I've always wondered how many YouTubers use contract editors and production staff. I'm not a professional, but the last time I edited a video, which was 20 minutes long, it took me about 4 hours. Maybe with practice I could get that down to 2 hours or so, but it wouldn't be *good*. The bigger YouTubers must surely have an editing team, perhaps even a producer, dedicated camera operator, etc? How else could you keep up with that output?
Few camera angle changes and zoomed out far enough to often see funny stuff going on in the background.
It was an OK film just for that, but amazingly it was shot on a phone in one take!
It was an OK film just for that, but amazingly it was shot on a phone in one take!
How many practice takes?
BigCliveDotCom's Youtube channel, seems to mostly just take a video and then post it as is. With the odd exception, when he is doing something not worth watching or violently dismantling a difficult bit of something, which he cuts out of the video....
I've always wondered how many YouTubers use contract editors and production staff. I'm not a professional, but the last time I edited a video, which was 20 minutes long, it took me about 4 hours. Maybe with practice I could get that down to 2 hours or so, but it wouldn't be *good*. The bigger YouTubers must surely have an editing team, perhaps even a producer, dedicated camera operator, etc? How else could you keep up with that output?
Eevblog: Dave seems to do his own stuff on multiple channels. He can chime on how much time it takes.
BigCliveDotCom's Youtube channel, seems to mostly just take a video and then post it as is. With the odd exception, when he is doing something not worth watching or violently dismantling a difficult bit of something, which he cuts out of the video.
I don't think he even uses cameras as such to take the vidoes. It might have been an iPad or similar originally, then moved on to mobile phone(s), later.
Yes, Clive just uses a phone and a tablet and does the "editing" on there, which isn't really editing. Even his macro photos are taken with a phone and custom light ring.
That of course works fine unless you want to create other styles of content. But as said, that has its downsides because people subscribe for his one unique style.
I've always wondered how many YouTubers use contract editors and production staff. I'm not a professional, but the last time I edited a video, which was 20 minutes long, it took me about 4 hours. Maybe with practice I could get that down to 2 hours or so, but it wouldn't be *good*. The bigger YouTubers must surely have an editing team, perhaps even a producer, dedicated camera operator, etc? How else could you keep up with that output?
I don't know a single creator in our electronics space that uses a third party writer or have production staff. The exception is the larger general interest channels like Real Engineering, Veritasium etc.
The biggest example si of coure Linus Tech Tips who's organisation is incredible in size.
Even when I had David working full time, he didn't help with producing my content.
I disagree. Several Youtubers release a video per day to give an update on the projects they are working on. Typically these videos range from 5 minutes (done nothing) to over an hour (took something complex apart). But these Youtubers have & need to have at least one full-time employee who films and edits the videos. And yes, these videos are worth watching if you are interested in the subject matter.
I'm all for editing to trim out repetitive and pointless chatter or to show PCB, test equipment and datasheets but I generally think less editing is better. Editing is particularly awful in hollywood. They change the camera angle and zoom way too often, it's usually zoomed way too far in unless someone is texting then they zoom too far out. It is particularly bad in fight scenes, you can't see their technique, it's just a bunch of 1 second clips.
Yes behind some channels there's a surprisingly large staff, but that's those very popular channels that target a much wider audience.
In electronics, that's more of a niche. Some are contracting their video editing to someone else (usually freelancers, not employees), for the larger channels, and of course they often have an accountant, but that's the extent of it for most of them.
Yes, although you never know how the algorithm is going to punish or reward your channel. Always worth testing, the views could have stayed or even improved. It really does depend on how Youtube decides to push your videos. And the algorithm is always changing. But a 90%+ drop is astonishing, no way I expected that.
Lots to learn and like with Justin's content. This recent one while generic on regrowing an old channel is worth a watch.
To get me as an example to rewatch a channel get real get back to what I went there to watch in the first place and stop bleating poor me.
I unsubscribed from Fran around the time she changed tack. I can't believe I was the only one who did. I'm not mad at her for doing it.
But there are many channels I no longer watch. Or only watch a few videos from. You can't watch everything. I watch a huge variety of stuff and the algorithm obviously tries hard to find me new stuff to watch. It's a bit hit-and-miss but not completely useless.
Saw Fran's live Patreon show today.
TLDR;
She will cancel doing the live Patreon shows as she realises that Patrons just don't engage, only like a dozen viewing today. (Myself and other Youtubers see the same thing BTW, Patrons do no engage with content, they just use it as a donation mechanism).
She has now realised that doing things just to please the Patrons didn't work.
... but ultimately what matters is the daily channel views, and that hasn't grown and has dropped somewhat over the years. I'm sure this is because there are just so many other electronics channels now