:21 - i need more computational power to
11:24 - optimally make use of voice recognition
11:26 - software um and so specifically i’m
11:28 - going to be using that in drafting video
11:29 - scripts which is something i’ll get to
11:31 - in a second but voice recognition
11:33 - software kind of heavy on the processing
11:34 - power as the computer tries to guess
11:37 - what it is you’re saying convert that
11:38 - into text and so i just knew that my
11:40 - tablet was not going to be able to keep
11:42 - up if i had that and a text editor and a
11:44 - browser and maybe a music player and
11:46 - everything else all up at the same time
11:48 - i just didn’t have a powerful enough
11:49 - computer for it and so i probably went a
11:52 - bit far the other way bought a very
11:53 - powerful computer now but hopefully
11:55 - it’ll leave me future proof for a good
11:56 - long time here and help me on the
11:58 - content generation front so that i can
12:00 - edit videos as well and have plenty of
12:02 - power for all of the content generation
12:04 - things that are coming in the pipeline
12:06 - here all right so not going to hopefully
12:08 - get too bogged down here but i also
12:11 - spent time aside from just researching
12:14 - you know that particular facet of this i
12:16 - spent a lot of time thinking about how
12:18 - to best create the video content itself
12:20 - so i thought i’d had a pretty good idea
12:22 - of how i wanted to actually make the
12:24 - videos
12:24 - but then i made the ministry overview
12:26 - video which i had written a pretty long
12:28 - script for but i did not have a
12:30 - teleprompter or anything and i maybe
12:32 - rethink some things and so specifically
12:34 - three areas i
12:35 - made decisions in things that i’d spent
12:37 - time thinking on i decided that being
12:39 - tethered with a wired lapel mic is not
12:41 - cool so i’m still recording the videos
12:43 - like that now i haven’t actually
12:44 - purchased any replacements but it keeps
12:46 - me really tied to the webcam i can’t
12:49 - really move around that much
12:50 - and so i just decided that i’d like
12:52 - wireless even if it’s more expensive i
12:54 - think it will be better experience for
12:56 - me and uh kind of lead to more natural
12:58 - content i
13:00 - am have decided as well that being
13:03 - unable to directly read scripts when
13:04 - making videos oh just will inherently
13:06 - lead to lower content quality so i
13:09 - consider myself a much better writer
13:10 - than i am a speaker and so if i’m able
13:13 - to directly kind of naturally read the
13:15 - scripts with a teleprompter so that i
13:16 - can look at the camera while i’m reading
13:18 - i just think that it will make the
13:20 - content a lot better than it would
13:21 - otherwise be and it’s a much bigger deal
13:23 - than i thought it might be um and then
13:25 - in writing a script for the ministry
13:28 - introduction video that i mentioned just
13:30 - now i realized that scripts for videos
13:32 - of any length are actually an awful lot
13:34 - longer than you’d think so thousands and
13:35 - thousands of words if i wish to improve
13:37 - the video quality with formal scripts
13:39 - like i just mentioned i’m going to need
13:41 - to step up my game in the text input
13:42 - department a lot otherwise it just
13:44 - simply takes way too long to write full
13:46 - scripts for everything
13:48 - and so specifically to solve these
13:50 - problems here’s the ideas that i did
13:52 - research and came up with here there is
13:55 - a wireless
13:56 - gopro compatible mic from a company
13:58 - called road here i think they’re a
14:00 - company from europe not entirely sure
14:02 - but they have
14:03 - kind of an action camera mic here you
14:05 - can plug it into the 3.5 millimeter jack
14:08 - and it’s got um kind of a you know
14:10 - wireless receiver here you can plug a
14:12 - lapel mic into so that’s going to be the
14:14 - microphone solution here there’s a
14:16 - teleprompter set up this is actually a
14:18 - link to a youtube video that i found
14:19 - about a guy who explains how to use a
14:21 - teleprompter setup now he actually uses
14:24 - like a custom cage for his gopro here
14:27 - like this one this aluminum cage i’m
14:30 - probably just going to use a single ring
14:31 - you need some adapter for the 52
14:34 - millimeter like lens adapter so that you
14:35 - can stick uh the teleprompter on the
14:38 - front of it and so uh here is the
14:40 - specific teleprompter that i’m looking
14:42 - at it’s from a company called the
14:43 - padcaster pair it’s really not that
14:45 - expensive and it’s pretty neat you use
14:47 - your phone here as the teleprompter and
14:49 - then you can stick the gopro behind it
14:50 - so this is what i’m looking at here
14:53 - and so that’s the teleprompter hopefully
14:55 - that would help me read content in a
14:57 - more natural way and then as to making
14:59 - the transcripts in a time efficient way
15:01 - i was started looking very seriously
15:02 - into voice recognition software so i’d
15:05 - done a lot of research instead into
15:06 - stenography a few years back i was very
15:08 - interested in it conceptually but voice
15:10 - recognition software doesn’t have nearly
15:12 - as big a learning curve and so there’s a
15:13 - company called nuance here that makes a
15:15 - product called dragon
15:17 - dragon naturally speaking or dragon
15:19 - dictation it’s a voice recognition
15:21 - software and i’m hoping that once i get
15:23 - the hang of it and i need to set some
15:24 - things up of course and it has a
15:26 - learning curve of its own but that once
15:28 - i get the hang of it i’ll be able to
15:29 - start dictating transcripts for videos
15:31 - to the tune of 200 words or more per
15:34 - minute and so that will help of course
15:35 - because even when i touch type on my own
15:38 - keyboard layout i’m only about 75 maybe
15:40 - which is certainly not bad but you know
15:43 - 200 is certainly a lot faster than 75
15:46 - and so these transcripts that are just
15:48 - not transcripts these scripts that i
15:49 - read don’t have to be super polished uh
15:51 - you know of course they need to be
15:52 - grammatically correct so that if i’m
15:54 - reading them i don’t make grammatical
15:55 - errors but i just need to make a lot
15:57 - more content than i thought i would
15:59 - initially and so this became a much
16:01 - higher priority than it was at the
16:02 - beginning so all of this stuff kind of
16:04 - wasn’t on my radar initially but i think
16:06 - all of this will help make the video
16:08 - content
16:09 - that much better and so i haven’t
16:10 - purchased these things yet but i
16:12 - probably will soon after the new
16:13 - computer that i mentioned earlier comes
16:15 - and i get it set up so we’re probably
16:17 - still a few weeks out at this point i
16:18 - don’t want to make any promises because
16:20 - you know i i don’t have everything set
16:22 - up yet i’m still kind of hashing out the
16:24 - specifics of how i want to enhance video
16:26 - content as much as i can but i’m hoping
16:28 - that building out the framework right
16:30 - now will let me have high throughput
16:32 - with high quality videos in the long
16:34 - term so that’s at least the goal here
16:36 - now
16:37 - on the actual ministry side a lot of
16:39 - what i’ve been going over here as you
16:40 - see is kind of
16:42 - meta related it’s kind of things
16:43 - relating to the ministry itself the
16:45 - structure
16:46 - planning for the future stuff you know
16:48 - maybe it’s not very interesting but
16:50 - very necessary steps here
16:52 - so on the actual content side i uh went
16:55 - and found the planning document i had
16:57 - for the sr4 video series that i have up
17:00 - and so i had a document mapping out all
17:01 - the remaining content in the section
17:03 - from the study i’ve yet to cover but i
17:05 - actually couldn’t find it so i had to
17:07 - spend like oh it was more than an hour i
17:09 - checked across all the google docs i
17:10 - have and all the markdown files on my
17:12 - computer and i even used a full text
17:13 - search application i just couldn’t find
17:15 - it and eventually i did find it it
17:16 - wasn’t a google doc
17:18 - but i spent a long time looking for this
17:20 - and i finally found it and after that i
17:22 - verified that it was in kind of like the
17:23 - right state and that is like the last
17:25 - things i’d removed from it were the
17:26 - slides from the last presentation video
17:28 - i did so that means that i can kind of
17:30 - resume that series again right from
17:32 - where i left off right there won’t be a
17:33 - break i won’t be missing anything
17:35 - because i know right where i am and so
17:37 - that maps out the upcoming content for
17:39 - that video series once i decide that i’m
17:41 - ready to pick back up in video
17:42 - production so after this then i turned
17:45 - my attentions to the youtube channel i
17:46 - started kind of cleaning things up there
17:48 - this is where i wanted to start i
17:49 - already have quite a few videos up here
17:52 - and so one of the first things i did was
17:53 - i was kind of cleaning up the videos
17:55 - from the bible study series we had going
17:57 - through bible basic 6a which is
17:59 - parapatiology the study of the christian
18:01 - walk so this is the uh first bible study
18:04 - recording that we had up uh so we have
18:06 - about over 90 videos in this series over
18:09 - the course of the entire thing and uh
18:11 - about halfway through so right around
18:13 - week 53 or so um in the study we started
18:16 - getting a lot more organized so i
18:17 - started organizing things more we kept
18:19 - the videos more focused um so i actually
18:22 - watched all the way through uh the first
18:24 - videos when i had kind of made that
18:25 - switch and we were trying to organize
18:27 - things a little more so i had
18:28 - intentionally kind of like taught
18:29 - through all the points up front before
18:30 - we had any discussion so we had this
18:32 - nice unbroken 35 or 40 minutes of
18:34 - teaching in those videos and i actually
18:36 - at the time had edited them into
18:37 - separate videos and so that’s useful i
18:39 - also skimmed through the rest of the
18:41 - videos coming after that in the series
18:42 - and i thought that i might be kind of
18:44 - doing some editing um some editing out
18:46 - of discussion to kind of just try to get
18:48 - them focused on the teaching and maybe
18:49 - i’d like have uh two versions of all the
18:51 - videos one that was like the more
18:53 - focused version and one that was like
18:54 - the long version but
18:56 - i honestly we’ve done a reasonably good
18:58 - job of keeping things more focused uh
19:00 - after this point um and so i just
19:02 - decided that it wasn’t worth the time
19:03 - you know they’re pretty good quite
19:05 - focused you know most of them are under
19:06 - 30 minutes
19:08 - most i mean many of them are you know
19:10 - more that ballpark versus some of the
19:12 - earlier uh discussion videos in the
19:13 - series for like an hour or even two
19:15 - hours so um i just decided it wasn’t
19:17 - worth it time-wise so i’ll keep going in
19:19 - the focus series there and then i got
19:22 - all of the more organized focused videos
19:25 - from the later time in our bible study
19:27 - discussion once we decided to be more
19:28 - organized split out in a separate
19:30 - playlist from the earlier videos and so
19:33 - uh the
19:34 - this new playlist will kind of have the
19:36 - more organized and focused videos which
19:37 - are probably the ones that most people
19:39 - be more interested in
19:40 - just because it’s more useful they’re
19:42 - more easy to reference and kind of get
19:43 - through you don’t have to wait through
19:44 - so much discussion um just because we
19:47 - didn’t get so organized in our study up
19:49 - until this point
19:50 - so i just organized the youtube channel
19:52 - and better uh better generally during
19:55 - this time as well so for the sr4 series
19:58 - which was my own so that wasn’t like a
20:00 - group discussion series that was just me
20:02 - um i organized the already existing full
20:04 - playlist for it i also made another
20:05 - playlist uh that was just gonna be for
20:07 - the lesson video so i had two kinds of
20:09 - videos in this series which i’ll make uh
20:11 - you know videos on in the introductory
20:13 - part of that playlist for the series
20:16 - explaining the differences there but um
20:18 - one of the playlists here doesn’t have
20:20 - kind of the more tangential discussion
20:22 - videos where i go over points that
20:24 - aren’t really in the study but things
20:25 - that are just additional information to
20:27 - keep in mind and the other playlist has
20:29 - those so one playlist is longer one
20:30 - plays to shorter the shorter playlist is
20:32 - like just the focus study videos the
20:34 - longer playlist has all the discussion
20:36 - as well so it gives you a little bit
20:37 - more of a full picture but you know more
20:38 - videos as well so the bible basic 6a
20:41 - kind of has the same split but because
20:43 - that was that group discussion we don’t
20:44 - really have the concept of discussion
20:46 - videos there so i just split this into
20:49 - uh these the smaller playlist will just
20:51 - have the focus and organized videos from
20:53 - later on in our bible study whereas the
20:55 - full thing will have well it’ll have all
20:57 - the videos up and tell those and then
20:59 - those as well um so some of the videos
21:01 - are kind of double counted in these
21:03 - playlists as well but uh the first like
21:05 - 55 weeks or so of the study we had uh
21:08 - were just quite a bit longer and less
21:10 - organized less focused and so
21:13 - that’s the full series then we have the
21:14 - more focused playlist like i just talked
21:15 - about on the last slide and then for
21:17 - both series i actually created custom
21:19 - thumbnails for each one i mean they’re
21:20 - nothing fancy they’re just uh colored
21:22 - backgrounds with the title of the
21:23 - studies it looks a little bit more
21:24 - professional here at least i think so
21:26 - and then added those to all the videos
21:28 - which actually took forever because
21:29 - there were like 115 videos or so up on
21:31 - the channel already um so uh you know
21:34 - you know that took a while you know
21:35 - video by video i didn’t find out a very
21:37 - good way to do it in bulk um i did try
21:39 - but i i couldn’t figure it out so i had
21:41 - to do it video by video and that took a
21:42 - long time i also removed the numbers
21:44 - from all the titles here um and that
21:46 - just leaves the video subjects in the
21:47 - titles which just looks more natural
21:49 - than having like week 72 of the study or
21:52 - something it just just describes the
21:53 - topics that it goes over makes it easier
21:55 - to reference kind of in a more natural
21:57 - way so that was the organization on the
21:59 - youtube channel here
22:01 - this is very interesting i live really
22:03 - close to a school
22:05 - and so i was kind of wondering on off
22:06 - hours if i have bible studies on friday
22:08 - and saturday nights could people park in
22:09 - the school parking lot walk across the
22:11 - street to my house so that we wouldn’t
22:12 - like plug up you know the roads around
22:14 - my neighbor’s houses and stuff that’d be
22:16 - nice if it were possible but i sent off
22:18 - an email and asked and i haven’t gotten
22:20 - a response yet but i’m fingers crossed
22:21 - you know i see no reason why not and uh
22:23 - i think it would be you know kind to my
22:25 - neighbors and it would make it parking
22:26 - easier for bible studies that we have at
22:28 - the physical house but we’ll see on this
22:30 - but i i got the ball rolling there at
22:31 - least hopefully and then uh now i’m just
22:34 - going to go over real briefly i know
22:36 - this video has gotten longer than i
22:37 - wanted for it to be but we’re going to
22:39 - real briefly go over some of the
22:40 - upcoming work here so
22:42 - my immediate focus or at least one of
22:45 - them will be finishing off the initial
22:47 - organization of the already existing
22:49 - content on the youtube channel so i
22:51 - mentioned we have about 115 videos
22:53 - already up there which is a lot but only
22:56 - about 60 of those are kind of organized
22:58 - and focused so like the first as i say
23:00 - about the first 50 or so in the bible
23:03 - basic 6a series which was our group
23:05 - bible study i was kind of just putting
23:07 - up the recordings because it was really
23:08 - easy for me to record it but i hadn’t
23:10 - taken the pains to really
23:12 - get it organized or focused so it just
23:14 - may not be as interesting for reference
23:16 - for many people um but about 60 videos
23:18 - are pretty good i think and so in that
23:21 - vein i’m gonna try to um organize all of
23:24 - those things before i i kind of focus on
23:27 - other things i want to make sure that
23:29 - everything i have already is kind of up
23:31 - to my standards before i turn my focus
23:33 - elsewhere so
23:34 - in doing that i’m planning on making a
23:36 - few more initial videos related to these
23:38 - i’m gonna make introductory videos for
23:40 - all the playlists that i just mentioned
23:42 - so i mentioned that i split a couple of
23:43 - the playlist here right one for the sr4
23:45 - series another one for the uh bb6a
23:48 - series keeping uh kind of explaining
23:50 - what the difference between the
23:51 - playlists are just to make that more
23:52 - intuitive i’m gonna try to actually make
23:54 - a second channel introductory video so i
23:56 - mentioned the first one ended up like 45
23:58 - minutes which was a lot longer than i
24:00 - wanted it to be and so i’m going to try
24:02 - to actually make one that’s shorter and
24:03 - then just time stamp link it to the
24:05 - longer one for people who want a more
24:07 - thorough explanation
24:08 - because i was very happy with how that
24:10 - video turned out i think it’s very
24:11 - informative but it might just be a
24:13 - little bit too long is all um so
24:16 - that is another plan here a second
24:18 - channel intro video i’m gonna try to
24:19 - keep that one like actually 10 or 15
24:20 - minutes um you know much more rapid fire
24:23 - about uh the main points of the ministry
24:25 - it might serve as a more gentle
24:26 - introduction for people who aren’t ready
24:28 - to go watch 45 minutes of explanation um
24:31 - so finally um
24:33 - i want to start filling out all of the
24:35 - things for the existing content so the
24:37 - timestamps the summaries the content on
24:39 - the study web pages you know this is
24:40 - what i was talking about before i’m
24:42 - making sure that i i do everything that
24:43 - i need to for the things that already
24:45 - exist before i turn my attention to
24:47 - other things and then i’m also planning
24:49 - to keep researching all that i need to
24:50 - do to finish preparing for the video
24:52 - creation workflow so i talked about some
24:54 - of the technology relating to that uh
24:56 - the new computer the wireless
24:59 - receiver for the lapel mic that i can
25:00 - plug into the gopro the teleprompter and
25:03 - then the uh the voice recognition
25:06 - software to help me hopefully make
25:08 - transcripts that much faster so that i
25:10 - can actually
25:11 - speak off of scripts for all my videos i
25:13 - think that will help improve the quality
25:14 - of all of those factors that might go
25:16 - into making higher quality videos i
25:18 - still need to kind of figure all this
25:19 - out so there’s still lots to be done
25:21 - here um at least to meet my ever
25:23 - increasing standards here i keep
25:24 - thinking of ways to do this better
25:27 - ways in which i would like to hopefully
25:28 - enhance the content here but i’m also
25:31 - very hopeful that the weight will be
25:32 - worth it in terms of the quality that
25:34 - this preparation should hopefully yield
25:35 - in the long term so lots of information
25:38 - here um i as i say i kind of hope in the
25:41 - future these maybe won’t be so long um
25:43 - just lots of different focuses here in
25:45 - this first period after launch my
25:47 - attention is getting pulled a lot of
25:48 - ways hopefully eventually things will
25:50 - kind of stabilize a little bit so it’ll
25:52 - be a little bit more like well here’s
25:53 - the study i’m working on right now and
25:55 - you know maybe like three slides rather
25:56 - than 15
25:58 - but at any rate this should hopefully
25:59 - give you a pretty good idea of where my
26:01 - attention has been the last couple weeks
26:03 - and uh with this we will pick back up in
26:05 - uh you know approximately two weeks give
26:07 - or take
26:08 - with the next update going over the
26:10 - things that have gotten done in the next
26:11 - period so i hope you’ve found this
26:13 - helpful um
26:15 - and uh with that you know we’ll close
26:17 - out here and
26:18 - hope to see you all again in the next
26:20 - video