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Old 10-12-2005, 12:18 AM
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Default How long is too long???

So I'm sitting here at my brothers place Rendering out a DVD - The lone render wait!!! I'm sure many of you have been here before. Most times I get on the other machine and look at other people's videos and I've noticed the same constant thing happening.

Whenever I watch a video that's longer than say 5 mins I usually get very bored and kill it. Sometimes it's down to a loose edit or its just dull but it begs the question - How long is too long for a Web Video?

Considering the fact that when someone clicks a vid they are commiting their time to watching it. Not that its a huge commitment but I find when I click on summat and I see it's 10 mins long my head is already expecting it to be dull. Dont get me wrong not every lengthy video is like this - The Teamfishcake lot always do an excellent job. But in most cases I've seen, unless it's a music video the same video could be cut down to half the length.

I dunno, I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else finds themselves in a similar mindset or am I just impatient?
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