u/Byte_Xplorer

I've had my channel for over 7 years. It's an educational channel about technology. My usual videos are completely educational: tutorials, courses, etc.

But now I want to add a new type of video: tech storytelling (where I go into details about a tech "disaster" that happened in the past and then throw in some technical insights at the end).

So the main part here is the script and my storytelling. I'm not really comfortable on camera so I want this to be just my voice. And the issue with this is: what to use as visuals?

I monetize too little at the moment so I cannot spend any money on paying someone to edit/animate my videos. And while I know some basic editing and do some very basic animations that I use for my educational videos, this kind of storytelling videos might require visuals that are done with better skills and much more edit time that what I offer.

This kind of content is probably more suitable as a podcast, but I want to use it on my channel because it makes sense with the rest of my content.

Also, I'm a bit scared about the de-monetizations that have been going on lately, so I'm not sure about just throwing in AI as the visuals while my voice tells the story.

I'm an online educator (about technology) and recently started posting reels with myself talking on camera.

For years my social media content has been purely educational: I always explain a concept, an example or an exercise. But for reels I noticed this is not the right way to go. That kind of content is more suitable for youtube. But on Instagram these reels turn out to be too "dense" with content. So I'm trying to change my strategy and start mixing in a couple reels with a different style.

So far my audience perceives me as a distant and formal teacher. And that's mostly because of the kind of content I post, as well as the fact that I'm too used to teaching in a classroom and not too comfortable with being on camera (slowly getting used to it).

This is why I want to post some more "relaxed" reels. Of course I can't become a completely different person, but I would like to show my "human" side a bit more. But I don't really know how to frame these reels, given that reels need to be short.

After some brainstorming I realized I have many opinions I could share, short anecdotes or even memories of my times as a student. My problem is I tend to turn everything into an educational post or a "teachable moment", and then I feel compelled to add an insight or some conclusion I got from what I'm saying, since I want it to have some value. And that kills the whole vibe.

A few examples of things I could post are:

• what I expected to be able to do after my first year at university (vs reality),
• things that intimidated me when I started working in the tech field,
• what I wouldn't have guessed about the job while I was still a student,
• how we learned/studied/worked before AI even existed,

etc.

I don't want to create something as a "new section" or a new "content type" that forces me to keep a certain topic or make a specific video series. I just want to be able to post this kind of "I'm not teaching" content whenever I feel like it. But don't know how to frame it without it looking as a random thought and without it confusing my audience because I suddenly start talking in a different way.

I know some items have a higher chance of being sent together, but that's not enough. My country has a "5 packages a year" law where you can only get at most 5 packages. So is there any way I can pick items from different sellers knowing that they will be put together?

Don't get me wrong: I love kdenlive and can't believe how many features it has. But I've tried an old 25.08.0 version as well as the latest 26.04.0 and with both I'm getting constant crashes every few keyframe rotoscoping.

Detailed rotoscoping is already a nightmare when you have to add lots of keyframes, but the crashes are making the task insufferable. There were so many crashes that even the recovery file got corrupted at one point and I'm now pressing Ctrl+S like crazy and making manual copies of my file just in case.

Since this seems to be an old bug, maybe someone knows of a workaround or something I can do different?

I'm on Windows. I have a 30 second clip where I applies Rotoscoping (Mask) effect and am keyframing a lot because there's subtle motion that needs to be adjusted.

I am trying to start an account for opera and classical music content. I do need to post concert fragments or at least the audio.

But in the past I have seen a choir getting their videos muted because they were singing Mozart (who has been dead for more than 200 years).

At the same time, I see accounts like @reelsclassics or @artmusic_production posting videos from concerts and sometimes even with no attribution, and they seem to suffer no apparent setbacks.

So how to do it? I know there are free recordings like the ones found on musopen.org or wikimedia commons but those are like 100 years old, mostly just audio and the quality is absolutely horrible, so not something I can work with.

I have been working as a backend dev for a few years but I never built a good portfolio: most of my github repos are things I started to try a technology and then dropped, or even projects required by job interviews. So I have them as private repos.

I regret not having built anything that is at least somewhat "finished" in order to have a portfolio I can show.

Now that most code can be written by AI, does it even matter to have a portfolio?

If so, what kind of projects should I aim at? Or maybe use AI to finish some of the old unfinished projects?