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I have a side question. Is there just an entire industry of anonymous low cost labor countries that YouTubers outsource their video compilation to, where the s

I have a side question. Is there just an entire industry of anonymous low cost labor countries that YouTubers outsource their video compilation to, where the service is to gather 300 random clips that vaguely relate to the text being spoken, but are not the person's own work or research? Without even realizing it for a while, I started to mistake a video that basically stated someone's collected assertions/opinions/variously supported research with pseudo documentary journalism because of the huge number of video clips being played as the person spoke. Or these amount of clips are just needed to hold someone's attention if the person making the video is only doing a voiceover? I guess otherwise, nothing distinguishes the video from a podcast.

d0mine 3y ago
It seems like a job for AI (as it is today).
input_sh 3y ago
No, they pay for a stock footage service and find something vaguely resembling whatever they're talking about to insert into the video.
- dadoomer 3y ago
  Yes, this is (I assume) easy enough that it must be cheaper than outsourcing.
- blamazon 3y ago
  > vaguely resembling whatever they're talking about The sibling channel to Wendover, (which is produced by the same team) 'Half As Interesting' [1] uses this to comedic effect - they will often show what is clearly the wackiest or strangest clip that came up when searching on these clip sites the phrase that the narrator is saying. [1]: https://youtube.com/@halfasinteresting https://youtube.com/@halfasinteresting
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lozenge 3y ago
I think Wendover is a team of like 6-12 people? I just paged through the video and there's a lot of world map stuff (time consuming), Google Earth stuff (fairly quick) and crowd-specific CGI (super time consuming). Then they still need to fill the rest of the time, so yeah, stock footage will have to do.

d0mine 3y ago

It seems like a job for AI (as it is today).

input_sh 3y ago

No, they pay for a stock footage service and find something vaguely resembling whatever they're talking about to insert into the video.

dadoomer 3y ago
Yes, this is (I assume) easy enough that it must be cheaper than outsourcing.
blamazon 3y ago
> vaguely resembling whatever they're talking about The sibling channel to Wendover, (which is produced by the same team) 'Half As Interesting' [1] uses this to comedic effect - they will often show what is clearly the wackiest or strangest clip that came up when searching on these clip sites the phrase that the narrator is saying. [1]: https://youtube.com/@halfasinteresting https://youtube.com/@halfasinteresting

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lozenge 3y ago

I think Wendover is a team of like 6-12 people? I just paged through the video and there's a lot of world map stuff (time consuming), Google Earth stuff (fairly quick) and crowd-specific CGI (super time consuming). Then they still need to fill the rest of the time, so yeah, stock footage will have to do.