I just wanted to thank Dr. Chuck and Dr. Chahal for inviting me. This is my third year doing it, would be fifth if it weren't for COVID-19 and the wedding of my sister, but it's great to be here in Chicago. As Dr. Raju said, and Dr. Raju has been a longtime mentor, not only with video editing, but also with life advice, so special thank you to him, but we're going to be talking about the Mac version. Again, I'm not promoting Macs, I'm just a Mac user. You guys probably don't remember there was this series of commercials in the 2000s of Mac user, PC user, so we're going to be playing that commercial here live today, and for those of you that are virtual as well. So before you get started, you want to think about your setup, and this may be pretty straightforward for the institution that you're joining, but for those of you that are maybe developing an advanced endoscopy program, you have to start to think about the technology that you want to use. In Cleveland, we use one thing, they have something new. Dr. Raju actually has a great setup video on YouTube if you want to use his setup using a Mac. I use this Thomas Shogun setup, and really it's a pretty simple setup here. You just input from your PC into the box, box into the projector, and then you just click play, and that's it. On the back there, you can buy terabyte drives, and then you just load your terabyte drive into your Mac or PC. So it's a little upfront cost, but the setup integration into your actual endoscopy unit is pretty much plug and play, which is nice. When I'm thinking about starting a video publication, of course, first comes the foresight into what cases may be worthy of publication, and so reviewing your cases in advance and thinking, hey, this might be a good one to shoot some video of, I think is the initial step. After you've done that, you want to go onto the VideoGIE website and actually download the template that they have for forming your publication, which downloads in a very easy to use PowerPoint format. There's a standard protocol for which you're going to begin your publication, and there are components that the reviewers are going to be looking for that are standard. We all want to make things look pretty when we're doing these presentations, embedding cool videos in your PowerPoints and such, but you want to keep things kind of straightforward and following the template. I will also note that DDW has a separate template as well. They are similar. The next thing you want to do is after you've done your case, you want to review your footage, right? You probably have an hour of footage to go through, and getting that down to an eight-minute video or a 20-minute series on a new technique takes a lot of editing, right? But as you'll notice as I'm fast-forwarding through this 20-minute video, there's a lot of periods that are kind of redundant. There may be some time where you're just kind of sitting there in bubbles, and so looking at what you have to offer and where the action shots are in advance, I think is a really useful exercise. Then you want to create a storyboard. So what are the steps involved in your case, right? And so we do that in film editing, but you have to start to think about that as something that you're going to do for your video editing protocols as well. And so what does that mean? So going on PubMed and researching the background, has your case been done before? Is there a single case report on it? What are the relevant background pieces of information and turning that into a couple of useful slides to give context to your case report or your new technique? And then what are the steps involved in your procedure, right? So in that long video that I showed you sped up, we spent some time looking at the gastric anterovascular ectasia. How do you set up your device, right, if you're using, say, like an over-the-scope clip? What are your cautery settings? You may want to take a little video of you setting up your cautery or a still picture. And then, of course, where the action is, where we all want to see is the procedure. As you notice, I also took some footage after we did cryotherapy, so you may want to look at after you've closed that defect or after you've done that ESD. I think that gives that reader that kind of final ending. It's like the third act in a movie. Then you want to discuss what you've learned based upon your background and this novel procedure and give some context and conclusions for your people and make it very concise. Obviously, researching the background, you're using, you know, standard language. You all have done this. I'm certain if you've made it this far in your career, using ands and ors, editing down your mesh terms that you get back in PubMed. And you'll find that actually now that Video GIE is on PubMed that you're going to see a lot of, you know, kind of things that you may have already, that you have done that you think are novel, but they may not be. So turning your background into a PowerPoint, so, you know, you have this kind of dense block of script and we're used to writing scientific papers where you have, say, a page or two of just background, but you want to keep things kind of a little more concise and you have to make these dense background paragraphs into easily readable formats on your PowerPoints. If you put that whole thing on one slide, you're going to lose your viewer instantly. And also to note is that, you know, when you're turning your, when you're putting your PowerPoints into your editing software, you want to convert them into, you know, JPEG files or PNG files. You're not going to be able to put PowerPoint slides into your actual video editing software. So there's how to do that. The last steps are watching your video and recording audio. Recording your audio can be one of the hardest components, I think, to video editing. For the reason being that if you lean closer to a microphone, your voice sounds different. And if you lean further away, it also sounds different. If you video edit on a Wednesday and you are sitting in your bedroom on, you know, Monday, your voice is going to sound different. The acoustics are going to be different. So I actually, I do a podcast and I have a recording area, but you may want to just pick a standard spot within your house or apartment or at work where you do all of your recording. And you want it to be a small space, even like a closet. Closets don't have a lot of sound that's bouncing around. Think about things like you don't need to buy fancy video recording equipment, but you know, buying a cheap microphone on Amazon is pretty easy. It costs like 50 bucks and it may be a worthwhile investment for you. You also want to have some energy in the way that you talk, right? If you're just droning on, your viewer is going to get depressed and just say, oh, to hell with this one. We all have reviewed those videos. And then also just keep in mind that when you go to your mentors with your video, they're going to change a lot. And that may be the hardest part is going back to them, making those edits and having to rerecord audio and video. So just kind of keep that in mind as you're going through your edits. I would say as a word of advice, batch your edits together. So if you have seven advanced attendings that you're working with, get all of their sign-offs first before you go and start editing things, because otherwise you're going to be recording a lot. Those of you that did the sessions with Dr. Raju and I popped into one of them, you know, he talked a lot about splicing your video and then using, you know, subtext at the bottom corner. You know, again, keep things simple, right? You're not winning an Oscar here. We want you to have production value, but you don't need to have the Star Wars font popping from the bottom. You can do things on a Mac like trimming, where you just drag and drop, and you can also cut or slice things if you're using more recent versions on an iMac. And then you also want to think about transitions as well in your slides. You know, you want to use very simple transitions, either crossfades or fade to black. I also put fade to black on usually either end of my recording as well. It just kind of allows things to fade in rather than an abrupt transition. How many of you have made videos already on your own? Great. I've done so, all right. And how many, this is sort of a first to leap in. So everyone's got some experience. That's good for your mentors. Yeah, and it's surprisingly easy on a Mac, that is. I don't know about a PC, but we're going to find out soon. In terms of saving your file, you know, a lot of people will save it ultra high def, but just remember that when it comes time to submit on that day before the DDW deadline, everybody is going to be submitting everything. And so if you have a super big file, it's going to take a long time. It actually may time out and you may not get your file in in time. So I would say save with a moderate resolution and save if you're uploading a video to DDW, do it in advance. And you know, this is just kind of an example of one of the things that we put together and just, you know, how you can use cross media into your presentations. This was a case where we had a cholangiocarcinoma with a liver met and some involvement. We did a radiofrequency ablation. You can see that I added fluoro images. You can actually add in CT images. And if you save multiple CT images, it can give the appearance like you're scrolling through it, or you can take a video of you scrolling through your CT. And then, of course, incorporating what we all want to see, which is the endoscopic pictures here. So again, you know, think about those other components other than just the raw video that come with a good publication in whatever area it is that you're publishing in. Any questions? Great. Thank you all. Thank you.

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