How Long Should a Video Be?

Eric Brennan (USDA-Agricultural Research Service) and Karen McKee (The Scientist Videographer) talk about DIY science videos. In this series, they answer questions that science professionals may have about making videos to share information about themselves and their research. This video series was inspired by a paper Eric published in Frontiers in Communication: “Why Should Scientists Be On YouTube? It’s All About Bamboo, Oil and Ice Cream”: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

This is the fourth video in the series and focuses on the question of how long should a video be.

Some of the topics we discuss are:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 How long should our science videos be?
01:47 Tip: Add a clickable table of contents for a long video in the description.
04:54 Tip: Divide a long video into a series of short videos.
06:31 Tip: How to adjust video playback speed.
07:10 Tip: Adjust your speaking rate to the audience.
08:48 Tip: Use the analytics for your videos to see audience retention time.
09:47 Suggested exercise.

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