What A Long Video Looks Like In Editing (Patreon)

It's 3am and I'm still working on this video.

Anyway, I figured it might be fun to share what such a long video looks like in the editing process.

The first picture is the entire, hour-and-a-half long video in the Adobe Premiere timeline. For those unfamiliar with video editing, that's where all the work happens; I put clips of my own recordings along with clips of the game into that timeline in the order they should appear, and trim/move them to flow from one to the other. In the end, this video is so big that if you zoom out enough to see the whole thing, you can barely even identify individual clips.

That's why I also attached the second image, zoomed in to cover a five minute segment. Here you can see the clips of the game and the clips of me, with the audio track underneath it. I didn't record all that audio in order; I record my own video first, then record the rest of the audio separately since I'll just put game footage over it. Once I got it all into here, I put it together, and the result is the nearly constant audio track you see there.

The third image is a separate timeline; since I have a dual-monitor setup, I'm able to use an entire screen for two separate timelines. The first to images are from the analysis itself, and the third is where I put footage that I'll need to extract footage from. The video you see in there is part of the FFVII longplay I use for most of my footage, and having it there in that timeline allows me to easily scan through the footage and find the moments I need, then separate them and copy them into the analysis itself. You'll notice there are multiple tabs in this one too; partially to have another timeline for other clips (since I do visually reference more than just Final Fantasy VII), and partially because the longplay was too long to fit into a single sequence, and I had to split the game footage into two separate ones. So now I know that 24 hours is the maximum length for a single timeline in Adobe Premiere. Woo.

Anyway, mostly I wanted to post this to show that I'm getting this done a bit faster than I thought I would, and hopefully it'll be ready a good little while before the release of the remake. And also so you could all see how completely ridiculous this long a video is in the editing process.

Look forward to it soon, and remember, because you support the show you'll get access to it earlier than everyone else! I hope you enjoy it when that time comes!