Review my Channel & Channel Branding?
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TheSoloSection
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Hey there! I love your trailer, it caught me a bit by surprise, but I noticed something immediately from it.
I know spending money is a bit iffy, but if you're doing gameplay footage (as you do) with live commentaries, it might pay back to invest in a better quality microphone. The clarity of your voice is important to a lot of viewers. If you don't have a clean, crisp sound quality, you'll be more likely to turn people away. Additionally, a good think to add to your videos is a pop-up/side window of yourself on camera. I know it may be uncomfortable, and if you don't want to show your face that's fine, but it also helps express your personality a bit more to the YT community.
The channel art is cute, but if possible help it relate to your channel content a bit more? I didn't know what your channel was about until you started panicking in your trailer
I know spending money is a bit iffy, but if you're doing gameplay footage (as you do) with live commentaries, it might pay back to invest in a better quality microphone. The clarity of your voice is important to a lot of viewers. If you don't have a clean, crisp sound quality, you'll be more likely to turn people away. Additionally, a good think to add to your videos is a pop-up/side window of yourself on camera. I know it may be uncomfortable, and if you don't want to show your face that's fine, but it also helps express your personality a bit more to the YT community.
The channel art is cute, but if possible help it relate to your channel content a bit more? I didn't know what your channel was about until you started panicking in your trailer
Olroy
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I'm also a league content creator, if you want advice on creating league videos I can certainly supply you with a lot, I was taught by ThePeacePigeon x). If you would like some advice I'd just like to know kinda what videos you might be interested in created. League montages, game play montages, full game commentaries, funny moments etc.
LunaNoshi
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I actually went and watched some of your videos and they are all quite good. I prefer the funny clips option.. and I've considered the Montage option... bit I am personally not good at league! So that would take a lot of effort.... but some tips for my league videos would be nice
Olroy
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So to make a funny moments video, the best length is generally 3-7 minutes. I personally aim for around 5 minutes, any shorter and I feel like I'm ripping off my viewers seeing as I only post a video about once a week. To record games I strongly recommend a program called Bandicam for the reason that you can record your computer's sounds/skype call as a separate track from your own mic meaning later on in editing if you think your mic is too quiet you can easily boost the volume while leaving everything else as it was. However this program costs money (well, there are ways to get it for free *cough cough). So once you have a few games it's time to start editing. As Sunny told me, it's best to start with something that will grab the viewers attention in like 3 seconds, so probably a clip with high energy or even a funny line or quote from during the loading screen etc. (the loading screen is usually a great place to start a video cause it lets the viewer familiarize them self with the teams and stuff. After that whenever a "clip" is done try to waste no time cutting to the next clip, there should be almost no audio down time, try to edit in a way that keeps it moving, imagine your video is a large snowball that you're rolling on the ground, if you stop moving it then it's going to be alot harder to get it moving again then if you gad just kept it moving in the first place. An extreme example of aa league youtuber with no audio downtime would be Mr.Dexter Manning, I did a video with him here and copied his editing style
LunaNoshi
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Yeah, i see what you mean, those are indeed nice, im struggling with a lot of things that i could fix with money, which, money is something i dont have! I generally only have 70 gigs of memory to dedicate to videos, and along with that i have an outdated computer that struggles with recording as well (i could upgrade it quite a bit with a single GPU upgrade) And the recording software i use, Miliris Action, does what you say and about 45 mins takes up 25-30 gigs, so its hard to get more than one league game.
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I would also like to know how you get the ingame league footage from the angles you do.. Like in this video, made by this person
Olroy
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Looks like it was done with the League camera app which is now a discontinued project unfortunately, however it has been replaced with the Creator Suite which imo is way better http://www.skinspotlights.com/p/creator-suite.html to use it it's pretty simple, here is a video explaining the basics
. As for file size, you can try and see if you can record using the x264 codec into an MP4 or MPEG instead of an AVI file, also lower the bit rate, I think the lowest you would want to go is probably 5000. If you want you can try recording with the new OBS Studio which can be downloaded here: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/releases/download/0.13.2/OBS-Studio-0.13.2-Installer.exe
The files it creates will be a lot smaller, probably more around 5GB/Game I'm thinking, that's assuming you record at around 5000mb/s but if you don't want to do that then try out this program called handbreak, it's an open source media encoder which will take your raw footage file and make the file size much much smaller, it will just take a bit of time, so maybe have it working at it over night, I have a fully loaded PC and it can take around 10 minutes to encode 1 game. Here is handbreak https://handbrake.fr/ as for upgrading your computer, what are the current specs? A GPU upgrade for league would kinda be a waste, all it would do is raise the framerate a bit I believe, a processor upgrade would probably be much more beneficial. A brand new i5 or a 4th gen i7 (i7-4790K) would definitely give you the boost you're looking for, the GPU would only boost your game FPS but video editing would not improve, while a CPU upgrade would boost your FPS (not as much as a GPU) but would make everything else faster. Especially an i7, you would notice the speed at which you could edit. Also if you're running less then 8GB of ram I recommend an upgrade, even 8GB is low nowadays for content creation, I run 16GB but I believe 12GB is a good starting point for editing.
The files it creates will be a lot smaller, probably more around 5GB/Game I'm thinking, that's assuming you record at around 5000mb/s but if you don't want to do that then try out this program called handbreak, it's an open source media encoder which will take your raw footage file and make the file size much much smaller, it will just take a bit of time, so maybe have it working at it over night, I have a fully loaded PC and it can take around 10 minutes to encode 1 game. Here is handbreak https://handbrake.fr/ as for upgrading your computer, what are the current specs? A GPU upgrade for league would kinda be a waste, all it would do is raise the framerate a bit I believe, a processor upgrade would probably be much more beneficial. A brand new i5 or a 4th gen i7 (i7-4790K) would definitely give you the boost you're looking for, the GPU would only boost your game FPS but video editing would not improve, while a CPU upgrade would boost your FPS (not as much as a GPU) but would make everything else faster. Especially an i7, you would notice the speed at which you could edit. Also if you're running less then 8GB of ram I recommend an upgrade, even 8GB is low nowadays for content creation, I run 16GB but I believe 12GB is a good starting point for editing.
LunaNoshi
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I do more than league! So just in general! I also have a lot of lag while playing it and recording, and i chose the recorder i did because it doesnt lag where obs does.