Taming Techniques Videos

How-to: Taming Techniques videos

Beginning this week, we will be making available short videos, called How-to: Taming Techniques.  Find these via links on JillWolcottKnits.com.  We are uploading the videos to both YouTube and Vimeo (no commercials) so you can find them on the Jill Wolcott Knits channels there as well.

I love making these technique videos.  We found 300 techniques in the Jill Wolcott Knits database, and although not all of them need a video, this is a wonderful way for me to actually talk you through something that may not be entirely clear on paper/screen. Taming Techniques was born from a question by a knitter. I know that despite my best efforts to be clear, it is often easier to just see something done. If you are puzzled by how to do a technique, let us know and we’ll put it in the queue.  Just know that it can take a while (see below) to make a final video.

Taming Techniques don’t have a lot of production values, but still these videos require a fair bit of effort on our part, so it will take a while to get a significant number into our library.   Basically, these are the steps to create each video:

Jill

1. Choose technique.
2. Write an outline of key points.
3. Make swatches to show different stages and to have ready to work different stages.
4. Prepare script for smooth sailing through demonstrations.
5. Set up video equipment.
6. Find a time when traffic outside my office isn’t heavy and no one else is in my office.
7. Shoot video.
8. Upload video from card to Dropbox.
9. Change format for editing in iMovie.
10. Updates to written technique.
11. Review edited video.

Wendy

1. Edit video.
2. Make episode/title sheets in Illustrator.
3. Review edited video.
4. Save video in formats for YouTube and Vimeo.
5. Upload Videos to Jill Wolcott Knits channels under How-To: Taming Techniques.
6. Updates to written technique.
7. Add links to techniques on JillWolcottKnits.com

I may have missed something, and I’m sure we’ll get much faster as we get more accustomed to making them. So email if you have something you’d like us to Tame, or leave a comment below.