This shouldn't be a milestone, it's only the third video in a whole series of them. If I count up how many I've outlined, there's about 26 + some bonus ones. To stumble and stall on video #3 right at the start has been irritating.
Worse, I'm not super happy with the video. Each time I go through it for a slight edit I want to throw the whole thing away and start again. But I know that's a trap, it's only introduction stuff that allows us to get to the actual code. Get it done, out the door, move into the next one.
This one was awkward because it talks about pens, so it's also nice to show the machine drawing with those pens, the whole pen-plotter/drawing-machine thing is supposed to be visual rather than just me being a talking head. Again though, there'll be plenty of opportunity for pretty visuals when we start with the code and get to see the results. So I needed to not only shoot the video, but then a bunch of b-roll to drop in, and it was finding the time to set things up that slowed everything down.
Today though I got the last bit of b-roll shot, I dropped it onto the timeline, added the music, threw on a colour grade, exported and uploaded, phew.
Tomorrow will be for making the thumbnails and all the admin that has to happen before I can make the video go live. For now though, very glad it's done.