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My son has mentioned several times during my various projects that I should make videos and post them on YouTube. My first reaction was. NO.  Now and then I think about doing it.  My kids still live at home, but and adults, so I enjoy projects we do together.  I'm thinking about it today because I'm home sick for the second day. I'm finally starting to feel better ( which is important because I don't have sick time at the moment, and I don't want to loose my job for having to many points) I'm cruising YouTube, because I'm bored. I still don't feel well, plus I need to be well enough tomorrow to work.  I love gardening, and it's seed starting time for me, so that's what I watching. I gravitate to people who are in my growing area, but zone, and/or location. Wow there's so much crap out there. One young lady, who was talking about what and how she was planting was so off. She wasn't telling people how to do it, so I'm not mad at her. But I wonder how many people watched her videos and thought, oh ok I can do that. Then fail because it's the wrong time to plant that veggie, and think it's because they can't grow stuff?
Anyway it makes me think maybe I should give it a go. I would at least qualify myself by saying I'm not an expert, that this is what works for me I'm my area. Or this is a total experiment ect. I don't have money to buy special equipment. So I'm not sure what kind of quality I could produce.  I would do it to help people and share what I love, not make money, not that I'm against making money, I just don't think I have the time or content to achieve it.
So here I am asking my favorite people do you post on YouTube? Is it worth the effort? If yes, or no why?  Thanks  happy gardening.
 
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I have 4 utube channels.
One for outing my local city council for their abuse of power.
One for my fixing and building things channel.
One with my name to link to from here.
And one for anonymity posting strange things.

Got to get used to doing things with one hand, while filming with the other.
 
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Well, do you enjoy editing videos? To make decent videos on YouTube you'll spend most of your time editing them.
 
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I don't post to Youtube, but I have interest to eventually make content. I enjoy seeing different perspectives and avenues of approach for my hobbies like Permaculture.

My current hold-up is developing my edit skills. I'm getting there, I think I need a decent lapel mic because I don't like my computer's built in one. Its self created standards but I want to put out good stuff if I'm going to put out anything.

One day
 
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I think it can be a fun thing to do, but as John says you can spend a lot of time editing to get a professional result. I have a channel just to share some very short clips, but I have toyed with the idea of putting my GAMCOD stuff up just to see if I can. I actually think my husband could do a very good channel on his vehicle repairs (he is restoring old Land Rovers) - like with gardening there is a lot of rubbish and dangerous advice out there.
If you just want to do it for fun, I'd say go for it! I love looking at other people's gardens, so be sure to please post a link on permies when you do an update. It doesn't seem to matter whether I've 'followed' someone or not I still need to go looking for stuff.
 
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I have an off and on little YouTube channel about my garden, mostly concerning sweet potatoes. I spend no time editing, couldn't care less about professionalism. Just little what you see is what you get stories from my garden.

Here is an example, I Don't expect win any Emmies anytime soon.

 
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You might find Ned Harr's post on making videos useful too:
https://permies.com/t/240784/art/decent-videos-rough-guide
 
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I have youtube for my singing, at this rate though I won't get monitized until I'm old haha.  But its just another avenue for putting myself out there.  I haven't made any videos about my apartment gardening life, because I don't think I'm clever at that enough yet.  When I sing on facebook live though, which I do often in the wintertime, I have showed people some of my plants, when videoing in the spring/summer/autumn, but not very often.  Hopefully someday my page will expand to include planting stuff.  But its not high on the urgency list.
 
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