The Sin of the Week: Sloth
I know how to type words into Microsoft Word. I’d venture to say that I’m so good at typing words that I could teach others to do the same. You need to make sure to use punctuation. If there’s a red squiggly line, you misspelled a word. If the line is blue, your grammar are incorrectly. If the line is gray, Word thinks you’re redundant and can shorten your phrases because it doesn’t understand human voice, linguistic nuances, and creativity. You can use, “as well as,” as much as you damn well please, so screw the non-sentient program.
On the other hand, I don’t really understand video editing software. I do have Editor One to edit my more complex videos, but I can’t bother him with my simple Angels of Death videos. He has things to do, like staying quiet in his cage until he is needed. Consequently, it’s up to me to mess with Vegas and put videos together.
Vegas is pretty intuitive, so I give it my recommendation for all my fellow idiots out there. With enough fiddling around, I could probably create a competent clip show with flashy cuts and technical flourishes. As it stands now, I can string my audio, video, and opening sequence together and render it as one file. That’s pretty big for me, and that may just be my capacity.
From recording to publishing this article, I invest probably 3-4 hours in a single video. Considering I see my videos as secondary to my writing, that’s about as much time as I want to devote to a single video. Could I focus more time on each let’s-play, allowing my YouTube career to possibly gain more ground? Sure, but it’s not the territory I want to conquer. I’m okay with my current adequate.
Call it complacency or laziness, but I have this system worked out. As always, if you have feedback, let me know as long as it doesn’t entail more work.