Producing a Video

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Im making a timelapse video with about 7 hours of screen recorded footage of a 3d desktop workspace. And, well this is my first time doing it. So… when i speed this up and watch the playback all the camera movements and twirling around the model mixed with masking and showing/hiding parts almost makes me want to throw up! Lol. Its like a weird spazzy roller coaster.

Ive watched the video twice now and the way I figure it I have 3 options.

  1. Divide the video into either 2 or 3 longer videos. I hate those, but now I see why many people do it.
  2. Cut boring parts. I hate that too. I like to see other artists full processes.
  3. Make it 35-50 minutes long and accept that a total of 10 people will watch something that long.

Anyone have an opinion or experience? Thank you.

If you want to see this glorious mess let me know and Ill upload it somewhere.

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If I were really good i could slow down the good parts and voice-over it with myself rambling about something and then speed through the boring and spazzy stuff with some kind of music.
Real heavy head banging stuff would fit nicely. Lol. JK on the heavy music.

Editing the video would probably take as long as doing the art!

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I would expect the video editing to take a long time. I always appreciate it when the interesting bits are slow and the boring bits are fast and/or edited.

Maybe you could watch a couple of people watch the video and allow them to slow down or speed it up and figure out where those places are…

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Editing usually takes far more time than the recording does. I think we figured up that it’s like an hour per minute for the technical videos I do at work.