Thanks for the tips. They all are useful.
About editing, my openshot looks different but I will look for transparant settings.
Mr Carlsons and signal path are among my favorite channels. Both is ,masters in explaining things.
Most times I watch repair videos to pick up new "tricks" I can use. For instance the relays tester from Paul made me make a relay-test fixture for my Tek 576 curve tracer. I like making little instruments or fixtures to help me repairing. Things like an opto tester, IC testers, inductor saturation testers, electronic loads, all kind of fixtures. I made my own miniprobe/connector system based on lemo connector parts and mini crocks. If I have to feed a small circuit I have a fixture with banana sockets. I solder thin wires to that and then connect it with banana leads to the powersupplies. Often I connect that fixture to something heavy so it stays stationary. Every time I need an other connection I make it adaptable to one of the "systems" That way I can make all kind of save, sturdy combinations between pcbs and testgear.
Light is a bit a problem because of space. It is optimized for my work. But I will look if I can make something. More light is never a bad thing
The same for the camera. It was now balancing on my microscope arm. I am designing something to mount above me because this does not work and irritates me. I'm thinking about making stills and add them in. I have a very good Nikon D300s camera and lenses and can make macros. The video is done with a JVC videocamera. I'm also working on an adapter to connect a camara on my stereo microscope.
You should start from cleaning your desk surface and work area, it looks filthy. Did you just disassemble a car engine on it before shooting this video?
I wish I could get it cleaner. I wash it often but it does not get it cleaner. I have no clue what it is. This ESD mat is 6 months old and looked like this after a week.I do a lot of industrial repairs (from cnc controllers to proces calibrators) but they are not dirty (if they are I clean them outside the lab and place them not on my bench) and the rest is clean.
Also tools keep piling up on the desk as the video goes, leaving a tiny area for the object and multimeter.
Try finding a way to remove them from camera view, maybe put the aside in a box or something, which is still in easy reach but not seen
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Boxes !, You are a funny guy.
This is partly the way I work. I often have customers that want to see my lab because they heard from others how it looks like. In some fields would this be negative but for me the effect is positive (like the desk of Jim Williams worked for him) Sometimes there is even less space because of all the testgear needed for a job.
For the video it is a bit different because the camera tripod is often in the way. Normally I keep the screwdrivers and some pliers on the table. I have so much tools that it saves time to keep the one I use for a repair on my table so I do not need to search every time. I have something like 12 big drawers with tools in the lab. Several shelves with probes, lots of test leads and not enough room. All drawers are reachable from where I sit. 6 are behind me, the rest under the desk. If I start a new repair I clean the ESD mat, put all tools, probes, testleads, special gear for a job etc in the drawers/boxes/shelves/other rooms. And during the repair I keep te stuff I need later in the repair again on the desk. I work in there too and like it this way. It seems to work because I have enough work, almost a 100% repair score. 95% of my repairs are test and calibration gear nobody wants or can repair because there are no schematics. I'm not even close to a normal repair shop (regarding the niche marked I'm in)
And my work is more important as the videos. (so I can not make things that limit me in my work to improve videos) I have learned a lot from the community over the years and the videos and my site are my part in passing on knowledge to others. I would like to move my lab to a bigger space but that is far from easy.
The video's are most times done between repairs. Or for instance if I have to wait to the next day for parts,