Thanks Justin....
I am a bit disappointed somewhat in the lack of apparent interest in my last 3 threads of the video's I've posted. Out of 3 threads, I've got a total of 14 replies. 2 of the threads pretty much disappeared after one day:grin:
Even though I'm one of those paycheck to paycheck people, I took 2 grand and bought a nice camcorder and camera and went to the Derby with a grand idea of being able to do something good for pool and share some cool stuff with a bunch of pool fans like myself. I wanted to do it right.. I could have did it with a smartphone, but I thought the pool community would really enjoy HD footage for a change.
So for 9 days, I lugged around all this equipment everywhere I went, (I always got a lot of looks and comments when I would haul my camcorder on a tripod in the bathroom:grin
and tried to get some good footage.
I got back and spent several days going thru each clip and labeling it and watching it to determine it's worthiness. Then several days experimenting with different encoding settings and trying to figure out which hosting service to use. After settling with Vimeo, I had to fork over 60.00 so I could upload more then 1 HD video.
Then for example, this video.. I pretty much have to listen to the whole thing to make sure someone isn't saying "I saw Justin from TAR doing it with a goat down by the boat last night":grin: Then a couple hours of editing it, then a couple of hours while it re-encodes it, then about 4 or 5 hours to upload it to Vimeo and then have it re-encode it again, then another 1/2 hour labeling it and putting up some threads about it.
I'm not the type of guy that needs praise given to me, but it is important to me to see some discussion that would lead me to believe someone watched it and got some kind of enjoyment out of it. A person does lose a little enthusiasm, when after all the work they did, to see 2 or 3 people reply to his post and then watch it scroll off into oblivion by threads with 5 or 6 pages of replies about aiming, eye tests, how's your pool game doing, what songs do you listen to when you play pool and whether golf is more exciting then pool.
That kind of response (or lack thereof) is enough to make a person think, is this really all worth it? But I did get a very nice rep post (rep means sh1t to me, the words mean alot) by someone who said ......
lovely lovely video, thanks for the share, I always wanted to live this moment and experience it, with you doing this, you made me try to imagine it's me and live it, I was smiling the whole time, as I never been in any america tournament or big evnt
That meant a lot to me and let me know that a few people out there were experiencing what my intended purpose was.....
Like I say... I would be perfectly fine if there were 30 replies to my thread and only a few of them said Thanks to me.... the thing I care about, is that I see that people watched it, that they had something to say about what they watched. Since this is a forum, it's all about discussion. So if your post, gets near zero discussion, you feel like your post was not worthwhile to have posted.
Given the response (or lack thereof:grin
so far, I am really up in the air of spending hundreds of hours trying to edit together a DVD to hopefully inspire some people to try and make it to the Derby next year. I had some hopes of maybe trying to recoup some of my equipment costs and maybe get a little reward for 150 hours of lugging equipment around at the Derby every minute of every day. Not to mention, the countless hours it's going to take to edit thru 24 hours of HD footage down to 2 hours.
If after all that, I sold 5 copies of it, you may find me "Living in a van, down by the RIVER"
I see threads where people are looking for thanks or praise.. this is not one of them. I don't crave that or need that. What I do need, or is helpful, is discussion. Not because someone feels they have to, but because the content was worthwhile to comment on, or the delivery was worthwhile to comment on. Because this is a forum, where people comment and discuss, you can only gauge people's interest, by the quantity and quality of comments.
I'm not one of those guys that "bump" their own threads to keep it on the front page. I'm a firm believer that a thread should stand on it's own or die on it's own. Unfortunately, my goal is to share my video's with as large of audience as I can, in hopes that some may enjoy them, but if no one comments on your thread, it dies a quick death and many people that might have enjoyed the content, will never be able to, because they don't read past the 1st page or 2.
There... I vented, I feel better, you won't hear me talk about this again
This vent is not about sympathy or praise, it's about some discussion, d@mn'it! If you got anything to say, say it! There will always be threads about what aiming method you use, what cue you use, where do you wipe your boogers when you're shooting.....
In a forum you keep score by discussion - good or bad discussion, it doesn't matter, it all counts the same. No discussion = failure - Lots of discussion = success.
:sorry:
