The Doctor is a talkative guy, and most of the useable shots of any Doctor show him talking. I usually have to cheat to show him not talking. What he is actually saying in most of those shots isn't usually worth putting into a trailer - it's discussing plot points that have nothing to do with our "story" here.
So I pick shots based on their visual quality, not what he's saying. Audio allows me to discuss the "plot" of this trailer more accurately.
This is a choice and not an error.
That said, I took those complaints into account while editing this new version and you'll see MUCH more of Doctors talking onscreen where you can hear them. You'll get more of a narrative. In fact, a few shots which were silent before I've added the audio back to, and some lines which were only voiceover have become onscreen speech.
I've been in a living hell the past few days as every project I created to try and finish this thing eventually became corrupted and crashed. It takes about 8 minutes just to open Final Cut Pro, and then it would crash instantly, so basically I spent 4 days watching the thing crash. Yay.
Anyway, I eventually salvaged what I'd done, and I've got a 7 minute trailer now - that's well over twice as long as the previous version.
Much of the length is due to the verbose, arrogant, rude and somewhat ginger Colin Baker as the sixth Doctor. I said there was going to be way too much of him in this one, and I was right .... I had too much material with him that matched perfectly the "plot" I was trying to create for this trailer. I cut it down to the best bits, but there's a lot of it.
I edited a complete version of him meeting Tegan again from "A Fix With Sontarans", but left it out as I couldn't justify the long segment in a trailer. I left in a second pretty long segment from "A Fix With Sontarans" though.
It's gotten to the point where I had selected long segments from certain episodes that would advance the "plot" ... such as part of the beginning of "Rise of the Cybermen" for the 10th Doctor ....
But I wanted to keep the trailer moving, so I kept my selections from these short anyway. I certainly had a lot of material by this point to create something six times as long.
It's long now, yes, long .... and it would have been a lot longer if not for my Final Cut troubles. I was only able to finish the trailer by not using the M2V format for video anymore.
It's rendering now and I'll post it soon, after I've looked it over a bit.
Again, about 200 good ideas for shots got lost in all the crashing .... for Big Finish fans I was actually planning on showing Paul McGann with India Fisher. Well, if I ever do another version. I think this might be it, though.