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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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?

Just like the title said. Do anyone know what this sfx called or where it was from? it sounded like something that would be used in old cartoon network show 😅 ( dont mind the potato I just dont know what to put in there since i can't upload a mp3 file here )

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Most of my retention rate is horrible. Even on Videos, where the Intro of a Game is played at first. Is that normal for Let's play Videos? On my non Let's Play channel, it's about 25%.

I've seen a lot of let's players use FRAPS to record videos. I chose Bandicam because the free version let me record longer videos as opposed to FRAPS's 1 minute limit. I want to know, why is FRAPS much more preferred in the LP community and what are some strengths and weaknesses between the three systems?

So does anybody that uses DaVinci ever use the direct upload to YouTube? Was wondering about if it affects the quality any? Haven't tried it yet but was curious cause of the automatic chapter feature I seen. Any other upsides to doing it that way? I have just been doing the boring old MOV 4K H264 to YouTube by browser.

Hello, I’m in two minds with how I want to make let’s play videos on my YouTube channel, I’m unsure if I should;

A) Stream my let’s plays/play throughs to twitch while recording the footage via OBS and then I can take the footage and break it down into smaller videos for YT.

B) Just solely focus and recording videos/ let’s plays and only streaming on twitch when I’m not recording videos.

I’ve also considered maybe just multi streaming to both Twitch & YouTube and downloading the VOD’s on YT end and editing them down to shorter videos but I’m not sure the highest quality YT let’s you download in the same as twitch’s

I’m use to streaming on twitch but want to start uploading videos to YT but the problem is my schedule for streaming is not consistent as I have a lot of things going on IRL. Where as I feel if just focus on recording and building a backlog I can upload and be consistent on the YT front

Any advice or help would be really appreciated, thank you.

Do you guys just record as you go or do you have a method where you roughly know how many videos and how long each video will be for your entire play through?

I don't wanna record and then for my final video being only 10 mins long cause my previous parts were too long

I should state that at the moment I can only directly record from the PS5 which is only limited to 1 hour recording sessions.

Hey all, my friend and I recently started YouTube channel where we essentially let’s play videos. Our setup is that one person streams their gameplay on discord and we both get to talk through that while recording the whole thing on OBS. Our biggest issue has been audio. For the second video, I tried using multiple audio input sources on OBS with different tracks to have different audio tracks when I edit the videos on premiere pro, so I could adjust the volume of each of our voices appropriately to the game audio. So far, I haven’t been able to achieve this any and help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

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Don´t you guys just love the feeling when you just know you made a banger ? Today I just made one and I legit think it´s amazing. Good thing that it came out well too since it´s a first video where I put my face on for the whole duration.

Imma be sleeping good tonight.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been dreaming of starting this project for a long time, and now that I’ve finally begun, I’d love to hear about your experiences so I can learn what works best and avoid common mistakes.

A bit about me: I’m a millennial with a lifelong passion for video games, and I’ve always wanted to share that passion through videos. My goal is to build this up as a side hustle while working a full-time job and raising a family (wife + toddler). As you can imagine, free time is a little harder to come by now than it used to be!

I’m particularly into EA FC 25 (formerly FIFA) and have some good content ideas for it. I also love adventure and souls games like Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Uncharted, GTA, and Red Dead Redemption. I’ve decided to create two YouTube channels: one dedicated to EA FC (FIFA) and another for adventure/souls games. My aim is to share my thoughts, tips, and experiences—and ideally, to earn a bit of extra income from it.

I’ve been doing a lot of research on video creation and have taught myself the basics of editing using CapCut. I recently posted my first video, and despite hours of editing and voiceover, it only received 20 views. I know this is just the start, but I’d really appreciate any advice you could offer before i keep going. Here are a few questions I have:

1. In your experience, is this project achievable for someone with a full-time job and family?
2. What’s the ideal publishing frequency to succeed in the gaming niche?
3. My goal is to reach $500/month. How realistic is this, and what strategies would help reach it?

Thanks in advance for any insights you can share!

Hello, I am said noob LP-er! I currently record my voice on my phone, which has ok(ish) audio quality. But I'd like to get something I can actually plug into my PC lol.

The obvious to me seem like the Blue Snowball or Blue Yeti, but I'm unsure if these are still considered "good" these days.

I also wonder, should I get a swing arm, or buy a mic with that included? I have a gadget that sort of functions like a very crappy swing-arm. It's like a big bendy-wire phone holder, which I think would probably hold a mic ok.

I also wonder about whether I need a DAW device of some sort, but I'm pretty ok with just doing the editing in post, so I figure I probably don't need this.

Anyway, what do you guys think about this? Any recommendations or ideas? I would also like to use this for general gaming too, so that's important too. My budget is $100 at most, but I'd like to keep it below that if possible, or not beyond like Blue Yeti pricing.

What keeps you around long enough to watch someone's playthrough that has a big amount of episodes (generally like 15-20+) Is it the game they're playing or the person themselves? Could it be how they're playing?

For example, let's say someones playing an open world game. Would it be more interesting çif they structured their playthrough where a couple of episodes deal with the main story and an episode here and there that deal with like cleaning up some side quests or exploring certain parts of the game?

So I just uploaded first video where i have my face there as I talk during intro and outro and It felt insanely awkward. I´m pretty sure you can tell.

I´m sure I´ll get used to it eventually but damn i´t could come faster.

So how long did it take for you guys before you got comfortable just talking to the camera ???

I was just wondering if you guys thought that shorts had any impact in promoting your let’s play content, or if they were just a waste of time/had little to no success. Thanks for any responses in advance :)

So for context, I did a Path of Exile video on my channel recently and it didn't do very well. Only like 14 views in the first 48 hours. No big deal; it was just a one off kinda thing, so we moved on. We were not planning a series around it: just kinda first impressions. And tbh, I didn't think it was outstandingly funny to begin with. But somehow the video got picked up by the algorithm days latter and now it's doing crazy numbers (at least for me) and has passed up the view counts of everything other than my shorts.

The issue: my content is all scheduled out weeks in advance and I had no plans to return to this game. What should I do? Should I shift focus and put out an extra PoE vid asap? Was this just a fluke?

The other issue is that even though a ton of people watched the video very few subscribed so if I did do a new one I doubt all those viewers would see it.

I seek the guidance of those more experienced than myself.

Wanting to start recording some game play, what the best software to use that won't slow the PC down?

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