[MatthewRayfield]

Heyyyy thanks glad you enjoyed it! I was surprised to wake up and see this on Hacker News today.

Thought I'd comment on the video editing:

It is all pretty low tech. I use Adobe Premiere to edit and mostly just animate transform, scale, and crop effects to achieve everything. Like for the zooms you pointed out I double up a layer of the screencap and then crop and scale. It's a bit painstaking at times.

Another little part is when I do the screen recording I set my desktop background to an image with a colored box area of 1280x720. This is the area I know will be "on screen". So I have the windows I want to pull in during the video just outside this area. Then I crop to this box in editing. I think this is better looking than just capturing the whole desktop, and I like the live feel.

I'm enjoying evolving this style... I sometimes have thoughts of making some kind of gross homemade video compositing tool in JS. But I haven't gotten there yet...

[wDcBKgt66V8WDs]

Everything about this is great, I'm not a big video watcher but I just sat through that whole thing it was gold. The selfie direction flips, the interjections from you in another setting instead of chopping the video (both funny but also a nicer way to do it honestly). The concepts you're showing. All really good. Keep it up I'll be watching!

[peteforde]

Thanks for the tips and tricks. If you ever made a video on how you make videos, I'd be first in line to watch that.

I haven't looked at Premiere since the bad old days before it traded places with Final Cut as the default choice for editing. These days, I spend most of my time on Ubuntu and use Kdenlive for my very minimal requirements.

The one thing you have that is much harder to teach is great comic timing. I suspect that it will serve you well in many aspects of your life. I don't know if you've been polishing your fast five, but if you ever have an opportunity to try your hand at standup, I'd encourage you to go for it.

[IshKebab]

Check out ShareX, it can easily capture a subset of your screen, and you can hold a modifier (I forget which) to snap to common video resolutions / aspect ratios.