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You owns the course or you just did the stop-motion?
I own the course. As much as you can own a video these days!
Congratulations, very well done.
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Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
#82I've been meaning to play the hilarious-looking "My Summer Car" ( http://www.amistech.com/msc/ ) recently as I have been hankering to learn about engines... perhaps it's wise to do the video course first!
How have I never seen this before!!
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> customers MASSIVELY prefer paying with Paypal to Stripe That's interesting. Do you have a theory about why that is?
I just paid for this using Paypal. I prefer paying straight from my bank account rather than using a credit card. My debit card (Dutch pin card) cannot be used for online payments, but Paypal is connected to my bank account. Is Stripe able to do something similar?
Same here, also Dutch. I, and I think almost all Dutch people with me, prefer paying from a debit account. This means either iDeal or Paypal with a connected bank account.
I've never integrated Stripe, but it seems it is possible to use iDeal with stripe:
Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
> customers MASSIVELY prefer paying with Paypal to Stripe That's interesting. Do you have a theory about why that is?
I just paid for this using Paypal. I prefer paying straight from my bank account rather than using a credit card. My debit card (Dutch pin card) cannot be used for online payments, but Paypal is connected to my bank account. Is Stripe able to do something similar?
Stripe can in America, through the ACH system. Seems to be able to do SEPA direct debit these days if the vendor is in the EU, too.
Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
#85As a hearing-impaired person, I just wanted to thank you for clearly mentioning that it's subtitled. That shows it's more than just an afterthought, and seals the deal for me!
I don't understand why everyone wouldn't subtitle their content. I used rev.com and it costs $1 per minute and the results are great. So to subtitle three hours cost $240. With many non-native English speakers as customers it is a no-brainer. It's good to hear this too, because the text in that box originally said 'Filmed in 4K' and I only changed it to 'Fully subtitled' at the last moment.
Great to know about them.
But their web site says $7.50/minute for subtitling, $1 for transcriptions.
Still may be quite reasonable to extend video reach that much.
Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
#86This is neat, but based on the title, I thought this was going to be a bit more informative about _how_ engines work, and how each subprocess contributes toward the end goal.
What I saw instead was a subset of subprocesses in isolation from each other, presented in an admittedly artistic fashion. It's impressive, and maybe the purpose is more to whet one's appetite for more information rather than be informative in itself, but that's not really what I was expecting or hoping for.
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Interesting, what I got out of the video is that they seem to use Unior tools and in fact I thought it was an ad for Unior at the beginning of the video. Might have something to do with the fact that I have been considering Unior tools for a long time now but always postpone (because of the price).
Unior provided the tools for this course. They really are great quality - and run by real people who are proud of what they make. I went to their factory in Slovenia where they make 99.9% of everything they sell. We talked about making the series and they saw the potential in it and supported me when it really looked a risky bet. I'm very happy to advocate their tools because they are genuinely good, European-made an…
How many 10mm sockets were lost during production? :)
Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
#88As a hearing-impaired person, I just wanted to thank you for clearly mentioning that it's subtitled. That shows it's more than just an afterthought, and seals the deal for me!
I don't understand why everyone wouldn't subtitle their content. I used rev.com and it costs $1 per minute and the results are great. So to subtitle three hours cost $240. With many non-native English speakers as customers it is a no-brainer. It's good to hear this too, because the text in that box originally said 'Filmed in 4K' and I only changed it to 'Fully subtitled' at the last moment.
Because it's lot of work. Like everything, it depends of the investment vs reward, unless you are driven by virtue.
Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
#89I don't want to sound like a fake commenter, but this somehow sold me on the course concept even though the part of a car I least car(e) about is the ICE.
Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
#90The foley on that video must have taken some time.