u/macnmotion

I was trying to understand some confusing metrics from my last 5 videos, and got into a chat with the new assistant tool in Studio. At one time in the conversation it told me this:

What are you missing?

You aren't missing quality or packaging. What you are likely experiencing is the "Consistency Trap." When you make a series of great videos in a specific niche, the algorithm can sometimes get too good at knowing exactly who your audience is, and it stops "speculating" on broader audiences to protect the user's Home page experience.

I have microscopy footage, where I used the knob on the microscope to slowly pan down a slide. The movement is perfectly downward, and the depth doesn't change. But I turned the knob manually, which resulted in uneven speed in the pan downward.

Is there a tool in Resolve (Studio 20.3.2 Build 9 - Mac) to help me at least tighten up the rate so it doesn't look so "manual?" It's quite a few seconds at 60fps so hoping not to have to do any type of manual frame by frame speed changes.

Thanks.

The final 90 seconds inside a reproductive cyst, as a ciliate has completed mitosis and the two new cells exit the cyst.

Freshwater sample from a greenside pond at Vintage Golf Course outside Bangkok, Thailand.

Nikon TMD Diaphot, Nikon 40x Oil Immersion, Nikon D750 DSLR. Oblique lighting.

I'll try to keep this concise, if you need more info, let me know. I'm on a Mac, using Resolve 20 Studio.

I'm making a science education video about Paramecium bursaria, a single cell organism that has hundreds of tiny algae living symbiotically inside of it, right next to the cell membrane. In the video I'm discussing that they are in that location so that they can get sunlight in order to undergo photosynthesis. Then I also mention that they block harmful UV radiation from entering the cell, and also buffer the heat from entering the cell from sunlight.

There will be a closeup of the microbe taking up much of the screen. For all three of these I will do a similar animation, I just need some ideas on how to do it. I want to animate "rays" indicating either sunlight, UV radiation or Heat (I need something different for each), and an idea of how to show a bunch of those "things" traveling toward the cell from the outside and fading as they reach the outer edge of the cell. The fade is no issue. I just don't know what to use to represent those three things (could be the same shape/thing, just three different colors). For example, if I wanted a wavy line representing a sun beam to move from the top of the screen to the edge of the cell, and that wave not just move in a line but also "wave" or "undulate" as it goes, how would I do that? Do I create a wave transparent png, keyframe the movement from one spot to the other, and use some type of effect to cause the undulation? And how would I make, say, 30 of these moving at different time -- do I need to create 30 tracks?

I've got enough experience in Resolve (studio) that if anyone could give some basic ideas I could probably pull it off. Thanks in advance.

One of my science education videos is doing very well (for me). I published it about 40 hours ago, and during that time it's gone through a few phases of success. I woke up this morning to see it got 5,000 more views and 70 more subs overnight. Now I e been refreshing my screen the past hour, watching the view count jump about 200 views every minute. YouTube is showing it to someone right now!

Now I can't stop refreshing the screen. It's like a drug lol.

A few weeks ago I came across a beautiful blue organism in a sample from a water retention pond in Nonthaburi, Thailand. This video chronicles how I found it, and more importantly how it was identified as the ciliate Condylostomides coeruleus.

Imaged with my Nikon TMD Diaphot inverted microscope, 4x, 10x and 40x oil immersion objectives, and a Nikon D750 DSLR.