Beyond3D Podcast Episode 1 - public beta

[ShaidarHaran]

Let me address a few things, if I may.

First of all, thanks for all the feedback and thanks for listening!

WRT the show being a "one man" effort I have to agree for the most part. This is Arwin's baby and the first show was entirely researched and produced by him. I just chipped in commentary when I felt an opportune moment arose.

We intend to fix this by doing a few things.
Immediate fixes to go into effect as of Episode 2:
1) We are going to lay out a format with individual segments, specific topics will be presented by each of us, not just Arwin.
2) I will be researching topics to discuss as well, Arwin will not be doing this all on his own. I'm more of a hardware guy so I think the upcoming show I'll have a lot more to say, especially with the HotChips conference this week.
3) There were connection problems on my end which will be sorted out before the next show, namely in the form of a new cable modem and a wired connection to my router.

Mid-term/long-range fixes:
1) Guest speakers/interviews
2) Integrating some form of listener interaction probably via means of an episodic discussion thread.

Re: the time factor
We are shooting for 1-2 hours per show. The first show went long because of the sheer volume of material (both Siggraph and GamesCom were covered), and the lack of a concrete format. With segments and regular breaks it makes it much easier to break up the show into multiple episodes when there is a lot of content to cover as well.

Thanks again for the feedback, I'm sure Arwin will have more to add, perhaps tomorrow.

 

[Cornsnake]

I think this was pretty good for a first time. Any rough edges should go away after you get some more experience doing it. And as far as this being a one show goes, most things ShaidarHaran said did add a lot to it. So with the improvements that have already been suggested it shouldn't be that hard to divide things more evenly.

Looking forward to the next show.

 

[DieH@rd]

When can we expect next show to appear?

 

[Arwin]

Shooting to get something out every Monday evening (European time).

 

[egoless]

good

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[DieH@rd]

I would also like to hear in-depth analysis of new DX11 features, when in 2 weeks AMD presents new GPU's. Hopefully benchmarks will be up soon

 

[Arwin]

Not quite in-depth maybe, but we do discuss this topic.

We just finished our recording half an hour ago, and made another epic recording of over 3 hours. Talking was pretty much evenly divided this time and sound quality seems very good - Max sounds as if he's sitting next to me. This time I don't think I"ll cut off 45 minutes either, but we may consider releasing it in two parts - we'll see (probably not this time). Next time we'll definitely try to stay under 2 hours. (it's a lot of work)

 

[ShaidarHaran]

Very pleased with episode 2 overall. I think it's a good improvement over our first effort.

Arwin will create the thread for episode 2 when he's done editing the show and cutting out our break and the misc. show-related chatter.

Hope everyone likes it!

 

[homerdog]

Good job guys!

Only thing I recommend is a bit of volume leveling on Arwin's side.

 

[Arwin]

Good job guys!

Only thing I recommend is a bit of volume leveling on Arwin's side.

Yeah, I'm not using a headset, but a mike on a stand. Downside is that I'll move away sometimes. Sometimes this is useful (avoid getting noises in the mix that we don't need), but sometimes I move a little while talking and it changes the recording volume. I may experiment with a headset instead, we'll see.