Hi Everyone,
I have been watching a lot more DTube content lately.
As we all know this lifestyle of making films every day, editing , watching other content, commenting and discord is very time consuming.
There are literally not enough hours in the day.
The issue I have been experiencing is lots of buffering. This is for lots of reasons.
My laptop is slow and my broad band is up and down, also there are some big files being uploaded.
So I have been lining up the videos I want to watch and downloading them.
This allows me to get on with things and then the videos are all ready to go later on in the day.
I used video download helper which is a chrome add on. It works well for me.
I have noticed very big file sizes when downloading though. I always use handbrake to reduce the size of my videos before uploading.
There is no loss in quality from what I can tell and handbrake is free software.
This is a win win for everyone.
It puts less strain on the servers, and streaming / downloading will be easier.
More people will see your content and you can see more great woodworking vids haha.
I call it Downbraking!
Give it a go and see what you think.
If you have any questions about woodwork, furniture or being self employed as a crafts person let me know.
I know my wood and I have spent years teaching myself furniture making , furniture history as well as living it as a self employed cabinet maker .
I am also in the process of writing a
'How to series: Setting up a Woodworking Business'
Which you can read here;
Part 1: Workshop
Part 2: Tools and machinery
Part 3: Finding a good timber yard
Part 4: Deciding what type of woodwork you are going to do.
Part 5: Advertising and getting customers
Part 6: Dealing with Customers.
Still I am learning every day and the journey is the point.
We have started a woodworking community here on steemit and would welcome you. We have a discord channel, link here: Woodworking on Steem Discord Channel
And a weekly woodworking post competition ,which you can read about here
@woodworkcurators is a daily curation service for the woodworking community. Many thanks for viewing,
Onwards and upwards,
@jist▶️ DTube
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