I’ve been uploading gaming videos to YouTube Shorts, but I’m not sure whether I should be using 60fps or 30fps . I’ve heard that higher frame rates can make gameplay look smoother, but does that actually have more views or engagement on Shorts?

First off, yes, I am aware that this question has been asked over and over, but it doesn't seem like any of the answers meet my needs. I have YouTube premium and I just did my first live stream yesterday about 14 hours ago. I wanna download it to make shorts And edit parts of it but for some reason when I go to YouTube studio I click on the three dots and the download is grayed out if I try to download it from YouTube, it says unavailable is there any way to fix this? Is it only available to download after a certain amount of time like I said it's been 15 hours And it's only an hour and 24 minute livestream

Thanks

Hey everyone, we just started up our YouTube channel last week, pretty nervous but excited to see how it goes. Wondering everyone's thoughts on using YouTube for streaming as well as uploading?

Hello all, How are you all? I have recently started recording gameplay to use for videos & trying to decide whether OBS or NVIDIA GeForce Experience is better for recording footage. Which do you prefer/why? I am planning to also invest in Linux pre-built PC to record gameplay from current gaming laptop & Steam Deck OLED 1TB which is in Dock.

Hello! I was just curious what everyone's first video was like. What would you have done different?

Hey guys! I just wanted to get your take on this. I had a viral short a little bit ago that shot my sub count up to 40k from 3k, but basically none of those new subscribers are watching my normal YouTube videos. For context, I'm a gamer and cosplayer. The short that went viral was cosplay related, but most of my normal videos are gaming (playthroughs, recommendations, analysis, etc).

Should I separate my cosplay content onto a separate channel? I would post more videos about it but they take months to make where as I can make at least one gaming video a week. Or should I just ignore the fact that my subscriber count doesn't match my views and keep doing what I'm doing until my content finds the right audience?

I made a Top 10 Games of 2024 video….I put a lot work in to it and it’s not doin NEARLY as well as I hoped. It sucks when you put alot of effort into something but it fails! Please I need some opinions, is this a poorly made video?

If so how can I improve?

I'm asking because I usually average around 500 views on my edits, which I upload from my laptop. However, I recently uploaded a Short from my phone, added music to it, and it's now approaching 800 views. Hence the question.

I have a capture card but i dont have a usb 3.0 port on my pc i dont know what to do im close to giving up

I have a Youtube channel with a little over 250 subscribers and I have been making Sea of Thieves content for a little over a year now. I am not here to complain about views or subscribers, I am here because I am concerned that the game and its community is going down a "Fortnite path."

What I mean by "Fortnite Path" is RARE (the company behind Sea of Thieves) is pushing more and more paywalls and item shops to advertise to a younger audience. The issue with this is that with the increase in a younger audience comes a problem with the base community.

I picked Sea of Thieves as my niche because for the last 5 years I have been researching, studying and analyzing piracy during the Golden Age of Piracy. I am not trying to brag but I have won awards for my articles, met with one of the top historians and have proceeded to carry that knowledge into my videos and streams.

This worked for a long time because the Sea of Thieves community consists of mainly older and more passionate players. These players care more about the game's story, the functions and mechanics, they try to understand where everything Rare did came from etc. Bascially the game has a passionate community that isn't too big to where any small creator trying to get some spotlight won't get drowned out by the bigger creators.

The issue I have today is that the game, and it's community are both rapidly degrading. There is not much to make videos on about the game because there hasn't been any life-changing updates in a long time. Since there are so many young players coming into the community, it is causing the more experienced and older player base to drift away from the game all together.

I still love the game but I am afraid that the game is not going where everyone thought it would be. And to try and keep growing my channel I don't know whether I should try to implement my niche in a different game or just flip the script all together.

My biggest fear is that I switch my niche and try to go to a different game. It does SUPER well but then if I get sick of the game or burnt out and try something else I will lose all viewership.

This fear is also understandable because I can tell you that when I stream Sea of Thieves I average around 5-8 viewers that are constantly chatting. But when I switch to LITERALLY any other game my viewership will drop to 2-3 average viewers.

I just need to hear another opinion on what I should do and what game I should have in the back of my mind incase this "Pirate Purge" happens.

anything helps!

Like the Title, My YouTube channel name is Boring Gamer and someone pointed out that I should change the name cause it's not good for a gaming channel so do you think I should change it? Or leave it as it is?

So this is more of a tech frustration post. I invested in a really nice laptop (at least I thought it was really nice). I got a Lenovo Yoga I7; 16 ram and almost 500 gb of space. I wasn't planning on playing extremely crazy quality games that would take a real gaming PC, but I expected to be able to diversify and play lots more complex games to improve my channel content. It's been great until I ran into this issue playing Amenti. I was playing Stardew, Simulators, Night at the office, etc. and they ran amazingly! Amenti runs okay at first, just enough where I could make a video about it and I'm really excited about the game, but I got this error:

"Out of video memory trying to allocate memory resource." and this is right at the end and the game actually makes a room where I'm soft locked and can't progress.

I'm running nothing else but OBS with super tweaked settings I spent hours scouring reddit, etc. to get my mp4s to not be .50 frames per second and was so happy to solve that. Now, I'm sitting there for 10 mins freaking out bcs my game crashed and won't let me click out to go to my desktop lol.

I looked it up and I'm overwhelmed. I heard it's an intel processor 13th and 14th gen thing? I feel so out of my realm these days buying anything and I spent so much on this laptop... Does anyone run into stuff like this? I'm worried I won't be able to do my channel anymore and waste money on games.

Just as the title says.

I still remember the old days when gameplays where in full display, with their music and stuff.

I want to know how to protect/prepare for the copyright claims gameplays may generate. I know the basic stuff about the music of said games but how do I deal with it? Should I turn the music to 0 and add a free copyright music in the background?

Also, which companies do the most amount of copyright claims for their games? I know one if the is NIntendo but what about the other? As long as the game music is not playing in the gameplays is fine?

I deeply apologize if there too many questions in one post. I just wanna be ready on how to deal with this stuff as I don't want to get strikes left and right. And thank you!

Is it okay to put Undertale and Deltarune OSTs as background music in your videos?... I'm really confused as I asked AI and it said no and I won't earn money that way..

No fake persona or anything (but admittedly a fantasy avatar) no overly sexualized things. Would people even watch it? I would do facecam but am just hesitate due to privacy reasons.

However, I do have a fun concept for a vtuber model.

If for example I want to stream the indie horror Granny Live, how do I appear in the category (perhaps YouTube call this something different). I don't see any settings in YouTube studio for this and can't find the right search to get my answer or Google or YouTube.

I make playthroughs, compilation and various tutorial/guide videos for games. They are often without commentary, but that is irrelevant to the question. I ask in general.
I've heard Nintendo is very strict about this and you can't set their games up for monetization.

Do you know of any game publishers whose games cannot be monetized at all or only with permission on youtube?

I've read similar things about rockstar games, but I don't know how up to date they are and what the current positions are. Is there any summary material on this?

I was wondering how you handle streaming and playing games that use AI generated assets. I am mostly thinking about indie games made by solo developers or small teams, where AI generated art, music, or dialogue is becoming more common.

I see AI as a useful tool for small devs, while I understand others have concerns about the lack of a "human touch" or the ethics of these tools.

Do you guys care if the game that you stream/play has AI generated assets in it, or if the game is good, the game is good?

I use this random thumbnail and didn't want to use a thumbnail anymore to stream but I can't see the option to remove thumbnail or use new stream settings anymore and I can't remove the thumbnail from the default Live streaming dashboard, I tried transferring the account and changing the stream keys but nothing seems to reset these settings, The only option is to use custom events every time I livestream but those are a pain to set up every single time when you just want to click go live

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if you find a way to fix please help me out

Title is fairly self explanatory lol

I’m starting a gaming channel soon and haven’t 100% decided on a face cam or not. Out of the gamers I enjoy watching, a majority of them use a cam, but some don’t and it doesn’t really bother me as a viewer

I feel like a face cam can help with feeling connected to a creator as an audience because you get to know the YouTubers appearance and expressions more, on the other hand, if I didn’t do a facecam then I wouldn’t have to shower or put on nice clothes lol

Curious if other people have a preference as a viewer!

Hey yall as the title says I am looking to know if and how I can make polls to a channel I am moderating with my friends

I can mute and timeout people in chat BUT I do not know how and if I can make polls to the live

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Edit:
In case anyone has this problem in the future - you change it in the creator studio in the settings , under permissions you invite the other person using their email and then they have editor access to your YouTube channel

Hello, i have been playing pc game cricket 07 for last 4 5 months and now was planning to bring Asphalt Legends to my channel by planning it play on my mobile.

Is this okay mix to platform or should i stick to one??

Also is it okay mixing games??

Let me know your thoughts and opinions.

I'm new on YouTube and I'm wondering if some of you know good practices when it comes to mix shorts that are more like gameplay moments and more entertaining videos that are not related to gameplay at all but still talks about retro gaming and gamigin general. Also lets plays and more entertaining stuff together? At the same time if some of you would like to take a sneak peak into my channel and help me with what i could improve would be super appreciated.

My dad is legally blind, so he was using an extension on chrome that read youtube live chat of any page he was on, be it a friends or his own. It would read only the chat and nothing else. But that extension has not been updated or is no longer supported. This issue is we can’t find another that does similar. Every other extension or app only reads chat when hes live. Which is not what he wants.

We are looking for an extension or an app that will read live youtube chat of any channel he goes to.

Hi guys,

I want to start creating YouTube gaming content and I have for a very long time. My issue is I can’t decide what type of gaming content to create.

1. creating getting platinum content with twists such as each death I have to eat a chilli to make the videos more interesting. I really enjoy getting platinums and this is the main reason I would enjoy making this content. My main issue with this niche is that it takes a very long time to record the videos, as platinums can very easily range from 20 to 50 hours. This wouldn’t be a problem, but I do work 9-5 job and I worry that I won’t be able to post often.

2. Making challenge gaming videos similar to platinum content, but just without getting the platinum. So say like playing 5-10 hours of a game, doing this challenge and then editing to show the funniest moment etc. this idea is more doable in the sense of how much time I have in a week and would be less stressful getting our content weekly. My issue there wouldn’t be much of a beginning and finish if you know what I mean and it’s not really a niche.

Please let me know what you guys think, I wanna start posting asap. I know I can try different things to see what works and I prefer, but I would just like some advice. Thank you so much for reading.

I just want to record games at the highest resolution and fps

So recently I got a new pc, recorded a lets play episode that looked good for the footage. When I upload to youtube the quality decreases by a lot. I’ve seen a lot of people recommend upscaling to 1440p for youtubes vp9 codec but it still looks worse after doing that. I feel like I’m tearing my hair out trying to figure this issue out. Any help is welcomed greatly!

This is totally a dumb question, I didn't realize that YouTube gaming recap was a thing, and I have a good feeling I could've been in a top % of a YouTuber, I was looking for it and I can't locate it anywhere, yes I've updated the app and used the compass, I just want to know Did I wait to long And now I can't access the stats anymore. Thanks for the read.

I know content batching works for other content types but for gaming I wanted to implement it into my work flow as opposed to working on one piece of content to completion before starting the next, but I wasn’t sure if content batching can work for gaming content? Whether it be short or long form content i.e. shorts, 10+ minute videos etc. is content batching useful for gaming content and how can I use it effectively to get more done to produce more content on a consistent basis?