How to make #shorts with MATLAB?

Hi folks!

Thank you for reading my article, and I hope you join my newsletter: GG's Journal. This is my second article of 2022. I hope you read the first article on?Life is Hackathon. How to solve it??

If you had watched the Hackathon video, you would have thought of the real answer to the questions asked? The beauty and reality of our lives are that we rarely get ready-made solutions and are supposed to work really hard to solve any problematic situation. Read this paragraph further and think of it from my point of view. I was hoping for comments on my first article. I got just one (by the time of publishing 2nd article) and that too from a good friend of mine, whom I messaged personally asking for an opinion. What I got most was reactions including Like, Celebration & Curiousness. Although the purpose of my articles was not to get comments but to spread knowledge of amazing MATLAB or Simulink work, my team at MATLAB Helper has been doing; it would have helped if you, the reader, just shared your thoughts after reading the article and helped us in improvising in any way possible. Would you leave a comment on this article? Let's see!

This week was good progress to one of my brain-child: Map with MATLAB. My last video on the topic was on the Top 10 Populated Countries worldwide.

The video was created and released in Jan'21. I had thought that I would make a lot more videos in this series. I enjoy watching the animation of stats like Highest Grossing Hollywood Movies or Sit-coms across years or Highest Cricket Centuries across formats every year. People would also find the animations produced in MATLAB with Maps as an add-on quite good. You know that being an Indian, I wish to portray my country's map accurately. MATLAB's built-in shapefile does not display the proper boundary to the map of India. I have to manually set the Latitude and Longitude, i.e., Geographical Co-ordinates, to show my country correctly to everyone. Irrespective of how easy it may look for the viewer, these small things add a lot of pride that you have done something for your country. I am ready with two more videos under the series a year later from my last released video. You will see their premiere next month on Wednesdays at 6 PM IST. The dataset I am using covers so many parameters for each country for every passing year until 2100. I now think I will be able to feed everyone's hunger for Map with MATLAB pretty easily for 2022. Are you excited? I am!

Working on #MapWithMATLAB was like a Two-in-one opportunity for me. In a recent team meeting, we had decided to produce #shorts with MATLAB for our YouTube Channel. Obviously, shorts are just like Instagram Reels or Tik-Toks, but none of us had some experience making #shorts. Another issue was how to showcase teaching or learning content in such videos? If you find a short video interesting, you will watch it or swipe up. MATLAB's user interface included several parts which needed to be displayed. MATLAB codes font is generally small and is suitable for landscape orientation, whereas #shorts had an aspect ratio of portrait or 9:16. There were no similar videos to what we were trying to do. How do you really make the explaining stuff enjoyable for our audience? We had plenty of problems. When I was making my first #shorts, I had to spend around 3 hours, and the result was OKish content of 42 seconds. In a recent discussion a team-mate asked a good question:??

I spent around 2 to 3 hours preparing this 1-minute content. Is it OK??

Everyone within the meeting was on the same page. Yes, it took us more than 2 hours to prepare one minute video. Huh? Really? You guys suck in making #shorts! If these were your thoughts, well, I salute you, my friend, and suggest you make one yourself. No, you don't even need to shoot yourself. But try to make your short video educational and then help us with how you make it quickly and interesting for the viewer? I am currently working on two #shorts. First is a glimpse of the original video on Top 10 Countries for Male Population 1950-2100. The second is on the wordcloud() function highlighting keywords for the critical speeches made by Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Greta Thunberg, Martin Luther King Jr, Narendra Modi, and Sachin Tendulkar. I hope to show you one of these two #shorts in my next article. What kind of topics do you think we should take for making YouTube Shorts?

Let's move on to the next and final part of this article. This Friday, 14th Jan, we had released a new blog on Automatic Parking System with MATLAB created by Abhishek Tyagi.? An Automatic Parking System is a rising popular protection characteristic in contemporary-day vehicles. The meaning of this system is to help the driver decide "parking slot fitment" and "vehicle parking" once the slit has been confirmed. Various sensors such as infrared, camera, ultrasonic, RADAR, etc., are used to observe obstacles when parking. The author, in his blog, proposed a model whose work is shown using three already parked cars and an ego vehicle that needed to be parked. The car was parked at the nearest slot, either beside cars or between them. You can read the blog for detailed explanations or just watch the video for brief learning.

Which of the #MATLAB content do you find most interesting? What do you want to see or learn more about? If you have checked the content, post a comment and let us know about it!