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Cristy Ella

Cristy Ella

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I decided to turn one of my abandoned channels into a gaming channel so it's not going to waste.
So obviously the mic has some issues. I can't seem to find a way to make it sound nice. That being said I was in hospital last week and have voice box issues so that doesn't help. But advice for cleaning up voice would be awesome. I use sony vegas 13 and and premier pro cc 2015.
I also sort of scripted it out (dot points) but I'm worried it felt a little whiny. What did you think?
I also wasn't sure how to edit it. Do you think there should be more jump cuts? Or does that take away from the visuals.
As for the background. Because I was doing a commentary I felt cutting gun shots etc worked well for commentary sake. But do you feel people would be turned away from this? I'm testing out a new style since my normal recording has been an issue.


 
First I would suggest you to change the channel name because "I am bad at games" is too generic that it's hard to search your channel on Youtube. The thumbnails are a bit too simple (some of them just a screenshot of the game). Maybe design something unique only for your channel and add that "brand" onto the thumbnails?
 
Cristy Ella said:
So obviously the mic has some issues. I can't seem to find a way to make it sound nice. That being said I was in hospital last week and have voice box issues so that doesn't help. But advice for cleaning up voice would be awesome. I use sony vegas 13 and and premier pro cc 2015.
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When you say cleaning up, are you referring to noise? If so, try using Audacity if you aren't already (it's free). There's an effect that can remove unwanted noise (noise removal).

If you're referring to the sound quality of your voice, you can fix that a bit with equalization (EQ). This lets you alter the frequencies of audio to change how it sounds. For example, if I took your voice and boosted higher frequencies, your voice would sound "sharper", and if I boosted the lower ones, I can get a "muddier" sound. It takes some experimentation to get the right quality, though (pretty much just boosting/decreasing knobs until you get what you want). I don't know if it's in your software, but it's in Audacity (and music editing software, too). As for volume, use compression to make it sound at its highest without going over 0dB (Audacity has this too).

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Cristy Ella said:
I also sort of scripted it out (dot points) but I'm worried it felt a little whiny. What did you think?
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Nah. You didn't sound whiny at all. If you're worried about how you might sound, though, you can always feel free to practice different ways of delivering your lines.
Cristy Ella said:
I also wasn't sure how to edit it. Do you think there should be more jump cuts? Or does that take away from the visuals.
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Jump cuts? It depends. Are you going for a more laid-back, here's-what's-on-my-mind approach, or one where you're more focused on delivering your message? If it's the former, I wouldn't use audio jump cuts unless you take a lot of pauses, stutter, and whatnot and you just don't like those things. Visual jump cuts won't matter much as long as you don't do it extremely frequently; how you have the footage now is fine.
Cristy Ella said:
As for the background. Because I was doing a commentary I felt cutting gun shots etc worked well for commentary sake. But do you feel people would be turned away from this? I'm testing out a new style since my normal recording has been an issue.
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Yeah, I think it's a good idea to remove the game's sound effects from the video. If you combine that with the music you already have, it'll probably get closer to distracting viewers from your commentary.
 
Thanks for such a detailed response. I'm having trouble with audacity at the moment. I think I just need to learn the program.
 
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