YouTube How long does it take you to edit?

[Klahn's Clinic]

I don't know how some people are able research, edit, and upload videos daily. For me it takes (on average) an hour to just edit a minute of video! Never mind all the research, script writing, recording, and picture finding prior to all that. I know it's different for other channel types, so, I was wondering, how long does it take you guys (or gals) to edit something?

 

[MrDJSilva]

It all depends on the video project sometime it can take an hour or maybe more but within the time you be able to get quicker, faster and better!

 

[Geist]

Matters on the material and if the software decides to crash or not.
Possibly a hour or more on average.

 

[Indurok]

I don't know how some people are able research, edit, and upload videos daily. For me it takes (on average) an hour to just edit a minute of video! Never mind all the research, script writing, recording, and picture finding prior to all that. I know it's different for other channel types, so, I was wondering, how long does it take you guys (or gals) to edit something?

It depends on how long the video is, and what kind of video you are making. I used to have another channel where I did video game reviews. But I eventually decided to quit because the editing process was too long for me, and I still edited and uploaded two videos a day on my regular channel. But I also kinda lost my motivation to continue making those videos, especially after YouTube changed their monetization policy in early 2018. I don't think deleting that channel was a huge loss, since I didn't really gain much of an audience after twenty-something videos.

But editing my let's play videos doesn't take even half the amount of time. Like, half an hour max, especially after I started doing the thing where I change the speed at which it plays. However, some videos, which I only upload to YouTube because it doesn't run well when I livestream, I have not been editing. Instead, I just let it play, and I keep clicking a minute or so ahead in the timeline, mainly to get an idea of what to title the video, and then I add my outro.

 

[finegamingconnoisseur]

I usually take upwards of 12 hours spread out throughout the week (due to busy work/family life schedule) and have 14 steps that I follow in creating my videos from start to finish.

1. Watch recorded video to take notes for editing later;
2. Come up with title, description, time markers and tags;
3. Select music tracks from Epidemic Sound (this step takes the longest, I hand-pick all soundtracks after browsing through and listening to dozens of tracks to see what fits the mood and theme of the video);
4. Reduce background noise in my voice recording through Audacity;
5. Put all elements of the final video together;
6. Add time to the markers;
7. Preview the final video to look for mistakes or missed areas that need changing;
8. Process the video;
9. Upload to YouTube;
10. Create video thumbnail;
11. Add title, description, time markers, thumbnail and tags to the video;
12. Place the video into its proper playlist and schedule when the video will go publicly viewable;
13. Check once more that everything is in place as they should be;
14. Click Save Changes.

 

[Crazy Dubs Productions]

Hello.
For 1 minute of dubbing, sfx and music, probably 30 minutes.

 

[Realnews]

I think the more practice you do working with editing software, the quicker you post your videos over time.

 

[LazerDyno]

Depends on how much I recorded and have to cut and add effects like around an hour and more

 

[SparktheYoshi]

20 minutes to an hour. 20 minutes for shorter videos and under an hour to 45 minutes for my usual 20-30 minute videos.

 

[Thelazysideoflife]

I get what you are saying. To me it takes one hour or more but that depends on the type of video you are producing (I do vlogs)

 

[Sneaker shopping therapy]

Some days maybe 2 -3 hours some days more depends 9n the video

 

[onewhopullsthestrings]

Usually 1-2hrs! I'm not that good at editing haha!

 

[Sneaker shopping therapy]

Man I’m starting to film stuff as as close to as I’d edit it now so hoping that speed things up a bit