Day 4: You don't have to do everything you can think of

July 12, 2018

60/60: 60 short videos for PhD students in 60 days

As you start to make your work more sophisticated, the number of possible options also increases. The only way to keep your project under control is to make decisions about what not to do!Today, I tried recording in 4K. This creates huge file sizes and makes it impossible to edit (my computer crashes every time). This is a good example of an "improvement" that isn't necessary and just adds too much complexity.

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