How many hours upon hours have you wasted wrestling with video editors and editing and YouTube and servers and such? Don't you think your fans would rather see you wrestling with electronic curiosities? It may be time to start thinking about bringing in an intern who wants to build their experience with these things. I'm sure the local community college has students eager to work on something. They might even have access to better editing equipment and software at their lab.
I understand you are having a great time and all but if you want your blog to "scale", letting go of some of these routine task is inevitable. Not trying to be rude or anything, just rather see you doing electronics instead. (can't find a fitting smiley to convey my deference to you in making such a suggestion)
I can't see that happening. Sounds great in theory, but it's just not that practical.
When I edit video I'm also making sure I haven't missed something I want to add, said something dumb, repeated myself, need to add something with a text overlay etc.
At the moment I do that at the same time as I'm editing, and I don't view back afterwards, I just upload when done hoping I've got it right (and I mostly do).
If someone else edited my content, then I'd
still have to watch the entire video back and concentrate while doing so. Something wrong - another spin...
So I might as view it while editing the thing myself, it doesn't take that much longer, as I have my workflow pretty well down pat.
I'd likely spend more time interacting with the editor, sending files to them (unless they work on-site), downloading previews etc.
And beside, I
like creating my own content, I get a sense of satisfaction even though it can be time consuming and a PITA sometimes.
Get someone else to edit it, and you end up like the Ben Heck show
It's just like going full time at this. Many people complain about why I'm not churning out a video or two every day now that I magically have another 40 hours a week to work on this full time. It doesn't quite work like that...
Dave.