Viewfinder: Video and Time
Time management vs. quality control, a true balancing act.
It's hard to determine how much time we should spend when making a video. Too little time, and the quality of the video is far less than something we would like to share with others. Too much time, we don't see a large enough return from our efforts.
Producers of wedding videos, for instance, usually see a reasonable return on their investment. The income generated from these videos can be significant, so the producer may spend more time refining every element of the project to assure the quality of the final product. Hobbyists, on the other hand, don't measure their return in dollars. They measure their return in the pure satisfaction that they get from the experience, even if it means spending years on one project. For them it is the journey of making video that they are after, not necessarily the destination (or finished vid…
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