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Pro editing techniques & industry secrets
Recorded: March 27, 2025 Duration: 1:02:33Space Recording
Short Summary
Exciting developments are underway as the Geek community gears up for a new workshop aimed at empowering members to create engaging video content using AI tools. This initiative not only reflects the growing trend of democratizing video production but also highlights the community's commitment to fostering skills that can drive growth and visibility for the Geek project.
Full Transcription
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hey michael could you request to be a speaker Okay, just testing this. can you hear me yeah perfect perfect mate excellent excellent first time uh speaking on our spaces so let's see how well this goes
yeah no i can hear you perfectly it's fine let's give it a few more minutes for the rest to join.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, all good, mate, all good.
You're going to be hosting, are you, and then
teeing me up.
Yeah,
let's wait for Stephanie to join as well.
Hey, Goldie. Oh, yeah, it's early.
Let's let a few people get on the call first,
and then
crack on and talk about video editing and stuff, I guess.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. Thank you. Well, if you want, you can request as well to become a speaker if you will have any questions or anything. I think the rest should be joining any minute now.
Oh, there's Stephanie.
Hey, Stephanie.
Hey, Emmy, good to see you as well again.
Hope you're doing well. Hey, Stephanie, can you request to be a speaker? all right Stephanie's speaking as well hey Stephanie are you doing I'm great I'm great right we're here hey um everybody so glad to see your faces
we're seeing emmy golden yeah hey alex
alex and um you know um robbie it's fine to make everybody a speaker
sure let me get on to that okay alex and i hope for sure are are going to speak about video and
emmy and golden will surely have something to say
i guess brave um is also still joining.
I'm sure he'll be here, yeah.
Hi there.
Hey, Noor.
Good to see you again.
Yay. You know, we're getting people who are listening to these spaces afterwards,
afterwards, which has been really nice to see.
which has been really nice to see.
So hello, everyone.
So hello, everyone.
It's like, you know, when you date somebody on releasing a music video
and they say hello to everyone who's listening out there.
Yeah, it's actually good to see that a lot of people are still listening in afterwards.
Yeah, yeah.
And Brave has people lined up for the next few weeks, I think.
So we're just going to keep rolling on.
There's Brave.
Hey, Brave, let me invite you to be a speaker as well.
Hey, Alexa Fix, welcome. Brave, did you receive the invite to become a speaker?
Lexafix is already making videos.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
We can make her a speaker, too.
All right, let me get on this. Thank you. One, two, speaker, too. All right.
Let me get on this.
One, two, three, four.
I think we get ten speakers.
Yeah, I think we can have six speakers.
Oh, six speakers.
Okay.
Well, maybe Brave...
All right.
Yeah, I sent an invite to Brave.
I'm not sure if... uh brave did you receive a notification
maybe he's not feeling very brave tonight i don't know
i doubt that actually i doubt it hey michael how are you uh yeah all good i've just got the uh the kid down to sleep so uh hopefully he stays that way and uh
i can stay on the call for the duration and um yeah that should be fine the wife would be home
soon anyway so uh but uh no he's good once he's down he's normally out cold until midnight so
until midnight so uh thank you for doing this michael and i will uh well don't thank me yet
we haven't done it yet i just i'm just hoping you team me up with some questions and i mean i love
video editing so i can ramble on about it all day but yeah yeah so excited to have my turn
another talk and yeah Michael helped us turn around some of the videos last year
we started experimenting with new graphics that weren't so ah how should i put it um
yeah you know geometric abstract i don't think chat liked it but it took a while
and we are changing um and why don't you um michael why don't you tell us what's coming up? Because really what you're doing is start our next week, right?
Yeah, so the idea is that next week I'm going to release a little training workshop
that will basically teach anyone, a beginner, how to make some short um short viral potentially viral um
video content that you can post on youtube and tiktok and other places um and it's all using
free software that's online so it's accessible to anyone basically and ironically it only takes i mean once you get
used to doing it i've put a process together so you can pretty much copy and paste and then just
change a few bits it will take you five to ten minutes and at the end of it you'll have hopefully
a decent usable video that you can post um the idea is really anyone can learn this skill to get an
entry level into making videos and being creative because half the time i make videos at the moment
i'm not necessarily making videos to make money a lot of time i'm just being creative, trying new things and having a bit of fun because obviously now with AI, the whole video editing landscape, as it were, has changed.
And yeah, it's got a lot more accessible to everyone. many years ago you had to learn all these expensive programs in adobe and other um projects
other platforms um just to you know have a a decent enough skill set to be able to even
approach a business and say oh can i make you a promo video um whereas these days, especially the last year or two, I'll sort of 70 to 80% of
the process of making these videos, you know, you can do within a few clicks using AI, which
is good in some ways and bad in others. But I feel, you know, this is the way the world's going. And, you know, you either get on it or get left behind.
So I've kind of changed my sort of structure of how I learn and progress
to making sure I stay on top of the latest AI technologies
and what they can do for me to see how I can apply that to my freelancing,
you know, how I can apply that to my freelancing you know how i can apply that to
making videos for businesses um i'm sure we'll get into ai and stuff later on but it's it's a
whole new whole new subject as it were really but what people well the way the situation is at the moment if i'm making um a promo video for a business
it's still not fully possible for me to just use ai to generate the video and for it to come out
you know acceptable for the client now this is because you need still control over the graphics,
you know, the logos, the colors.
You know, there is a lot of control you still need
because every business, you know, if they're not a startup at least,
they have a branding kit.
You know, they have their colors, their logos, their fonts,
and it's not yet. I mean, I'd give it six months, maybe,
but it's not fully possible yet to just get AI to go, right, use this brand kit and make me a video.
Again, six months to a year, very possible. Especially what was it two days ago there was i think you um something happened to your mic michael
to be in an image you'll be very lucky to get it to come out right so this new advancement from chat gpt um now gives you the ability to
pretty much get the words right up to about 10 to 15 words so it kind of changes uh
changes things but because this only happened two days ago i haven't had time to look at it. And I'm going to ignore it for now until I've got time to dive into it and see how to apply that.
But I think they've only released it to the paid subscription at the moment.
So, you know, it's not a mega rush, but it is the direction things are going in.
I've probably digressed far too much
haven't I onto waffling again
no worry Michael don't worry
yeah you're
I just want to put in
where was I going what was my point
about all this
basically the landscape's changed
and before you had to learn all these
different skills because when you make a promo
video you have to be able to script and you have to be able to create audio, voiceovers, music, and then you have to create graphics.
So you need to know how to design and then you need to know how to animate those designs, which usually involves multiple layers that you animate separately and build up the whole video and
i still do a lot of that but obviously now with ai some of that process has been sped up you know
i no longer sit there for ages having to learn about a business to then be able to create a
script for them i can prompt ai to do that for me so, it does, it saves a lot of days basically. Um, but
with all these, you know, advancements and stuff, it'd be nice to teach the geek community,
you know, a few skillsets that they can use and apply to their own work or their own businesses,
or even like me, just, if you're just looking to have a bit of fun or like, especially nowadays with YouTube and TikTok,
you can just create content.
And if you do it right and you're consistent and you have a plan, you know,
you can make money on YouTube and TikTok.
Again, that's a whole nother ball game,
but it's the potential of making money these days online is much more open than there for the time being because of AI.
So it's a good time to jump in and have a play around and see if something fits for you.
training next week is to show a very simple way of making some promo videos to educate
people about geek and what i've managed to do is we've created a document that has information
about geek so that on step one we're going to end up using a chatbot, supplying it with the information that we want it to use and asking it to write us a script based off certain factors.
Now, I've created a prompt so you don't have to worry about how to structure the script, etc. uses the latest information basically on how a viral short video should be structured and tells
the ai structure a video like this um and write about a certain topic with a certain tone of voice
um and produce a 45 second script um and what what what the community would be able to do is within a few
seconds they can go to deep seek for free paste in the prompt that i'll supply along with the
document and that only need to change the topic and the tone of voice to I've put examples in the spreadsheet but you can put your own topic
own tone of voice and experiment with things and and just hit go and it will produce a script for
you and then you can do that multiple times and you'll have multiple scripts the scripts will
come with titles narration and suggested visuals for each scene. And then the exciting part is that's only taken a few seconds.
You then take the narration to another AI tool that we'll be using,
which is CapCut, but not the desktop version.
We're going to use the online version,
the free version that has AI tools built in.
And it's quite amazing, really.
You just simply paste the narration into this tool.
You select a few parameters.
So we choose the styling and a few other things.
And it will literally take your narration and make a full video for you with a voiceover, subtitles, images, and animation.
And then what we do in the training is we fine tune all that.
So it looks better, sounds right.
And it's going to be usable for publishing.
Now, what people need to understand is it's a free tool.
So it's not going to be perfect.
It's not going to get everything right.
And I will be covering in the training the fixes you can do to overcome stuff like that.
For instance, you get to choose from sort of 10 or 20 different free voiceovers,
and about 10 of them really struggle to say geek.io.
Because of the word geek and we're using a Q and not a K um you'll sometimes hear the voiceover you know just sounding odd and then the way you get over all this is you type in
geek as in g e k um and get the voiceover to say that and then you just edit the subtitle back to
q so it still visually looks correct and sounds correct. But
yeah, there's lots of little nuances that will be covered. But again, they're quick, easy fixes.
And then when it comes to imagery, in this tool, we're going to let the AI bot basically create
the images first for us. But 90% of them, we're just going to change ourselves what i've done is put
together a few prompting style guides because in this tool we're basically going to be given
access to the description the ai tool used to create the image So then we can take that description ourselves, put it into DeepSea, you can say,
take this description, AI image prompt,
and apply this style to it.
And then you just paste in the style prompt that I'll supply,
and it will recreate the image prompt based on that style.
And then in the AI tool,
you just put that prompt into the tool
and it'll generate an image
and um or actually we're going to use a different tool actually we're going to use imagine three
for making images because it's free and probably the best most realistic
um one out there at the moment and that allows us basically to make
sort of you know really good images to go with the video.
And then the final part of the course is once we've got most of all that together,
we're then going to go into the editor tool within this AI platform to fine tune the final
output because the end scenes, you know, you're going to want a CTA, basically a call to action.
the end scenes you know you're going to want a cta basically a call to action um normally we put
in the url logos you know we just add a few special touches at the end to brand it up so that
the videos are you know geekified and ready to be shared and then once you've done the course
you've learned all those skills you'll then have you know a new skill set that you can apply anywhere.
And we haven't even touched the surface of what you can do because I've only covered this one process on this platform,
but I personally use it for many other different things that are free.
And we can go into them in other workshops
if the first workshop works out.
Yeah, I'm going to start rambling for a second and let someone else talk but uh that's my brain dump for the time being
thank you you are lovely everyone um i i just want to say and you know i rave about the team
say and you know I rave about the team Ginger has been with us for years I love him he he's a bit of
a perfectionist so I'm sure think he's a wonderful resource
you're a wonderful man
you're too kind
I can second that by the way
stop it
I'm going to have to go
he has a whole channel to himself
I think at one point
yeah when we get going,
he'll make 20 different creative things,
and it's so terrible because we don't spam you all
with all the stuff that he makes, and it's too bad.
I have my own catalog.
I've literally got 100 gig or more of stuff,
of which we've probably used 10 but um yeah i think because the way my brain works you know i'm a little bit adhd without the
the h i'm not necessarily hyper um but i i like to jump from one shiny thing to the next you know
so with all these new ai tools coming out, it's totally screwing me over
because I'll be ready to go to bed
and then I'll get a ping, you know?
And it'll be like, oh, Google's released a new thing.
Like the other night, my mate texted me,
must have been about 11.35, I seem to remember.
I just got ready to go to bed.
And he was like, have you seen this new tool?
It gets all the text correct. Can you have a look? And I was like, why you seen this new tool it gets all the text correct can you have a look
and i was like oh why why did you do that to me why did you do that to me you know so come
half one in the morning i was like right that's enough that's enough
there's just so much there's just so much exciting stuff out there um but from a video
side of things you know there's there's a
whole different world out there with you know if we're not talking business videos you know
like the new trends like i don't know if people have seen it but the pov videos uh point of view
um they're they're doing really well at the moment because they're quite engaging you know they hook
the viewer because you're basically going living the day in the life of someone in history
um from their point of view you know from their eyes and uh yeah when i saw them going viral i
always have a stupid thing that i do being a creative person in a way is if I see something and it's like got millions of views and I've looked at it and gone, I wonder if I could create that.
I then stupidly stay up the night and go, let's see if I can do that.
And yeah, most of the time I can because you kind of can work out the process that they've gone through.
the process that they've gone through um i don't know if it's just my weird brain but i
you kind of have to work backwards to go right i've seen that video how did they achieve that
and then once you realize all it is is a series of images that have been turned into videos and
a little bit of text here and some effects there and there you, and you're just like, wow, that video got, that's what I saw the other day, it got like 216 million views and I literally sort of recreated it in one night. Obviously my versions don't get that many views, but my day will come. Yeah. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet, no.
I've just been telling you as well,
because you've been talking about trends,
and there's this trend going on now.
I think it's with pictures, and it's called Ghibli or something, no?
Am I right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's come from this new AI tool where you can basically take a picture
and turn it into like a South Park picture or you know a Ghibli picture basically
Yeah, it's just mad you literally put any image in and then just say
Turn this into a good video or whatever and
It literally does yeah, it looks really cool actually because you see it all over Twitter right now like Justin Sun had one
Like everyone's getting these Ghibli pictures out there right now, like Justin Sun had one, Sam Heltman, like everyone's getting these Ghibli pictures
out there right now. Well, they're going mad,
aren't they?
Yeah, though if you...
I think the actual Ghibli guy,
or the creator, wasn't
too happy, but
that's AI for you.
Really? Why do you think that is?
I don't know, I saw something, I mean, I might have just been a bit d is i don't know i saw something i mean i might
have just been a bit dazed and confused but i saw something on the news um i say the news on you
know uh fake news probably but um something popped up on my feed about ghibli and the fact that he
wasn't happy that you know ai's taken his uh art style and allowed people to just freely use it.
Everyone can make it basically.
To be honest, everyone can make
anything now.
The new
era is
now everyone's got access to all these
things. Who can be
creative enough to make something
different still?
It's like anything you know
like for instance those pov videos about history you know when i looked at it i was like okay the
history figure stuff's already been done so what's the next kind of thing and something i stumbled
upon that nobody else has yet is you know taking um extreme sports for instance like what do you call those skydivers
but they have the wings and they fly through the mountains and stuff you'll know that robin won't
yeah um wingsuits wingsuits is it what's the sport called are they bladers or something
or gliders or who cares anyway if you could imagine um if you could imagine making a pov
video of that so you're in the eyes of that skydiver flying through the mountains you know
um it's different and it's immersive um and it kind of grips the viewer but with any of these
things you know there's structure you know with any video you have to hook people within the first five seconds and then if you want any of the algorithms on any
of the platforms to push your video people need to be watching almost to the end you know and
i know part of this call was meant to be about tips and tricks so i'm going to give one little
tip or trick here that i've learned if you're making shorts is always end your video abruptly
so that people um you get more uh points in the algorithm if people watch to the end right
but if the end if the end is obvious you know if your ending to a video on shorts is
a slow fade out with your logo they're clicking off before that fades out so you lose points
so the way people do it is they're kind of saying the last word of what they're talking about
um but in a way that make you know you don't know that it's over yet until it's over um so that's
like a cliffhanger yeah sort of like a cliffhanger you know
something that the viewer doesn't realize it's the end of the video so that they don't switch off
um the second biggest trick which not many have pulled off which i tried the other day and it's
really clever is the end and start of your video need to sync up so that it it feels like one video
if it if it keeps repeating you don't know it's repeating right um and i'm mentioning this because
if anyone's out there making videos on tiktok and youtube shorts when you've got a short running and
you're watching it if you watch it to the end it then starts again when you've got a short running and you're watching it if you watch
it to the end it then starts again unless you've got auto scroll on the video then starts again
the algorithms go mental if a viewer watches a video and then watches it again so some clever
people have made videos where when they say their last word it actually leads into the first word of
the start of the video um and a simple trick you can do is just record a video
and kind of chop it in half and uh switch it over so that it starts and ends but it's actually
started at three minutes long
and worked its way back to zero.
It's just a looping video.
There's different techniques you can do,
but it's fascinating what you can do, really.
And then with AI, just ask AI to help you with scripting it
so that you can get the perfect word in.
But yeah.
So you're going to talk about that next week,
that particular how
to do that or well these leaves little nuggets will just I don't know how we're
welcome into the workshop just yet but the workshop will just kind of show
people how to make these videos so they they can get started um but these videos are you know
about educating uh everywhere about geek um and then after that we've done this kind of workshop
we can look into okay how do we apply now some more advanced stuff into into these videos so that people can get even more views or try, you know,
exciting new things.
Yeah, we'll work it in.
I just don't want to overwhelm people with all these different things, you know, in the
first workshop.
I've kind of got the plan of making it accessible to everyone. So if you have no knowledge about making videos,
but you have the ability to copy and paste,
which I think most people can do,
then they can at least complete a course,
make some videos, post them online,
get some views and get excited.
We can then progress to more advanced stuff, paid stuff.
It's such a big world out there of possibilities,
but everyone's got to start somewhere.
They've got to achieve something before moving on to the next thing.
Otherwise, you'll be like me and have a million projects
that you never finish.
I think it's a really cool initiative
like program to like,
because obviously we love our community.
We appreciate everyone.
And if we can help our community get better,
you know, like obviously,
like it goes without saying
that we preferably have people
making content about gig, right?
But then at the end of the day, it's great to foster new skills
into the people that we care about, right?
I think it's a really cool thing.
Yeah, I agree.
It's like we're helping the community learn something
that they can then use elsewhere they
don't have to use it just for geek but by learning it we're not charging for this in return they're
just gonna be able to make some stuff for geek and post it to generate a bit more awareness
which in turn will benefit everyone
because the more people are aware of Geek,
you know, the quicker we can grow
and be as successful as we should be.
You know, we've got tech that no one else really has
and it's stupid that we're not, you know, huge already.
And most of that's just because not enough people know you know and
this whole initiative is just to start that baseline you know if you think about it say
say 100 people in the community go get get hold of the course and and go you know what i'd like
to just make a few videos let's just follow this through and and knock a video out what the what will happen
when say 100 people from 100 different accounts post on youtube about geek about educating about
geek um the algorithm was just will just go oh hang on a minute you know it will wake things up it will people will start to understand but also the benefit of
all this is ai is basically taking the information we've given it about geek and educating ourselves
with it so you know we want to come up with these scripts ourselves you know we've put it in there
it's given us some some good stuff out.
And whilst you're making the video, you're like, oh, actually, yeah, that's really cool.
Like today, you know, I was testing it out and I wanted to see how it would do with use cases.
And, you know, you can chuck it in there and say, all right, the topic is supply chain.
You know, how would Geek benefit supply chains?
You know, but you could choose anything and, you know, how, how would Geek benefit supply chains, you know, but you could choose anything and, and, you know, we can, we can build out. And, but just so people are aware, you know, this is just stage one.
So the document we're supplying isn't overloaded with information about Geek.
It's just enough to get things rolling, you know?
And if this is successful, we'll then build it out do bigger documents um or people you
know if they're on paid plans you know you can just click the search internet and put the geek
website in um but at the moment you know this is just a good grounding give everyone a positive
boost learn a new skill and then if you're like me
and you've gone in and you've made these
AI videos, you know, your
brain will just start going, oh wow, hang on
there's so much possibilities
here, you know
and then that
should spurn on
you know, growth, really
and so many
use cases, so many things i love the idea that's it you know
yeah to figure it out there'll be tons of use cases we haven't even thought of that will come
from this you know because other people will be playing with it and we'll see all these videos
being made going okay yeah i haven't thought of that. That's really good. And, you know, it only takes one of these
to hit the right note with the right person,
and before you know it, you're all too late.
You're all too late, geeks.
You know, it's gone.
It's up.
That's awesome.
Thanks.
And it reminds me of talking to Lan.
You know, Lan is our software architect,
and we've been talking behind the scenes about AI for months now.
And he's been learning some of the AI coding tools also.
I mean, Muntinger has been learning this for at least,
I don't know, two years you got into it and you decided
you were going to learn something new every day, kind of.
Yeah, I set myself new initiatives, but yeah, a couple of years ago, I was like, I've got
to get on the AI wagon.
Yeah.
This year, I actually set myself a new goal on the 1st of January.
I was like, I'm going to spend at least an hour a night testing out making content for YouTube and TikTok and stuff like that
to see if I can actually learn how all these people are going viral
and what it all takes and how everything works.
I don't know, I've got a weird brain.
I'd like to know how things work.
You know, sometimes it can just take a long time to work out how things work but you have to fail a lot to get to the right you know outcome
yeah I've already already learned so much this year I need to give my brain
a break my brains just go stop it I'm not a sponge. But yeah.
Maybe like, Michael, I think might be interesting for everyone to know
because you've been with Geek for several years
now already.
Yeah, since 2017.
Yeah, it's a long time already.
Yeah, I'm getting old.
We all are, mate. We all are.
Like, what got you into this realm, you know are like what what got you into this realm you know like what what what got
you do what you're doing today you know yeah good question good question so before um crypto as it
were obviously i was in telecoms doing um originally tech support but then realized that i was an idiot so i moved into marketing
i'm joking i was a creative so doing something super technical was one very boring and two
my brain was just like nah don't enjoy this i'm not going to help you today i'm not going to work
whereas if you put me in a creative environment it's like okay
we can have some fun whilst you know producing some cool stuff anyway so i did that for many years
and then got to a point where i'd had enough of just making videos and content for
these companies and not really making much of a living as it were but
working you know long hours etc um i decided to just pack it all in take a risk and
go freelance and find my own clients and then choose what work i want to do you know um and then weirdly at the time i had a friend who was into bitcoin um and
this was when bitcoin was um about two thousand dollars and when i say he was into bitcoin i mean
he was a super nerd that i knew from tech support and stuff um So way beyond my IQ.
But he was always plugged into his machine.
And one day I was like, what are you doing there?
And he said, I'm just mining some Bitcoin.
And I was like, mining what?
And that's when it sparked my interest. I was like, okay, so this kind of like digital money thing.
Yeah.
And although I didn't probably get that,
what got me interested was the story behind it all, you know?
So that was quite an exciting thing,
and it got me looking into, you know,
how is crypto developing,
and is there clients in crypto that might want a video
and it happened to be that there were plenty of clients in crypto that wanted to give me
some tokens in exchange for a video so i was like okay i'm taking a bit of a risk here because
i have no idea what these tokens are and how to turn the tokens into fiat, normal money to pay bills.
But let's just give it a go.
And then a few years later, I stumbled across a few projects that some of the people in Hans etc were
connected with Geek
and I can't remember exactly
how it happened whether
I got a feeling I'd direct message
Stephanie or Hans
I can't remember exactly but I was like
I like the look of your project
you sound quite serious
would you like a video
and I think that's how it started really um
and then ever since 2017 the rest is history yeah yeah they were like oh yeah yeah yeah well
we'll take a video and and then can you hang about for a bit and yeah it's like six eight
years later or whatever i'm still here um but that's kind of what got what got me in and then
you know i probably lost four or five years of uh getting over emotional and excited with
the crypto markets ups and downs and when i realized people would pay me to make memes and
absolutely crazy silly just brain rot videos.
I was like, this is just too good to be true.
Surely this is just madness.
You know, I've gone from making fully professional,
branded, you know, strict kind of videos that follow a certain path and, you know, aren't funny
to a client asking me, you know, can you, can you make, you know,
I don't want to say it on spaces and stuff because half the stuff is not for,
um, the faint ears, but, um, you know what the mean ones like it's,
yeah, there's a lot of words you could use that are no longer, um,
acceptable to say. So, uh, but yeah, I got pulled into that, that space.
I got carried away with it in some areas you know i made some money i lost some money and made some money lost more money
you know all i can say is if you get into trading you know only do it if you uh if you can deal with
not having any emotional attachment to it you know don, don't hold your bags. Like I, I used to, or, uh, all these kinds of things, but, um, you have to go
through certain things to learn and come out the other end.
Don't you?
So, you know, I'm, I'm out.
And now you're making professional ducks.
Now I make ducks.
So, yeah, I dunno with the zero ducks thing that just came along because I was just like,
you know, not really giving zero ducks at the time. And then it kind of worked because it was,
you know, layer zero, you know, no worries about security. It made me laugh for three months. Yeah.
No worries about security.
It made me laugh for three months.
Yeah, it was wonderful.
Yeah, you know, you haven't got to worry about all these different things.
So zero ducks we give them, but, you know, we can't say fucks, can we?
So the ducks came along and it was fun.
But, you know, I can still see the ducks being, you know,
a very strong potential meme coin on geek chain one day but that will that will be uh
a very strong potential meme coin on GeekChain Monday,
left to be seen you know at the moment we just want to educate get the world working with geek
because it can fix a lot of issues you know um i'd rarely check the news now because of the amount of
smart contracts and stuff that are getting hacked and
people losing money and you know we've all been affected by the exchanges getting hacked and
you know some of us have lost quite a lot of money you know including myself when you know
all these uh all these sort of criminal activities have gone on, but it's too easy to go on.
It's kind of been shaped to happen like this.
People in the know, people in the inside, they make a lot of money, and most of them got away with it.
Obviously, back in the day, it was a bit easier to get away with the crypto stuff because it wasn't as regulated as it is now.
So the landscape, again, is changing for the better.
But there's still a need for a protocol like Geeks to overcome, you know,
these silly barriers that are happening at the moment.
And, yeah, I can't wait for it to happen.
Bybit could have used Geek.
And I mean, Stephanie had her hand up high.
I'm not sure if you want to add something to it, Stephanie.
No, I just think that Mojinger's doing a great job
talking about why we need Geek.
Yeah, for sure.
It's just essential, you know,
and the only reason it's not out there is because we've just got to make a bit
more noise, I think.
Or people are scared.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm not the wisest, but yeah,
once we simplify a lot of this messaging and these videos you know this first workshop is
about education but then other workshops you know we'll supply the community with documents about
the protocol you know and that can be one one another series of videos that go out there you
know we tick off all the boxes so that nobody can come back and say oh but we don't know
about the protocol right we actually do there's 7 000 videos on youtube explaining to you like
a five-year-old in 30 seconds if you can't watch that we can't help you so you know i think we can
get to where we need to be we just got to keep pushing keep keep progressing, and it'll happen. Just, yeah.
We just need community to get along.
We've all learned together how to simplify and what's going on and what's wrong.
Certainly, when we started years ago, John and I didn't fully understand the importance, really.
I mean, we knew it was important,
but we didn't know how different it was
and certainly didn't know how to simplify the difference.
Like nobody was talking about MEV back then.
So we didn't know how to tell them,
look, we're doing something else.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is not only
is the team, and Michael in particular, stepping up here to help everyone understand and we do
recognize that we need to simplify the message and get people excited, but we also have to teach
the AI tools out there about Geek.
And then they will stop repeating all this nonsense about blockchains that exist right now. I can't tell you how many times I've told ChatGPT, I do not want anything that sounds like any marketing on blockchain.
I just don't want it.
They're all sloppy and they're making claims they can't back up. And just don't want it. They're all sloppy,
and they're making claims they can't back up,
and we are not like that.
So we've got to teach.
We've got to teach.
Yeah, completely agree with this, Stephanie.
I don't know, like, maybe Brave,
would you like to add something
to this call, to the space?
Because we're nearing towards an hour now.
And I hear Lexa fix, maybe?
I think we might just give the stage to some ..
Hello, everyone. GM everyone.
Hey, hello.
Okay. I must say it's wonderful being on this space.
I'm learning a lot being a video editor myself.
So I have a question.
I've been having issues with my video editing and
it has to do like with the video quality. Each time I edit my video and post it, despite
putting it on a high resolution, the video quality always reduces. Is there a way I can
solve this particular problem?
Yeah, I'll jump in here.
So if you're making like videos with AI and stuff,
generally, even on paid plans,
the export quality isn't always great,
as in, you know, on certain paid plans,
you can get 1080p.
So, you know, you can get a full HD output output but most of them will be about 720 or so but the trick around it is once you've downloaded your video
you can go to for instance um the free cap cut ai upscaler video upscaler and put your video into the upscaler and it will turn it into
2k 4k and that will improve the quality the only glitch here is i sort of do this a lot
anyway so if i create an image to use to turn into a video the best way to get the best output for the video
is before you turn the image into a video
using an AI video generator,
upscale the image as high as possible
so that when it gets reduced,
it's only getting reduced back down to like a 1080p resolution.
But the quick and easy fix like i said there's a
lot of free video upscalers online just chuck your videos through them um try not to it depends what
type of video it is but if you put a video in of say you know a real scene of people chatting and then you put it into the upscaler and you take it from
like a 720 to a
4K, it will
look slightly painted.
You know, you'll get the slight
oil painting look at the moment
with the free upscalers
if you go to 4K.
The trick I found is just upscale it to
1080p. It then looks good
and hasn't got the oil painting to it.
Does that help?
Yes, thank you. Thank you very much.
No worries. I'll share some links like this in the tutorials and in a document that I'll share
that I'll share when we put the workshop out
when we put the workshop out because the platform we're actually going to use to do
because the platform we're actually going to use
to do making these short videos
is the same platform to do all the upscaling
and all these other things.
It is a platform you can pay for a pro version,
which is only like 20 bucks a month or something,
which I do because you get a few extra benefits.
But 90% of the time, you don't need the pro version to get, you know, what you need out of it.
So it's a good option.
Yeah.
Well, you know, if you've got no budget, there's plenty of options.
Any other questions, guys?
Any other questions, guys?
I think Stephanie wants to ask a question.
Maybe she tapped the wrong emoticon.
I'm silly.
I was speaking to my muted mic.
If one of the things we're trying to do is get more people to learn about geek
and spread around, get more content,
how can people who aren't making the videos help?
Okay. That's a good question.
So I'm going to base the answer on what research I've done on algorithms on the social platforms.
Because to help, we need more reach.
And to get more reach, there's certain things that we could coordinate to make every
video post hit a bigger audience now when you post on say youtube and tiktok a lot of the time
the first sort of 15 to 20 minutes of the post is crucial now the way the algorithms work is they favor engagement.
And by that, I mean comments, mostly comments, followed by sharing links.
And the least, ironically, the least amount of points you get from the algorithm is likes you actually get negative points if someone uploads a video and
you like it within the first second of actually scrolling to that video it acts against you and
the creator so the way you got to do it is someone needs to upload a video we then all go to that
video we watch the video and near sort of halfway through you can click on the bottom links
and work your way up by basically commenting sharing and then the last thing you do is the like
um that way we can basically get more more reach so if the community wanted to help you know we would coordinate some
sort of like or have a we could ever say um let's just say we have a telegram uh channel
just for people sharing their shorts about geek so say we have workshop one telegram channel
when you've made a video post the link in the Telegram channel.
Everyone that's part of that channel, they seize the link, they click on it,
they watch it, they share it, they leave a comment, they leave a like, job done.
And then if everyone does that and everyone's posting links in there,
that will significantly improve our chances of going viral
or if we ignore the word going viral,
our chances of reaching a bigger audience.
When you say post links, what do you mean?
So I mean, say I post a video on YouTube,
I'll copy that link as in the link to the video on YouTube that I've just posted
and put that link in Telegram.
So people can just click the link
and it'll take them to the video.
I see. Oh, okay.
Just like directly the videos.
Okay, okay.
And then
I just went through
with Brave and I whitelisted
some of the geek community that these are people that geek official Twitter should repost.
No need to run it by the technical crew.
There are people who get it right every time. So we're hoping that some of the contributors will show the record, that they also understand Geek and we're happy to support anything they post.
And the script prompts that Mo Ginger is going to give you, these are totally clean.
They are absolutely correct.
You don't have to worry about it.
If you understand the prompt or just the, you know, it's a one-page set of material,
you'll probably get out something that's really quite good.
And I'm excited about that.
Yeah, it does give me an idea, actually.
If we were doing this and there are contributors and stuff
you know if we had a space like on telegram where um contributors and everyone anyone
interested in you know doing some video work on geek and learning stuff and you know they can
what they learn and do for geek you know they, they can take elsewhere. But the idea is, you know, you first contribute and help
and use those skills to, you know, not just help geek but help yourself.
What we can do is then have people adding stuff in that Telegram group.
For instance, you know, we're just covering what you can quickly make with AI,
but we're not covering the fact that I could create design, you know,
specifically design certain backgrounds and backdrops and certain layouts. And, you know,
there's all these different kinds of templates we can make so that people can just go,
nice, I needed that logo or nice, that graphic or background works perfectly, you know,
we can build it out and people can share,
you know, their inspiration, their ideas,
and just more a free community to help each other, really,
because, you know, that's what the best communities on crypto do, right?
So if we're not a mean...
That's really wonderful.
And I think that that's the open source feeling,
the decentralized but community feeling
that I think has been co-opted by coders and developers.
But we can do the same thing.
I'm not a coder or developer, but we can help each other.
So that's awesome.
Great, great thought.
Yeah, because I was just thinking, you know, Mean Coins have these huge communities
because they're just all crazy and mental, but they're all singing off the same
sheet sort of thing. And we can do exactly the same thing without being, you know, completely
mental. We're just going to be a community.
I can't hear anybody. Can you?
I can. Well. I can't hear anybody. Can you? I can.
Hold on.
Okay.
Well, if anybody
can hear me, please
I guess not up,
but re-host
Things About Geek, please
learn from
each other, find new use cases it's fine to use ai to figure
something out you know um nobody has to speak the way that i do or don does
we want you to use your own voice and figure out how to make technology
okay i think stephanie has some issues with the microphone with the microphone of course um robbie i think there's someone who is demanding for the mic
for the comment section uh can you check that out before we run that
Can you check that out before we run that?
Sorry, like I think I hear you from far away.
From far away.
Yeah, okay.
Can you hear me now?
Yeah, go ahead, Brave.
Yeah, go ahead, Brave.
I said this.
I think there's someone in the comment section that is asking for the mic.
If we can just maybe give her the mic before we run back.
Rob, he's asking.
He's saying something. He's saying something.
I'm not seeing it.
I've been experiencing a lag actually.
Yeah, the spaces is lagging now.
Lagging now.
Okay, I think it's fine. I think we can just run up now.
Alright, thank you everyone that joined for the spaces. I can see some new faces.
Simply, Splendor uh you all are welcome and also remember
to register for the workshop um join our discord you can find the full information there and
see everyone on monday also invite invite your friends and anyone that will benefit from the workshop. Thank you everyone for making today's spaces possible.
All right. Thanks everyone for joining.
I'm actually looking forward to doing the workshop myself as well
because I know how good Michael is actually with all these things.
Even though I hear myself
double right now,
I'm not sure what's happening.
Thanks everyone for joining
and see you in the trenches.
Nice one, guys.
See you you everyone. Thank you.
