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I recently finished editing and uploading my Naxxramas Hearthstone-series, and boy, did that take a while! But, I’m totally gonna blame my education for that and not my own ineptitude and laziness! :D Though, to be honest, it’s probably mostly because of the latter x)

However, I want to share some of my thoughts about what experiences I’ve made and how I plan to change my future videos for the better :D

I really love the editing side of content creation :D

Comments and heavy editing

For these Naxxramas-videos I have tried two different styles: Mass comments and heavy editing. Looking back now I realise that I’m not particularly fond of any of them. One of the main reasons for this is the amount of time that it took to produce the videos. To produce a video, excluding the recording, I think took about 3-5 hours. Yes, for a video which was about 20 minutes long (!) I know that I’m nowhere near an experienced video editor, but that was simply too much work for, what I now think, an outcome which just didn’t work :P

“How on earth can it take THAT much time?” I hear you ask. Well, let’s start with the comments. I had to watch the video and every time I made a mistake or missed a play or whatever, I made a comment. The comment had to be the right length, not too long, but not too short either and sometimes I had to split it into multiple comments if there was just too much text.

The idea for comments was simple: I would sit the mindset of a criticizing viewer, view the video and come with funny comments. It was originally inspired by TotalBiscuit’s old “Chronicles of the Gold Farmer” in which he would do something similar. Though, I don’t think that I did it well - It got a bit out of hand and I ended up commenting pretty much everything… Which wasn’t really funny at all :P I also believe that the comments took away too much focus from the actual gameplay ^_~

Editing comments for a video. A total amount of 57 titles for the 20 minutes video... I might have gotten carried away :3

After realising this, I switched to heavy editing too see if that was any better. I think it was, but it still took way too much time. The process of this was to go through the video and cut out any second, yes, some discarded cuts were that short, where nothing happened (or at least nothing of importance to the matches happened). It made the videos a lot more fast-paced at the cost of being a little hard to follow at times.

Anyways, after all of this commenting and editing, the final step was (and still will be) to watch the video through and fix any misfits. So, there you have it: 3-5 hours for about 20 minutes. and then uploading the thing afterwards, is just not great, especially considering the fact that I want/hope to put out videos consistently xD

This timeline shows the begging of the Warrior Class Challenge. Each line is separated clips, where something in between has been discarded :P