Why are your videos so short?

I’ve been asked a few times why my videos are so short.  I always kept them short because I feel people on YouTube are there for quick doses of entertainment, not feature length films.  But because so many of you had requested longer episodes I created one that is 25 minutes long.  It wasn’t that big of a deal, and really didn’t take that much longer to edit than my normal 3-5 minute videos.  It was nice not having to cut anything out.

The problem came when I tried to upload it.  The status bar appeared and estimated the upload would be finished in 1000 minutes.  Okay so I just chill for 16 hours while YouTube hogs 100% of my upload bandwidth.  I started the upload at night, went for a ride the next morning and when I returned my computer was off. There had been a power outage, and the battery in my HP Envy went bad long ago.  When I rebooted I found that the file had made it to 96% complete before the power went off.

Thankfully YouTube has resumable uploads for problems like mine.  I tired to start the upload again, but nothing was happening.  When the last 4% of the file hadn’t finished after 4 hours of hoping I gave up and deleted the video from my list.

Once again starting the upload before I went to bed.  Fast forward 1000 minutes later the upload completes.  I click on the URL to make sure everything worked and I’m greeted with the message, “The user has deleted this video.”

Which means I get to start all over again.  It took 4 tires at 1000 minutes each before I actually got the video successfully upload.  I’m still waiting for it to finish processing before I make it public, but this will likely be the last time I post a HD video that’s longer than 10 minutes.  Until Panama runs a fiber optic line to my house, and holding my breath for that would be suicide.