I think it comes down to recording styles too. My work flow is to start recording with OBS. Since I use a webcam in the corner while recording my screen I'm ai

I think it comes down to recording styles too. My work flow is to start recording with OBS. Since I use a webcam in the corner while recording my screen I'm aiming for as little cuts as possible because with a webcam unless your face is positioned exactly how it was before watchers will see the jump cut (even if it's subtle). Editing where to cut manually to produce the least visible cut is an art form and takes a human touch. But I'll press record and do my best. If I get let's say 5 minutes out of a 20 minute video down solid but screw up then I'll stop the recording. Then I'll start recording another file with OBS and resume where I left off trying to place my mouse cursor exactly where it was and lead off by saying what I was saying before so it flows. In the end I might have 2-5 relatively good videos that I then edit together using an NLE tool. Knowing where the cuts are is easy because it's pretty much the beginning of the file to the end. This also helps reduce massive file sizes where you end up with like a single 45 minute source video that gets edited down to 20 minutes because you made a ton of little mistakes. At a decent scale this matters because disk space while cheap isn't free for someone who is just a solo developer and does everything from 1 dev box. Usually by the end of a recording session I'll have like 15 source videos that I delete because I know they came out bad (often times getting into the first few minutes is the hardest for me), here's a screenshot of what I mean haha https://twitter.com/nickjanetakis/status/1347574482714685441 https://twitter.com/nickjanetakis/status/1347574482714685441. Normally I edit my stuff at 2x speed. If I'm not adding a lot of extra effects (zooming, tooltips, highlights, blurs, overlays, etc.) it goes by pretty fast. With work flows that you're used to editing really isn't that bad. It's creating the content / material and executing the human part (delivering the video -- execution basically) that takes most of the time. Then there's also editing things like an audio only group podcast. There's no way an automated editing process is going to be able to intelligently remove ums and ahs but leaving in a few at key places to make things sound more natural, or maybe removing a bit of stuttering from someone's line in a way that no one would ever notice. Or perhaps cutting out 2 minutes all together because it doesn't add much to the conversation and isn't referenced later so it's safe to cut and no one would ever know.