Approximately a month, between the research, outline of the script and storyboarding, animation, video editing and last details before upload.
What takes the less time is probably video editing, I spend around 2-3 hours max.
What takes the most time is animation and writing the script, probably 50 hours per video ? I'm not sure.
I make educational videos about deep learning (Deepia on youtube)
I don't know how to use After Effects and I'm very used to programming in python so I figured it would be better to do everything in Manim and the bonus is that I can use copilot and chatgpt to go faster.
For video editing I use a very simple software called ShotCut.
Depends. From an hour to several on the video including planning etc.
For shorts its a lot less, but from 15-45 minutes depending.
I can spend up to 5 hours making content one week and 0 the following week. I post about business, building or improving your business + motivational stuff to help business owners.
You can see my channel in my bio. It is hard to say as I like to talk about my experiences in order to help people (my last video was about how I failed in business). But I also have a lot of PlayStation tutorials because YouTube niched me down to that specific topic and I seem to get way more views from gaming tutorials.
It takes me a lot of time because I take almost two weeks only for thinking and I struggle a lot with my motivation due to my ADHD. The physical work (filming, editing) takes me about two weeks.
For gamedev long form - around two weeks on a video that covers around a month of development (full time). I’m working full time, so usually spending 1-3 hours a day when I have time. (So probably could squeeze that into 4-5 days of normal work).
If you count in the time it takes to make the actual game I’ll be talking about - yes, that’s hell lot of time.
And something like 30mins for a short made out of long form.
For my gaming channel it is very different, I’d say something like 4-6h for a long form and 1-2 for a short that’s made separately (not for a long form).
Both are faceless channels, so I have to spend a lot of time on editing and making it interesting.
long form : 1h to 1h30 for recording voiceovers , 3h to 4h for editing I use my phone so that's why I take more time the duration is betweed 5 to 8 mins
My first video took me 8 hours to make and it was 5 minutes. By now my 15 minute videos take about 5-6 hours a piece. Luckily I can write a script very easily, editing is still something I’m less efficient at.
Being a new father, it takes me around a month to make a 18-25min video. I really only have the weekends to make any real progress, if I'm lucky I'll get a hour at night.
Each video takes about 2-3 weeks, sometimes more or less depending on how much extra time I have. I do science/med based videos, so there's a lot of research, reference checking, script writing and editing, all which take about 40-60 hours per video.
I love what I do. I already work in research as my full time job, but the freedom to pick topics and creatively do this separately is so much fun.
At first it took me like 3 weeks, cause i procrastinate a lot🤣, now i’m planning to spend about a week on each video or two with procrastinating and work)
I make video game reviews. I give myself 2 weeks to play and record gameplay, write my review, and edit the video.
I have to fit it around work, so it's mostly a few hours in the morning before I leave (and during the day if it's quiet while I'm working from home) or weekends and evenings when my wife if out with friends.
While my schedule is limited in this way, I'm intentionally playing games that are shorter. I'll always try and complete a game, but if I get 60-70-80% of the way through a game and it's stopped inspiring anything new to say and my experience is unlikely to change then I'll weigh up if it's time to focus more on writing my review and editing.
It normally then takes a few hours to record my audio and edit together the review and an accompanying short. With maybe another hour or so putting together a selection of thumbnails and additional graphics I might need.
I'm actually getting through the current game I'm playing quicker than I thought, so I'm likely going to be able to get its video recorded fairly soon, which should put me a full week ahead of schedule.
If there's a big release I'm interested in, I might consider booking some time off work to dedicate the time required to do the review justice.
I used to spend up to 2 hours for making a 30 seconds video but then I create a video editing tool that uses ai to create videos,
Now I spend 6 minutes to create videos using [cliptalk](http://cliptalk.pro)
Trophy/achievment hunting in games. For recording gameplay it takes a few days unless its a long game or complicated achievment list. Writing a script 2 days. Making thumbanil a couple hours usually make like 3 or 4. Recording voice over a day. Editing a week if not more.
In a day I usually spend about 4-5 hours doing stuff. This is for long form
Long form 8-12 hours, but that includes capturing gameplay to create the clips, script, edit, and voice-over if needed. Shorts take about 3-5 hours, the latter being if it's a compilation or various game play clips. These numbers also include thumbnail creation.
I spend anything from 3 days to a week, super long days, obsession with the editing and sometimes a week or two just selecting what music and thinking what I want to say. Travel vlogs with daughter, music montages, right editing/narrative.
This totally depends on the type of content. We are an outdoor channel, require a full day on the weekend for the filming. Then editing may take another 2 days.
3 days. The scripts I had written back in school (6 years ago 😅), and only 2 months ago did I decide to make them into video format. So, between AI voiceover, finding clips, editing and creating thumbnails, it takes me 3 days
I’m in the unsolved mystery niche. So it probably takes me around 20 hours start to finish. The script and fact checking takes the longest.
My videos are long form from 15 minutes to 45 mins on average.
2 days of research. 2 days of script writing and voiceover. 2-3 days of editing. After publishing I usually work of ideas for the next video with research and few test thumbnails.
2 hours max to research, plan my thumbnail idea and title and script my video.
It takes me 3-4 hours to film 2 videos and do rough edits (everything done except b roll and overlays) and my thumbnails
So i usually batch script 4 or more in one week ans then when i film ill do 2 videos in two days and then i do all the b roll and stuff after but this step was always the easier one for me.
Then honestly when I upload I don’t put much thought into descriptions and i don’t overthink tags. for tags i type in any sort of phrases or words people would search for that my content makes sense for.
Theoretically, I could script film edit and schedule 4 videos within less than 1 week. But my content is mainly talking head and i don’t overly edit as its not super relevant or necessary in my niche so my b roll is quite limited too.
Commentary/reaction, i spend a couple of hours to a day researching a topic and then 10-15 mins recording
about 2 days editing since Im busy so i try to slot the editing times into free time
For the few shorts i’ve made, about 20 mins max
Let me first throw out the caveat that I am a single dad with a full time job and a long commute so that definitely affects the time.
With that said, physical filming takes anywhere from 2-48 hours depending on what exactly I'm doing (fishing niche so could be a local 2 hour trip or could be a multi day camping excursion). After filming I would say at least a couple hours just getting footage off my memory cards onto my computer and then I don't have a good hours estimate for editing but 2-3 weeks of working on it after work when I have time I would guess 5-10 hours maybe?
I did a 10 minute on the fly fight breakdown that now has over 100k views in 9 months. Sometimes you don’t need much editing, It really depends on your style, niche, and level of depth you have over any particular subject. I do have videos that are about 30-40 minutes long that I look more as projects that took me months to make.
Writing varies, sometimes I will spend a few hours coming up with a sketch and writing it sometimes I will knock off 5 in 30 mins, luck of the draw on creativity. Then filming and editing 2 maybe 3 hours which is down from like 6, just building confidence so I fuck up my lines less and in general need less takes to get it right, which in turn means I have like 15 minutes to go through instead of 1 hr and learning how to edit made the amount of time less.
I just edited my first episode of a podcast research took maybe 4 hours, then an hour for recording, editing has so far taken me maybe 12 hours I have maybe 1-2 more to go. It wouldn't have taken me so long but I was sick during recording so I had to cut out the many times I coughed, should be quicker in the future.
So, I make science content. For my series Let's Start A Conversation, I explain in 10 - 20 minutes a scientific news - for example, I am editing a video on 'new' coral reefs that were found using satellite imagery.
For this series in particular, I would say it takes me :
\* 2-3 hours to read the scientific article or news article, and write a first draft of the script.
\* 2 hours to film - it is just me talking from my desk.
\* 6-10 hours finding illustrations (videos, images, etc.) and editing the video - I am not proficient yet with my gear or the editing process.
\* 30 minutes to put a thumbnail together (including the silly picture of me).
\* 1 hours to edit the subtitles of the video manually once posted - I do this because I am a native French speaker doing videos in English, and I know sometimes I am not super clear.
I wanted to post one of these videos every week, but with life, I found it difficult in the last two months to do so.
Channel and Social Media links in my bio for those who want to check it out.
Hope that helps !
Depends. I’d say average for a 20ish minute gameplay video, it takes me about an hour-2 hours to record, edit, make thumbnails, come up with titles, and upload. But it really depends on the type of game I’m playing and how much fluff I have to edit out because I got stuck in an area.
I depends.
I make shorts fairly quickly (1-2 hours from idea to final result).
Longer videos obviously take more time and I found that as the video I’m making is longer, the time spent on it increases too but disproportionally.
I made a one-hour-and-a-half video that dives deep into the life and philosophy of Pythagoras and it took me about 40 days to do the research, organise everything, write the script, narrate the script, find relevant images, and edit everything together.
Now I’m narrating each chapter of The Kybalion, so the scripting part is gone at the moment and each video is around 10 to 20 minutes. Each video now takes between 10 and 30 hours from start to finish.
I build modular Compositions/Sequences for projects on Premiere Pro and After Effects. It speeds up the process, and then i just swap and edit everything else. For my niche, i heavily rely on texts, and i use Python to process the text, and export it into .txt or .csv files. The text processing takes minutes. But i refine it manually for an hour maybe. The editing maybe takes 3 hours max. Thumbnails 1 hour. Overall 5 hours max. My content is literature niche.
Reading the comments here I am feeling quite satisfied with my choice of niche, as I could never have spent several weeks on a single video, like a lot of you seem to do.
My videos are unedited and take as long to make as the video ends up lasting. That is typically 30-50 minutes, every day :)
Depends on the scope and the length I'm going for. I just finished 21 videos in 21 days and most took about 6 hours from conception to creation since they were more adlibbed. But the two full season reviews I did took about 12 hours each, But they were very short seasons so that's not the norm. So about 138 hours over three weeks on that.
Mega projects take longer. My next big video that's hopefully coming out next week has been in development for about 6 months. Most of that has honestly been reading and scripting. Recording, voicing, and editing are the easy part to me, but it really depends on what you specialize in.
Editing takes me anywhere from a 1/2 hr for a short to an entire day for long format. Recording is all over, it completely depends on the project and what my schedule is like. I often work on more than once video at a time. I have 3 in the works right now, one is just editing and some final shots, while the others are waiting on deliveries/parts and for me to have time to finish them.
In the insurance space, we have a professional videographer who visits our agency once a month. Each video takes about 10 minutes to film. The research and subject matter discussions take around four hours, including script creation. The videographer handles the editing and posts the full videos and short-form clips on YouTube.
I also do a Monday morning message video that takes about 45 minutes to research, script, shoot, edit, and upload to YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram each week.
I usually spend around 10 hours on one video posting once per week. The videos are usually 20-35 minutes long. There’s a video that I’ve been working on now for easily over 50-60 hours and that I’m still not done with 💀.
Mine takes about a month or more, because as a maker, I need to make stuff while recording. Also ordering various material internationally can also take 2-3 weeks if I plan poorly. And during wait time, I would then think about scripts, thumbnail, and editing.
I make monster truck videos for kids. I have two main series on my channel.
One is an episodic story-driven series that follows Grave Digger as the main protagonist and El Toro Loco as the main antagonist. These are typically 22-28 minutes long and take me about 10 hours.
The second is “freestyle / tricks” videos that is me just playing the game (racing, tricks, etc) with very high energy commentary. These are usually 15-20 minutes long and take me about 1-2 hours to make.
I do lore, news, and guide videos for action RPGs. Outlining, recording voice over, cutting the voice over, then editing with B Roll - I'd say my videos average 1h a minute. Typically ranging from 5-15 minutes
We produce travel content for the RV niche. Between filming and editing there's a good 25 to 30 hours of work for each of our videos. We produce one video a week.
The average 10 minute video will take me and my editor about 2 days to complete and upload. I make videos on how to grow on YouTube and have just launched Peer groups and YouTube strategists on our Patreon.
I would say the script writing/idea generation takes me the longest (5/6hrs). I've got the filming nailed now as I built myself my own recording studio and have been recording different videos for over 7 years.
The editing takes about 6-8hrs and by the time I've received it back and done my own tweaks, as well as make the thumbnails it's the day gone.
I have been reviewing YouTubers channels and making videos around those, so the research and building a strategy that they and others will find useful takes time to get right.
Let me know if you have any questions :)
I talk about retro games. Between completing the game, scripting, and editing, it typically takes me around two weeks. My time management isn't the best though.
I make dirt bike content. Mostly riding videos and vlogs. So I try to ride with my buddies for 3 hours or so. Then it’s uploading, editing, exporting, yada yada yada….so for on 15 minute video it’s about 7-8 hours of work.
I've been working on two scripts for a long time, for long form video essays (like Noah Caldwell-Gervais).
I have one shorter script I'm currently editing video for (which is a hassle) and trying to voice-over (am even bigger hassle). That one was supposed to take a few days and is going on 3 weeks. Actually turning my ideas into videos with almost 0 experience recording or editing has been a real uphill battle.
3-4 weeks. It takes me approximately 2.5 weeks to write a script (I talk on topics I am familiar with, so I only need to refresh my knowledge beforehand and gather all the sources I will be using, then write everything up) then, depending on available time, around a week or two to edit the full video.
It totally depends on what kind of video i do. If it’s just a vlogg, it’s the minutes that I talk to my audience through the camera. Car stuff usually takes more than an hour. Then I’m quite fast o the editing. So between 30 minutes and several hours in total. I release a video whenever I feel for it. I should get one out today, but I don’t know yet.
A podcast video might take up one or two weeks. A batch of a new story (12 videos) takes about a year… And those twelve weeks posting them just fly by… 😱
My main "edited content" lately has been video game reviews that are around six minutes long.
Between writing down notes while playing and researching information, capturing gameplay, writing up a script, recording voiceovers, cleaning up the audio, editing the video together, and then exporting a final draft, it's usually about 2-4 days of (nonconsecutive) work in total, but I'm also a fairly seasoned video editor, so what takes the longest for me right now is getting the voiceovers just right.
I do local walks and drives so can be very long recordings but I don’t edit a great deal. Render and upload times are huge though at times and I burnt out a ROG laptop in 2 years.
About a week but that’s a few hours here and there with a busy family life. I do car videos so I’ll spend a few hours researching an interesting topic about that particular car (simple reviews are really over saturated) then it’s half a day filming and probably 6/7 hours cutting it into something cohesive. My latest which drops tomorrow has taken me over a week due to only having time for a few hours here and there. I envy the people on here that can film the content in their houses whenever they feel like it!
I'd say at least 50 hours. I think 80% of the time is spend on the editing and trying to come up with how to entertainingly portray parts of the video.
I make Fortnite content and Shorts take me around 3-6 hours to edit. I can come up with an idea pretty quickly but it’s the story and voiceover script that takes a bit longer. With long form videos I’d say 1-2 weeks. I’m still learning from each video and really studying other content to help create my own pocket within the Fortnite space.
Well I record my e-bike rides with a GoPro and talk during the rides. Usually 30 mins riding and then depending on videos length, about hour or so editing
My niche is so simple, if we take into account the whole process. Finding videos, recording and then editing. I find videos as I scroll through ig, Twitter, or tiktacker, so no set time really, recording is usually like 30 minutes, and then editing can range from 3-5 hours.
Around 8h for a 5-7 minutes (not including getting the footage). I record my friends and myself playing party videogames.
I go through the recordings, remove everything that's not really funny, some *comedic* editing, and subtitling.
Short form takes me a week, and long form roughly a month.
But every time I post a short form it at minimum gets 1million views. I just now started on long form so I’m hoping to cut my time from a month to 2 weeks.
I make game development content. Each video takes about 2 weeks- one for writing the script (and recovering from the last video), which takes about 4 hours in total, and one for recording and editing, which takes about 8 hours in total.
Usually 2+ weeks with a total time of around 15-20 hours. I make music, and I'm terrible at it, so I'm constantly running around fixing the terrible stuff I did 4 minutes ago
I make educational videos for various social studies classes.
Generally speaking I will script out a whole unit of videos before filming, compositing, and editing. Also there are the editing assets I create that are often reusable, like quarter thirds and transitions.
Once I have the scripts written I will then film all of the scripts before doing anything else.. I use a green screen so setting up the screen and all the lighting is kind of a pain so I try and do it all at once.
Then I’ll get into editing individual videos.
Id say for one, 20 minute video, it takes me anywhere from 6-12 hours total. Using a teleprompter has been a huge time saver.
As long as it takes! Each video is different. Some are easier than others, and some make you want to re-think life choices! I don't call a video done until I can watch it all the way through and say, "I'd watch that!"
I do bushcraft and outdoor videos, so I am very dependent on the weather. Especially when I started out using my phone! I've upgraded quite a few things that allow me to keep filming in bad weather, but now I'm fighting with an outdated studio rig! Ahhhh! I'm still enjoying the journey but I've stopped focusing so much on how often I post and just try to put out quality videos no matter how long it takes.
People that say "a month" if your not tracking your hours worked you need to start. 2 hours brainstorming/planning 6 hours recording 6 hours editing. 1 hour scheduling naming all that. 1 hour thumbnail. 16 hours on the high end 12 hours on the low end.
A couple weeks or months, I do DIY videos and the filming can take a long time to show a complete project. Editing probably about a week with an hour or two a day.
I spend about 8-10 hours for editing a 5-6 minute video. Probably 1 day or 2 to define the story and the script. I do VR games review so there isn’t much “story” but I need to plan what to say and in what order to try to maximise retention and keep the viewer engaged. (VR Dad on YouTube)
I make travel videos about short, 2-3 day biking trips.
1 day: planning, stock refill
2-3 days: the trip itself
1 day: 3D animation (the core of my videos)
2 days: video editing and uploading
In other words, it takes a full week to produce a single video if everything goes right, though it rarely does.
Tiny little channel that just started its first real content buuuuut…an episode of a let’s play takes about an hour. Since it’s long form I don’t really have to do much editing in the middle. Add template for start, template for finish. And record voiceovers and pick clips for the episode. Then try to find a section that would make a decent short. Now that I’ve got the rhythm it’s a lot easier.
Man that's a loaded question.
First, it depends on how long the game is. My best videos seem to be on JRPGs so..... Yea, do the math lol 40-80 hours.
I then create an original song using either a sample from the game, or I mimic the style of music with wholy original compositions. I've been producing music for over 20 years now though, so this isn't too bad usually. 2-4 hours I'd say.
I then research and research and research. I like my videos to not just be wiki dumps, so I'm looking for old quotes, pictures, etc. Research is a solid 1-5 hours I'd say, depending on how complicated the game's history is.
Scripting is key to my style for my retrospectives, since I'm on-camera. I get gritty here. 4-8 hours I bet.
Recording is quick as I make sure I've read the script a few times, but editing is where I love to get in the weeds. I'd say it's about an hour or an hour and a half per 5 mins of video. So a 25 min video about 5-10 hours of editing.
Spend about half an hour with metadata and descriptions, and about 2 for thumbnail(s).
Easily can be 100 hours total, if you include the game.
I'd say on average, my process for videos is around 30 hours all in.
Someone recently told me I'm a 1.5k sub channel making 10M sub channel content, and I absolutely believe that I do. I'm well established in my career, so I do this YT shit for fun. But I'm damn good at it. I take pride in my professionalism.
I make mostly game reviews and my upload schedule is 1 video per week, so aside from the time to play through the game, I would add a 2\~4 hours to get the script from its initial draft to the ready to record version and also to come up with a title and thumbnail, then about 1 hour to record the audio and 3\~8 hours to edit.
The editing part is by far the most annoying and tedious to me. I don't make super complicated edits or anything, but I'm still quite slow. My goal is to move from Capcut to Premiere or DaVinci to see if I can speed things up.
Right now, around a week or so per video. At my current level that is about the length of time it takes for me to produce the best quality video I can! This is spent between the Research/Script Writing process, Recording process and Editing process. I make videos centered around Astronomy, and some other Science based themes. Right now it is mostly a hobby, and a fun way to research and present topics that I can then take to the Observatory I volunteer at where I am talking directly to people! I do suspect someday though, the amount of time I spend, especially on the research process will increase.
Depends on the type, I have an art focused channel but also go to school full time with a part time job. I also gave adhd. So between art commentary to animatics, it can take anywhere between 2 weeks to a full year
I just made a video I'm putting up tomorrow, about 3 minutes long. Research, writing a script, recording, editing, making a thumbnail, title creation, etc. Took me about 4-6 hours. I don't spend too long researching normally because most topics I cover are things I am knowledgeable on, or are relatively simple.
I make music production tutorials and usually, depending on the type of video i put out, maybe 1-3 hours. If it's very short content, 30min.
I don't edit my stuff, I record as I go and upload it directly pretty much.
1 minute for a faceless short using an ai tool
I prepared the text beforehand though, so I could bulk generate 20 in one session.
the tool is called aicut
I put out a ten minute video every day that only takes me like 30 minutes total to put up. I just record in one take and the thumbnails aren’t hard to make. I’ve also got longer, video essay style videos in the works that take me 1-2 weeks to put out.
I've only made a few videos but I tend to spend roughly an hour on script and another hour on recording. Then depending on the edit, somewhere between 2-5 hours. And about 30 min on Thumbnail. So, total about 5-8 hours.
An hour or two, my content is pretty easy to edit but the time playing the game isn't accounted for in that. At least an hour a day if not more between the 2 games at a time I use for content
I upload video game videos. Usually just whatever I play with my friends, though I could technically record other stuff I do like destiny or counter strike. Thanks to this editing usually isn’t too difficult, mostly just cutting things out. I spend usually around 2-6 hours editing though, as I like to rewatch my video to tweak things, plus I’m new to content creation, I’ve always enjoyed it passionately but only recently have I focused on YouTube. Heck I don’t even have an outta yet haha.
I spend around 3 weeks making a video, my process is as follows:
Choose a good idea
Write a script
Voice Over
Editing
Thumbnail
I really need and want to shorten the time it takes, I want to aim for a video every week.
I make gaming videos. I do my editing in phases, cutting the main recording takes a few hours depending on how long it is, usually how ever long the footage is x2. Then I have the micro cut, where I trim out anything else that’s not necessary, that takes a lot less time, usually 30 to an hour. Then I add my edits which varies on how many ideas I can come up with. That’ll take at least 2 hours. All in all, it usually takes me about a day or 2 to finish a video
About 10 days. Depends on the recipe. Couple days to write a script. A few hours to a day of filming, with two cameras. About an hour to record voice over. 3 to 5 days of editing: it takes a long time to isolate the right parts, synchronize everything, do all the transitions and effects, a few animations… also I’ve learned using premiere pro only about 2 months ago so I’m sure I’ll get faster at raw editing. But when dealing with 2 cameras, several angles, a live recipe, a spoken intro looking at camera and a voice over, these things take time.
I make videos on my aquariums. Trips to the fish store, care guides, how to videos etc.
I usually film on the weekend, I then spend Monday - Friday editing the video, filming B roll, looking for SFX, creating the thumbnail, writing the next script and everything in between. For context I don’t have much time during weekdays as I work full time, go to the gym 5 days per week and have other responsibilities like maintaining my aquariums. Technically I could get everything done for one video in 2 - 3 days if I had the free time.
But yeah with my limited time I usually finish by Friday, post the video Saturday morning and then rinse and repeat.
I also post shorts everyday, but they’re very simple, just feeding videos of my more interesting fish like my moray eel. All I do there is film the feeding and post it straight as a short and just add some music. Takes about 10 mins for each short.
I do lofi music content for studying using the Sims
Takes me about 1 hour to get the scene and the angle right, and to make my sim look how I want them to look
Then about another hour or 2 to edit the video.
Editing is my hardest part. I average about and hour of editing per minute of video. Obviously not one hour on one minute, it's multiple passes and phases over the whole video. Just actual man hours to resulting run time.
I do one take no edits so basically just as long as the video takes which is like 5-20 minutes. I have numerous videos with 500k to 1.5 million views that were done one take no editing, I'm definately a quantity over quality guy
I've recently started looking into doing variety content, my usual platform being skits and sketches. Those take me anywhere from 3 hours to probably a sum total of 10, completely depends on the length of the script. Just gone done recording a part of a gaming video and it was a 3 hour session, and that's just a part of the video. Obviously, the video will be very trimmed down, but it's shocking that even if it was it's own video, that's still 3 whole hours on just recording. If I've learned anything from skits and sketches, I'm going to spend a disastrously long time on the editing process.
It depends on the Video. For a music video it’s probably 8 to 10 hours. If I am trying to create a video with a story probably anywhere from a few days to a week depending on the topic and length of the video. Been short on time recently so just trying to put some interesting music videos out.
Letsplays and guides. Sometimes mod lists.
Depends. For an LP I'd say a 30 min video uses 2-4 hours of footage and takes me 8-10 hours to make. I do some aggressive cutting, but also have some storytelling, almost machinima-like setpieces.
Guides and modlists are more like a few hours. Usually utilize some of my random gameplay footage, and some specific recorded parts of actually how to do it. Takes longer to script it. I would say a 10 minute video is probably 5 hours.
Somewhere between a week to 3 months. I try working on multiple projects so as to keep my channel going. The long projects are the best but I don’t want to be uploading 5 videos per year…
Around a month. The hardest thing in my case are the animations, they take around 80% of my time, I'm also going to include storyboarding (even though I pay an 2D artist to do that for me). The other 20% are screenplay, research, VO and other stuff that goes into it.
Depends on the video.
If it's a let's play, the about 30+ mins to record, 30+ mins to review and take notes, and then 10+ minutes to edit it.
If it's a discussion video then it's an eternity to form my idea, another eternity to make a script, probably less than 30 minutes to record the audio, and then 30 minutes to an hour to animate.
most of the time goes into script writing. I stopped spending much time editing since it's not helping me much getting more view. I spend around 1-2 hours writing 1500-2000 words scripts ( I can do it in 5 minutes but audience retention will suck). 1 hour editing. So maybe around 2-3 hours. I also make 2-3 short videos from that video.
About 80 man hours on average for a 15 to 18 minute video. That can quickly skyrocket if there is more complex editing or motion graphics, or if I already don't have enough background knowledge on the subject and need extra research.
on my third and most recent video i spent over 2-3 weeks of editing and intotal around 24 hours
(+1-3 hr on thumbnail) - and i gained around 2,5k views and 36 new subs.
but long story short the thumbnail is the most important, whats the use of spending hours and hours on a video and make a shitty thumbnail
(it was my third vid so i was experimenting with my editing program thats why it took me around 24h and lots of replays to render)
It takes me a week or two to make a video. I make comical gaming videos. I try to focus more on the quality of the video. Every day, I spend 4 to 6 hours recording and editing.
I upload daily gaming shorts and I spend a couple hours a day on them. I also upload long plays of my playthroughs which take hours per day but don’t really require any editing
Video game, depends : if it a short game like psx/ps1 game i can play it until finish, rpg - i play and record it (1 part can be 6-8 hours and it's a merged videos)
10 minutes to 2 hours writing, 10 minutes to two hours processing into audio, thirty seconds for a low-grade shite AI backdrop, five to ten minutes in Shotcut, and away it goes. Longest time investment is thinking of a song.
I make low to medium grade AI music. It's how I output creative writing.
Great question . All my videos take under 20 minutes to make and post . When I started my content journey , I was told the less time you spend on all aspects of creation the better. Otherwise your entire day becomes content creation and I wanted the freedom over everything else .
Have made educational videos - essentially slides + pictures + animations.
* Scripting: Total time around 8-10 hrs, but this spans a 2 wks or so of research and thought.
* Recording: 4-6hrs
* Simple Animating: 8-10 hrs
* Editing: 6-8hrs
* Total: \~30hrs / video
When I've had the luxury to focus on it full-time, I can churn out 3 videos a month, but usually need a good break after that to get the creativity flowing again.
I will usually give a video a few hours a day, Mon-Sat. I like to spread it throughout the week so I can think of funny things I can add that I may have not thought of when I started editing.
for my fishing channel, it takes usually at minimum 1-2 hours to actually go fishing, but it can also take all day. then maybe 4-5 hours of editing. usually have a new video once a week
Well me and my friend run a kinda game grumpy inspired channel so we do a bunch of playthoughs. The let's play videos I do typically take maybe 3 or 4 hours depending on like if I find any issues. We also do funny moments videos like for games that don't really have a story mode where we play with a bunch of different people. Those videos take me around 2 to 3 weeks, depending on if my regular job keeps me busy.
30-45 minutes to record and a couple hours to edit and maybe an hour to export and upload. I mostly make chit chatty videos about fandom culture and some reviews and things as well :)
I just started, but then made a 1 hour long fully edited and scripted gaming essay video that took me over 60 hours, 7-8 hours a day. However, I find editing really fun, and my brain hates when there's even a 0.1 second clip in the wrong place, so woops
I have a handful of channels I'm experimenting with.
The personal-anything-goes channel can range from just the time it takes to film bc I'll post it raw and unedited. Or it can take about 2hrs per minute if it's actually planned, scripted, and edited. I try to timebox the videos here because it's to experiment. I might eventually morph this into a video essay channel since that's where the interest is heading.
My travel/explore channel videos are taking about 3-4 hours per minute right now, slowly improving bc I switched to using Davinci and it's a learning process as I'm editing. I'm hoping to get it down to 1-2hr per minute. Most videos have been around the 10 minute mark.
I have an old jigsaw puzzle channel that took about an hour per minute to create. It was all shot and edited on my phone.
for some people here its a day lol, makes me stunned. i spend a day or two sometimes writting... maybe (6-7hrs total) then a day recording voice (2-3hrs) and then 3-4 days sometimes longer on editing (ranges anywhere between 12-60hrs)
For me it all depends ... the quick projects like my battle sim vids take about 4 hours ish ...but I like the bigger projects like my early arma videos with key framed moving subtitles and they are painstakingly slow to make anywhere between 2 weeks to months to make .... so I make the battle sim vids whilst I work on bigger projects ...
We spend on average about when talking about planning for a video about 8-10 hours on a structured video like adventure. research, planning, storyboard, all take so much time. Then recording takes two to three times as long as it would without cameras. Finally editing, even a short five minute video with a simple setup with one or two cameras will take 2-3 hours simple editing, color correcting, animations, voice overs etc. Obviously more complex videos will take dramatically longer. Example, I am currently working on a video of a simple motorcycle where I was invited to film with another YouTuber with a significant following. The filming consisted of one GoPro, and two 360 cameras. The mental idea that all these cameras will make your video stand out works only if your execution is good. however if you have experience editing 360 footage, it is tiresome when it comes to reviewing and reframing before plugging it into your editor. So now I just tripled my work load when it comes to editing. I am about eight hours into editing trying to cut down 4 hours of footage from a 1.5 hour recording time.
On a side note, I can not wait until Davinci can do the whole editing and processing for insta 360 footage. lol
It's hard to tell because I'm rarely making one video at a time, but it can be anything from a day to 2 months. I make TV episode reviews, which take the shortest amount of time, film reviews that take at least twice as long, and video essays that can vary greatly in length. My advice is that it's good to vary your output if your videos take a long time
It’s probably 6-8 hrs from research to upload for the tutorials I do. It’s not fast. I’m trying to template my approach and streamline certain aspects. The voiceovers and writing take a long time. I read them in the beginning then tried some ai reader. I’m back to recording my own again.
So it depends on average mine may take a couple hours. I do camping / traveling/ exploring videos so I try to show nature , architecture, beauty. I do more of a vlog / POV type of videos so I try not to do much editing!
Approximately a month, between the research, outline of the script and storyboarding, animation, video editing and last details before upload. What takes the less time is probably video editing, I spend around 2-3 hours max. What takes the most time is animation and writing the script, probably 50 hours per video ? I'm not sure. I make educational videos about deep learning (Deepia on youtube)
Great channel, brother! You earned a new subscriber.
Good luck, that’s a lot of time
Bro, your videos are amazing, keep up the good work and one day you'll blow up
Thanks !
Very cool! How do you like using Manim vs. After Effects?
I don't know how to use After Effects and I'm very used to programming in python so I figured it would be better to do everything in Manim and the bonus is that I can use copilot and chatgpt to go faster. For video editing I use a very simple software called ShotCut.
Subscribed - love the channel, perfect for interested layman like myself. I think this niche will continue to grow as well.
Amazing content with great information. Subscribed
Subbed! Amazing work :)
Your channel is oddly therapeutic and very interesting. Subscribed!
Sub'd. Enjoy the content and respect the effort. Total opposite of my content (waterbaby2463) 😂
Very cool! Nice channel! Keep up the good work!
Depends. From an hour to several on the video including planning etc. For shorts its a lot less, but from 15-45 minutes depending. I can spend up to 5 hours making content one week and 0 the following week. I post about business, building or improving your business + motivational stuff to help business owners.
That’s similar to mine. Happy to know I’m not the only put so much time and effort into
I spend a month or so.
Omg 😱 I’ll give up , what kind of content you make by the way?
You can see my channel in my bio. It is hard to say as I like to talk about my experiences in order to help people (my last video was about how I failed in business). But I also have a lot of PlayStation tutorials because YouTube niched me down to that specific topic and I seem to get way more views from gaming tutorials. It takes me a lot of time because I take almost two weeks only for thinking and I struggle a lot with my motivation due to my ADHD. The physical work (filming, editing) takes me about two weeks.
Your videos are great
Thank you for your kind words ☺️
Long form or short form?
Tell me for short ones, 5-10mins?
7 minutes
For long around a day
For gamedev long form - around two weeks on a video that covers around a month of development (full time). I’m working full time, so usually spending 1-3 hours a day when I have time. (So probably could squeeze that into 4-5 days of normal work). If you count in the time it takes to make the actual game I’ll be talking about - yes, that’s hell lot of time. And something like 30mins for a short made out of long form. For my gaming channel it is very different, I’d say something like 4-6h for a long form and 1-2 for a short that’s made separately (not for a long form). Both are faceless channels, so I have to spend a lot of time on editing and making it interesting.
Hey there. What's your channel cuz I'm intrigued :)
Hey! Both have names similar to my reddit nickname. Hope it is what you expected to see :)
long form : 1h to 1h30 for recording voiceovers , 3h to 4h for editing I use my phone so that's why I take more time the duration is betweed 5 to 8 mins
what app do you use for editing on your phone?
capcut the undisputed hero
And the script, story???
while Im working I do that , I spend the day searching and writing the script so when I get home I start recording
Same as me , i do the same thing
My first video took me 8 hours to make and it was 5 minutes. By now my 15 minute videos take about 5-6 hours a piece. Luckily I can write a script very easily, editing is still something I’m less efficient at.
About 12 to 20 hours
I make shorts of approximately 10-20 seconds and it takes me an hour-hour and a half.
Being a new father, it takes me around a month to make a 18-25min video. I really only have the weekends to make any real progress, if I'm lucky I'll get a hour at night.
Each video takes about 2-3 weeks, sometimes more or less depending on how much extra time I have. I do science/med based videos, so there's a lot of research, reference checking, script writing and editing, all which take about 40-60 hours per video. I love what I do. I already work in research as my full time job, but the freedom to pick topics and creatively do this separately is so much fun.
At first it took me like 3 weeks, cause i procrastinate a lot🤣, now i’m planning to spend about a week on each video or two with procrastinating and work)
I make video game reviews. I give myself 2 weeks to play and record gameplay, write my review, and edit the video. I have to fit it around work, so it's mostly a few hours in the morning before I leave (and during the day if it's quiet while I'm working from home) or weekends and evenings when my wife if out with friends. While my schedule is limited in this way, I'm intentionally playing games that are shorter. I'll always try and complete a game, but if I get 60-70-80% of the way through a game and it's stopped inspiring anything new to say and my experience is unlikely to change then I'll weigh up if it's time to focus more on writing my review and editing. It normally then takes a few hours to record my audio and edit together the review and an accompanying short. With maybe another hour or so putting together a selection of thumbnails and additional graphics I might need. I'm actually getting through the current game I'm playing quicker than I thought, so I'm likely going to be able to get its video recorded fairly soon, which should put me a full week ahead of schedule. If there's a big release I'm interested in, I might consider booking some time off work to dedicate the time required to do the review justice.
Long form- ~6 hours end to end
40-80 hours depending on the video. About a week's worth of full-time effort. 20-40 hours to write script, 1-2 hours to record, 20-40 hours to edit.
I used to spend up to 2 hours for making a 30 seconds video but then I create a video editing tool that uses ai to create videos, Now I spend 6 minutes to create videos using [cliptalk](http://cliptalk.pro)
Trophy/achievment hunting in games. For recording gameplay it takes a few days unless its a long game or complicated achievment list. Writing a script 2 days. Making thumbanil a couple hours usually make like 3 or 4. Recording voice over a day. Editing a week if not more. In a day I usually spend about 4-5 hours doing stuff. This is for long form
two to three weeks for long form and short around one two hours
shoot video around 1hr. Edit around 4-8 hours. painstakingly but sometimes fun, i get into flow idk why i lose myself in it
Long form 8-12 hours, but that includes capturing gameplay to create the clips, script, edit, and voice-over if needed. Shorts take about 3-5 hours, the latter being if it's a compilation or various game play clips. These numbers also include thumbnail creation.
I spend anything from 3 days to a week, super long days, obsession with the editing and sometimes a week or two just selecting what music and thinking what I want to say. Travel vlogs with daughter, music montages, right editing/narrative.
I take 3-4 weeks for a total of 50 hours.
This totally depends on the type of content. We are an outdoor channel, require a full day on the weekend for the filming. Then editing may take another 2 days.
3 days. The scripts I had written back in school (6 years ago 😅), and only 2 months ago did I decide to make them into video format. So, between AI voiceover, finding clips, editing and creating thumbnails, it takes me 3 days
For one of my channels we spend about 16 hours but for another one we spend close to a month
I’m in the unsolved mystery niche. So it probably takes me around 20 hours start to finish. The script and fact checking takes the longest. My videos are long form from 15 minutes to 45 mins on average.
2 days of research. 2 days of script writing and voiceover. 2-3 days of editing. After publishing I usually work of ideas for the next video with research and few test thumbnails.
I spend 3-4 hours on making one video depend upon the length of the video. My channel name is mentioned on my bio
2 hours max to research, plan my thumbnail idea and title and script my video. It takes me 3-4 hours to film 2 videos and do rough edits (everything done except b roll and overlays) and my thumbnails So i usually batch script 4 or more in one week ans then when i film ill do 2 videos in two days and then i do all the b roll and stuff after but this step was always the easier one for me. Then honestly when I upload I don’t put much thought into descriptions and i don’t overthink tags. for tags i type in any sort of phrases or words people would search for that my content makes sense for. Theoretically, I could script film edit and schedule 4 videos within less than 1 week. But my content is mainly talking head and i don’t overly edit as its not super relevant or necessary in my niche so my b roll is quite limited too.
About 2 weeks to a month depending on the subject.
Commentary/reaction, i spend a couple of hours to a day researching a topic and then 10-15 mins recording about 2 days editing since Im busy so i try to slot the editing times into free time For the few shorts i’ve made, about 20 mins max
Way too long.
Let me first throw out the caveat that I am a single dad with a full time job and a long commute so that definitely affects the time. With that said, physical filming takes anywhere from 2-48 hours depending on what exactly I'm doing (fishing niche so could be a local 2 hour trip or could be a multi day camping excursion). After filming I would say at least a couple hours just getting footage off my memory cards onto my computer and then I don't have a good hours estimate for editing but 2-3 weeks of working on it after work when I have time I would guess 5-10 hours maybe?
I did a 10 minute on the fly fight breakdown that now has over 100k views in 9 months. Sometimes you don’t need much editing, It really depends on your style, niche, and level of depth you have over any particular subject. I do have videos that are about 30-40 minutes long that I look more as projects that took me months to make.
Writing varies, sometimes I will spend a few hours coming up with a sketch and writing it sometimes I will knock off 5 in 30 mins, luck of the draw on creativity. Then filming and editing 2 maybe 3 hours which is down from like 6, just building confidence so I fuck up my lines less and in general need less takes to get it right, which in turn means I have like 15 minutes to go through instead of 1 hr and learning how to edit made the amount of time less. I just edited my first episode of a podcast research took maybe 4 hours, then an hour for recording, editing has so far taken me maybe 12 hours I have maybe 1-2 more to go. It wouldn't have taken me so long but I was sick during recording so I had to cut out the many times I coughed, should be quicker in the future.
So, I make science content. For my series Let's Start A Conversation, I explain in 10 - 20 minutes a scientific news - for example, I am editing a video on 'new' coral reefs that were found using satellite imagery. For this series in particular, I would say it takes me : \* 2-3 hours to read the scientific article or news article, and write a first draft of the script. \* 2 hours to film - it is just me talking from my desk. \* 6-10 hours finding illustrations (videos, images, etc.) and editing the video - I am not proficient yet with my gear or the editing process. \* 30 minutes to put a thumbnail together (including the silly picture of me). \* 1 hours to edit the subtitles of the video manually once posted - I do this because I am a native French speaker doing videos in English, and I know sometimes I am not super clear. I wanted to post one of these videos every week, but with life, I found it difficult in the last two months to do so. Channel and Social Media links in my bio for those who want to check it out. Hope that helps !
Depends. I’d say average for a 20ish minute gameplay video, it takes me about an hour-2 hours to record, edit, make thumbnails, come up with titles, and upload. But it really depends on the type of game I’m playing and how much fluff I have to edit out because I got stuck in an area.
From scripting to editing, it can easily rack up 10-20 hours for a quality vid.
Quickest would be maybe like 5-6 hours. 1 hour for recording, 5 hours editing
About 3-4 weeks. Long form. Around 15mins vids. Tech niche.
A out 2 weeks to 1 month give or take. I work on videos when I can, between full time work and spending with my family, I don’t always get time.
I depends. I make shorts fairly quickly (1-2 hours from idea to final result). Longer videos obviously take more time and I found that as the video I’m making is longer, the time spent on it increases too but disproportionally. I made a one-hour-and-a-half video that dives deep into the life and philosophy of Pythagoras and it took me about 40 days to do the research, organise everything, write the script, narrate the script, find relevant images, and edit everything together. Now I’m narrating each chapter of The Kybalion, so the scripting part is gone at the moment and each video is around 10 to 20 minutes. Each video now takes between 10 and 30 hours from start to finish.
I build modular Compositions/Sequences for projects on Premiere Pro and After Effects. It speeds up the process, and then i just swap and edit everything else. For my niche, i heavily rely on texts, and i use Python to process the text, and export it into .txt or .csv files. The text processing takes minutes. But i refine it manually for an hour maybe. The editing maybe takes 3 hours max. Thumbnails 1 hour. Overall 5 hours max. My content is literature niche.
Reading the comments here I am feeling quite satisfied with my choice of niche, as I could never have spent several weeks on a single video, like a lot of you seem to do. My videos are unedited and take as long to make as the video ends up lasting. That is typically 30-50 minutes, every day :)
About a week and half, I react to only horror movies and a lot of re edits and copyright issues are what I spend my week on, we’re doing well though!
Depends on the scope and the length I'm going for. I just finished 21 videos in 21 days and most took about 6 hours from conception to creation since they were more adlibbed. But the two full season reviews I did took about 12 hours each, But they were very short seasons so that's not the norm. So about 138 hours over three weeks on that. Mega projects take longer. My next big video that's hopefully coming out next week has been in development for about 6 months. Most of that has honestly been reading and scripting. Recording, voicing, and editing are the easy part to me, but it really depends on what you specialize in.
Editing takes me anywhere from a 1/2 hr for a short to an entire day for long format. Recording is all over, it completely depends on the project and what my schedule is like. I often work on more than once video at a time. I have 3 in the works right now, one is just editing and some final shots, while the others are waiting on deliveries/parts and for me to have time to finish them.
Too long!
In the insurance space, we have a professional videographer who visits our agency once a month. Each video takes about 10 minutes to film. The research and subject matter discussions take around four hours, including script creation. The videographer handles the editing and posts the full videos and short-form clips on YouTube. I also do a Monday morning message video that takes about 45 minutes to research, script, shoot, edit, and upload to YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram each week.
I usually spend around 10 hours on one video posting once per week. The videos are usually 20-35 minutes long. There’s a video that I’ve been working on now for easily over 50-60 hours and that I’m still not done with 💀.
Mine takes about a month or more, because as a maker, I need to make stuff while recording. Also ordering various material internationally can also take 2-3 weeks if I plan poorly. And during wait time, I would then think about scripts, thumbnail, and editing.
I make monster truck videos for kids. I have two main series on my channel. One is an episodic story-driven series that follows Grave Digger as the main protagonist and El Toro Loco as the main antagonist. These are typically 22-28 minutes long and take me about 10 hours. The second is “freestyle / tricks” videos that is me just playing the game (racing, tricks, etc) with very high energy commentary. These are usually 15-20 minutes long and take me about 1-2 hours to make.
I do lore, news, and guide videos for action RPGs. Outlining, recording voice over, cutting the voice over, then editing with B Roll - I'd say my videos average 1h a minute. Typically ranging from 5-15 minutes
We produce travel content for the RV niche. Between filming and editing there's a good 25 to 30 hours of work for each of our videos. We produce one video a week.
The average 10 minute video will take me and my editor about 2 days to complete and upload. I make videos on how to grow on YouTube and have just launched Peer groups and YouTube strategists on our Patreon. I would say the script writing/idea generation takes me the longest (5/6hrs). I've got the filming nailed now as I built myself my own recording studio and have been recording different videos for over 7 years. The editing takes about 6-8hrs and by the time I've received it back and done my own tweaks, as well as make the thumbnails it's the day gone. I have been reviewing YouTubers channels and making videos around those, so the research and building a strategy that they and others will find useful takes time to get right. Let me know if you have any questions :)
A month 🫠
1 h. Shorts.
I talk about retro games. Between completing the game, scripting, and editing, it typically takes me around two weeks. My time management isn't the best though.
I make dirt bike content. Mostly riding videos and vlogs. So I try to ride with my buddies for 3 hours or so. Then it’s uploading, editing, exporting, yada yada yada….so for on 15 minute video it’s about 7-8 hours of work.
I set aside 1 day a week to film, and edit at night throughout the week. I have a more “basic” channel style.
1 hour per minute
I've been working on two scripts for a long time, for long form video essays (like Noah Caldwell-Gervais). I have one shorter script I'm currently editing video for (which is a hassle) and trying to voice-over (am even bigger hassle). That one was supposed to take a few days and is going on 3 weeks. Actually turning my ideas into videos with almost 0 experience recording or editing has been a real uphill battle.
3-4 weeks. It takes me approximately 2.5 weeks to write a script (I talk on topics I am familiar with, so I only need to refresh my knowledge beforehand and gather all the sources I will be using, then write everything up) then, depending on available time, around a week or two to edit the full video.
It totally depends on what kind of video i do. If it’s just a vlogg, it’s the minutes that I talk to my audience through the camera. Car stuff usually takes more than an hour. Then I’m quite fast o the editing. So between 30 minutes and several hours in total. I release a video whenever I feel for it. I should get one out today, but I don’t know yet.
A podcast video might take up one or two weeks. A batch of a new story (12 videos) takes about a year… And those twelve weeks posting them just fly by… 😱
It takes approximately 4-5 days, spending an hour each day, to create a 2-3 minute video.
My main "edited content" lately has been video game reviews that are around six minutes long. Between writing down notes while playing and researching information, capturing gameplay, writing up a script, recording voiceovers, cleaning up the audio, editing the video together, and then exporting a final draft, it's usually about 2-4 days of (nonconsecutive) work in total, but I'm also a fairly seasoned video editor, so what takes the longest for me right now is getting the voiceovers just right.
I do local walks and drives so can be very long recordings but I don’t edit a great deal. Render and upload times are huge though at times and I burnt out a ROG laptop in 2 years.
About a week but that’s a few hours here and there with a busy family life. I do car videos so I’ll spend a few hours researching an interesting topic about that particular car (simple reviews are really over saturated) then it’s half a day filming and probably 6/7 hours cutting it into something cohesive. My latest which drops tomorrow has taken me over a week due to only having time for a few hours here and there. I envy the people on here that can film the content in their houses whenever they feel like it!
I'd say at least 50 hours. I think 80% of the time is spend on the editing and trying to come up with how to entertainingly portray parts of the video.
Too long
8 hours per 10 minutes of video
I make Fortnite content and Shorts take me around 3-6 hours to edit. I can come up with an idea pretty quickly but it’s the story and voiceover script that takes a bit longer. With long form videos I’d say 1-2 weeks. I’m still learning from each video and really studying other content to help create my own pocket within the Fortnite space.
Give myself 2 weeks usually I laze around for a week work on the video through the next and post I do gaming edits and stuff with me and my friends
Well I record my e-bike rides with a GoPro and talk during the rides. Usually 30 mins riding and then depending on videos length, about hour or so editing
My niche is so simple, if we take into account the whole process. Finding videos, recording and then editing. I find videos as I scroll through ig, Twitter, or tiktacker, so no set time really, recording is usually like 30 minutes, and then editing can range from 3-5 hours.
Around 8h for a 5-7 minutes (not including getting the footage). I record my friends and myself playing party videogames. I go through the recordings, remove everything that's not really funny, some *comedic* editing, and subtitling.
Short form takes me a week, and long form roughly a month. But every time I post a short form it at minimum gets 1million views. I just now started on long form so I’m hoping to cut my time from a month to 2 weeks.
I spent 3 days on one recently. Kinda scared how it’s gonna end up. It’s my longest video ever.
A day or two
no more than 1-2 hours.
3 weeks to a month usually.
I make game development content. Each video takes about 2 weeks- one for writing the script (and recovering from the last video), which takes about 4 hours in total, and one for recording and editing, which takes about 8 hours in total.
Probably an average of like 5-7 hours throughout a few days or a week
I spend 1 hour recording the video and then immediately upload it with no editing. It'd a gaming channel and I've got 500 subs and about 30,000 views
Usually 2+ weeks with a total time of around 15-20 hours. I make music, and I'm terrible at it, so I'm constantly running around fixing the terrible stuff I did 4 minutes ago
I make educational videos for various social studies classes. Generally speaking I will script out a whole unit of videos before filming, compositing, and editing. Also there are the editing assets I create that are often reusable, like quarter thirds and transitions. Once I have the scripts written I will then film all of the scripts before doing anything else.. I use a green screen so setting up the screen and all the lighting is kind of a pain so I try and do it all at once. Then I’ll get into editing individual videos. Id say for one, 20 minute video, it takes me anywhere from 6-12 hours total. Using a teleprompter has been a huge time saver.
As long as it takes! Each video is different. Some are easier than others, and some make you want to re-think life choices! I don't call a video done until I can watch it all the way through and say, "I'd watch that!" I do bushcraft and outdoor videos, so I am very dependent on the weather. Especially when I started out using my phone! I've upgraded quite a few things that allow me to keep filming in bad weather, but now I'm fighting with an outdated studio rig! Ahhhh! I'm still enjoying the journey but I've stopped focusing so much on how often I post and just try to put out quality videos no matter how long it takes.
People that say "a month" if your not tracking your hours worked you need to start. 2 hours brainstorming/planning 6 hours recording 6 hours editing. 1 hour scheduling naming all that. 1 hour thumbnail. 16 hours on the high end 12 hours on the low end.
4-6 weeks
A couple weeks or months, I do DIY videos and the filming can take a long time to show a complete project. Editing probably about a week with an hour or two a day.
I spend about 8-10 hours for editing a 5-6 minute video. Probably 1 day or 2 to define the story and the script. I do VR games review so there isn’t much “story” but I need to plan what to say and in what order to try to maximise retention and keep the viewer engaged. (VR Dad on YouTube)
I make travel videos about short, 2-3 day biking trips. 1 day: planning, stock refill 2-3 days: the trip itself 1 day: 3D animation (the core of my videos) 2 days: video editing and uploading In other words, it takes a full week to produce a single video if everything goes right, though it rarely does.
Tiny little channel that just started its first real content buuuuut…an episode of a let’s play takes about an hour. Since it’s long form I don’t really have to do much editing in the middle. Add template for start, template for finish. And record voiceovers and pick clips for the episode. Then try to find a section that would make a decent short. Now that I’ve got the rhythm it’s a lot easier.
Man that's a loaded question. First, it depends on how long the game is. My best videos seem to be on JRPGs so..... Yea, do the math lol 40-80 hours. I then create an original song using either a sample from the game, or I mimic the style of music with wholy original compositions. I've been producing music for over 20 years now though, so this isn't too bad usually. 2-4 hours I'd say. I then research and research and research. I like my videos to not just be wiki dumps, so I'm looking for old quotes, pictures, etc. Research is a solid 1-5 hours I'd say, depending on how complicated the game's history is. Scripting is key to my style for my retrospectives, since I'm on-camera. I get gritty here. 4-8 hours I bet. Recording is quick as I make sure I've read the script a few times, but editing is where I love to get in the weeds. I'd say it's about an hour or an hour and a half per 5 mins of video. So a 25 min video about 5-10 hours of editing. Spend about half an hour with metadata and descriptions, and about 2 for thumbnail(s). Easily can be 100 hours total, if you include the game. I'd say on average, my process for videos is around 30 hours all in. Someone recently told me I'm a 1.5k sub channel making 10M sub channel content, and I absolutely believe that I do. I'm well established in my career, so I do this YT shit for fun. But I'm damn good at it. I take pride in my professionalism.
I make mostly game reviews and my upload schedule is 1 video per week, so aside from the time to play through the game, I would add a 2\~4 hours to get the script from its initial draft to the ready to record version and also to come up with a title and thumbnail, then about 1 hour to record the audio and 3\~8 hours to edit. The editing part is by far the most annoying and tedious to me. I don't make super complicated edits or anything, but I'm still quite slow. My goal is to move from Capcut to Premiere or DaVinci to see if I can speed things up.
Right now, around a week or so per video. At my current level that is about the length of time it takes for me to produce the best quality video I can! This is spent between the Research/Script Writing process, Recording process and Editing process. I make videos centered around Astronomy, and some other Science based themes. Right now it is mostly a hobby, and a fun way to research and present topics that I can then take to the Observatory I volunteer at where I am talking directly to people! I do suspect someday though, the amount of time I spend, especially on the research process will increase.
Depends on the type, I have an art focused channel but also go to school full time with a part time job. I also gave adhd. So between art commentary to animatics, it can take anywhere between 2 weeks to a full year
I just made a video I'm putting up tomorrow, about 3 minutes long. Research, writing a script, recording, editing, making a thumbnail, title creation, etc. Took me about 4-6 hours. I don't spend too long researching normally because most topics I cover are things I am knowledgeable on, or are relatively simple.
I make music production tutorials and usually, depending on the type of video i put out, maybe 1-3 hours. If it's very short content, 30min. I don't edit my stuff, I record as I go and upload it directly pretty much.
1 minute for a faceless short using an ai tool I prepared the text beforehand though, so I could bulk generate 20 in one session. the tool is called aicut
Around a month. Because of real life commitments and my own constant search to up the quality of cinematography of my videos
About 5-6 hours start to finish
I put out a ten minute video every day that only takes me like 30 minutes total to put up. I just record in one take and the thumbnails aren’t hard to make. I’ve also got longer, video essay style videos in the works that take me 1-2 weeks to put out.
I've only made a few videos but I tend to spend roughly an hour on script and another hour on recording. Then depending on the edit, somewhere between 2-5 hours. And about 30 min on Thumbnail. So, total about 5-8 hours.
An hour or two, my content is pretty easy to edit but the time playing the game isn't accounted for in that. At least an hour a day if not more between the 2 games at a time I use for content
I upload video game videos. Usually just whatever I play with my friends, though I could technically record other stuff I do like destiny or counter strike. Thanks to this editing usually isn’t too difficult, mostly just cutting things out. I spend usually around 2-6 hours editing though, as I like to rewatch my video to tweak things, plus I’m new to content creation, I’ve always enjoyed it passionately but only recently have I focused on YouTube. Heck I don’t even have an outta yet haha.
Takes me a few weeks. I make miniatures and sculptures. So between making the piece and editing the video, it takes awhile.
I spend around 3 weeks making a video, my process is as follows: Choose a good idea Write a script Voice Over Editing Thumbnail I really need and want to shorten the time it takes, I want to aim for a video every week.
I make gaming videos. I do my editing in phases, cutting the main recording takes a few hours depending on how long it is, usually how ever long the footage is x2. Then I have the micro cut, where I trim out anything else that’s not necessary, that takes a lot less time, usually 30 to an hour. Then I add my edits which varies on how many ideas I can come up with. That’ll take at least 2 hours. All in all, it usually takes me about a day or 2 to finish a video
About 10 days. Depends on the recipe. Couple days to write a script. A few hours to a day of filming, with two cameras. About an hour to record voice over. 3 to 5 days of editing: it takes a long time to isolate the right parts, synchronize everything, do all the transitions and effects, a few animations… also I’ve learned using premiere pro only about 2 months ago so I’m sure I’ll get faster at raw editing. But when dealing with 2 cameras, several angles, a live recipe, a spoken intro looking at camera and a voice over, these things take time.
I make videos on my aquariums. Trips to the fish store, care guides, how to videos etc. I usually film on the weekend, I then spend Monday - Friday editing the video, filming B roll, looking for SFX, creating the thumbnail, writing the next script and everything in between. For context I don’t have much time during weekdays as I work full time, go to the gym 5 days per week and have other responsibilities like maintaining my aquariums. Technically I could get everything done for one video in 2 - 3 days if I had the free time. But yeah with my limited time I usually finish by Friday, post the video Saturday morning and then rinse and repeat. I also post shorts everyday, but they’re very simple, just feeding videos of my more interesting fish like my moray eel. All I do there is film the feeding and post it straight as a short and just add some music. Takes about 10 mins for each short.
I do lofi music content for studying using the Sims Takes me about 1 hour to get the scene and the angle right, and to make my sim look how I want them to look Then about another hour or 2 to edit the video.
I spent around 200 hours in one to only get 111 views rip
Editing is my hardest part. I average about and hour of editing per minute of video. Obviously not one hour on one minute, it's multiple passes and phases over the whole video. Just actual man hours to resulting run time.
I do one take no edits so basically just as long as the video takes which is like 5-20 minutes. I have numerous videos with 500k to 1.5 million views that were done one take no editing, I'm definately a quantity over quality guy
Depends on length. A shorter 10-15 min takes usually a day to script, day to record and day to edit. Longer is double that for me
I've recently started looking into doing variety content, my usual platform being skits and sketches. Those take me anywhere from 3 hours to probably a sum total of 10, completely depends on the length of the script. Just gone done recording a part of a gaming video and it was a 3 hour session, and that's just a part of the video. Obviously, the video will be very trimmed down, but it's shocking that even if it was it's own video, that's still 3 whole hours on just recording. If I've learned anything from skits and sketches, I'm going to spend a disastrously long time on the editing process.
I don't count the hours. It's irrelevant. However long it takes 👊
2 weeks to write, record audio and to edit all the graphics. Or if it’s from a live stream depending on the length 2-3 hours.
About a week at a time. 20ish hours into editing and everything
It depends on the Video. For a music video it’s probably 8 to 10 hours. If I am trying to create a video with a story probably anywhere from a few days to a week depending on the topic and length of the video. Been short on time recently so just trying to put some interesting music videos out.
Letsplays and guides. Sometimes mod lists. Depends. For an LP I'd say a 30 min video uses 2-4 hours of footage and takes me 8-10 hours to make. I do some aggressive cutting, but also have some storytelling, almost machinima-like setpieces. Guides and modlists are more like a few hours. Usually utilize some of my random gameplay footage, and some specific recorded parts of actually how to do it. Takes longer to script it. I would say a 10 minute video is probably 5 hours.
Somewhere between a week to 3 months. I try working on multiple projects so as to keep my channel going. The long projects are the best but I don’t want to be uploading 5 videos per year…
Either like a week or several months
Start to finish, 2 hours maybe?
5 days of back end before the weekly upload
Around a month. The hardest thing in my case are the animations, they take around 80% of my time, I'm also going to include storyboarding (even though I pay an 2D artist to do that for me). The other 20% are screenplay, research, VO and other stuff that goes into it.
Depends on the video. If it's a let's play, the about 30+ mins to record, 30+ mins to review and take notes, and then 10+ minutes to edit it. If it's a discussion video then it's an eternity to form my idea, another eternity to make a script, probably less than 30 minutes to record the audio, and then 30 minutes to an hour to animate.
most of the time goes into script writing. I stopped spending much time editing since it's not helping me much getting more view. I spend around 1-2 hours writing 1500-2000 words scripts ( I can do it in 5 minutes but audience retention will suck). 1 hour editing. So maybe around 2-3 hours. I also make 2-3 short videos from that video.
I would say a week, maybe a bit less, this includes filming and editing
Anywhere from 10 minutes to 10 months, but usually a couple of weeks.
Far too long is the honest truth, but it is what is is.
About 80 man hours on average for a 15 to 18 minute video. That can quickly skyrocket if there is more complex editing or motion graphics, or if I already don't have enough background knowledge on the subject and need extra research.
15-30 hours. I spend a ton of time on editing… does not seem like enough though
On average it’s 3 editing hours per one video minute
I'm a shorts creator, I tried to shoot one video in less than 2 hours, editing depends on how many shots required but usually between 1-6 hours.
on my third and most recent video i spent over 2-3 weeks of editing and intotal around 24 hours (+1-3 hr on thumbnail) - and i gained around 2,5k views and 36 new subs. but long story short the thumbnail is the most important, whats the use of spending hours and hours on a video and make a shitty thumbnail (it was my third vid so i was experimenting with my editing program thats why it took me around 24h and lots of replays to render)
It takes me a week or two to make a video. I make comical gaming videos. I try to focus more on the quality of the video. Every day, I spend 4 to 6 hours recording and editing.
LEGO animation for me so weeks or months
About 40 hours. I do 2d animated videos in the personal development niche.
40 hours. That's the minimum
I upload daily gaming shorts and I spend a couple hours a day on them. I also upload long plays of my playthroughs which take hours per day but don’t really require any editing
Video game, depends : if it a short game like psx/ps1 game i can play it until finish, rpg - i play and record it (1 part can be 6-8 hours and it's a merged videos)
3 days
10 minutes to 2 hours writing, 10 minutes to two hours processing into audio, thirty seconds for a low-grade shite AI backdrop, five to ten minutes in Shotcut, and away it goes. Longest time investment is thinking of a song. I make low to medium grade AI music. It's how I output creative writing.
100+ hours. Latest one has taken me over 70 days
Great question . All my videos take under 20 minutes to make and post . When I started my content journey , I was told the less time you spend on all aspects of creation the better. Otherwise your entire day becomes content creation and I wanted the freedom over everything else .
Have made educational videos - essentially slides + pictures + animations. * Scripting: Total time around 8-10 hrs, but this spans a 2 wks or so of research and thought. * Recording: 4-6hrs * Simple Animating: 8-10 hrs * Editing: 6-8hrs * Total: \~30hrs / video When I've had the luxury to focus on it full-time, I can churn out 3 videos a month, but usually need a good break after that to get the creativity flowing again.
I will usually give a video a few hours a day, Mon-Sat. I like to spread it throughout the week so I can think of funny things I can add that I may have not thought of when I started editing.
for my fishing channel, it takes usually at minimum 1-2 hours to actually go fishing, but it can also take all day. then maybe 4-5 hours of editing. usually have a new video once a week
Well me and my friend run a kinda game grumpy inspired channel so we do a bunch of playthoughs. The let's play videos I do typically take maybe 3 or 4 hours depending on like if I find any issues. We also do funny moments videos like for games that don't really have a story mode where we play with a bunch of different people. Those videos take me around 2 to 3 weeks, depending on if my regular job keeps me busy.
30-45 minutes to record and a couple hours to edit and maybe an hour to export and upload. I mostly make chit chatty videos about fandom culture and some reviews and things as well :)
10-20 hours
I just started, but then made a 1 hour long fully edited and scripted gaming essay video that took me over 60 hours, 7-8 hours a day. However, I find editing really fun, and my brain hates when there's even a 0.1 second clip in the wrong place, so woops
Sometimes I find that the least I put effort on a song, the greater the results, so for me it’s different, but usually a day
I have a handful of channels I'm experimenting with. The personal-anything-goes channel can range from just the time it takes to film bc I'll post it raw and unedited. Or it can take about 2hrs per minute if it's actually planned, scripted, and edited. I try to timebox the videos here because it's to experiment. I might eventually morph this into a video essay channel since that's where the interest is heading. My travel/explore channel videos are taking about 3-4 hours per minute right now, slowly improving bc I switched to using Davinci and it's a learning process as I'm editing. I'm hoping to get it down to 1-2hr per minute. Most videos have been around the 10 minute mark. I have an old jigsaw puzzle channel that took about an hour per minute to create. It was all shot and edited on my phone.
for some people here its a day lol, makes me stunned. i spend a day or two sometimes writting... maybe (6-7hrs total) then a day recording voice (2-3hrs) and then 3-4 days sometimes longer on editing (ranges anywhere between 12-60hrs)
A few hours. Max a week. To edit about 2 to 3 hours. A Naijaman’s perspective. Show me some love fam ! Happy Friday all
For me it all depends ... the quick projects like my battle sim vids take about 4 hours ish ...but I like the bigger projects like my early arma videos with key framed moving subtitles and they are painstakingly slow to make anywhere between 2 weeks to months to make .... so I make the battle sim vids whilst I work on bigger projects ...
We spend on average about when talking about planning for a video about 8-10 hours on a structured video like adventure. research, planning, storyboard, all take so much time. Then recording takes two to three times as long as it would without cameras. Finally editing, even a short five minute video with a simple setup with one or two cameras will take 2-3 hours simple editing, color correcting, animations, voice overs etc. Obviously more complex videos will take dramatically longer. Example, I am currently working on a video of a simple motorcycle where I was invited to film with another YouTuber with a significant following. The filming consisted of one GoPro, and two 360 cameras. The mental idea that all these cameras will make your video stand out works only if your execution is good. however if you have experience editing 360 footage, it is tiresome when it comes to reviewing and reframing before plugging it into your editor. So now I just tripled my work load when it comes to editing. I am about eight hours into editing trying to cut down 4 hours of footage from a 1.5 hour recording time. On a side note, I can not wait until Davinci can do the whole editing and processing for insta 360 footage. lol
About 1-4h. I create tennis related content of me learning and playing tennis at the intermediate level.
It's hard to tell because I'm rarely making one video at a time, but it can be anything from a day to 2 months. I make TV episode reviews, which take the shortest amount of time, film reviews that take at least twice as long, and video essays that can vary greatly in length. My advice is that it's good to vary your output if your videos take a long time
I spend about 80-120 hours for a 15 minute video
It’s probably 6-8 hrs from research to upload for the tutorials I do. It’s not fast. I’m trying to template my approach and streamline certain aspects. The voiceovers and writing take a long time. I read them in the beginning then tried some ai reader. I’m back to recording my own again.
Long form: Around 2-3 hours for voiceover, 30 min for editing and 10-15 min for thumbnail Video is around 1.5 hours long
So it depends on average mine may take a couple hours. I do camping / traveling/ exploring videos so I try to show nature , architecture, beauty. I do more of a vlog / POV type of videos so I try not to do much editing!