Unfortunately there is no substitute to the amount of information in YT. (as much as I hate "supporting" google). Rumble and UGE tube just has not been around long enough to gather that much content.At least now I know what I'm missing by rarely watching YouTube videos.
Yup. YouTube pushes for 10 minute videos. Happened a while back and screwed over animators who typically had shorter videosI've heard a few YTers mention the algorithm favors a certain length video and certain amount of posts a week.
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Yeah, like ONE 3 shot group for each rifle then professing a "winner"Truth. For instance, this is a pretty long review, but it is bookmarked.
The biggest problem I have with most reviews is that they are too shallow and based on too little time and effort to be truly useful.
Ian of Forgotten Weapons addressed that in one of his Q&A videos. He was asked why his opening sequence had dropped the montage and become so short. His reply was that the opening montage was something he did without thinking. It was a holdover from broadcast TV where you needed to tell the viewer what they were watching in case they had just flipped to that channel.And don’t forget their annoying/ self important montage of clips for their intros to every video.
Nothing sets the mood like a 2:30 long intro with cheesy heavy metal guitars then going to a poorly lit tutorial video filmed from 6 feet away with a potato for a camera, and the heaviest, most incomprehenisble frontier-giberish southern accent in the world telling you how to detail strip the gas system on an FALIan of Forgotten Weapons addressed that in one of his Q&A videos. He was asked why his opening sequence had dropped the montage and become so short. His reply was that the opening montage was something he did without thinking. It was a holdover from broadcast TV where you needed to tell the viewer what they were watching in case they had just flipped to that channel.
The net is different, though. When you click on a video, you know where you're going...so an intro is superfluous. He dumped it.
I had never stopped to consider all that. It was nice to hear him explain it.
A five second title screen is all a YT video needs. Long intros really irritate me these days.
They are, however, a good way to pad out your run time to get to an algorithmically necessary run time.
Personally, for some channels to which I subscribe I've memorized how many times to hit the right arrow key on my desktop to get past the opening niceties.
British sounding voice? Lots of people use text to speechSomething weird....
I watch YT for entertainment on my big box set. One thing that I noticed is that the voiceovers on a whole bunch of vids seem to be done by the same person. Same voice, diction, etc. It's either a computer generated voice, or one kid is making 50% of the vids I've been watching.
British sounding voice? Lots of people use text to speech
Touchy?Been researching a couple of guns I’m thinking about purchasing.
So I go to the youtubZ. Yep. Numerous vids on them. So I start watching.
Got damn. Shut. Your. Pie. Hole!
Review the fvckin thing. I don’t give a bloody fluck about you, your purse swinging bullshite with some other tuber, or how many other videos you’ve done. STFU and do the the gun review. You know. The one in the title.
Do it work? Fine.
Otherwise just shut the he!! up.
Hhhrruummff!
Some text to speech apps have gotten very good. They occasionally make themselves obvious by ridiculously mispronouncing a word in ways no human would. Always gives me a chuckle when that happens.
Yeah, it certainly is. The days when you could become a big deal on YT by putting a camera on a tripod and doing everything yourself seem to be gone. When you look at how channels work these days, even low end reaction channels that look like a family project tend to have a producer and editor, at minimum, behind the scenes.You Tube is a business !