Critiques& suggestions:
Positives:
- The beginning of the video feels like in-your-face marketing of those transmitters.
- The pauses audio is a bit abrupt, maybe mute the recorded audio and use music, or narrate over the video.
- Agreed with the stowing hoses suggestions.
- Have you considered also clipping the camera equipment, before entering the water? It seems like you're at risk of dropping it, if you happened to need both hands for some reason or got disoriented.
- Is there an advantage to clipping the regulator before the tank? Intuitively, it seems like clipping the tank first, then routing the regulator would produce more consistent results.
- A narrower focus and defining your audience might help instruct better. For example, you would have been better off addressing only one topic: (1) liveaboard sidemount etiquette (2) boat dive with a camera-rig (3) donning sidemount system on a boat (4) your specific equipment setup. To understand what's going on in this video, you'd have to know a decent amount about sidemount already.
Thanks for sharing, and I look forward to seeing more from you.
- I always appreciate more people showing how side mount works.
- Video quality is fairly good & easy to follow.
- Don't get discouraged if feedback initially is a little rough, we all start somewhere, and this seems like a decent start. Go watch the early uploads of most popular channels, they all start similarly. (Many YouTube channels delete their early uploads, hah)
Thanks for feedback, really. Please dismiss the marketing, I made this unsolicited as a proof of concept of how a training video for specific market (open water solo photogs) may look like for a friend of mine who happens to dive for over 25 years, is a certified instructor for Toddy and happens to own a safari boat serving 40 divers in Red Sea.
The video is not supposed to be narrated as it is supposed to be multilingual and needs to be stopped at critical points for observation. Toddy is not the easiest system around.
Stowing hoses = Toddy by the book.
Clipping the DSLR size camera equipment at Zodiak entry is another element to get tangled into in case of troubles. It seems like a good idea but on a zodiak with more people the equipment may get handed to you just before the water entry and there are also other things to check so finding a D-ring and clipping might be unnecessary a distraction. Plus another cable for the diver or others to get tangled in. The rig is secured through wrist based loop. You need to protect this $10k+ equipment and controlling it with the hand erected seemed to me like the best option.
Clipping the (right - working - cylinder) regulator before the tank. The other choice is to have regulator hanging down and finding the way for it between the cylinder and your body after you clip the cylinder. I've tried both and it seems to me clipping it first is better option.
Yes, the video is a shortcut for somebody already thinking going a different path so some level of mental participation is required. Otherwise it would have to be several times longer and wouldn't get to the point - which is using the SM on a safari boat with photo equipment and zodiak entry.
Thanks for c&c, I really appreciate this.