Hello everyone! Im new to the youtube space. Im mainly playing RPGs and started uploading a few clips on Unicorn Overlord. Im planning to upload clips on a blind playthrough for Eiyuden Chronicles focusing on recruitment and probably important items that can be found.

Im not sure if I can just record the whole gameplay directly on PS5 and edit it based on the context im looking for. or are there other ways do it? Just considering the amount of space it may take up if I just recorded from start to end directly on PS5. Thanks!

I decided to try and upload at a different time then usual, and I guess it kinda backfired? I was solely going based off my recommend time YouTube offered me, and judging by the time/day it recommended me, I chose to upload my latest video at 8AM instead of 4PM (just to try something new)

I assumed it would've been slightly better to trust the recommended time, but if anything, it didn't help at all. I uploaded my latest video 5 days ago, and I still don't have enough data to review in my YouTube Studio, I can't even view the audience retention because the views have dropped tremendously. The view count went from 38 to 36 to 26 and now to 21 views.

I changed my thumbnail and title, made sure my timestamps were visible, even made shorts that linked back to the original video, but nothing has improved yet, I trust YouTube will do it's thing sooner or later, but I think I'll just go back to my original uploading time. I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I also add my latest videos as my channel trailer & returning subscribers for my channel page, so if people were new to my channel , that video will show up first, but I recently took it off.

a few days ago i switched my recording destination for shadowplay videos. after doing so, my recordings started micro-stuttering. i figured id just switch it back and deal with it, but it didnt change the stuttering. ive spent the last 3 days trying to figure out how to fix it. has anyone had any luck? ive noticed it happens on steamlabs and obs recordings too.

specs: i7-11700f, RTX3060, 16gb RAM.

also was wondering, would my SSD/HDD speeds affect recordings? i feel like thats the only spec of mine that def needs to be upgraded.

Hey all,

What is the best website to get keys from gamedevs? I've tried Keymailer, but are there other legit options? Looking to make some let's play videos. Any tips?

10 years of Sinister Pixel, and almost 17 years of YouTube in general. I've somehow never had to do this.

Yeah, I've banned my fair share of trolls, bots, etc. But in all that time, I've never had to ban someone who was a regularly returning viewer to my streams/channels, who's comments and chat messages were previously a point of happiness for me. Said viewer I think had started feeling a little too comfortable with me, and said some things I deemed to be completely innapropriate to me. Not wanting to ban them, I politely asked them to stop. Their reaction was not a positive one. So I struck down the banhammer.

I'm grateful to have had other regulars watching me. Knowingly or not, their messages just commenting on stuff happening in the game helped keep me level. And I'm happy that one bad apple won't affect the other people who are awesome in the community.

Have you ever had to ban a regular before? Even if it's something you don't really think about now, how did you react the first time?

Im not a big content creator but I will bring the energy and the jokes and I will do what we content creators do and be entertaining throughout the entire collaboration plus I want to make some streamer friends that will motivate me to stream and be more competitive dm me or comment on this post!!

Hey i am looking for suggestions and opinions about something. I recently started on youtube and my goal is to do lets plays/walk through/ playthroughs. I thought my english is kind of ok but I was wrong. Its so much harder to speak live and reaction on what is happening on screen honestly. Biggest issue is probably fact that I have to think how to say something and that adds delay to my reactions. Obvious answer would be to learn english more to have bigger audience but that will take time.

So i am curious, is it wort doing no commentary playthroughs? Is enough people watching them? Because now i have really two options, no commentary gameplay or stream in my nativive language. Which would be fine and i am already trying it, but I am from not so big country. And my language understand like max 15 milion people in world. On one hand audience will be smaller but on other hand there is not so big competition like in english speaking streamers.

What would you suggest? Are no commentary gameplay being watched enough to grow channel?

Hi letsplayers!

I wanted to create a let's play for a beat em up game. Usually each level is about 5-7mins long. Question is - do i upload each level completed on its own? Or complete the whole game, stitch the videos together and just upload 1 video?

Or third option - upload each completed level, and finale upload the whole completed game?

Hello, I am hoping to make new friends in the YouTube community. I currently play GTAv RP but want to get into Sea of Thieves and make some videos. I’m open to other easy to get into games (NO FPS) I have a small YouTube channel and hoping to make some friends and gaming buddies around my age.

A lot of ppl I play around with are younger, in their early 20s and a lot are going through their “edgy phase” and yeah … looking for chiller like minded gamers lol. I am 32 and play PST usually around 7-9pm

What do you guys think I should be looking to spend on a mic? I'm currently using my gaming headset but I'm getting a decent amount of white noise, so I think maybe it would be a good investment. I don't need anything fancy I just want to get rid of background noise.

Edit: Thanks guys. A couple people suggested blue yeti to me which I got for ~80 and its working perfectly.

So with the hype of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes I was wondering what are some dos and donts of lets play.

Should I be talking or do no commentary at all?

Since it has voice acting should I react if the character says something crazy or just be quite while they talk?

What length should I be looking at per episode?

How often should I upload a new episode I'm pretty free right now so I can release quite a few.

I'm EST timezone what's a good time to release videos?

Like most amateur streamers, i have a single monitor setup. I use OBS and restream to stream.
I use the restream chat app in transparent mode however, it has some weird issue where it goes completely black while the stream is running and disrupts the gameplay.
I'm looking for a chat application that can sit on top of the game with transparency and show the incoming stream chats for Facebook. (There are so many options for Twitch and Youtube). I have tried things like social ninja, and sheepchat without much success.

I want to start my Gaming Channel with my friend. And buying equipment to make videos better. But confused about the mic. We are using Boya M1 already but now we want a little upgrade.

Pretty much title. I have been recording clips with OBS replay buffer/nvidia shadowplay of funny moments with my friends for years, and compiling them into funny moments/highlight vids of whatever I am playing. These videos will sometimes be on one game only but a lot of them have clips of multiple games, and some are just clips of me on websites or something else.

My question is, I want to start either recording let's plays or livestreaming and editing the VOD into ~20 minute vids. Should I do this on a separate channel, or should I post them on my main channel with the videos I talked about above? I was thinking of doing it on my main channel, but I am unsure since the style of video will be drastically different. Some of the videos will be me and my friends laughing at a game with 10-second clips edited back-to-back and others would be me by myself talking with minimally edited gameplay.

Let me know your thoughts!

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I want to make some game commentary videos, and I downloaded wondershare demo creator couple days ago. I saw it can record screen and camera at same time, so I think it would be good for making game commentary videos.

I have tried to record several times, but I find it cannot record my voice. Does anybody know how to use wondershare demo creator to record audio?

I'm uploading videos of a lets play and I quite like the shorts feature. Using them for funny moments which eventually I will use to make long form for funny moments on 2nd channel.

Currently I am uploading them to my Lets Play Channel and obviously it makes my sub count look better and overall watch time look better, but I understand the issue that arise with this.

At what point should I make the Shorts Channel? Would it be best to continue with them on my Lets Play channel up to a certain point (Like when reaching 1000 subs, only as an example) or be better to immediately put them onto their own channel.

Thank you for reading :)

Hello, I made a smiliar post about Tube Buddy & VidIQ maybe a year ago now, but I was curious, when using these extensions, do you notice any improvement or is it a waste of time and energy? At one point, I was using both Tube Buddy & VidIQ but now only VidIQ (basic plan) it's helped me with content ideas & optimizing my videos/shorts.

But like every ''free'' extension, certain features are now behind a paywall, for example, the advanced chat feature when we can ask them to audit our channel to get personalized details for our channel specifically, but with their new update, we can no longer use the feature unless we upgrade to boost.

Moral of the story, do you use Tube Buddy or VidIQ for extra assistance? if so, Which plan do you use? Has it helped you and your channel?

I asked this in a different subreddit and a mod said i could ask here so here i go. (And an obligatory please lets not talk drama)

I've always really liked how Chuggaconroy made lets plays, a series on a game he's already played and is extremely knowledgeable about showing you all the content it has to offer.
In an age of modern lets plays where a game is played for the first time and often only do one video per game, its very refreshing to see something so deliberate and informative. I was wondering if anyone here knows of other youtubers who take on the more "comprehensive" style I can watch instead? Chip Cheezum's lets play of metal gear solid 5 to me seems like the absolute gold standard for this if you need another example.

Hi all! I recently dug out my old Avermedia LGX and I've recorded some good test gameplay of Switch, Wii U and PS3 games with it, since it actually works nowadays with USB-C and OBS. It's been a lot of fun!.. But its component input doesn't work, for some reason, even after I change the input in OBS.

Now, I very much want to record some gameplay from older systems as well, and that's where I'm running into issues. There's two things I would need to be able to do:

1. Plug in via Composite (NES) and Component (SNES, Genesis, N64, Saturn, PS2, Wii) to display a workable signal (generally 224p, 240p, and 480i, NTSC) in OBS.

2. Also have an output, so I'm not looking at the game through a lame laptop screen, but instead the proper CRT.

I have tried to use an old Dazzle DVC100, and while I got some video through, it flickered heavily, and the audio never came through.

I've also heard all the recommendations of "just pay $300 for a fancy scaler and then connect that to a modern TV", which will be expensive, require even more on the fly cable madness, look awful on the flat 16:9 TV, and... Just no. God.

Does anybody have any ideas as to what device I could snag to get the job done? Or am I going to have to point a camera at a CRT and pray I can get the position and shutter speed right?

So I make Minecraft content, and I've been messing around with thumbnails and titles and was wondering if I should continue having the episode number and series name in my thumbnails or if I should just remove them/keep them in the title? I'm trying to keep my thumbnails consistent but I'm having an issue of having a CTR of ~3.5% and want to improve that number. Honestly not sure if that's a normal CTR in my niche as I have nobody to compare with. I'm also kind of a new subniche within MC so I can't find any comparable channels.

Do you keep your episode numbers and series title in just the thumbnail, just the title, both, or not at all?

Each episode can technically be standalone, and my worry is that new viewers wouldn't watch it if it's episode 20 for example. Really big names in my niche do include episode numbers in their thumbnail and title, but given they have a much larger following, their viewers are much more likely to watch as compared to a small channel like mine.

Thumbnails in question: https://imgur.com/a/Gvau2uC

Also any tips on my thumbnails or titles would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

So youtube is saying that i need like 100 or 1000 subs to live stream on there. All i have is a phone and Playstation and seeing no one join or just a bot kinda ruins my want for streaming. How would i be able to expand myself for more people to find me without seeming needy or like an a hole just promoting himself?

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Hey everyone, I am just starting to talk in my videos and I am a little unsure of how to go about it. I've started by just doing some straight run throughs of some missions in frostpunk but I'm not sure if it is best to edit footage and give commentary over the recording or to play through whole missions while giving commentary. I have seen youtubers who have posted videos with a few hundred thousand views that literally just play the mission straight through and give commentary. Any advice is appreciated. I am mostly focusing on getting comfortable talking in videos and that's my main goal to improve on right now.

I think I might do that with my recent letsplay. I haven't uploaded yet, still to edit it but I feel I didn't do well in it. Wdyt?

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