Hello! I am just now starting my YouTube, and was wondering if anyone had FREE video editing software recommendations.

Would like to hear how you started, how long did it take for it to become finally viable and how's it going?

I finally started my gaming channel after years of wanting to. I upload Minecraft content and have 2 vids out. The only problem is that I feel my voice doesn’t sound too engaging like other YouTubers in the same genre. Normally I have a monotone voice but try and sound more lively, but it makes my voice sound weird. Any advice to get my voice to sound like a “youtube voice”?

So until I save up enough for a pc , I am streaming off of my PS5

I bought Elgatos “Wave XLR” to be able to plug my Shure SM7B into the PS5

And I already had my Astro A50 X lightspeeds plugged in (base station)

And when I go to select my SM7B as the input , it changes the output too …

And same for when I select the A50’s as the output, it changes the input….

So how I do I select each option and keep them individual?

Only in streaming, obviously, but for the last few days, OBS is throwing me a bunch of error messages for the Youtube stream, and viewers say there's way more disrupted video than usual, sometimes the stream breaks entirely. Happening only within the last, say, 3-4 days. A friend streamer also had similar issues.

Anyone else noticing this, or is it a me thing?

Does anyone know how to use YouTube tags? For example, I'm currently uploading videos of horror games, but how can I know which tags to use to get more views?

I would appreciate any advice.

I’m going use OBS. I have my editing software. Have tested both out. Mic for talking which works great and camera if needed at some point. Account is created. I am going to start with a PayPal link as well.

Anything else I should have in mind? Will likely do 1-2 half hour or hour vids per week to start with. We will see where it goes.

Anything else I’m not thinking of?

Thanks.

I was wondering if anyone here does ultrawide content and if you do what is your experience doing it?

After a solid month of grafting and making numerous mistakes, I can finally say I have uploaded my first video!!

I can’t wait to pretentiously tell everyone that I’m a YouTuber (they don’t need to know about my 0 views).

Any tips to stop me from refreshing Studio every 2 minutes?

I just started streaming to youtube and have a dual pc setup. I was wondering if there was a way keep an eye on my stream health and youtube chat on my gaming pc like I can with twitch.

Every time I try, I can see the real time info from my streaming pc, but the youtube window I have open on my gaming pc does not show anything.

EDIT: I figured out what was going on with the youtube chat. I did not know that the URL changes for each live stream.

Hey all!

I'm looking to spice up my channel a bit and give it a fresh look. I keep seeing lots of great graphics on other channels, including cartoony or pixel characters created. I have experience in PS and AI but it can only take me so far.

So I ask:

Did you make your own channel art? Did you pay someone to make it? Where did you source these folks?

Any help is appreciated :)

So I have a gaming channel - just really for sharing captures of games between a few friends and myself - and we're wanting to all be able to upload - but it seems no matter what role I give my other friends from the admin level of the channel, they can only upload via stuff like the YouTube Studio phone app... not directly from their PS5s like you normally can when connecting an account to YouTube.

Anyone know a way around this?

Again to clarify :

• I have a YouTube gaming channel I created.
• I've invited friends with their own proper Google emails set up to be able to use YouTube - who also have their own personal separate channels
• I've given them the highest tier permissions to be able to "manage" the gaming channel.
• They ARE able to upload via the YouTube phone apps and their desktops to the gaming channel.
• They are NOT able to upload direct from their PS5s.

When they try to link their PlayStation accounts to allow for the PS5 to upload directly (like I am able to do), they cannot... - meaning to upload, they have to do a bunch of steps to download the captured videos to their phone THEN upload to YouTube instead of being able to do so directly from the PS5 in a convenient way like I'm able to. Plus they lose the HDR metadata and other stuff...

I'm going crazy thinking I must be missing something... :(

I heard they can negatively affect long form content? I thought about making game reviews but for Shorts. Or should I keep going with long form?

I recently started, but seems most of my audience is based in the US. I thought about posting on Fridays or Saturdays, but maybe during the week could work?

And when it comes to timing, what time of day has worked best for you?

Same as above, I'm getting better daily at editing but I'm unable to figure out what makes a good intro. If someone can help, I'd be ever so grateful.

I’ve been uploading EA FC 24 content for about 6 months now and people seem to be enjoying it. My most recent series has been a particular success (by my standards at least) with the opening episode closing in on 20k views and the proceeding ones all exceeding 2k each.

I have no plans to stop uploading this content. However, I enjoy playing other sports games too. I’m a baseball fan, the baseball season has just started, and MLB The Show 24 is out.

I think I can make similar content with MLB The Show that people would enjoy. However, most of my audience at the moment are in the UK, and I doubt any of them be interested in watching The Show content. I also doubt anyone who found my channel via any baseball content I put out would be interested in watching my EA FC videos. There would be some crossover but I believe it would be limited.

Would it be a good thing for my channel to potentially reach new viewers, or would it be a bad thing because I’d likely be encouraging two separate sub-audiences to come to my channel, and they’d each be ignoring half my content?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Today I was live and like 7 people joined and started asking random questions like "are you an elderly person?" And "what do you find attractive?", then they started overly complimenting me saying "pls stop talking your voice is so sexy" or something (I'm a minor and you can tell by my voice) and yeah it was overall creepy. So does this happen often? What should I do when this happens?

I ask because I have an AMD gpu and I keep hearing about how much better YouTube is in terms of Codec variety than Twitch. But if YouTube is more liberal with strikes I may be a bit more careful with which music I choose.

I had a channel and I have been uploading videos on it for about 5 months but then I stopped. 1 year from now and I want to start making yt videos again but on a different topic. I had 153 subscribers. Will privating the whole channel affect any of the new videos performance? Because if youtube shows the video to the 150 subs and they dont watch it beacause its a different topic, youtube will think its a bad video. Could this happen or am I fine?

Hi, a bit of a special request but I would be interested in a TikTok/youtube short mentor. Let me explain, I know that in freelancing, some people get help from a mentor to guide them, and that in various fields. I'm thinking that this must probably exist for content creation, for TikTok and YouTube shorts.

Please note, I'm talking about real follow-up. I have a lot of questions and would need help from someone who really knows the field. There's a lot of conflicting information about algorithms, and what makes a good video. I want to produce the best videos possible by learning and working on my side.

It's important for me to find someone who really knows their stuff, who has launched several channels or manages a channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and continuously creates good content, while also having started from zero. There are a lot of scams, scammers, courses that teach nothing new and give overused information.

So my question would rather be where to find these mentors, on which platforms to contact them, apply, or find their offers? I would really appreciate being able to get guidance. I had found someone on a Reddit who launched several YouTube channels giving their advice, for example, I would like if possible to find a mentor like that.

Oh, and to clarify, I am in a rather complicated niche that I am passionate about, gaming, with a little twist in my future content. I am also French, so if the mentor spoke French as well, it would help, but it's not mandatory, of course. Thank you in advance for your help and advice :) I'm not asking for good YouTube channels or courses; I don't want that, as I'm really looking for personalized mentoring, who can guide me to a certain goal with their experiences, I know it's existb but it is common?

Have a great day!

(oh and I posted the same message into the tiktok and newtubers subreddit)

Slowly but surely I am getting there with the channel. It has been a process but since I’ve been able to commit to this and work through the 4K part, I have a question.

Right now I’m uploading every other day but I want to get into a more secure schedule (ie: days that people know when I’ll be uploading).

I was thinking of a different options: -Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday -Monday-Friday Or -Wednesday-Sunday

It might be nuanced but I want it to be easier to remember later down the road and everyone knows what to expect.

What do you guys think? What schedule would you as a viewer prefer? Or should I stick to every other day?

Either way I’m currently doing one series at a time and will be adding an additional series once I build enough of an edited backlog to support it.

Hello all, i was wondering if i could buy a capture card and record from my laptop the gameplay of my pc. I want to create Cities Skylines 2 video's on youtube but my pc can't handle recording and playing such an gpu and cpu intensive game. Does this work?

such as zelda totk or botw mods

So I updated a video my first video and after a few days I went to look at it myself and I notice that gameplay looks blurry and cutscenes look great, I used davinci resolve to edit it and obs to record, my question is what could’ve cause this and how to avoid it

I can DM link to video as I can’t post it

I've been streaming for almost 2 years on YouTube. Today I clicked "go live" and then the "edit" button but nothing happened. Anyone else having this problem?

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EDIT: It seems to have been fixed.

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Hope you all are doing well, I've been meaning to get into streaming but never had the courage nor equipment till recently, i just have some questions, is profanity ok? (I'm not a sailor by any chance just sometimes i might slip and say the usual words), just wondering about that, hope you all are doing good.

Hi there!

I recently made a Youtube channel to start posting gaming videos. I worked hard on my first video, but I'm not seeing any success.

Not a problem, I figure it takes time for Youtube to even attempt to show your videos to people.

But I'd like to not be lazy and partly take matters into my own hands instead of waiting for Youtube to do everything for me.

But there I come to a problem. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to promote my videos. Youtube shorts are not doing anything for me. They either get no views or my main content stops getting views for the short to get like 500.

Most groups, subreddits and similar forbit from self promotion. I'm not sure where to post and what to do. I just want to reach the right audience, no matter if big or small. I basically just want to create an online community.

How do you guys promote your content? Any tips on how to get more people to see it so I can eventually find the audience for me? Any help is appreciated.

ETA: Thank you so much to everyone who shared their strategies and advice!!! I'm very grateful. Thank you!

What PC/Laptop are you guys using to edit videos? What are the specs? Are you guys using windows or MAC OS computers? I currently have a MacBook Pro with i9 and 64 RB Ram. I think it’s more than enough to edit videos but I also know the MB Pro is 5 years old and just wondering if upgrading would be a smart move. I am just curious as to what you guys are using. I am gonna be using ScreenFlow with the hope that I eventually get comfortable and use Final Cut or Premier.

I am on vacation from work for a couple weeks and would love to get some insight. Thanks again.

I'm so happy! I just uploaded my second video to YouTube and I want to thank you all again to whoever answered my question about the discord server and such. I got that started up and it's in my profiles on YouTube and here, SO I'm really happy. I feel like this thing is coming together and I just don't know who to share it with so I'm sharing it here. Thanks for the support you guys have been giving, it's really encouraging!