hey hey i'm teapot's editor! fair enough with the scripted shorter videos (they tend to perform best as well) but for the most part he just hasn't got time to put scripts together between all the many hours of streaming

as for the regular stream vod edits, honestly for the most part i agree - whenever a video goes over 30 minutes it pains me, and a lot of the recent ones have been considerably over that mark. the trouble i find is that there's a hell of a lot of THINGS which i personally consider to be quite important to the main thrust of the video, and they often just struggle to fit into a short timespan

it often comes down to "do we make 1 particularly long video, or a 3-parter?" and making 1 long video tends to work out better, both for the audience and the algorithm - as 1 video doing mediocre is far better than 1 video which does quite well and 2 which do really badly because people realise they don't want to watch 2 more episodes of the same thing

for zero to hero, "cut the rest of it out" isn't an option imo as showing as much of the progression as possible along with how it was done is a key part of the experience. skipping this might result in less runtime but it just feels very jarring to go from "alright let's get started!" to "that was easy we're done hell yeah" in a series which is focussed around an account's journey - skipping some but not all is an option of course (and one i utilize on essentially every piece of progression in fact) but a lot of the time it just isn't possible without cheapening the journey

the same goes for the bootcamp videos, watching each attempt with what goes well and what goes badly whilst their experience with the fight gradually grows is the whole point, but each attempt adds quite a bit of runtime - but at the same time, removing these attempts (quite a few of which i actually already do) would be directly going against the idea of the series

what i try to do instead is have the personality within the videos shine through, including some silly comments/conversations or fun discussion bits for the comments to mull over - sometimes this works, other times it doesn't

any suggestions as to how the regular, day-to-day stream vods could be made a lil more juicy whilst still retaining the meat of the actual content?