I agree ... great use of cyber entrepreneurism. You offer quality information for free, making people (hopefully) more interested in the information you charge for (like a book).

(Now, where's my credit card ... ?)

I bought Eric's book which is pretty good so far (about 1/3rd of the way thru it). My hope is Eric can make enough $ from his book/site to produce one of these shows a week.

I like the blend of entertainment and education.

I sure do appreciate the support, both financial and otherwise. Honestly, both expressions of support are equally encouraging, although BoA only cares about whether I can pay my mortgage or not.

And yes, my only hope for the book is that it is readable, entertaining and that you learn a couple of things you didn't know before, hopefully at least one magic insight that makes the whole thing worth the money.

Polite, thoughtful criticism is always welcome: thank you Tim!

And: Yes. Good ears. It was well-nigh impossible to get both good audio outside AND get windy foliage shots without a boom operator. Or a cameraperson (thus the terrible framing too). Shooting in a semi-public space wearing a homemade spandex Star Trek costume in the Florida sun was not very fun, so I did a couple of takes and that was that.

I did manually do ADR, as you can hear. I got pretty close and considered trying to fake the outside sound better, but, other than dropping some ambiance in behind the track, I didn't do more.

And, incidentally, it's a new mic. As you know from the other videos, I REALLY struggle with audio (don't we all?!), but I think I nailed it this time, at least as far as the studio sound. The new mic? Rode NT3 (3/4" diaphragm, hypercardioid). Love it. First mic I can genuinely say I love since I got my Sure SM57 a decade ago.

ADR is a complete pain (although there are software tools that can definitely help). I hate it and only did it because I had no choice. The ADR is only close because total time is a few tens of seconds and two of the shots are pretty wide (and forgiving). Used the audio waveforms to line it up manually with the crappy/windy production audio (I don't even look at the video while trying to sync - that'll drive you insane). I definitely could have hidden it better with more ambiance (birds, a little wind) and bumping the EQ so it's not so bassy and full, but for a silly 2-day project, this is what we get!

You're far too modest. I think you seriously did a nice job.

Since I've learned about ADR, I'm always watching/looking for it in videos.

I've seen some professionally produced videos that had worse (i.e., quite obvious) ADR than yours.

Again, nice job! :-)

Dang it! I should have paid more attention: YES! You are right, I got hacked by the Russians. Fortunately, it was a bot and no damage, and I've corrected it now. Thanks!