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Hello, I need advice on capture cards, or I should say suggestions for any capture cards I should get. I never bought one before and I would like to create content of me playing video games with commentary. I already have a microphone. I have a gaming laptop, and a ps5. My tv is also a 4k tv, if that helps any. I just don’t know where to start when it comes to capture cards. I would preferably like to record content in 4K. But it can be up to 1080p. Any help would be appreciated on.

the original one from the NES. i never thought nintendo copyrighted their music and just wondering if this is real

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Personally, I like to create Let's Plays that are as cinematic as possible, in the style of a Hollywood movie. If it's a narrative adventure, I develop the characters as if following an HBO-style script, etc.

So, I'm planning to create a community where we share clips of this style, and each week, we'll select a winner whose video I'll share in different Facebook and Reddit groups to help promote their channel.

What do you think?

I’ve tried to hire multiple editors through social media pages and also fiverr but I can’t really find someone who’s editing style speaks to me.

I’ve been willing to pay from $20 to $75 per video or even subscribed to their monthly subscription system they provide.

I just want to know where I could find editors that I could work closely with on a regular basis as I do want to pump out videos but don’t have the time to edit them myself anymore.

A few months ago, my channel got demonetized because YouTube flagged my content as potentially reused from other sources. I get why the algorithm might have thought that—I create no-commentary longplays, so my videos might seem similar to others.

Since then, I’ve added a watermark to all my videos and included an intro with my channel name and copyright-free music. I’m wondering if this will be enough for YouTube to recognize my content as original, or do I absolutely need to add my voice at the start?

Has anyone gone through something similar and successfully gotten monetization back? Would appreciate any insights!

Looking for likeminded small creators to Collab with me.

I have multiple people I'm working with but looking for more people for gaming content

Requirements:

- Friendly and looking for anyone that wants to do any type of content

-Any console or PC multiplatform

- Age 16+

- Please have a mic

- Please be consistent and motivated

- Willing to record multiple times a week

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So I'm still stuck with a 3080 Ti, great GPU, still running games rather well but as a youtuber I'd like to have access to the latest technologies and I feel like skipping 2 generations may be a bad idea.

i'm still recording in 2k as 4k is a recipe for disaster in some games so I was really looking forward to the new Nvidia GPUs and perhaps buying my first 4k monitor so I could record in 4K as well, so here's the issue.

I'm probably not ever going above 60fps which is what almost all people seem to care about on YT, the new cards are a big step up over the 3000 series, but not that good compared to the 4000 so I'm not sure if I'd notice much of a difference in most games.

The big differential seem to be DLSS 4, which not all games have access to, and from the tests I've seen the 5080 is getting crazy high FPS numbers well over 100, which I'm probably locking to 60 anyway so there's no variation in the video, while the 5090 can reach some crazy values close to 300.

I'd probably use my current 3080 to run OBS, so I was wondering, is there any benefit in getting a 5090 if I'm not trying to reach those crazy numbers and the 5080 seem to demolish the YT standard anyway?

So had this idea for videos I’ve been wanting to do but I’m having a hard time finding a video editor that I won’t have to pay an arm and a leg for since I’m a beginner when it comes to this stuff trying to find a cheapish user friendly software

So im a new lets player. Ionly got 3 videos of dragon quest iii hd-2d remake under my belt as of now. I feel like my videos have good seo, and a good pace with about 20 views a video. But I'm nervous that I'm doing it wrong because I have yet to recieve any comments or feedback. Is this a normal feeling?

Can someone please help me fix this? I'm using my tab to play and stream just for fun. I just wanted to play some games on Roblox but the viewers can't hear me, it works on adopt me but on other games that has a built in mic won't.

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I’m new to let’s play content creation and was wanting to get a small friend group together and start making content together

Requirements:

Preferably pc players but if you are on console it will be fine

Has a mic

Willing to at least play 3 times a week to make content

At least 17+

There are no requirements on YouTube but at least able to upload in 1080p

Must be motivated

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What is the best way to start let's plays? Should I record and talk while I play the game or should I edit commentary later? Also I see tons of let's plays where they have crazy editing and do crazy things throughout the video, but I'm really just someone who enjoys posting walkthrough/playthrough of all the games that I play. What would be the best way to edit walkthrough/playthrough?

Personally, I kinda yolo it.

I’m looking for a video that I saw years ago that I still reference with my sister regularly. I saw it on Vine right before it closed down when they were allowing people to post videos longer than six seconds. It was a skit that parodied Let’s Plays, which was a trend in the 2010’s where YouTubers would play through a video game while commentating, poking fun at the oftentimes overly-exaggerated reactions and forced, awkward humor. The scene that I always reference with my sister is the guy in the scene screaming and then saying “WHY WOULD THEY PUT THAT IN THERE?!”, one time I definitely remember him saying that is him playing this obscure PC game called Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt. Whenever the Possum pops up on screen and says something, he does an over-the-top scream and says the line. He also said it or something similar several other times in the video while also screaming and pretending to be scared at other benign things in kid-friendly video games. I also vividly remember him playing Super Mario 64 while saying “what am I, Russian?……heh heh, I guess I am ze Russian now” the second part done in a terrible fake accent. Specifically I felt like he was parodying Game Grumps and PewDiePie, which is why it was so funny to me as I used to watch them when I was younger in addition to the games featured in the video being obscure kid-friendly games with absurd things happening in them. I almost want to say another game featured in the video was a Putt-Putt game but I am very unsure of that. As for the actual account that posted it, I have no idea aside from that it may have been a duo but definitely only one guy in that particular video and it was not any heavy-hitters from Vine, I don’t think that video had a huge amount of views or that they had a huge amount of followers. I am pretty sure they had a YouTube account too and they also had other skits on there, but as for if they posted the particular skit on there I really have no clue. Any search I’ve tried to do for this over the years has proved fruitless and it could’ve very well been taken down with the death of Vine. I know this is a huge longshot but if anybody could help me find this I would be very appreciative!

I’m thinking about changing my current setup with one mic hooked up to a Scarlett solo, to a setup that could support up to 4.

What mics would you recommend for good quality while also not picking up other people in a near vicinity? (obviously I know there’s some magic I can work in recording softwares and whatnot)

And if I already have a Scarlett solo, should I sell it and get a different audio interface with more mic inputs or can I use the one I have and get another with an extra 3 mic inputs for example.

Any recommendations or experiences greatly appreciated

I'm not creative and in general the title of my let's plays is the same - some unchanging title + episode number And in the preview i add a few words about episode

I understand that maybe different names in the title will be better for searching, but then there will be nothing to write in the preview, what do you think is better?

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Hey all probs a stupid question as there are so many deciding factors and it’s different for every game and channel

But I legit started a new channel and do yall remember how long/many videos it took for YouTube to start giving you more impressions

Like I only just started it this week and only have 3 videos of an old game like resident evil 1 and I know my seo sucks especially since they changed how to use tags and I haven’t found the new way to adapt yet but my impressions are low like for example

Part 1 - 100

Part 2 - 40

And I’m not complaining or sad about it but I was just curious?

Also I’m currently thinking of 1 game at a time or should I try and upload a 2nd game along side it?

Thanks if you answer

So I have a surface pro and a macbook. Worth noting that the surface pro is pretty old, while the mac is brand new and I think a pretty good model? It certainly runs editing software a whole lot better.

The Surface has always been good enough for recording gameplay, but lately I've started to worry about the video quality, and I wonder if I could get better results on the mac since it probably has juicier CPU and GPU and more Ram. But I also wonder if the mac version of OBS is some kind of horrible disaster software that won't work at all. Also, the mac doesn't have regular USB ports, and I feel like running the capture card's output through a Usb multitap AND a usb-to-usbc-adapter might reduce the quality.

What do you guys reccomend?

Been thinking about this for a while. Looking at the lets play landscape, it just doesn't seem like this genre of video can produce growth from within itself. What I mean is there has to be a way for people to discover you, and then they'd be interested in watching your lets plays, rather than people getting started on your lets plays. It just feels like screaming into the void.

Through my other content creation venture (fashion stuff on tiktok) I've learned that people love educational content. It's a lot easier to get someone to be willing to invest their time with you if your content promises that they will learn something from it. This is opposed to pure entertainment, which the audience already has easy access to.

So tldr, I'm thinking of starting two new channels. One will be for reviews/retrospectives on the games I play on my letsplay channel, and the other will be for gaming news. Since I have letsplay footage, I can use that for review footage. And since I keep up with gaming news anyway, I can curate what I learn into videos, trying to fill in the gaps that other youtube gaming news channels miss. And since they're both gaming-related, I can build a sort of ecosystem with my 3 channels.

I know growing channels is highly dependent on luck. The way I figure, the more output you have, the more chances of one of your creations winning the metaphorical lottery.

I know many of us use PayPal business to be able to process things like tips from our audience to prevent our personal information from appearing on the invoices, but as of February 1st, PayPal is changing what information shows up by default on invoices to include your business address (which for many will very often be a home address).

If you have a PayPal business account, this affects you. Here's what you can do:

• On desktop, log into your PayPal business account
• Click "Invoicing"
• Click "Review your business info" on the banner atop the invoicing page
• Set your personal information to "Hide from recipients"

You will be able to see a preview of what your invoice will look like on the right hand side of the screen. Be sure all the information you want to hide is hidden, and save your settings.

These changes to invoices happen February 1st, so it's good to do it now, before those changes go through, otherwise people will be able to send donations to you in order to doxx you.

I play stuff like fortnite, cod, marvel rivals and the like, and always see people streaming them and they usually do tend to get likes and stuff. I feel like this is something i can do, on tik tok, potentially also thinking about uploading my own clips too.

I only have a couple hundred followers

I'm on the fence about how to credit my Disco Elysium and Hi-Fi Rush videos. I always include a link to the site/game link if possible, but these games aren't actively supporting the people who deserve it; just the "corpos", as both games could ironically put it.

I recall some news of Tango Gameworks being on their feet still, so it's nice to see that at least!