Spryite
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Hey, Matter of fact I've ordered a pop filter a few days ago
And ye I've been trying to work on audio mixing when I get loud haha.Did you find the videos enjoyable/funny?
Allow me to gaze upon your channel...
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And ye I've been trying to work on audio mixing when I get loud haha.Did you find the videos enjoyable/funny?
Morfe
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Can you give me feedback on my last 2 videos and how my whole channel looks like. For example the thumbnails, banner, channel pic, etc. I dont care for feedback on videos past the last 2 I made because I have already super analyzed them a lot.
link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHkMeBEbcv9x0cwjn2sq0Q/videos
link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHkMeBEbcv9x0cwjn2sq0Q/videos
Klink
I've Got It
@ZA7
I'm assuming this is your channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1g35dnkYruugtl2UMwAuLQ/videos
The channel you have linked in your profile doesn't work so I manually searched it on YouTube. I'm going forward with my critiques on the basis that this is your channel.
Currently your biggest critical issue you need to fix is your microphone quality. What you have now is absolutely terrible as whenever you raise your voice there's massive amounts of distortion and crackling. I know for a fact you're using a headset microphone as it's all you have available. What you need to do, if at all possible, is start saving up some cash and look into investing in a USB condenser microphone. Judging by the sound of your voice you're quite young so it'll be hard but if you plan on doing this as a career you need to invest in some decent gear eventually.
As for music, anything that is copywritten you should avoid like the plague. GTA uses a lot of musical tracks for it's radio stations and almost all of them are owned by major music labels. It won't take much for your channel to get flagged for copyright strikes and eventually be taken down. If you want to use music, which you should for certain portions of the video, try and find some royalty free music or browse around for some musical artists on SoundCloud and ask their permission to use their tracks in your video. It'll save you a lot of headache in the long run.
Your overall channel branding needs an overhaul. Screenshots with haphazardly placed, unfiltered text looks really cheap, not to mention pasting on emojis seemingly at random. I will give you some credit though - your latest WWE2K16 thumbnails are at least consistent. Your need to create a unique branding for your channel, from a logo, typeface/fonts, colours and overall style. Take inspiration from other YouTube content creators, learn from them and try to apply what you've learned to your own channel.
For 7 months of work you're not doing too bad at all. You still have room to improve but overall you've got decent potential to succeed quite well. Good luck!
@Emery
What your channel needs most is a clear direction. You've got a few tech videos, a few gaming videos and some vlog videos but on first impressions I don't see what it is that your channel wants to go towards. Are you looking to just dump whatever you create online or are you looking to guide your channel in a particular direction? Either option is acceptible but you need to have an overall brand to showcase that direction.
For the content of the videos themselves, from a technical perspective you need to save up some cash and invest in a lavalier/lapel microphone if you're planning on doing vlog style videos or videos where you're mostly standing in front of a camera talking to your audience. At the moment you're just using the onboard microphone on your camera which is bringing in a lot of background noise and makes the overall presentation of your videos unprofessional. Be prepared though, microphones don't come cheap.
If you can't afford a microphone, doing your best to isolate the noise in whatever room you're recording in is the only other alternative. Get some accoustic foam for your walls or fill your room with a lot of stuff so that the soundwaves don't have a chance to bounce around the room. Also record at least 10 seconds of room noise and use it to capture a noise print to then remove it from all of your audio.
Try to avoid using 'click-bait' style video titles. Considering in the video you've admitted you're not really clear on the technical aspects of what you're talking about, using 'Best Cheap PC Gaming PC RAM?!' as a video title is misleading. You need to make it clear that this is entirely your opinion and not an absolute fact. Gaming and tech "journalists" (let's call them what they really are - bloggers) are coming under fire for using 'click-bait' to drive traffic to their websites/videos and they're losing the respect and trust of their audiences. You don't want to walk down that path while your channel is still growing. Building the trust and respect of your audience should be the number one priority for you as that is how your channel will grow.
You're doing quite well but again, you need to think seriously about the direction you want to take your channel. Once you have that direction locked down you can then focus of creating a brand and video content to help guide you.
@Spryite
Yeah, your videos are quite entertaining. I should remind you though to not fall into the trap of forcing comedy or trying hard to be funny and lolsorandum XD!!!111oneone. You haven't done it yet but it's something to be mindful of. Trying to force yourself to be something you're not never appears nor sounds natural and is a great way to turn away potential viewers. Be yourself and as you make more videos, you'll naturally get better at making commentary and knowing what it is your audience expects of you.
@Morfe
Content wise you've got some talent. It helps that you've invested in some decent audio equipment which already elevates you above your competition, not to mention your videos are well edited (specifically the 'MEME CATASTROPHE - Layers of Fear - Episode #2' video). What I would recommend is that you do your best to mix your audio so that it's all levelled. Currently your audio commentary is set at one volume which is good (voice louder than gameplay) but then you add in your other edits and peak the audio louder than you need to. It's distracting to listen to and will annoy your potential viewers.
Your channel header looks great and your overall channel branding is on the right track. What I would recommend, since the channel is all about you, to try and incorporate more images/photos of you in your thumbnails. Photoshop them, have a reaction picture, anything you think would look good and best represent your channel. It acts just as good as a logo.
What I will say is why I do like your channel header branding, it doesn't carry over into the videos, specifically the logo sting/intro. To be honest I don't think you even need an intro at this point. Skipping the intro and just jumping straight into the action to me seems like the most sensible direction to take.
Like most channels I've seen in this thread, you've definitely got potential. You're already ahead of the curve above your competition here on YTTalk and now you just need to leverage that to your advantage.
@Detline
I'm assuming your latest 'SuperJpt GAMEPLAY PC' video is where you've got your latest equipment? If so it sounds great and will definitely help your channel going forward.
I absolutely love your channel branding. Your logo is simple and clean and your thumbnails (from 'After Effects TUTORIAL Motion graphic' to 'SuperHot GAMEPLAY PC') are consistent and wonderfully designed. Well done!
What you should do is change your channels' 'Home' page so that you can use the 'Channel Trailer' space to showcase your latest videos. It's also a great way to give your potential viewers a nice overview of the content on your channel. Organising your playlists from 'Tutorials', 'Gameplay' and 'Tips' onto the 'Home' page will make navigating the content on your channel extremely easy.
There's really not much more I can add. Commentary wise, the more videos you make the more confident you'll become and you're less likely to fumble over your words. I like what I'm seeing and hearing and I know you'll do well on YouTube.
I'm assuming this is your channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1g35dnkYruugtl2UMwAuLQ/videos
The channel you have linked in your profile doesn't work so I manually searched it on YouTube. I'm going forward with my critiques on the basis that this is your channel.
Currently your biggest critical issue you need to fix is your microphone quality. What you have now is absolutely terrible as whenever you raise your voice there's massive amounts of distortion and crackling. I know for a fact you're using a headset microphone as it's all you have available. What you need to do, if at all possible, is start saving up some cash and look into investing in a USB condenser microphone. Judging by the sound of your voice you're quite young so it'll be hard but if you plan on doing this as a career you need to invest in some decent gear eventually.
As for music, anything that is copywritten you should avoid like the plague. GTA uses a lot of musical tracks for it's radio stations and almost all of them are owned by major music labels. It won't take much for your channel to get flagged for copyright strikes and eventually be taken down. If you want to use music, which you should for certain portions of the video, try and find some royalty free music or browse around for some musical artists on SoundCloud and ask their permission to use their tracks in your video. It'll save you a lot of headache in the long run.
Your overall channel branding needs an overhaul. Screenshots with haphazardly placed, unfiltered text looks really cheap, not to mention pasting on emojis seemingly at random. I will give you some credit though - your latest WWE2K16 thumbnails are at least consistent. Your need to create a unique branding for your channel, from a logo, typeface/fonts, colours and overall style. Take inspiration from other YouTube content creators, learn from them and try to apply what you've learned to your own channel.
For 7 months of work you're not doing too bad at all. You still have room to improve but overall you've got decent potential to succeed quite well. Good luck!
@Emery
What your channel needs most is a clear direction. You've got a few tech videos, a few gaming videos and some vlog videos but on first impressions I don't see what it is that your channel wants to go towards. Are you looking to just dump whatever you create online or are you looking to guide your channel in a particular direction? Either option is acceptible but you need to have an overall brand to showcase that direction.
For the content of the videos themselves, from a technical perspective you need to save up some cash and invest in a lavalier/lapel microphone if you're planning on doing vlog style videos or videos where you're mostly standing in front of a camera talking to your audience. At the moment you're just using the onboard microphone on your camera which is bringing in a lot of background noise and makes the overall presentation of your videos unprofessional. Be prepared though, microphones don't come cheap.
If you can't afford a microphone, doing your best to isolate the noise in whatever room you're recording in is the only other alternative. Get some accoustic foam for your walls or fill your room with a lot of stuff so that the soundwaves don't have a chance to bounce around the room. Also record at least 10 seconds of room noise and use it to capture a noise print to then remove it from all of your audio.
Try to avoid using 'click-bait' style video titles. Considering in the video you've admitted you're not really clear on the technical aspects of what you're talking about, using 'Best Cheap PC Gaming PC RAM?!' as a video title is misleading. You need to make it clear that this is entirely your opinion and not an absolute fact. Gaming and tech "journalists" (let's call them what they really are - bloggers) are coming under fire for using 'click-bait' to drive traffic to their websites/videos and they're losing the respect and trust of their audiences. You don't want to walk down that path while your channel is still growing. Building the trust and respect of your audience should be the number one priority for you as that is how your channel will grow.
You're doing quite well but again, you need to think seriously about the direction you want to take your channel. Once you have that direction locked down you can then focus of creating a brand and video content to help guide you.
@Spryite
Yeah, your videos are quite entertaining. I should remind you though to not fall into the trap of forcing comedy or trying hard to be funny and lolsorandum XD!!!111oneone. You haven't done it yet but it's something to be mindful of. Trying to force yourself to be something you're not never appears nor sounds natural and is a great way to turn away potential viewers. Be yourself and as you make more videos, you'll naturally get better at making commentary and knowing what it is your audience expects of you.
@Morfe
Content wise you've got some talent. It helps that you've invested in some decent audio equipment which already elevates you above your competition, not to mention your videos are well edited (specifically the 'MEME CATASTROPHE - Layers of Fear - Episode #2' video). What I would recommend is that you do your best to mix your audio so that it's all levelled. Currently your audio commentary is set at one volume which is good (voice louder than gameplay) but then you add in your other edits and peak the audio louder than you need to. It's distracting to listen to and will annoy your potential viewers.
Your channel header looks great and your overall channel branding is on the right track. What I would recommend, since the channel is all about you, to try and incorporate more images/photos of you in your thumbnails. Photoshop them, have a reaction picture, anything you think would look good and best represent your channel. It acts just as good as a logo.
What I will say is why I do like your channel header branding, it doesn't carry over into the videos, specifically the logo sting/intro. To be honest I don't think you even need an intro at this point. Skipping the intro and just jumping straight into the action to me seems like the most sensible direction to take.
Like most channels I've seen in this thread, you've definitely got potential. You're already ahead of the curve above your competition here on YTTalk and now you just need to leverage that to your advantage.
@Detline
I'm assuming your latest 'SuperJpt GAMEPLAY PC' video is where you've got your latest equipment? If so it sounds great and will definitely help your channel going forward.
I absolutely love your channel branding. Your logo is simple and clean and your thumbnails (from 'After Effects TUTORIAL Motion graphic' to 'SuperHot GAMEPLAY PC') are consistent and wonderfully designed. Well done!
What you should do is change your channels' 'Home' page so that you can use the 'Channel Trailer' space to showcase your latest videos. It's also a great way to give your potential viewers a nice overview of the content on your channel. Organising your playlists from 'Tutorials', 'Gameplay' and 'Tips' onto the 'Home' page will make navigating the content on your channel extremely easy.
There's really not much more I can add. Commentary wise, the more videos you make the more confident you'll become and you're less likely to fumble over your words. I like what I'm seeing and hearing and I know you'll do well on YouTube.
ClairePlays
Member
Could you review my thumbnails/channel art etc.
I'm making them myself currently, but I'm not sure if they are good enough/too simple.
Do you think I should get someone else to make them for me?
I'm making them myself currently, but I'm not sure if they are good enough/too simple.
Do you think I should get someone else to make them for me?
Klink
I've Got It
@ClairePlays
It's a decent start and it's great that you're making all your assets yourself, however one of your biggest issues is that your channel header, avatar, thumbnail design and logo sting are not cohesive at all. Different fonts/typefaces, different text treatments and different overal styles. When designing your channel brand you should do your best to keep everything consistent. Perhaps you should think about designing a fancy text logo with your name 'Claire' and use that logo as the basis of your branding. Also think about one or two colours that you love and use that as the colour scheme going forward. The logo and colours can be used in your avatar, channel header and in the corner of your thumbnails to ensure that everything is unified and looks professional.
You can check out this website for logo inspirations - https://logopond.com/ - and this one for working out which colours work best with one another - https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
As for your video, you don't need any fade-outs after every clip. A simple jump cut between each clip will work just fine.
It's a decent start and it's great that you're making all your assets yourself, however one of your biggest issues is that your channel header, avatar, thumbnail design and logo sting are not cohesive at all. Different fonts/typefaces, different text treatments and different overal styles. When designing your channel brand you should do your best to keep everything consistent. Perhaps you should think about designing a fancy text logo with your name 'Claire' and use that logo as the basis of your branding. Also think about one or two colours that you love and use that as the colour scheme going forward. The logo and colours can be used in your avatar, channel header and in the corner of your thumbnails to ensure that everything is unified and looks professional.
You can check out this website for logo inspirations - https://logopond.com/ - and this one for working out which colours work best with one another - https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
As for your video, you don't need any fade-outs after every clip. A simple jump cut between each clip will work just fine.
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ClairePlays
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could you check now, let me know if it's improved?
Insane Ninja Zombie
Active Member
Any feedback from anyone would be greatly appreciated. The more, the better. I'm always looking to fine tune.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY8J_V9Q1UC5gGjQS8IyA3Q
Thanks.
Thanks.
Picture~Perfect
Well-Known Member
I would appreciate some feedback if you have the time. I want to improve, to be better. 
Thank you in advance.
Thank you in advance.
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