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Actually it wasn't necessarily the shortness of the clip that I found distracting, more the fact that the transition effect was virtually the whole length of the clip.

I don't do underwater video, photography is expensive enough, but for topside video I adopted a technique off of the BBC nature crew. They use hard transitions between shots, but a short fade between subjects or series of clips. They also tend to edit video with a few short clips (mainly of the same length) and then a long sequence. If you watch the Blue Planet or Planet Earth you will see many 4 - 5 minute segments with music between long sections of ducumentary.

I think these were great little video, as with photography, I think your results will get even better with time. I found that my photography improved when I stopped being a diver with a camera to a photographer with a scuba kit. The mental attitude makes a huge difference. The difference though with video is that you may find yourself not only thinking of the capture but also of the editting and cutting pieces together whilst shooting. I never think "this shot is going to be a challenge in RAW processing", but can see that video needs thought.

Rob