Think like a journalist, execute like a creator — Note 2

Ad hoc notes from the field and my workroom

For all those wonderfully creative people churning out shorts that get instant hits, things like the correct frame size in exporting a video probably get taken care of as a matter of routine.

For an old dog learning new tricks, it took me a while to eventually figure out that even though I'd set the correct frame size for the video itself, Premiere Pro was still exporting the final output to the default setting from the previous video which was a regular long-form video.

I went back in and fixed that and viola, my two shorts of Jay Panchal at Aule Space appeared right away under the Shorts tab in YouTube. In the interim, I'd checked off several other possibilities ranging from how YouTube adds a second of processing time to some folks offering the opinion that the 3-minute limit sometimes doesn't work — definitely not the case with my short, as it turned out.

This all also taught me first hand how the short form can really extend one's reach when it comes to multimedia journalism — got a whole bunch of hits almost right away. Nice way to end the work week. I hope you all have a good weekend, which i expect to spend with more tinkering like this. What fun!

Note:
I wrote this post first in LinkedIn in Feb 2026. Wanted to have it here as well.