Average of 42 clips per video... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 12:50:33 pm
content: Out of curiosity, I just counted the video files I have shot over the last 400 blogs.About 17,000 video clips, which works out to an average of about 42 clips per video.Roughly.Dave.

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 01:02:14 pm
content: I somehow knew that would be the answer... it always winds up that way...

author: JoannaK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 01:27:55 pm
content: More importantly, now we know the *question*

author: w2aew
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 01:38:00 pm
content: 99% of my videos are 1 take, single clip!

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 03:43:10 pm
content: 42 clips per video but how many chips per video, surely that is more pertinent to this forum.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 05:24:32 pm
content: It would be interesting to find out if the average of 42 is roughly valid for every subrange of the 400 videos, or if coming to recent times it takes less/more clips to prepare a full video.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 05:45:36 pm
content: longer video = more clips, but the ration is non linear and definitely non monotonic. The more often Dave does a POV change then the more clips or edit cuts there are, and then he has to do an overdub in places to keep continuity and consistent audio, The hisg speed fast forwards are a good place to see just how much virtual tape is tossed onto the virtual cutting room floor for the editing of a shot. A 30 second compression would equate to losing an hour of video content to make it viewable. Dave definitely does not do the "Watch Paint Dry" video style.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 08:06:06 pm
content: BTW, maybe 5-10% of those clips don't make it into the final video.They are either start/stop's with nothing on them, because I started and then decided I didn't want to say that, change the angle or whatever. Or I simply said something stupid and decided to restart and think about it a bit before continuing.Dave.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 08:11:39 pm
content: Quote from: w2aew on December 30, 2012, 01:38:00 pmI've done a few of those, but mostly my usual style doesn't lend itself to that.The prepared pages of info you have lend themselves more to that single style shot style, as you have usually thought about stuff (even if subconsciously) before you hit record.Jeri is similar in that respect.I'm more of a press start, figure it out on the fly kinda guy. That's why I say it's going to be a "quick" video at the start, and then decide to expand it later as more stuff or more shots come to mind. But I notice that when I do occasionally prepare a schematic or whiteboard beforehand, then it's more of a single take thing too.Dave.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 08:17:26 pm
content: As they say, practise makes perfect. If I go through the routine of what I am going to do, and think it through at least twice, then it is so much easier to do. If not then it is one giant cluster at times.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2012, 08:32:25 pm
content: Quote from: bitwelder on December 30, 2012, 05:24:32 pmAlmost certainly gone up as I've found that it's just more useful to have shorter clips. It's generally easier to edit, remove, and shuffle around clips as needed. And I'm doing a lot more camera position (and lens) changes these days.Dave.