What happened to j.d.brewer??

cab · Sat May 16, 2020 2:45 pm

Is J.D. Brewer still in business??

LtBadd · Sat May 16, 2020 5:19 pm

What causes you to ask? He's still posting on IG

cab · Sun May 17, 2020 2:23 am

Thanks ,I have not seen any posts to his Youtube site in 11 months .

TraditionalToolworks · Sun May 17, 2020 2:57 am

cab wrote:Thanks ,I have not seen any posts to his Youtube site in 11 months .

InstaGram seems to be more popular with a lot of the maker crowd, which he seems to be involved with.

You can find him on IG as apexish.

LtBadd · Sun May 17, 2020 7:48 am

shooting and editing video takes a lot of time, IG can be as quick as take a photo or video and upload directly to IG, just a guess on my part as to why he may not be doing YT anymore

Oscar · Sun May 17, 2020 9:53 am

LtBadd wrote:shooting and editing video takes a lot of time

something I has no idea about until I started to make some myself.

TraditionalToolworks · Sun May 17, 2020 2:51 pm

LtBadd wrote:shooting and editing video takes a lot of time, IG can be as quick as take a photo or video and upload directly to IG, just a guess on my part as to why he may not be doing YT anymore

You hit the nail on the head Richard. This is exactly why, and I don't post too many videos myself. I have done it in the past and pioneered some online videos when I was at Sun Microsystems, but haven't taken the time to do so for my hobbies. I have some short ones but I don't spend too much time editing them. More so since I use Linux mostly there is not a lot of good editing software available. I mainly use kino, open source software for video editing. In the past I used a Mac, and what I would recommend to people. A Mac is just easier for doing that type of creative stuff.

Spartan · Sun May 17, 2020 7:02 pm

Oscar wrote:
LtBadd wrote:shooting and editing video takes a lot of time
something I has no idea about until I started to make some myself.

Yup! I do video editing for the other, non-welding/fab side of my business and it is time consuming indeed. That's why I always laugh at some of the comments you see on YT with viewers complaining and nit picking about some aspects of the videos or complaining about how the content creators are making them. Sometimes even trying to demand a re-upload. Those complainers haven't a clue!