How many times do you watch your videos before rendering it?

Usually we go through 3 iterations for video editing:
1st big cuts
2nd fine tune cuts
3rd my wife (as external viewer) check the movie --> boring moments reported --> final cut

Than audio editing and translation.

PS. Sometimes we leave long "boring" moments (which will bring the audience retention heavily down) but we are still family channel first, commercial channel second.
 
chottom said:
Usually we go through 3 iterations for video editing:
1st big cuts
2nd fine tune cuts
3rd my wife (as external viewer) check the movie --> boring moments reported --> final cut
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That actually sounds very similar to what I do with my brother.


I edit as I watch and try to keep the video engaging pretty much throughout. Sometimes I feel I may over-cut a little bit but it still looks rather nice when it all comes together. Because I edit videos pretty much every single day now due to our release schedule, I have gotten rather decent at being able to skim through really fast. Neat little editing trick that I've learned is after syncing your voice audio, you can read the spikes and be able to tell when an event (funny/scary moments, something monumental) has happened. The flats of the audio can also tell you which parts you were either doing nothing, or engaged with something occurring.

Makes it a whole lot faster when you are trying to go through hours of editing~
 
Before rendering any video, I do watch 2-3 times in case to find any flaw. Since my videos are LETS PLAY videos, I have to watch whole 15-30 minutes video properly to make it worth watching.
 
I do around 20 minute let's plays for videos with my cousin and as for watching them, I always watch all the way through the videos while editing them to see if I can add any little things to the camera, or effects to make the moment just a little funnier.

Although, I've been working on a series that I have not edited at all, aside from intro, custom outro, and section of the video before the intro. I find that series to be pretty good funny-wise and don't think it will need much editing besides the bare essentials XD
 
I watch it, make a couple of changes to things I picked up on while watching, then watch it again, and so on, until I've watched it the whole way through without wanting to change anything else. Which takes a few attempts.
 
I generally compete a chapter, render, watch, and then move onto next chapter, render, watch... Usually three or four chapters per vlog.

Once all completed, I'll produce the full movie and THEN watch before uploading. On my system, the produced movie flows slightly smoother, so I get a better idea of scene and music transitions.
 
My videos are really simple, technically, so I tend to edit as I go (I know where all my shots are, and I film sequentially). Then I'll watch it once by myself, then render the effects, then ask my partner to watch it again with me (he tends to find little things I miss) and then I encode.

One more watch after encoding in case I've missed something (like a bit on the timeline about an hour after the last frame, which I did once, and wondered why my file was taking SO LONG to upload) and then I upload away!
 
Sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much. I get sick of my own voice after a while. I usually watch them and fix all the mistakes. Then if theres more mistakes, I fix them and watch it fully again. etc..
 
I film everything exactly as I want it so that editing is not necessary. I prefer to blindly throw my art onto Youtube as is. It's more pure that way.
 
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