283: Just Lower Your Standards
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Videolog(ue)
- Follow-up:
- "Beware the Core i9"
- Reddit thread
- Marco's tweet
- Thermal design power
- Notebook Check tests the 13"
- CPU data sheets:
- Apple ends photo printing operation
#askatp:- Is a dedicated picture machine useful? (via Colton Belfils)
- Does John like Node.js (via Aaron Bushnell)?
- What $15k-or-less car, at least 25 years old, would you buy? (via Gareth Thomas)
- Post-show Neutral
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am so for constressed right now. |
| 0:03.0 | I don't think I've really come to grips with this whole filming car videos thing quite yet |
| 0:10.0 | because all I can think about is all the ways that the footage I have is not enough and will never work and is all wrong |
| 0:17.0 | and the car goes back on Friday morning. |
| 0:21.0 | And this is roughly the same feeling I've had every time I've had a car video |
| 0:26.0 | but it's getting worse and worse because I'm now no longer just doing this for grins and giggles. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm doing it for like sort of my job. |
| 0:34.0 | And so I am just a ball of stress right now. |
| 0:38.0 | I like I should not be recording right now. |
| 0:40.0 | I should be fiddling around in final cut right now. |
| 0:42.0 | In fact, if you just find me dropping off the call, just just roll on. It's fine. |
| 0:46.0 | So I mean, I think interesting thought exercise might be |
| 0:50.0 | assume you had more time with the car. |
| 0:53.0 | Do you think you would ever reach the point where you wouldn't feel all panicked and insecure about the video clips that you have so far? |
| 1:00.0 | Don't use your logic on me. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm just like this is because like I you know I've made you know of all the video I have made. |
| 1:08.0 | I had that feeling for all of it and it was true. |
| 1:16.0 | I didn't have all the right footage. In fact, I had way too little footage than for what I actually needed. |
| 1:22.0 | But I managed to get a video out of it anyway. |
| 1:25.0 | And I think that's probably true of most people who make videos on a deadline. |
| 1:30.0 | Like you're never going to have enough time or enough people or enough gear to get all of the shots you want exactly the way you want them. |
| 1:38.0 | And you're always going to have to make up for something that you didn't get or that's wrong or that doesn't fit in like during editing after the car is gone. |
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