I'd say some 80% of videos on YouTube have some editing, the quickie short ones no. On one of my YouTube videos, I spent close to 80 hours editing it.
Even if I make a short video for YouTube, I do some of the fundamentals of editing.
I’m picky about how I make videos. Too many years in TV production in a former life.
Some people like my RC tank stuff that I made in the past few weeks.
“I spent close to 80 hours editing it. “
Well that’s your background kicking in. I wrote a particular screenplay years ago. 150 pages in the first draft. About 93 pages when I got done editing it. That’s 57 minutes of screen time that went away without hurting the narrative. The minor editing you’re talking about in that 80’percent is not what I’m talking about. They need to slash twenty minutes out of many of these slow bloated masterpieces. A subject line that looks interesting loses all attraction for me when I see a running time of thirty forty or more minutes. People aren’t as fascinating as they think they are. They don’t have the power of narrative that they think they do and it shows in the videos they make. Give me three to five minutes on most subjects or at least lean things down by trying to aim for that. There are people that can ramble and be interesting all the way along but that ain’t most of us.