How Much Time Do You Spend On Editing?

Editing alone depends on the length and complexity of the video. Usually a couple of hours just in editing. If a video is 20 minutes long and requires A LOT of edits or synching cuts to music, then it would be much longer.
 
The key for me is to have a plan going into shooting the video. Then the editing doesn't take long at all. All depends on the video. Standard ramble for me take the length of the video plus 10 minutes for editing. I edit on the fly while watching the footage. Then I render and put together a thumbnail which takes maybe 15 min. I don't have anything fancy going on however. Simple fade ins and out at the end. I recently worked on a 4 camera multi track for a side project, Belly Dance show, and that took a long time. Several days of 2 to 3 hours a day.
 
3 - 4 hours on most of the stuff. Most of my time is deciding what is actually interesting to the audience.
 
Depends on the amount of footage I have and how distracted I get while editing. Don't do anything special yet in my videos though but it's normally 2-3 hours with renders sometimes longer if I've really been out riding that day.
 
About 2 hours per for due to learning how as I go. The program I use is limited on function but it does what I need.
 
Hmm, double digit hours seem like a lot... haha. I edit a regular video when riding alone, 1-2 hours. if I ride with a buddy who also has a gopro, I steal his footage so I can have his audio, and I split his audio into mine, and edit each voice out when they aren't talking to kind of alleviate too much bike noise. Those videos can take 2-4 hours to edit.

Normally I or We record between 2-4 hours of footage, which turn into a 7-17 minute final edited video.
 
I have only done one real edited video. It took me 10s of hours because the Adobe premier learning curve cut me up, and I had to do a lot of the work twice thanks to laxed saving habits and a random brown out.
The next one should come along a lot faster. Though I may get even more ambitious as time goes on.
 
At the beginning of my YouTube channel I was spending quite a few hours on the editing. I thought that having the slightest thing edited incorrectly would alienate viewers and get negative comments. But over time I think its stuff like the editing mistakes that make vlogs better in some ways. It brings to the video and watching experience that behind the video is a real person who has made the video because they want to, rather than a multi nation industry that has no face or personality.

My videos now are run through sony vegas once, then I watch the finished video on my tablet a couple of days later. I only re-edit the video if there is a major mistake, such as no continuity in the speech because I cut part of the dialog out.
 
Captain said:
At the beginning of my YouTube channel I was spending quite a few hours on the editing. I thought that having the slightest thing edited incorrectly would alienate viewers and get negative comments. But over time I think its stuff like the editing mistakes that make vlogs better in some ways. It brings to the video and watching experience that behind the video is a real person who has made the video because they want to, rather than a multi nation industry that has no face or personality.

My videos now are run through sony vegas once, then I watch the finished video on my tablet a couple of days later. I only re-edit the video if there is a major mistake, such as no continuity in the speech because I cut part of the dialog out.
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I agree imperfections can add charm, and can even add that comedic effect You didn't know you needed.

My first video has some small errors that made it through.I tend to be a perfectionist, but after so much what I got was good enough.

I will fix them next time.
 
it's one of those things that as you get better with it you'll find yourself spending half the time you did when you first started. it takes longer to upload the video to youtube than it does to actually edit.
 
I've been starting to spend a lot more time editing. Before it was intro, video, outro (same as intro). But when I start riding again (cold weather at the moment), my workflow will be more along the lines of:

Intro
Insert Video
Color and Lighting Correction
Trim/Shift/Edit Down
Add Sound and Video Effects
Outro (Comment, Like, Subscribe and other video panels)
Create Custom Thumbnail for YouTube

As much as I'd love to keep a "classy" podcast, the clickbait-esque thumbnails, troll pictures, and sound effects often seem to be the recurring theme with most motovloggers. I'd definitely like to have more refined editing, even if some of those marketing oriented gimmicks are in there.
 
I agree with the majority here - i spent around 2-4 hours editing depending on what i am doing / have shot.. some clips i spend more time others are a quick chop the start, middle and end and done.
 
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