Whoa-ho nelly, here's a big one. Normally these are blogs, but this year I decided to go the extra mile and make a video. That video turned out to be 23 minutes long, and took me close to a month to put together. I would definitely say it is worth watching, if only for the sake of my own sanity. PLEASE WATCH IT OR I WILL CRY AND NOBODY WANTS THAT

I've lamented the loss of the days when GiantBomb used to do "shows" with actual "production", but how much time and how much effort I had to put in to this video made it a pretty stark reminder that yo, that stuff is really hard work and takes days, weeks, or months to put together.

Was it worth it? Kinda, yeah. I'm trying to push myself to be more entertaining when I go through the effort to "produce" a video, so this was an opportunity to dip my toes in to that pool and see what happens. Hopefully it came out alright. Speaking of: If you have feedback on the video, I’d be greatly interested. Do I sound okay? Did my jokes land? Did I fall flat on my face? How can I improve? I want to make videos you want to watch, and I can’t do that unless you tell me what I’m doing wrong.

I mention "show notes" in the video, but if you want to see those, you're going to have to go over to the video page on Youtube. I've also compiled some "stat porn" for this, if you're curious about the whozit and whatsit that went in to this monster:

Script

• 3680 words
• 21047 letters
• 185 sentences
• 44 paragraphs
• 7 pages long (single space, 12pt font)

Data

• 262 video files (119gb, XVID compressed)
• 394 image files (190mb)
• 373 audio files (1.4gb)

Media

• Dialog: 57 minutes recorded (20 minutes used)
• Video: 4 hours, 53 minutes recorded
• Music: 104 songs totaling 4 hours and 25 minutes (14 songs used, 44 minutes total)
• Art: 15 hand-drawn pictures, scanned and digitally colored

Project

• "GOTY2013" folder created December 26th, 2013 at 6:13pm
• 149 audio/video layers
• 720 pieces of project media
• Size of “goty2013-jan2014-8-HD.veg”: 1.11mb
• Total Video Runtime: 23 minutes, 26 seconds
• Resolution: 1280x720
• Framerate: 30fps
• Video Codec: X264 @ 5530kbps
• Audio Codec: Uncompressed ADPCM WAV @ 44.1khz
• Time to render in 720p: 2 hours, 24 minutes (estimated: 4 hours, 15min)
• Final File Size: 927mb
• Finished January 24th, 2014 at 6:54pm