Rule 30: You are NOT ALLOWED to read my process document
The video process is pretty flexible. A bunch of things can happen, but the order is somewhat fluid, at least up to the point of release. Chat GPT is pretty good at answering any questions you have.
- Come up with ideas (Dragooning the kids into this is very helpful)
- Write and Refine Script, come up with memes
- Process source material (sheet music or whatever) into whatever you need
- Create musx document if appropriate
- Write parody lyrics if appropriate
- Get the music in good enough shape for what is needed
- Film the video
- Analyze lyrics for the source material (and parody version)
- Determine changes needed to the website for the video
- Upload in progress versions of documents to Google Drive as needed
- Generate shortened links for documents that go in the video description (I use bit.ly)
- Write video description and any additional commentary
- Description format: Rule #3, you are NOT ALLOWED to read the video description. [teaser text]
- Add a link to the transcript / director's commentary if it exists
- Write transcript from the filmed video
- Cut video description to 5000 or fewer characters
- Finalize additional commentary document
- If there is a transcription put at the top: RULE #13, you are NOT ALLOWED to read my transcripts
- If there is a director's commentary put at the top: RULE #14, you are NOT ALLOWED to read the director's commentary
- For sequenced videos, add next/previous links to the previous and instant videos
- Make public documents in Google Drive available to anyone with the link
- Publish the video
- Mark as whether a children's video or not (prevents commenting and playlisting)
- The video can be published as private as much as needed to correct MISTAKES
- Thumbnails can be generated using ffmpeg (example command line: ffmpeg.exe -i FileName.mp4 -ss 00:01:01 -vframes 1 Thumb.jpg)
- Audio can be extracted from video using ffmpeg (example command line: ffmpeg.exe -i input.mp4 -vn -acodec pcm_s16le -ar 44100 -ac 2 output.wav)
- If the video allows comments, add and pin a comment "Rule #6: You are NOT ALLOWED to comment on my videos!"
- Make changes to the web site
- Verify changes are good
- DISLIKE the video
- Repeat until heat death of the universe