I’m Sara, I’ve made Tech YouTube videos for a decade and just launched a desk accessory brand. AMA 🔥

@sefi_k Hi Sefi! Yes. So I switched to DaVinci Resolve from Premiere a few years ago. Each time I hop into an edit is different. Sometimes it's a straight forward talking video where I do a few rounds of jump cuts, add music, add graphics and text and I'm done within 4-5 hours. When I have to pull in footage from multiple days, do research on a topic, mix in scripted moments with real life moments - that's where things get a little more complicated. But finding the story in the edit is my fave. With those I first drop all of the talking footage in the timeline and cut it up in the order I think it will flow best. I make sure all of my clips are assigned to their respective Groups in the color tab sp color grading is easy at the end. Then I edit together any banger broll montages to place over the A roll or to set to music (I use Artlist.io and epidemic for music). And then text / graphics usually come at the end. I'm ALWAYS moving things around in the edit. One of the reason why I can't stand the magnetic timeline in Final Cut. I love throwing chunks of clips around to save for later ha. A lot of the time I don't shoot linearly so I really have to find what I'm trying to say after the fact. Not the most efficient but how I like to work.

@saradietschy thanks for the detailed answer! My wife is also a YouTuber and I'm a proud member of team Resolve :) She started making videos when COVID started since there were no more tourists around for her to guide. Now her channel has 1.2M subscribers. I've built a tool to save her time in video editing that might be relevant to you as well. It automatically detects and cuts silences and speech disfluencies. Basically, it does the boring "rough cut" for you. You can find it here: https://www.gling.ai/ I'd be honored to have you try it ☺️

@saradietschy there it is https://youtube.com/c/Israelcoma...

@aaronoleary Thank you so much 🥺 I've had a ton of companies try and send me their iPad stands but none of them ever seemed appealing. I just starting thinking what would the perfect iPad stand look like? And it was actually very simple.. I just wanted it to look good (not be plastic junk) and I wanted to be able to write notes and use the Apple pencil comfortably. I don't think the iPad is meant to use in the up position like a laptop most the time. It's a freaking iPad ya know!!!

@luis_carlos_poveda I guess myself? There's not a second Sara Dietschy so I try to share my life through tech so it feels different :)

@thisisfurk thank you so much!!

@dsarkar hi debajit! When making something (a video or a product) I start with myself. What do I desperately want in the world and often times other people feel the same way. It’s not perfect but seems to be working :) When reaching out to people about the stand something I found to be different than other projects I’ve done is they instantly got it. Sometimes finding a white space that hasn’t been filled yet and starting SIMPLE is key 🔑 We might add charging to the iPad stand later on but the ergonomics and look I felt was more than enough for our intial drop. Thanks for the question!

@yangp10 To be honest the fear of falling off. You have to be always changing to stay relevant but at the end of the day your job kind of relies on an ever changing algorithm. Recently YouTube has actually been giving me hope. They seem to give videos a longer tail to find the right audience but nothing hurts more than a video that ranks 10/10 in your YouTube Studio app. Sometimes it feels completely out of your control.

@alexhbass marc here from moment. we've been helping sarah get lab22 off the ground. post campaign we let you add more items to your pledge so you can add more at the same price. i think KS limits it one campaign per email address so you'd have to login with a different account to make a second pledge. they treat it more like a pledge and less like an e-commerce experience.

Sounds good! I'll add another one then :)

@anne_robertson Hi Anne!! We started working on LAB22 1.5 years ago. So it's amazing to finally see it out in the world! Because it took awhile to figure out our final design and manufacturing I actually had an ample amount of time to think about the Kickstarter launch. The video took a full week to edit haha. Maybe I wish I had spent more time building up the Twitter / Instagram socials BEFORE launch. Just all of my focus was on the kickstarter so the dedicated socials were something I knew I would get to after even though that's probably not ideal. However, I had previewed the product in 2 YouTube videos a couple months before and shouted out an email list. That was HUGE for the beginning of the kickstarter. We smashed through our funding goal with just the email list alone! So I'd definitely recommend an email list.

@tariq_waseem1 What do you think about presenting your work on other platforms? For example, many authors use YouTube to publish their main material and engage in advertising or meeting viewers through Instagram or Facebook. Do you want to become a public person who will manage several social networks at the same time, and is this your goal? Also, I'm wondering how you feel about promoting videos through services like https://www.tubeboost.net/buy-cu.... Is it okay to gain popularity this way, or do you think it's unethical? Thank you.

@mikerrs First! I’ve stopped putting the added pressure and guilt on myself for FEELING like I have to have the perfect “work life balance”. It is different for everyone! I love to build stuff so I’ve started to find more joy in the process vs some magical destination. And then it’s help me a ton moving to Texas closer to family where I can go hard during the week and then hang out with my family on Saturdays. Everyone has to find their balance 🧡

@chrismack32 oh man!!! It’s much overdue :) You have encouraged me to stream some halo this weekend!!