The nine hours doesn't include filming or editing, but rather UPLOADING. It takes me about one or two hours to upload videos like that. I filmed each unboxing video first, and then, at the end, I created the introduction. Here's the process:
1. The Preparation & Filming each video (30 minutes per video x 10 videos = 5 hours) - I need each video one a separate day when I got them, so that's why it takes 1/2 an hour.
2. Uploading to the Computer - 30 minutes total - I had to get it onto the computer so I am able to edit, upload, ect.
3. Editing - 30 minutes total - This does really take that long. Editing includes inserting music and fade ins/outs, and slight cropping.
4. Saving the edited video to my hard drive (1 hour per video x 10 videos = 10 hours) - I have to save the video to my computer and then I will be able to upload it to Youtube.
5. Uploading video to Youtube (1 hour per video x 10 videos = 10 hours) - Pretty Self-Explanatory - I have to upload the video to Youtube.
6. Adding Anootations and Links - 30 Minutes Total - You wouldn't think it takes that long, but it does when your adding links to 9 different videos in.
As you can see, it's a pretty long process.
P.S. - Uploading HD videos does take a long time - I could upload standard quality videos in about 10 minutes flat (that's without the quality and the editing), but I choose to upload a HD video that takes 10x more for 10x the quality.
The lessons I would take from that experience, were I in your shoes:
1) Music in the background - unnecessary
2) HD quality - unnecessary. We KNOW what deck boxes look like already.
3) Faster data port - VERY necessary. Are you shooting to tape or to a memory card? If it's a memory card, you just plug the card into the computer and PRESTO! You have a new drive with the video on it.
4) Editing - unless you're dropping curses left and right, unnecessary.
Unboxing videos are meant to be SIMPLE. Some of the guys here tried watching the whole extravaganza and gave up after a short while. You made a major Hollywood production out of something meant to be more of a simple, no-budget documentary.
BTW: what prep are we talking about? Some light, a table/"stage" and a tripod, done. I know it doesn't take very long to open a box and briefly describe the contents, unless you're talking about a pet microbe collection and you're mentioning them all by name.
I never got the whole concept of "box porn". Wow, you bought something. Wow, it arrived. Wow, you're opening it. Woo AND hoo. Making into such an elaborate operation just makes it seem that much more ridiculous in my eyes. If you were opening a mummy's tomb for the first time, that's a big deal. But this? Zzzzzzz...
But hey, some of you love it; more power to you if you do. You're free to watch what you wish as long as you don't force me to do the same. To each his own.