A couple of months back I started work on cutting down the DConf
Online 2020 Q & A videos that I had uploaded to the D Language
Foundation's YouTube channel. For the original uploads, I simply
cut them out of the live stream, added a title and some fades,
then uploaded with no edits.
A few months later I realized how silly that was thanks to a user
comment. There was too much dead air and a good bit of irrelevant
chatter. YouTube doesn't allow a video to be replaced once it's
uploaded---each new upload gets a unique URL. So I was hoping to
get them edited in place via YouTube's built-in editor, but after
learning of a couple of longstanding bugs (one of which hit me),
I abandoned that idea. The DLF took a vote and I got the
greenlight to upload new videos and remove the old ones.
And so I began chipping away at the originals to cut them down
and keep them focused on the actual Q & A bits. This has resulted
in much shorter videos, close to 40 minutes shorter in a couple
of cases.
Today I finally uploaded and published the last one. All of them
are available via [the DConf Online 2020 Q & A playlist][1] (you
can recognize them by the (v2.0) in their titles).
[1]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G1FoocVVPY&list=PLIldXzSkPUXX0PcnTlv175rEyfH66yaoI