@Rich Melvin posted:

AMEN!

I spent my professional life producing good videos for various corporate clients like The Hoover Company, US Air, OGR, and many other corporate clients. The junk I see that passes for "good" video on YouTube today truly saddens me. Jump cuts, shaky camera work, improper use of microphones, audio loaded with room tone and echo instead of being clear, no attempt to script the video so it makes sense, poor or no editing, audio levels all over the map, and my biggest peeve, vertical video.

I am almost ashamed to say I'm a "video professional" these days, for fear of being lumped in with the people who produce the crap that passes for good video on YouTube today.

I understand there is some value in the hobby-related videos that are being produced, and I have found that most of them are OK. But some of the click-bait nonsense that is put up there is truly awful...and that includes the guy showing a train running around a loop for ten minutes. 

Michael Bay is that you, it must be hard thinking you are the greatest but nobody else does.   Maybe you could start a YouTube channel and teach use non "video professional" types how to not make junk.

We are just normal people that like to make videos of our trains. Most of us use our iPhone and don't have loads of equipment to be better than poor or no editing.