I am new to speedrunning and have just gotten a capture card. I recorded a somewhat decent run and would like to upload it as my first run, but did not use a timer or anything. Am i good to go off the total video time as im not too worried about a couple of seconds lost and i will be working on more legit runs soon? How do i go about timing my runs in the future? thanks for the input and i look forward to figuring out how exactly i should time my runs since that is the whole point and premise of speedrunning to begin with lol. thanks again as always stay fancy

Just use the video time itself to determine the length of the run. Shouldn't really be difficult.

the mods will probably retime before verifying

awesome, yeah francesso thats exactly what i did haha, thanks for the input. I did however figure out how to add a timer just now on youtube. theres something called snaz that adds timing effects to OBS and im sure whatever recording software you may use. a little intimidating at first glance but a youtube video or two and youll understand it in no time. thanks again :)