Day2 of ThEC2018 starts off with some challenging camera angles, with people walking left-and-right across the frame. I'm using this as an opportunity to see what Motion Tracking options are available with Adobe Creative Cloud.
Those options are SLOW, so while my PC is plodding away (in After Effects) tracking motion, I also threw the above video together.
This 27s video exists on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/gordonmcdowell/status/1148454477864656896
And shorter versions also exist as UNLISTED videos on YouTube, here's all the links:
27s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYockPgM2nk
13s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssm6iunXzc4
7s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdQ40FF3peQ
These assets can be found here for download:
27s - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CQ2LFyhDhdH6fka5l81u5yLZ6xc0Sb4e
13s - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1efG7YeExI_CmkmNciKUgc-m1clzM1Nu-
7s - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZcCVaSi2EcGFGhlVaPJqbbCMX6rTdRiZ
This is shorter than anything I've created before, and the intent is to explore AdWords with shorter duration ads. The 7s one can be used as a "bumper" and 13s and 27s are "skippable".
If you want to upload them to YouTube or Twitter or whatever, go ahead. I only recommend including a link to https://xkcd.com/1162/ in description if you upload to YouTube.
Here is my public video's description:
Source: IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Annex III3
https://www.world-nuclear.org/nuclear-basics/nuclear-energy-and-climate-change.aspx
Uranium Energy Density Cartoon by XKCD titled "Log Scale"
https://xkcd.com/1162/
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_annex-iii.pdf
Nuclear: Limited recent data and/or original data are available in the published literature. More recent, (grey literature) sources provide investment cost and LCOE estimates that are considerably higher than the ones shown here (Brandão et al., 2012). Nuclear fuel prices (per GJ input) are based on fuel cycle costs (usually expressed per MWh generated), assuming a conversion efficiency of 33%. They include the front-end (Uranium mining and milling, conversion, enrichment, and fuel fabrication) and back-end (spent fuel transport, storage, reprocessing, and disposal) costs of the nuclear fuel cycle (see IEA and NEA, 2010).
Why do this?
AdWords seems to favor shorter videos. One can throw any amount of money at an ad, and YouTube will run it. My "Indian" account paying in Rupees is a way of addressing currency bidding floor issues (can't bid less than 1 cent!). But I've never crafted a video ad itself to be... inexpensive.
The 7s video is actually 6s29f and just qualifies (according to AdWords) as a 6 second ad.
6 seconds ads can be a different category altogether, called "bumpers" which lack the skip option... since all YouTube Ads only allow skipping after 5s it isn't the forced-to-watch which is important, it is just seeing what pricing falls out of it, and that the removal of the [Skip Ad] button makes it less visually distracting.
I'm presently waiting for AdWords to approve these ads, but figured I'd share the assets while I'm waiting in case anyone wants to Tweet or Instagram or whatever them.
UPDATE:
65s - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Qn3bDJnsuhYqqdC4BGqjsmI3nllvFrWX
...is a "Fluid Fuel Reactor" version, and I've been improving color communication of bar chart.