It's important to watch your own videos

[David Stoll]

Once my video goes live, I like to leave it for a month or two. Then every few weeks, I binge watch a lot of videos on my channel. I do this partly to see if I still think my videos are funny, partly to look for areas to improve or where I have improved, and partly to see if new ideas come out of watching the videos. Happily, I am pleased with most of the videos I have uploaded since late winter, when I think I turned a corner quality-wise.

 

[jpsingh]

I watch my video after uploading and before publishing to check for mistake or any improvement it requires.

 

[MrMauriceTL]

I always watch my videos during the editing, but also before I upload and after it's exported and stuff. Sometimes there is some stuff that I forget to edit out or some parts that I don't really like later on.

 

[hatlesschimp]

I watch it during the editing process, then once Ive exported the finished video I watch again to make sure its rendered correctly.
It funny how people say they like their own videos when they first make them but then later they hate them. I'm very similar in this way myself. Surely these gamers that do massive recordings don't watch through it all.

 

[Lightsen]

through the months of animating ive watched my videos thousands of times before upload. Sometimes its helpful to get an outsider to watch it now and then to remind me the jokes are funny, because theres not a lot of jokes that are still funny the thousandth time you heard them xD

 

[hatlesschimp]

Yep ive noticed that as well.

 

[AlexGYQ]

Yeah, I think it's pretty intuitive to do that to keep track of the progress your videos are making one after the other.

 

[allisonmacd]

Once my video goes live, I like to leave it for a month or two. Then every few weeks, I binge watch a lot of videos on my channel. I do this partly to see if I still think my videos are funny, partly to look for areas to improve or where I have improved, and partly to see if new ideas come out of watching the videos.

This is my strategy too. Well, not so much a strategy, but after some time has passed it really does help to go back and watch a bunch. And I also find that if I'm having a creative block, sometimes going back and watching some of my favorites will reinspire me.