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No ..... I am nearer to the 'Gone with the Wind' school /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
[/ QUOTE ]So perhaps the excellent video was just a little long winded like some posts /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif They used to say the key to good editing was the ware and tear on a pair of film cutters, or nowadays the backspace key. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Youtube's 10min limit has done more to improve home editing than all the self help video books. Btw, I very much enjoyed your video, excellent quality, but recon you could have had the same content in half the time, a bit more zip and pep keeping the story moving.
We agree - in fact, without qualification that I could have edited the video down to less than half the time and given it much more zip. I also agree with your editing comments and accept them as fact.
If I was editing the same content for the more general public or even the boating public to be entertained, it would be about 1/3rd of the length. I chose to edit as a record and for the multihull public on my forum. I wanted folks to comment of details and it worked because on my forum I have had people spot potential problems (e.g. no backplate to the hinge bolts on some lockers).
A slow and detailed glide around cupboards is hardly riveting entertainment!!/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
That same raw footage will be appearing in a video covering the path to choosing the boat on a later DVD that will shrink about 4 videos down into one and that will be an on sale DVD as part of a series.
So these videos are testing the online approach, for example I have just posted a super sized version Here
as well as acting like a forum post enabling other to comment on the detail.
What amazes me is why others are not adopting the much higher quality standards for web video to the point that folks have become used to the very poor Utube standard as being web video.