[fouc]

Does anyone ever feel irritated by "amateur" produced videos that approach the quality of professional studios? Sometimes it's distracting when there's too much work done on the video, and you can tell there's additional people helping out behind the camera and you never get to see them as part of the video.

Basically amateur/gonzo level videos feel more truthful than the highly edited videos.

[aequitas]

Do you have any examples of this? I have never noticed this so far, the "crew" is always in the video or am just not watching those videos?

[dsfyu404ed]

>Do you have any examples of this?

Not exactly Youtube but pretty much all professionally produced porn made since ~2005 is like this. They call it "professional amateur" or some buzzword like that. You've got a camera crew complete with lighting, sound and makeup filming the actors screw at some producer's vacation house and it's all done professionally but they try and make the final product look like it's just the actors and cameraman.

[kkarakk]

any youtuber who averages 100k views per video with more than one video a week probably either has a video editor or dark circles under their eyes.

a lot of them have camera men/audio guys and a personal assistant to keep track of their schedule if they're the jetsetting type

amateur youtube only exists <30k views + maybe 1 video in a week

[detaro]

I don't think those numbers can only be reached with helpers.

How much effort camera/editing is really depends on the genre. E.g. for gaming channels, camera work basically doesn't exist, so it's "just" editing (which again highly depends on the style). At the lower level of "professional YouTuber", having to pay someone else vs doing it yourself would also make quite a difference for making the financials work out or not. Actually, I'd guess in gaming the most common external help would be a chat moderator for live streams.

[fouc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R3moEtEmIA This one I saw recently.

[aequitas]

> after literally one year of work we are finally finished with one of our biggest videos so far!!!

This would not fall into the category of "amateur" churning out a high quality video a week. These are maybe amateurs that did a considerable amount of work (with the help of others?).