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Gerhard Lazu

@gerhard.io

Make it work. Keep improving.

Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 10/01/2025

B-roll. Adding chapters. Subtitles. Audio mastering. Colour grading... still working on this one - too warm! All the above make good content, great. If something is meant to be watched and enjoyed for a long time, it's worth the effort. This is what hours of editing spread over weeks looks like:

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 10/01/2025

The first edit pass is always the hardest. It requires technical knowledge to understand which parts distract from the story, and which ones are good nerd humour. After the recording, this is the second most important part which cannot be delegated. I tried & learned: makeitwork.tv/about/#the-h...

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/12/2024

Same time. Same place. We continue where we left off. The conversation flows, it becomes a screen share, and when the time is up none wants to stop. 90mins become 150 mins and we are running out of tape. We export the raw content into DaVinci Resolve Studio and we begin smoothing the story:

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/12/2024

Today is the day when we open up Riverside and simply focus on the conversation. Everyone is relaxed and excited to talk about the main thing. Cameras get adjusted. Microphones come closer. Before we know it, we are done - this is just the rehearsal. We cannot wait for tomorrow, recording day!

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/12/2024

How this was made.

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/12/2024

The conversation has to be easy going, entertaining and educational. It must leave room for the unexpected (no scripting), and it also needs to hit most of the main points. Never lose the audience! They helped me get it: 1. youtu.be/HYQOW34b-0g 2. youtu.be/HAnw168huqA 3. youtu.be/u4ZoJKF_VuA

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Story Telling In Business - Pixar Story Teller Mathew Luhn at CIMC / Marwick Marketing

YouTube video by Marwick Marketing

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/12/2024

It all starts with the people that are passionate & deeply invested in a topic. We book a rehearsal + a recording session a few months in advance. This gives us time to prepare. The core idea is setting the context, having most of the pieces in place, then figuring it out together, as we record.

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/12/2024

Grateful for the opportunity to be on the other side of a Ship It conversation 🙌 So much has changed in the last 3 years, and yet the best ideas are still with us. Tune in & find out what they are.

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/12/2024

What a milestone! I cannot wait to see how it fits in the follow-up to changelog.com/ten This has all the features of my all-time favourite changelog. Kaizen!

changelog.com

Celebrating ten years of Changelog

News and podcasts for developers

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 03/12/2024

The best guests are able to focus on the conversation regardless 😀 We'll do another one with less noise, promise 🤜🤛

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 29/11/2024

9 months ago, I started a new content space: Make it Work. It's a blend of conversations about tech & infra with screensharing & pairing. This is the end-result of telling it: makeitwork.fm And this is the showing part: yt.makeitwork.tv So what goes into producing one such piece of content?

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Make it Work

We talk about software that gets us excited, then share our screens and show what that means in practice. Video links in show notes.

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/11/2024

Finally finished setting up @gerhard.io on Bluesky. Thanks @justingarrison.com for www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP3O... 👍

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Use a custom domain as username on Bluesky

YouTube video by Justin Garrison

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 18/05/2023

👋🏻

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Gerhard Lazu @gerhard.io · 07/05/2023

Thank you @johanngyger.com 👏🏻

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