I eliminated CD swaps FOREVER. (Patreon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRuhRfvIkn0

This is a video I've been wanting to make for a long time. I had not attempted it until now because I knew it would be a tremendous amount of work; it was, for several reasons.

First because it's documenting a whole branch of computer technology most of us know nothing about - I was unaware it existed until about five months ago. I had to research it until I was reasonably confident that I knew what I was talking about, then source the necessary gear (some of which is on loan), then figure out how to make it all work, then figure out what the caveats were.

Second, because it was originally about two completely different branches of the industry, and I didn't realize that until I was right about to shoot. At that point I decided to split the second half out and make it a separate video (hopefully in the next week or so; but i WILL deliver this time) and then I had to rewrite the script for the first half, and I didn't realize until editing that I had not really adjusted things to compensate for the new angle, so I had to go back and reshoot - on a video that was already full of a ton of B-roll that took forever to get.

Third, because this is actually three separate video projects, as you'll see. When I first got the devices I'm showing off in this video, I almost immediately had a vision of how I wanted to demonstrate them, and that vision was: A bitchin' music video. So I made one.

I've wanted to make music videos most of my life. It's probably a lot of why I started doing video - I imagine syncing music to just about everything. Music is very expensive to license though, and changes the tone of a work completely (which I realize some people will not love; sorry, this was for me, check back next video), and when aiming for "cool" it's very easy to miss and hit "dorky." I chose both in this case.

I am extremely pleased with the result. It's basically what I saw in my head, meaning that, as a creator, I have managed to actually execute on my imagination, a thing that has frustrated me for my entire life until about a year ago. So I'm pretty satisfied.

After I decided I was doing this, I decided the intro needed to be a skit. So I did one of those, which meant that this video required three different scripts and three different shoots, not counting pickups, and all of it completely new territory for me. That was grueling! I had a little bit of a breakdown in the middle! Not recommended!

The result is, I feel, equal parts didactic and entertaining - the goal just about anyone on here wishes for, I think, so I'm gonna call it a win. I hope the music isn't too loud, I got it Pretty Close but it might be a few dB over on your system, I can't really know until I get feedback.

The second video is going to be about the purpose of CD libraries in the 90s, which are a related technology - the Nakamichi drive itself is more or less consumer oriented, but the other product I put it in is not. It was squarely directed at businesses with very specific needs which I want to talk about, but it would have wrecked the flow of this video completely if i did it now, and it's not really the same topic, just tangential. A consumer, after all, could have bought this particular product, which was more or less "prosumer" in nature.

Keep an eye out for that next video, and I hope you enjoy this one!

The music, if you're curious, is from Brad Sucks, who releases all his work as public domain (later changed to CC, sort of, because people kept getting confused) so this didn't cost me anything, but please go buy his albums, they're really good.