Pretty good summary of all the stuff that goes into a DIY build videos. Now I just show the finished product and talk about some of the design details and problems solved along the way. I think there's a lot of value in this sort of content, but I haven't made enough of them to know if it's something people actually want to watch.
Can't speak for others, but I have several channels I follow where this is effectively the format... It's a bit harder at times where it's just a tripod in the corner, and might be more effective with a headband mounted gopro depending on your work. But other than that, just appreciate enough instruction and video to understand how things are being worked on, usually fast forwarding (in the edit) through the more laborious (time consuming) parts.
But I follow such a wide variety of topics from political, to technical, to PC gaming to food (keto, general, other) and home construction or even electronics DIY stuff. I think YouTube has trouble figuring me out... I tend to get fed too much of one thing over time, and have to go into my subscribe list (a few hundred) and start watching from the more recent, or specific channels depending on what I'm in the mood for.
import the video from your device. cut out/speed up the boring parts. add a voice over or music or corrections to dialog. add intro screens, cut screens, transitions, titles. tweak the audio, censor curse words if required. insert images or screenshots you reference. insert labels/graphics. export it. re-export it because you screwed something up. upload to youtube. fill out their required forms. write description, timestamps, link cards, end cards. create affiliate links if that's what you're doing. follow up on social media. etc. etc. etc.
you're probably thinking of streaming, which involves less work, but you have to do it in real time with OBS or whatever. maybe you're talented and can do it yourself, but sometimes that involves a second person at the controls.
sure you can just upload a raw video straight from your device. but this is exceedingly rare, because you've grown accustomed to at least the basic round of editing - you likely don't even realize what edits have happened. raw video is incredibly boring. will anyone watch it? if not, then what are you even doing that for?
you should try both sometime, it's not quite as easy or fast as it sounds.
Adobe Premiere, along with special purpose apps are already here. take the raw video, chop it up into pieces, grab the algorithimically determined "interesting" ones, stick a recent audio track behind it. volia! not as good as if you had a team helping you create content, but a whole helluva lot easier.
Thinking a bit more about it, I guess you could have an algorithm that detects the start of a fragment based on speech (e.g. you say "fragment start!") and you could rank the fragments at the end, e.g. "fragment stop score 8!" I suppose you could do that with open source speech-to-text tools. And use ffmpeg to cut and stitch everything together.
Editing is boring work because you have to go through hours of video and find the right fragments and stitch them together, then rewatch to see if the flow is right, etc.
Exactly, selecting what to put in the video is incredibly time consuming if you have a lot of footage. That's not evening mentioning editing. Every time I watch a section of video I would find things that can be improved. At a certain point, you need to stop polishing and just finish it.
So presumably by "one take" hahamrfunnyguy means he:
* Stopped recording driving to pick up materials, placing orders where there's a wait for parts to come in, and suchlike.
* Stopped recording things speculatively, just in case he decides to make a video later.
* Stopped worrying about 'narratives' and 'thumbnails' and 'the algorithm' when working.
* Stopped cleaning off his hands and fussing with camera settings to get the perfect shot of every step on every machine.
* Stopped trying to make point-of-view videos and keeping an eye on the camera screen, so he didn't need the tripod between him and the workpiece.
* Stopped retaking any time he messed something up or flubbed his lines or the audio came out bad.
* Stopped worrying about set dressing like having a picturesque, tidy background for every shot
Then the editing process is just editing several hours of video down to a few minutes and maybe recording a voiceover.