RE: Posting gaming videos on youtube
June 27, 2014 at 7:05 pm
(June 27, 2014 at 6:26 pm)Chad32 Wrote: The platform would likely be PC games. I think I have a good PC, but I'm not sure where I could look for the exact specs.
Well it needs a good graphics card and processor if you are doing it all on one machine. You have to bare in mind you are both creating the recording and playing a game. If the PC can't quite handle it you have to sacrifice graphical quality and/or recording quality. There is the option of using 2 PC's and a external device like the elgato game cap. I can't remember exactly what it cost, something like £150-200 maybe?
(June 27, 2014 at 6:26 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I don't have a big budget. Not having a lot of spare money is what's holding me back the most, because if I was going to do Let's Plays, I would need to purchase games somewhat frequently.
Not as often as you think, depending on how long you're episodes are and how frequently you post. A game like Skyrim can give you hundreds of episodes that will last weeks/months even short games split into 10-15 min episodes give you like 10-15.
The issue is with software and hardware, a beast graphics card and processor will cost you a shit ton. That with good editing software, capture software, headset and Mic could cost you hundreds or thousands even. Youtube was easy a few years back, I got a 300,000 view video with £30 capture device and £50 editing software. Now everyone has £1000 PC's uses Photoshop for thumbnails (like £200 a year now) and professional editing software's like Vegas pro (£300?) and Adobe after effects (£900) for intros/outros.
I was okay with cheap software because I only needed to show other competitive players and tournament officials the things. No doubt you could manage it the hard way and do without, you will however struggle to compete with those willing to pirate such software. People just expect much better production quality now, even from amateurs. Most people will immediately disappear if anything about the quality is sub par due to the huge number of gaming videos they could be watching.
(June 27, 2014 at 6:26 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I guess a cheaper thing to do would be to just talk about news and atheism and such. stuff I can find that I don't have to buy. I don't really have anything to say about piracy laws, but I wouldn't want to steal games and stuff just to do Youtube videos.
Honestly, unless you are absolutely determined do gaming stuff I'd avoid it. It's a lot of work for very little payoff. I know a small army of gamers trying the youtube thing, some of them have been working at it for years and barely getting anything aside from hate comments.
If I were to do anything it would be live streaming on things like twitch. You still need a good PC but no editing software requires, no hours of editing or being ignored in the millions of other videos. You just need a couple of bits of cheap software and the patience to gain the first few viewers. The atmosphere is friendlier too.
