The video that took a week to edit?

How come there are YT channels out there that constantly review movie scenes, usually action type vs reality. How do they deal with copyright flags/demonitizing?

I mean, you're not wrong. My understanding of the current CAPTCHA landscape these days (with ReCaptcha/Google in particular) is that they serve more to train/verify that AI are working correctly than to validate a hoo-man is really at the other end. Furthermore, answering too correctly or too quickly can itself be used to determine if a bot is at the other end (E.g., https://qz.com/1047988/amazon-amzn-has-a-new-captcha-that-youre-designed-to-fail/). The logical extension is an arms race in bots making human-like mistakes to fool captchas (https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence).

Travis Snoozy

Say -Since the googlebot can identify very specific visual content in a video, how is it that recaptcha is still thought to be bot proof? It's certainly not googlebot proof! Both cannot be true....

Fran Blanche

Test upload of the first 1/4 of the video was instantly hit with copyright flags and demonetized, despite all my tricks. It will be sad to put so much work into a video that YouTube slams right out of the gate. Oh, well. I think I'll cut it into two parts and part one will get slammed, so that part two will be free and clear. Maybe. We'll see.

Fran Blanche

Editing is an interesting craft. I started my career with 2" video tape in the 70s, and progressed to digital files on a computer in the 90s. In theory modern systems should make editing faster, but that isn't what I found. In fact it often got slower. For broadcast TV there was a rule of thumb that you could achieve 5 minutes of finished programme in a day. But this would usually only get you a first cut. It would usually take me 4 weeks to finish a one hour documentary. The real problem is not the speed you can edit shots together, but the time it takes to choose the shots. That depends on how much you shoot, and in the case of Fran or EEV it will depend on how you work. Since Fran does not work in a linear fashion, she can't edit the way EEV does. The channels I watch on YT are made by people who interest me. Some do things which can be recorded in one take. Others do things which can't. Some can use mainly time lapse, others can't. Fran has her working. Sometimes she can do it in a linear fashion in a short time, in which case the video would be easy to make. This project took weeks, involved more than one process, so could not be recorded in a linear fashion. Trying to tell such a story in a short time is not easy. So Fran, you keep doing things the way you do. I enjoy watching the care you take over everything, including the videos.

Sadiq Mohamed

You could even promote that one as a teaser trailer for “the real thing” and get dual use out of it....Just Saying. Ewen

Ewen McNeill

Some of my favourite YouTubers use next to no editing and it doesn't put me off in the slightest. Sure, some of my other favourite YouTubers have editing skills that rival network television, but the thing that all my favourites have in common is the content. Maybe some Lo-Fi Fran, working on cool projects in real time could attract new viewers whilst giving current ones something a bit different? Even if the videos end up being 40 minutes long with 35 minutes of struggling with a single stubborn component, people who identify with the struggle of projects taking way longer than expected (read: people like me) will relate. It'd also be much easier to edit: chop the extraneous bits off the video (i.e. turning the camera on and off) and then stick your groovy outro music on the end. Job done.

OzRetrocomp

That's me editing my novellas. Three written, none released.

BobC

This is why I stick to the formula I've used from day 1. Shoot in sequence, drop the clips into the timeline, trim the dead bits, ad a few overlays, and just be satisfied with a finished job. Sometime I'll go back through and re-edit a video to try and trim some more fat to get the time down, e.g. to make a 3x:xx video into a 2x:xx video, but that's about it. I'd hate to be spending a week editing a video, that would really suck.

EEVblog

Fear and Loathing on the way to You Tube? Be strong little toaster!

Maybe upload a preview of the video with some part you think might get picked up by (dis)content ID and see what happens?

UpLateGeek

Uhh... that reminds me I still have a video to edit that was made 9 years ago. I want it to be perfect but my source material came from two cameras that ran at slightly different frame rates so everytime I start on editing, I just get mega frustrated and discouraged and give up, and it goes back on the shelf.

Jac Goudsmit

I feel your pain, unfortunately I am the kind of thug who publishes and be damned, probably why some of my students see me as a mad professor working in a lab full of computers with no covers on and cables and components all over the place, and something somewhere is ever so slightly on fire! All that said, I think you should follow your instinct and rework it. The biggest lessons are learnt from the things that go wrong or in fire!

Dr Andy Hill

I'm just starting out, and a few times I've gotten really bogged down in an edit. It's heartening to hear that you, an experienced youtuber, has problems with that too. Good to hear from you; good luck!

Craig P Steffen

I wanted to see the substandard product, to better understand your self-imposed level of standard. :)