Sneak Peek at a New Video -- from Japan!
Added 2023-12-18 03:13:49 +0000 UTCHello lovely people!
We have a new video coming out very soon. Hopefully in the next few days. We'd absolutely love your feedback. I think the latest we'd be able to incorporate notes would be Monday.
Thanks so much for all of your support, your feedback has been making our videos better for the last few years, and we couldn't be more grateful.
Thanks,
Petr, on behalf of the entire Ve team.
Comments
1:50 You say more than 6000 fatalities, but text says Less than 6000.
Chris Mullin
2023-12-19 14:15:52 +0000 UTCDerek looks tired in the video call with Petr. You alright?
John Cox
2023-12-19 02:06:00 +0000 UTCAlso at that time, the voiceover says "Killed more than six thousand", but the text is "<6000" which I read as less than
Peter Owen
2023-12-18 22:58:26 +0000 UTCGreat video. Wish the US had that type of foresight. Does the US (or other countries) use the "shake table" to test our own stuff?
Patrick W. Gilmore
2023-12-18 22:55:20 +0000 UTCDitto 10:00 for the Chilean one - which is even older.
Patrick W. Gilmore
2023-12-18 21:08:46 +0000 UTCI'm with Bob, Petr deserves a bit more of an intro than "Veritasium producer"
Patrick W. Gilmore
2023-12-18 20:42:45 +0000 UTC1:54 - "estimated at $80B". That was a while ago, want to say what it would be today?
Patrick W. Gilmore
2023-12-18 20:41:01 +0000 UTCI would be interested in some more details about the buildings/ objects/models that were tested. (Special material? Special geometry of cross sections? Isolators? Dampers ?...)
RaiMoed
2023-12-18 18:51:22 +0000 UTCI know the video is focused on structural safety, but I think it would be valuable to touch on personal safety / preparedness too. Even if it was a few links in the description to relevant government agency sites. As a US citizen, when I went to Japan a few decades ago, earthquakes were in the back of my mind, though it didn't experience one. I'm not sure I would have known what to do. Since you'll have a captured audience on the topic, you could do a public service while you're at it.
Kimberly Green
2023-12-18 18:26:02 +0000 UTCDamn right we enjoyed them. :D Also agree with the rest, really great job there. Keep makin' Veritasium happen!
Moritz Latuske
2023-12-18 17:46:18 +0000 UTCWow... I knew earthquake simulators existed but the scale and power everything operates at is crazy! Also well done Petr! I feel like for someone who also shoots and presents, "producer" is a bit of an understatement - or at least it gives this producer inferiority complexes :D 3:00 onwards: Whenever you have control over the camera placements on both ends (which i know you may not have with guests that are not on your team) consider the angles/eyelines to help it mesh together better. Here you both have very different shots of yourselves during the conversation, and both of you are looking down relative to camera, i.e. past each other, effectively. 8:42 onwards: The seismograph animation appears to be stuttering for some time, was it slowed down? 19:15 The archival footage of the disaster does not match the high note your narration ends on at all. Maybe consider changing that? Looking forward to the finished one!
Moritz Latuske
2023-12-18 17:41:57 +0000 UTCI think you deserve some sort of introduction in the video itself. :P
Bob Terrell
2023-12-18 14:40:39 +0000 UTC1:22 I'm not sure what I'm looking at here... maybe some text saying what that is. 3:44 (and later) Perhaps some subtitles directly on the screen here would be good - I've noticed Tom Scott tends to do this if he's interviewing somebody with a particularly strong accent. 9:23 I'm assuming this was plotted as a line graph with specific points at 7.5, 8, 8.5... but it's a little odd to see Not a smooth curve become a perfectly straight line when the type of axis is changed, though I recognize that's what happens if you use just specific data points. 9:58 I don't think anybody's going to be confused, but you might clarify that, I assume, you mean between 1000 and 6000 ((between 1 and 6) thousand) rather than literally 1 and 6000. 12:13 I know there's nothing to be done now, and normal people call it dampening, but it's "damping". In general these camera shots of the artificial shaking tend to make me think it's a smaller model of these things that are being shaken - I know there were some comments about the size of things, but if it's easy, maybe make it extra clear that these are full-scale versions being shaken.
C.J. Smith
2023-12-18 14:39:03 +0000 UTCGreat to see a fresh face on Veritasium! I really like the way you transitioned from Derek to Petr where it wasn’t too abrupt and didn’t distract from the story.
Sam Bebbington
2023-12-18 10:46:19 +0000 UTCHello Bob! Good question! I've been working with Derek for more than 3 years now, writing and producing a bunch of videos you have hopefully enjoyed! Hope you had a lovely weekend -- Petr.
Veritasium
2023-12-18 08:12:58 +0000 UTCPetr a great guy (and friend) who works for Derek, doing research, writing , animations etc)
Paul Looyen
2023-12-18 06:42:13 +0000 UTCPetr is a great science communicator (and friend) who does a lot of the background work for Derek. (Research, writing, animation etc )
Paul Looyen
2023-12-18 06:40:19 +0000 UTCI'm going to assume the closed captions are automatically generated, because there are a lot of errors in them.
Bob Terrell
2023-12-18 05:47:26 +0000 UTCWho the heck is Petr?
Bob Terrell
2023-12-18 05:33:28 +0000 UTC1:42 - "More than 6000", but the graphics show "less than 6000"
SkaveRat
2023-12-18 03:29:59 +0000 UTC
