Wow, you are ambitious! Those videos look great and fun to watch, but I'm sure there's a ton of time/work involved! I've done a handful of special slideshows for memorial services and special events, and they take a long time to do well. I'm sure video editing is an even longer process!
The main lesson I learned from those projects was there was a strong inverse correlation between project length and viewer appreciation, with about 10-12 minutes being the sweet spot where the show ended before people's attention did; the longer it went past that timeframe, the more I seemed to lose people. I sometimes ended up with a longer unabridged version for immediate family (whose interest was greater) and the truncated version for everyone else. YMMV.
Good luck to you, and looking forward to seeing the finished product!
tragusa3 wrote:
I hear ya Hanes!
Here's the deal. I've been working tirelessly at editing the videos for the trip. We'll be around family for the holidays and I wanted to have them done by then. I've got one final installment to work on. This trip ended up being 12 installments of about 25 minutes a piece.
I've been getting hugely interested in the hobby of shooting video and editing. I don't seem to watch tv much anymore, instead I watch creative youtube vloggers for ideas, etc. My goal would be to get as good as Casey Neistat. Look him up on youtube His Page HERE and you'll see the style I'm shooting for. I'm a long ways from it. I'm not as entertaining in front of a camera, and I'm not as talented at editing. Hanes, seeing your posts throughout the years, I bet you'd be good at it.
The short of it is, I may be just a few weeks from finishing my videos and can then finish out posting here. For those that haven't done a trip report, you may not realize that it can be so time consuming.
