How Long Does It Take To Make a Jack Rhodes Video?

It's time to dive into the comments section and see what you legends have been asking!

BigDeck52 (great name by the way) asked:

'What takes longer? The recording or the editing to put everything in one video?'

Great question, and the honest answer is... it depends on the video. The video in question here was my latest slow-mo video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZtlTHkKu6U

Let's break it down step by step. For these slow-mo vids, there are three stages.

1. Filming the tricks.

2. Filming the reaction to the tricks with Jamie.

3. Editing it all together.

I try and film at least 10 slow-mo tricks per video, with a buffer of a couple extra (as there's alwas a few that get cut due to them not being particularly interesting or too much being revealed in slow-motion). So about 12 tricks minimum in reality. Filming this is usually a couple days work as it takes longer than you think practising the trick, setting up the shot, getting the lighting right, getting a take that works well in slow-motion etc.

Filming the reaction is a few hours in total (from Jamie arriving at mine to finishing filming). The actual recording itself is anywhere from 1 - 2 hours depending on how much we waffle. The 10 minute video above was originally a 1 hr 10 min recording (that's a 49.7GB 4k file) which tells you how much gets cut.

The edit is then the bit that takes the longest on it's own. We're talking a minimum of a couple of days - probably three days on average - and around 8 different drafts of the edit.

Here's the editing timeline of the latest slow-mo vid (which actually required 9 drafts to get to the final edit):

That's without considering the edits on the short-form clips that get put on Instagram - that's at least a day making 4 or 5 videos like this:

It might only be 72 seconds long but there's still a lot of work that goes into it...

Long story short, recording the tricks and the reaction probably takes about the same amount of time I spend on the edit. All in all, it's about a week's work. Which is why it ain't so easy putting these slow-mo vids out consistently - especially when you consider I have to learn and practise ten new tricks that will work in slow-motion between each upload...

I'm quite enjoying looking through some of the questions that pop up in the comments section of vids - maybe this could be a recurring thing. If you have any questions you'd like answering, comment below and maybe your question will be in the next one!

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