I'm not great at the game but I am improving and I am working on growing my twich channel as well

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Basically it seems no matter how I edit game audio it still seems to come out too loud afterward.

I've reduced the dang thing to near miniscule levels via editing, pop it up on YouTube, check the vid, and welp, still glaring with some of my commentary.

So do any of ya'll have tips, tricks, and just, in general helpful advice?

3 months on that masterpiece, what's yours??

Yeah yeah, I I know this question got asked a lot of times but this time I'm Polish and I've heard a lot and I mean a lot of discussion about this topic and also I seen very good arguments for each sides

And as a result I just don't know

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So for some reason starting a few weeks ago any time I paste a list of chapter markers into the description field and hit save, all the newlines disappear (see photo) which requires me to manually find each timestamp and hit enter. Sometimes I have a lot of chapter markers so this becomes very tedious. Anyone experiencing this that might know how to fix it? Like I said this is a new issue so very perplexing.

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First of all, I don't yet own a VR headset. Does it matter how much I spend on one? What's the difference in quality between a $300+ pair and a $600+ pair?

Second question is, should I purchase a quality pair of headphones do go along with it? In your experience, what's the most immersive audio output for a horror game?

And finally, if I do go through with this, should I record video footage of myself wearing the VR headset and reacting to the game? Or will my voice be sufficient?

I plan on doing a letsplay of Mario and Luigi Brothership later today when I can pickup my pre-order. I was wondering what parts of my video should I cut? Or should I just upload the full video file?

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I'm wanting to get an idea of how to setup my Instagram. Right now all I know I want and have started to do, was to make my WIP artwork/unfinished stuff into reels then highlights, so it's like a folder of unfinished art. Figured it would help make my Instagram not look ugly. Other than that, I'm not too sure what you post for the main stuff.

Do you post snippets of your videos as reels? Or only regular posts? Do you post anything else? Do you use hashtags and if so, what ones? Do you sprinkle them throughout your description or do you cram them all together at the bottom? Do you highlight anything to make 'folders' like I was describing above? What content do you highlight?

Anything else I should know or that you recommend that I may not have thought about?

Hey everyone, so I have a AT2020USB and it has always been on the quiet side but still picking up my keyboard and mouse noises very easily. So I followed a obs filter tutorial that others have recommended and it seems to be good advice.

However I feel like the quality of my voice dropped after setting all this up and I just don't understand enough about audio to understand why.

So here are the filters and their settings

Noise Suppression: Nvidia Noise Removal set at 0.50 because any higher and my voice gets weirdly deep and it starts to cancel out my voice sometimes, but at the same time just having it on in general causes those same issues.

3-Band Equalizer: I played around with it but mostly stuck with the recommended tweaks, high=2.00, mid=-4.00, low=-5.00. I don't really know if these settings make sense for my voice but I have a suspicion that it is making my voice sound more tin-e

Expander: Threshold at -40, attack=1ms, release=100 and the gain has been at 10 but I decided to lower it because I feel like the quality drops when I raise the db so much, but it's also super annoying when I for example laugh quietly or don't say a sentence at the same audio level, sometimes it dips under than -40 and my voice just disappears so I need to constantly be fixing that in post.

Compressor: I don't think this is an issue but it kicks in at -11 with a ratio of 3:1 and gain is 0?

Limiter kicks in at -0.1 and release at 60 but this I don't think is causing any issues either.

The microphone is set to 80 boost in windows but any higher and the quality becomes awful but this is still too quiet without the expander. My mouse is really loud so it's way over the expander threshold sometimes. Especially when I pick it up and set it down which I do a lot for some reason.

Any ideas and suggestions? Thanks!

Trying to find a mic that sounds best for gaming! Help is much appreciated!!

Hi everyone!

I'm planning to make a video about a roguelike game. But I've noticed that a roguelike game has the characteristic of having to play it repeatedly to achieve higher achievements. Can you share your experience to edit a video like this without being too boring? (like how to cut out the repeated parts, workflow,...).

I really appreciate all the comments and experiences shared.

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I just recently started my first ever let's play, and the response has been really positive so far! I want to make sure I kept the ball rolling and wanted to see what this community thought were the best ways to keep people coming back to revisit the let's play. Do you all use specific forms of promotion? Is uploading consistent the biggest factor? Do you sacrifice quality to keep a strict schedule? I want to make sure I find ways to keep my audience looking forward to the next episode and am curious what the community here thinks.

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read and respond. Hope you all have a great day :D

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hello so l've had my channel for a while now i originally i wanted to do lets plays like theradbrad, thefightincowboy or even tetra ninja, and i first i really did like doing them... my issue is that i hate how my voice sounds (or sounded i now have a way better mic that really makes me sound like the real me, but i haven't uploaded any content with it yet ), also some times there are long pauses in my lets play because i feel i cant add anything through commentary and when i try to say something it sounds forced. with that's said i stopped uploading for 4 months with 175 subs due to time inefficiency. so i began uploading some lets play content here and there in a style i grew vary found off a while back. what i like to call silent lets plays, what i do is play the story in more relaxed way, in away that feels "cinematic" of sorts the type of gameplay that you see in demos being played at a showcase trying to show you things in detail as well it allows me to really show you the game 100% i first started this.. kind of as a side project about 2 years ago with assassins creed where i walk through different areas of the map taking in the ambiance and a lot of people liked this and is some of my most popular content. so now the reason i say this is because in the times recently l've uploaded more silent lets paly it does way better then my regular "the radbrad style" lets plays ever did. which in the 4 months i wasn't active it gave me over 40 subs extra. and now that i have the best set up i ever had i don't know what route to take go back to the old stuff or move forward with the silent lets play, what do you think most people would want. P.s also i have tried doing regular lets plays but after not doing them for a while i feel so awkward talking now, and overthink what i say in the vids. that's why i uploaded some war hammer 40k with no commentary and it did pretty well.

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I played a horror demo called Don't! Fret and I was able to make this thumbnail, but I am not sure what to title my video. What would get you to click? The main idea of the game is that you are a student uncovering the dark secrets of the school after your friend went missing. The character on the left is tapehead and the one on the right is "The Missing." Would love your suggestions :)

So I've been trying to look for a niche I want to do something valve related explore half life mods and sometimes play deadlock once a week but honestly I'm not sure I get that it isn't popular anymore but was still wondering if anyone has some insight

Hey everyone, I’ve decided to start a Let’s Play YouTube channel in English. I already have one in my native language but for the past 1 year or so it’s pretty bad. I have 189 subscribers on my channel in my native language, I started nearly 3 years ago and I gotta say that my videos are kinda bad.

At first, three years ago I didn’t know how to edit but now I got some ideas (I mean I only know how to trim the boring parts but the videos are still boring :) ) I don’t really know how to edit the videos to make them watchable and not boring. I really want yo keep things simple and not blow my mind with complicated edits.

I really wanted to ask you guys some questions before I start my channel in English and to see your opinions.

1. How long should the videos be?

I was thinking at first to make them short-medium like 15-30 minutes but I saw that let’s play channels in English have long videos from 1 hour to 2 hours.

2. When you find a new channel, do you expect or are you looking for heavily edits on the videos or you can watch the videos if the boring parts are cut?

3. If I have a 1080p monitor should I export the videos in 1440p or 4K? I know that YouTube has some weird compression codecs and stuff.

4. Should I play games that I played before?

I mean I like some games and I like the OG’s ones and I know the games. Should I replay them just to record them or should I start recording some games that I heard they’re good but never got the change to play them before? I just want the viewers to like me and not say like “He didn’t cried on that part, He’s trash” and I actually want them to enjoy my content.

5. Do you think if I record in 30fps is a problem?

I don’t really have a powerful PC, I have a gaming laptop that still holds up (Ryzen 4800h, 16gb RAM ddr4 3200mhz and rtx 3050 4gb) but I don’t think that I can record all of my gameplay in 60 fps especially on games that came out in the last 2 years at max settings, maybe if I put the graphics on medium.

6. What do you guys think it’s a good schedule?

I also have to go to school and I don’t know if I can over stress myself with a video per day. Maybe if I put like 2 videos per week?

That’s all guys. Thanks for your time. I would love to see your opinions on thoughts on this. Have a great day/night.

This is probably a a reoccurring question so I apologize in advance, but it's disheartening to get subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views on my shorts with only 30-100 of views on most of my videos. In fact, what really baffles me is that my longplays have done better in views than my shorter videos.

To be clear, I love making full-length videos about the games I play. There's so much more emotion, plot, and moments captured in a video that a short cannot. And don't get me wrong, I love making shorts, but as of now, 95% of my views are from my shorts. It makes me feel like the full-length videos are completely irrelevant.

I love doing this, but it feels like I'm offering nothing of value unless it's compressed into 15-60 seconds. I see shorts as a sneak-peak, and the videos are the whole show.

I would love to hear any advice or tips.

I've been running my first LP and I'm noticing I run into periods of burnout and don't upload for a while, I was thinking when I start my second I might run another game beside it to swap into time to time. Anyone have any experience with this and how did it work out?

Okay so I posted a while ago talking about this because it happened at that time and I had to abandon an entire game inorder for them to go up again because I kept posting and all the videos got between 1-3 views but when I changed games my impressions went up to 2k. So right now my video is at 0 views and 3 impressions for a game that literally gave me my 1st and 2nd most viewed videos on my channel and I don't want what happened last time to happen again. I really like this game and don't want to drop it as well. I am posting another video on the same game and I will update to show whether the problem still persists. I know that some people say that a video takes time to gain impressions but it has been over a month and those videos from the first case only have like 29 impressions now

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Hi, yaall. So still been working on thumbnails. I think I'm getting better slowly. Trying to stand out from a million other videos is not an easy task. But I really, really, really, hate click bait and am so trying not to go that route. Comments, suggestions, death threats welcome. Thanks. 😊

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Hello, I have been searching for this but am failing to find.

As the title says, is there any way to make certain viewers stand out? In my youtube channel I have a couple of viewers that have stuck with me for a long time and have always been a really positive influence in the channel by various means and I would like to make them "stand out" if possible.

I suppose my point of comparison would be twitch where you can make viewers VIP, just a little something to show some extra appreciation.

The only thing I've seen is when a viewer becomes a member they get a little badge, but they have to pay for this. Can I attribute something similar?

Thank you for your time.

I want to make shorts from my recorded gameplay. The issue is I play in 1920x1080 and when I make the short I zoom in so it becomes portrait from landscape. But in this way the quality becomes really bad.

This is normal because short is 1080x1920 so now 1080 has to cover the large are of 1920.

Is there any way to improve the quality without playing at a higher resolution?