FranLab Feedback #1

Hello Fran, I am one of the culpritts on the camerastandpoint, "complaint".. your answer is completely valid. I agree! excuse me!

I don't care about your camera angles, (in fact I think they are fresh and fun) I pronounce words all wrong and such, the cheapy radio video was actually great seeing what they have become. Geez there are some whingers. You do good work, "2% or whatnot” are the vocal ones and 98% love the videos. So don't change! Youtube's editing tools suck period (simple splicing in segment/deleting segment is very easily done in software so they really need to offer it) Keep 'Frants' or similar content, but perhaps on a b-roll channel or unlisted for Patreon? Livestreams don't work for me, I find they are almost always far too long winded and I can rarely ever catch them at broadcast time. Ideas, little project videos, random content, even some new cheapy stuff, your perspective on various products, Frantone stuff on how you got the effects, what brought you to those effects, modern re-creations like the Fuzzmas were great.

Anton

Love this video. Could be a good concept. FrFrF - Fran's Friday Feedback

Yes, agree - that high angle is Fran's signature. Just like the 'Byeeee...'. Got me laughing with the pointing at the rolls of tape.

I don't get why people are constantly complaining about your content. I don't have an issue with any of it. I love what you make, thus why I'm here. :D

Jessica McIntosh

Your "YT brand" is uniquely you, from what you choose to share to how you say it and shoot it. In a universe of tech and craft YT channels, it's what makes your content stand out from the crowd. I may not engage with the topic of every video you make (as in wanting to do something similar myself), but I watch them all because I always want to see and hear what you have to say. Please change things only when it's your true desire, and not as a reaction to outside influences. I love this video and the idea of "Feedback" videos, which could even include the occasional mailbag item or any other random stuff to which you don't want to dedicate a whole video. The general idea of getting through many little things, including comments, could be thought of as "Clean Out the Clutter" or some similar phrase. I'm not one who watches livestreams, with the single exception being SpaceX launches. I don't watch live broadcast TV, and I only listen to live radio when in the car. I think the main issue for me is the focus demanded by live content, which is work for me, especially when relaxing. So even the most amazing livestream likely won't grab my attention.

BobC

I have always liked the camera angle you use, it gives a different perspective which I think is better than only showing the person's hands or using an inset of the person's head as some others do. And I think it's funny that people feel the need to correct pronunciation rather than accept that words are pronounced differently in different parts of the world, let's not go down the sodder - soLder route again.

David Peaker

I was glad when YouTube got rid of annotations, because more often than not they were just used as distractions for advertising. The worst offenders would actually put them so close to the controls that you'd click them by mistake and end up opening some accursed sponsor link. It sucks that there's no way to upload a modified version of the same video later, or to add legitimate annotations, or to do your own subtitles. That's weirdly deficient, but that kind of sums up the entire Google ecosystem. They're SO good in so many ways, but every once in a while you trip over something that's so obviously broken or just WRONG and you wonder how a company with the talent pool of Google did something so stupid.

Circuitmike

Strangely, youtube claims annotations are on while viewing this video. I guess it is for old videos that already had it.

Lennart Sorensen

It's funny about the "suite" vs. "suit" comment. There are words that I've only ever seen written in books and when I'd finally heard them pronounced by someone in a conversation realized that I was reading them wrong, like "disingenuous". In my 20s I thought it was pronounced "dis-en-genius". As a kid in grade school we had a flash-card session once with words that were a little more difficult for our ages and one time I got "nevertheless". I thought it was pronounced "ney-vert-elous". Enjoyable video that seems to work well for the natural flow of how you like to explain things, compared to the awkwardness of streams that can be filled with long stretches of distraction as the person is trying to read and respond to the barrage of social media coming at them in real time.

Peter Knazko

Social conditioning? If everyone was the same the world would be a boring place. It may be other people who need social conditioning., You make useful contents. I do like when you compare stuff like the video with the cheap radio and show how things work.

MrMobodies

there are tools (not sure if they are from YT or 3rd party) to help edit the auto generated titles, but its still a huge pain to edit, the few Youtubers that do it usually have a 3rd party service do it, or they only release like 1-2 videos a month and they are all scripted anyway, so they just feed the script in and align it with the speech.

BiggieJohn

Don’t apologize. You give away your time and energy doing whatever you decide you can do. Having a viewer squawk about “It’s not enough!” or “You’re doing it wrong!”? You will find the very rare nugget of knowledge, but the vast number of squawks can go into the “Fuck-it Bucket”. (grin) Thanks for what you do. I seldom watch a show without learning something.

Mike O'Dell

It could be....

Fran Blanche

I agree with your view on the subtitles, or closed captions as google seems to call them. I have occasionally switched them on when my speakers haven't been working and like most AI at the moment it spews out a lot of nonsense.

Dr Andy Hill

I don't have a lot of feedback right now, other than I think the feedback segment is a good idea. I'm not a big fan of live streams myself they tend to be too long for my post stroke attention span. I spotted the suite thing but thought it was a US or even a Philly thing.

Dr Andy Hill