I beat myself to death way more than probably anyone realizes in shooting my videos, because I insist on recording every single thing I show off, actually functioning, live in the studio. i have to do literally thousands of additional takes every year to achieve this, none of which would be necessary if I just did what everyone else does: record a voiceover in a home sound booth, then shoot B-roll to match it.
It is incredibly and astonishingly hard to synchronize the behavior of a finicky old gadget to narration and the realities of filming. If you haven't done this specific thing, you just can't imagine how infuriating it is to try to type a command into a computer while narrating and get the computer to do it's thing on cue, while also capturing yourself and the goings-on in high fidelity with two cameras that have to sit at aesthetically pleasing angles while also not catching each other in their field of view
do i do this out of a sense of principle? absolutely not; i do it because my brain is just too much of a mess to get narration to match footage.
i have never managed this. I always miss a shot and have to waste hours going back and getting it, or my description so violently disagrees with what actually happened on camera that I have to go back and reshoot everything, or i have to do 40 takes on the VO to get it to match the footage. I exert all that immense effort in the studio because it is the only way I can get something that works at all. i have no idea how everyone else manages it.
