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Hello everyone! It's been a while, hasn't it?
This is sort of a calming/meditation/whatever remix that I am doing of the "Hope, Isolation, Pray" theme from Seiken Densetsu 3. I started this on a really long time ago, and I kinda got to a point where I was stuck and I eventually gave up on it in favor of some other projects. Today, I stumbled across it while looking for some other files, and I decided to give it another try now since I have better sounding samples and whatnot. This mix is meant to feel kinda airy and empty at first, and then build up slowly. I'm trying to decide where I should go with it, so it does cut off abruptly.
Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think. Any feedback is helpful. Thanks
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46 minutes ago, InfernoZN said:
I would actually recommend Adobe Creative Cloud especially if you're a student since they do a discount, it's about $22 a month and they offer basically all of their programs, so you could dabble in other programs as well if need be.
I was looking into that. Adobe's software just seems a little too complicated for me at the moment, but I am planning on stepping up to their stuff once I get a better understanding of editing and, hopefully gain a decent following. I have a long ways to go, but my goal is to grow to a point where I can monetize my YT channel, and maybe have them pay for all that good stuff.
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20 hours ago, FenixDown said:
I'm a small-time Let's Player though I haven't released anything new in a couple months or so. So far I've mostly done classic RPGs like the SNES Final Fantasy games and Chrono Trigger, though I've also done the early Zeldas and some 2D platformers. I take a walkthrough approach to the RPGs, explaining the mechanics of the system and any battle strategies I know of for specific situations, etc. I also usually read dialogue and give the characters voices, admittedly to varying degrees of success, though I have gotten positive comments for it from time to time.
I have some playlists linked in my signature but if anyone's interested in checking out my channel, the link is right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Ek_bkrHSNhwS96nTVlX5Q
Nice. I always wanted to check out some Let's Plays from old school games. I'll be checking your channel out!
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19 minutes ago, José the Bronx Rican said:
Late again, what's good?
Your gameplays seem fine, no glaring issues. No worries if the face cam rate doesn't match game rate: if you followed the resample advice, you won't have any blurring between frames, and things won't look noticeably jaggy as long as any source is at least around 30fps. Cams are tricky, though: some may say they record at 30, but actually record at 15 and then just double the frames... not cool.
One thing about your face camming that I've noticed is the wide variation in color and lighting in each vid, which is natural considering you're recording indoors from, I suppose, a living room or bedroom, but they could use more quality and consistency. Proper lighting wherever you can, and/or good color correction wherever you can't, will work wonders, but that's outside the scope of the advice I can offer right now; I can't claim to be an expert on it at any rate, but know that Vegas has many great tools for color correction, including Color Corrector and White Balance. I'm sure there are good tutorials out there for it; maybe I can link something later.
Thanks man! I have a LED lamp that I am using for lighting. I didn't realize it when I got it, but it is a super bright white. As dumb as it sounds, I've been taping some paper over it like a rigged up light filter. I tried yellow paper first and now I'm using white. Plus, I had it in different positions around my desk, trying to figure out where is the best place to put it without blinding myself. I think I finally found a decent spot for it now. I found a few random ones scattered around the net, but nothing that really explains all of the features and how to use them. Everything is trial and error at the moment. If you do find something, let me know.
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Appreciate it! I definitely have a lot of work to do. I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I'm just not very savvy with YouTube. There's a ton of "get started" guides, but every single one of them are drasticly different. It's hard to tell what actually works and what doesn't, so I try to reach out to people that have been doing this for a while. I've been checking out others and they do have a formula for their videos and they stick to it pretty closely. I'm still in the experimentation stage, so every video is slightly different as I learn new stuff, but I want to develop some sort of baseline and build off of that. Since my channel kinda focuses on three things, I'll need to come up with three different standards for them, I guess. Or maybe I should split up the channel. I don't know yet. But I'm researching how to make custom channel art and all of that stuff now and re-learning Photoshop.
For the audio, I think I'm moving in the right direction with that last game play. I boosted the mic volume a bit, but it sounds like there's reverb on it or something. Maybe the mic was too far away. I'm trying to find a way to keep the mic from picking up the sounds from me using my controller/keyboard/mouse. I have a Blue Snowball mic now and I'm trying to figure out the best way to use it.
I'm a major introvert and I'm camera shy. With that said, doing the Outlast gameplay with face cam is the scariest thing I've done this year, so this is kinda like therapy for me. I have a hard time trying to play a game and just talk about stuff at the same time. I lose focus on one or the other, so I just shut up and play sometimes. LOL.
I'm still trying to figure out how to make better thumbnails. It's been years since I mess with Photoshop, but I want to make something standard for all my videos that incorporates my avatar. I'll be figuring it out soon.
Since my internet is ass, I can't upload as often as I'd like, I live in a small town, so the internet is not the best. It literally takes me half a day to upload one video and downloading new games is out of the question at the moment. Once I find a better ISP, I will be able to post up much more content. Hopefully I'll have that straight this weekend.
I have a queue of Steam games that I never played, so I was trying to get them knocked out before I get the new games, but I understand that playing new releases will get more views, but at the same time, I would end up competing with guys like Dashie and runJDrun and I don't stand a chance of getting views if they end up playing the same game.
I'm going all in with this channel. I want to have some fun, do something different, and promote a little positivity. I appreciate your advice and I will use it!
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20 minutes ago, sephfire said:
Are there any specific pointers you're looking for? I can't offer much help with Vegas or After Effects use (and YouTube is an unpredictable platform in the best of times), but I've been doing the YouTube thing for a while.
Yo! How are ya Seph?
Well I need a ton of pointers actually...I have been looking for feedback my volume levels between my mic and the game play footage. My mic was too low in my first few game plays, so I adjusted it in my latest one. I'm just wondering if it actually does sound better, or is it too loud now? My hearing has gone to crap thanks to my last couple of jobs, so I have a hard time with sound balancing and EQing unfortunately.
Also, I'm looking for tips to add more flair to my channel and make my videos more entertaining (thumbnails, banners, animations, ect.) especially for the review videos. I really want to relay the information better about a subject that I am deeply passionate about, and capture the viewer's attention at the same time. Plus, I'm trying to get over the crazy amount of nervousness I have on camera. I've been getting some great feedback that I will apply soon, but more will help.
And how do you actually grow your channel? When I had my Blue Magic channel, it had a pretty decent following even though I wasn't really doing much. Now, since I'm actually interested in YouTube, I can't really grow it that well.
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4 hours ago, timaeus222 said:
I'm not sure there is an easy way to do it without Adobe After Effects, but this is maybe something you can try.
That might be what I need! I'll experiment with it a little later.
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4 hours ago, timaeus222 said:
I used Adobe After Effects, which has an audio spectrum feature that takes input from an audio layer.
I have to see if there's something like that for Vegas. That is pretty slick.
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10 hours ago, LuckyXIII said:
Podcast vids! Pretty interesting. What kind ofstuff do you plan on talking about in your future podcasts?
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22 minutes ago, Rukunetsu said:
I'm here as well. I do simple upload - just using some basic stuff in Sony Vegas for uploads.
I always dig your music. Your Street Fighter mixes are perfect to listen to while I'm doing cardio.
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4 hours ago, timaeus222 said:
Been a gamer on YouTube since 2007. Used to make a lot of Mega Man and Pokemon videos. I still kinda make videos, but fairly busy these days.
http://youtube.com/timaeus22222
I also have a music channel, where I put most of my music tutorials and ReMixes:
You Naruto remix is sick! Subbed! How do you add the music visualization animation at the bottom? I would like to try that in my remix videos. I record myself doing a short game play for mine just to give people something to look at, but i want to do something more to add a little flair to my vids.
I'll definitely check out your tutorial vids as well. Eventually I'll be making more music to put in my videos.
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16 minutes ago, TheChargingRhino said:
I just do remakes.
No actual remixes yet.
Haven't posted in a long time, though...
Oh, I understand. I should have said "fellow OCR goers" or something along those lines.
But still, its cool to let people know that you're out there.
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1 hour ago, TheChargingRhino said:
RIGHT HERE.
Though I just remake VG music...
Anyway
https://www.youtube.com/user/mericalgirl1234
(You can't change the actual name, just your username...)
Nice! It's good to see fellow remixers out there. I used to be subscribed to a bunch of remixers on my old channel. Now, I've lost track of many of them and a lot of them aren't very active anymore. I'll check out your vids.
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Are there any OCR folks out there that mess around on YouTube? I would like to network with more experienced people and learn some better video editing techniques. I do other things on YT, but I'm mainly interested in learning how to make quality game play videos. I have a bunch that are in my queue, and this is my way of motivating myself to get them knocked out. I tend to buy a lot of them when there's a Steam sale going on, and I don't actually get around to playing them. I'm trying to be the next Dashie....No, not really, I'm not that funny, but I do want to get better at it and more comfortable on camera for a future project of mine.
I was looking around the webz for a community dedicated to this topic, but all I could find were as bunch of Sub 4 Sub threads. That doesn't really seem genuine to me. I'm looking for pointers and critiques to get better at using my Vegas software and people that subscribe because they want to, not because they expect me to subscribe back. With that in mind, I want to get better and more entertaining.
Anyway, please drop a link to your channel and tell us what it's all about.
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I never beat any of the Ninja Gaiden games playing on the NES, but I did beat them using a emulator.
And lets not forget...
I only got past this stage once in my life, then I died immediately afterwards. I got a SNES the next day and never attempted this game again. Maybe I should do a "let's play" series one day...
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Ninja Gaiden and those GOT DANG BIRDS!!!!!
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On 05/12/2017 at 2:11 PM, timaeus222 said:
You can always try it, and upload a private video to see how the facecam and gameplay sync up.
Well, I gave it a shot with my part 2 game play. The face cam audio/video was slightly out of sync, but I was able to fix it and render them at 60 fps. My mic volume ended up being a little low again. I'm still trying to get that part straight. I keep having to mess with the EQ on the mic because it takes a lot of the bass out of my voice. LOL. I might need to upgrade the camera and get a stand alone mic.
Does anyone have recommendations for a decent camera and mic?
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2 hours ago, timaeus222 said:
Yeah, that's definitely Vegas.
Thanks to @José the Bronx Rican for teaching me this a while back---60 FPS is definitely doable in Vegas, as long as your source files are 60 FPS or above, and youtube does support 60 FPS for HD videos.
To do that, look above your preview window for a rounded square with a cursor icon in it, and click that to open Project Properties. That allows you to set up things like the video dimensions, pixel aspect ratio, and frame rate. So, if you set your framerate to be 59.940, and choose Deinterlace method: None, it'll turn out to be around 60 FPS after rendering. Be sure to right-click your video clips and check under Properties to see if the frame rate in the Media tab makes sense (for instance, 59.662 FPS makes sense). For more smoothness, right-click the video clip and go to Switches > Disable resample.
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As for your Outlast video, your microphone is pretty quiet. The video quality seems pretty good to me. But I think the 60 FPS is pretty important for gameplay footage like this that (probably) supports it.
I saw a tutorial that mentioned adjusting the FPS, but I wasn't sure if I should mess with it or not because my face cam can only record at 30 FPS. I think my screen capturing software can do 60 FPS, but I don't know how to check it yet. Since I had two streams of video that I had to sync up before I render it, I was kinda scared to mess with those settings. Will the final video render at 60 FPS even though my face cam only recorded at 30, or should I be looking at a better camera?
I will turn the mic up a little on the next one. I wasn't sure how to balance my mic and the sound coming from the game. Thank you @timaeus222. I'll experiment with these things and probably do a quick gameplay to see how it comes together.
Any advice @José the Bronx Rican?
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I finally settled on some video editing software that I like. Vegas Movie Studio. I guess it's either a lower level version of the Vegas software, or I managed to catch it on sale, but I only paid $80 for it. But it has the all of tools that I need and I enjoy experimenting with it. My only thing is, I'm trying to make sure everything looks and sounds somewhat decent, since I don't have alot of fancy hardware. My camera is pretty basic HD720p with a build in mic. I think I will use the mic on my headset though since it picks up less noise when I'm typing or using a controller. Eventually, I will upgrade my camera and get an real mic, but I'm not sure what to go with yet. Any advice about Blue Yeti mics?
AMD actually released a decent capturing software called ReLive and it was free, so I can dig that.
I will like to take an opportunity to mention my YouTube channel though. I didn't want to make a whole new thread about it, but I do humbly ask, for subscribers.
I am doing some game play vids. Mostly older games that I haven't had a chance to play. I will be catching up, but I want to get the old stuff knocked out first. I have a habit of buying alot of games when I catch them on a Steam sale, and not playing them.
I also have a few remixes posted. I have around 40 that I will eventually post, and I'll post more as I finish them, but I do want to get them out there at least. The judges are shooting me down around here! LMAO!!!!! Its all good though.
I will also do product reviews. I'm focusing more on black owned businesses mainly to boost awareness of new products and services. These businesses invest back into their surrounding communities, so I want to, at least, get the word out.
Please check me out and give me feedback on the audio/video quality. As always, I'm trying to improve.
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I am selling my unlocked, Sprint Galaxy Note 5, 32 GB, Gold Platinum phone. For $450. I'm open to negotiate as long as it isn't a crazy price. And I am down to trade, depending on what you have to offer.
There are three reasons why I'm selling it at this price:
1: There is a small crack in the upper right hand corner, but it does not have an effect on the display. (pic attached)
2: No SIM card.
3: *****VERY IMPORTANT***** I had this phone rooted. I flashed a stock ROM on it and it is fully functional, but if I remember correctly, you may not be able to download official updates from Sprint/Samsung. You would have to research and flash new software yourself, and assume all of the risks that go along with flashing/rooting. I am not going to offer help with these things and I can't help you if you brick it. But, there are a ton of resources available out there that can help you unbrick it and flash.
I loved the phone and it works amazing, but I recently had to moved to T-Mobile since Sprint's network was no good where I live and I was not able to get my phone to work on their network since it is a CDMA phone. Also, it will not work with Verizon (or at least, that is what the rep told me), so it HAS to be with Sprint. I don't know about the other smaller networks out there.
I will send it with an official Samsung charger and a blue, somewhat heavy duty case that has a kickstand and a clip. The plastic does have some wear and tear, but it is functional and the rubber is in good condition. And also, the phone already has a gorilla glass screen protector on it.
If you do decide to grab this from me, I would like you to follow up with me here, PM, or email and let me know how it is working for you once you get it all activated and whatnot. I'm not here to cheat anyone and I want you to feel confident when you buy it. If I don't hear anything from you in, say, two weeks, I'll assume you're happy with it.
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I will give Forest of Illusion a shot, if it is not taken. Just to be sure I understand, the tracks on the first disk will be fast paced?
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Can we edit our own profiles, or is that just for admin? Some of the info on mine is super old.
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Is the track list up to date?
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13 hours ago, Meteo Xavier said:
Dropping it to... the same price? I'm confused.
I edited the original post. It was $180.
Any YouTubers in the house?
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I'm very new to video editing myself, so I might not be the best person to ask. I use Vegas Movie Studio 14 and I really enjoy it since it is relatively easy to use. My only problem with it is the fact that it is sorta new, and there isn't alot of helpful tutorials out there for it yet. As far as audio, I actually use FL Studio and some of the tools built into Movie Studio if I plan on using my music in my videos. I'll refer you to one of my previous threads where I asked a similar answer, maybe it will help: