There are two ways I watch messy videos: VLC player and YouTube. Both have a speed setting and we are always at liberty to watch again. With VLC you can magnify, mirror the image, change brightness etc.

So why do so many clips still include slow motion replays? I prefer a clip to just play out, leaving the edits to me. Having said that, a bit of variation on the camera angle is great.

Some producers do it to eek the video out so its a bit longer. With both our Dunk Tank and Gunge Tank videos we've always tried to do many Dunkings and Gungings to keep videos around 8 to 14 minute in length. I know for some people its that first dunking or gunging that is the only one they want to see and a lot of producers only ever do that 1 or possibly 2nd Gunging in a Gunge Tank then do the replays in Slo mo to pad it out. I've tried the replays on a couple of videos but it wasn't that popular and didn't do anything for me.

Never done it never will, would rather keep gunging a model longer and more so viewer can capture the fun if ordeal depending on the scene

As a viewer I sometimes want the action shot to be looped, but not interrupting the flow of the video (maybe at the end as an extra) and I'm not a fan of slow motion replays at all.

We include a slow motion replay of our tank cam in gtg.
But we don't like to disrupt the flow of the action, so it's a separate clip.
That way people can choose to download it or not, up to them.

I personally think the slow motion Gunge looks great, as you slowly see the girls get more and more covered. My opinion though.

Slo-mo replays always did seem like a lazy way to pad a scene, even back in the old days... Am I right?
The worst offender (and we can say this since he's long gone) was Hurley, of the famous Hurley Cliptapes. It's no secret he was hurting for money during the last couple years, and his cliptapes suffered accordingly. You got the sense that he basically had an hour's worth of good footage, but he would do "slo mo replays" of nearly every good scene to pad that to 90 minutes... And then add some YouTube clips (in terrible resolution no less) to get to 2 hours. And that way he'd have a new cliptape to sell, months ahead of schedule if he'd kept the quality level up.

ANYWAY. I think I did a few slo-mo replays in my very early days, but not often and never with slimings. I WAS guilty of showing the same hit from two different angles, which annoys me now, but back then most of my audience liked that. (The slime fans seemed to appreciate that I would show almost every sliming from the "close" angle, then again from "medium" as an "Instant Replay.")

Nowadays I'm trying to REDUCE the length of a scene, not extend it! I'd love to get an edit down to 10 minutes with maybe 10 minutes of Outtakes, max, but lately it's closer to 15 minutes for the edit and just as long for Outtakes. I hate losing good stuff! But I don't replay any footage in the main edit anymore... aside from a VERY few occasions when a particularly great pie hit gets "reversed" and "replayed" from a different angle. (And that looks cool, so I'll keep doing that! HA!!)

Agree with OP but I personally appreciate inclusion of scraping the gunge off the model and out of hair prior to cleanup. Don't mind a replay reel from different angles at the end, but always found slow-mo and zoomed replays of what already happened irritating.

Agreed with most of the replies. I don't mind slo-mo per se, but multiple repetitions of the same hit edited into the main scene just interrupt the flow and irritate me. As bonus footage, no problem.

I did slo-mo replays because that was rather the point of shooting with a "Hi Speed" camera.

As much as I used slo mo replays in my last video with the naughty elf you never actually paid for the slo mo footage when I worked out the cost of the clip it was given for free.

Slow-motion replays are one of those many things that seem good in my head but I find they don't work in reality.

Agree with most that slo-mo, if at all, should be an extra - a supplement to the 'main feature'. There's no harm in them being made available in this way (you can then choose to take them or leave them).

I do like WTF's loop idea. This particularly appeals to me (I like GIFs): savouring a particular moment ad nauseum. I made these from my own shoots long before I released any of the content.

People used to bitch like crazy (short, selective memories sometimes around here) about paying X amount of money for a X length of scene. Soooooooo, producers tossed in a replay here and there. Also..originally we were sending out VHS tapes where you couldn't always easily slow down and speed up for freeze the footage. We did it too and I absolutely DETESTED doing it. If I was starting to do it again back at that time I would put the scene in real time...and THEN throw in some slow motion footage and freeze frames after that

If we were to shoot starting TODAY, I would write a scene and it would be as long as it happened to be...period. That's it...and we would still charge the same thing. It would be edited in real time. If it was a 3 minute scene...then that's what it would be...same cost.

Because anyone these days with a cheapo computer can watch it frame by frame so no need to pad it.

I'll say it again.....it's all about "perceived value" whether it's a pie video or ANY other product. A 15 minute scene with tons of pies can still not hit the right "pie notes" for some people while a 2 minute video with only a few pies may be perfect.

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