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Viktor Farcic, Author of Crossplane: The Cloud Native Control Plane

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CHAPTER

Navigating Content Creation and Production Challenges

This chapter explores the challenges faced by a content creator in developing their YouTube channels. It discusses the complexities of video production, including editing and sponsorship deals, as well as the decision to involve a production company to enhance content quality.

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So we've naturally gone into the last part of the interview where we talk about the person's work as a run author or a content creator and things like that. And I was very interested in how this book came about and that sort of, I think I kind of guessed right. But one thing I was very curious about when I was researching for this, so for those watching or listening, since he was last on here, Victor has these two YouTube channels that I mentioned, and probably more stuff that I didn't mention going on, that he's developed. And one of your channels has 67,000 subscribers, which is, you know, I mean, there's a lot of people, as we were talking about before we started recording, you know, there's Mr. Beasts of the World that you can compare yourself to. But, you know, anybody getting started out would love to starting out in their YouTube life would love to have 67,000 subscribers. And I noticed the really high quality of production, including the overlay of the code. So there would be a transparent overlay of the code on top of the video, which was a very cool effect. I was wondering, you've partially answered my question about how you did all that by saying you hired a production company. I was wondering at what point, you mentioned that you were running up against things, but at what point did you decide to sort of make the leap to sort of like hire a company to do some editing for you?
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When I realized that it's either that or I'm going to die. Because, you know, people who are not doing it, at least not in a fully direct I like, probably not the way that when you watch like half an hour, 40 minutes of my video, that's actually outside of, you know, how much time you need to figure something out. After it's recording and material is there, it takes at least a full day of somebody skilled in editing and animations and sound and the stuff I get to assemble it. Then I'm being very generous, kind of one day, probably longer, right? And I have a full job, right? This is not my job. That's just by a copy, right? So that would mean that probably like three, four days per video, because I still need to figure out what that is, and so on and so forth. was at a point where I realized that, okay, I need to stop this or I need to get some help somewhere, right? And since YouTube is not my source of income, I started accepting sponsorships which, in a very, very limited quantity, just enough to cover the expenses of that agency.

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