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Working on some videos lately and I've learned a lot in the past few days. I started posting on a sub reddit for Lets Play videos and it's kept me motivated to keep working on my channel. For starters, I decided to throw together a banner and a profile picture, and started to think about how to make my videos more appealing to a viewer with a limited amount of time on their hands.

Before I get to that, I'm happy to say that I was inspired to go in and make a video for Fight Night Champion last night. I recorded around 1 in the morning and got it edited and uploaded around 3am. It isn't the most amazing video I've ever made, but it's a departure from my standard fare because I'm not doing any voice-over for it.

Instead, it's in black and white and I even gave up monetizing it so I could put in some music near the end of the fight. If anything, it's good motivation and I'm happy to have done it.

Today I had the impulse to play Stranglehold again and it started out as a typical Let's Play video, but ended up being a really fun editing exercise that I learned a lot from.

I recorded about a half hour with the intention of making each level an episode, and found that there was a bit of background whine on some of the PS3 footage during cutscenes. It's kind of like the frequency sound you get when you turn on an old CRT television or monitor and it makes a kind of low, whine. Well, I decided to edit that out, and one thing led to another and I found myself looking at the video and wondering if someone with limited time or a short attention span would even make it into the gameplay portion of the video.

The first two minutes are me giving an intro, setting up subtitles, running the intro cinematics, and then starting the game. According to metrics, average user attention span is about 3 minutes, so I decided to just cut out the part of the video where I was setting up subtitles and giving an intro to the game. I found that I just happened to naturally start the video around a minute or two into it when the title screen came up, and I just cut it to start there instead.

I cut out the cinematic intro and the opening cutscene for the game, and cut out all the loading screens. I truncated the gameplay to just show the action highlights and none of the in-between moments where I'm running around, looking for ammo or finding the next area.

I took a several minute long cutscene and trimmed it to the main points only: you enter a bar, a bad guy gets spooked and a drug deal goes bad, the hero takes out the bad guys. It ended up going from a serious tone to a comedic one when you re-edit everything to be more fast paced.

Overall I took a 30 minute video that would have been a long play of a level with every last bit of footage used and trimmed it to a tight and entertaining 13 minute video.

I also spent some time and put together an intro bumper for my next video with pieces salvaged from this project. I'm really happy to have learned so much and I know now that I can never really go back to the long, uncut footage approach from before. I have to focus in on setting a fast pace early and just show the best moments of each playthrough.

It's exciting to me because now I can freely play any game I want and do voice-over for it, and then I can edit it down in post production and take out any part of the voice over or video I don't like.

I'm very happy!

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Note to self - Always plug the USB cable on the capture card directly into the device I'm streaming from. I forgot to take it out of the PS4 when I was using the PS3 and after an hour the PS4 shut down to save energy and I lost tonight's session. Will continue from where I left off at least!

Alright so a supplemental note here. I recently purchased a laptop that has enough power behind it to edit my videos and render them in a really rapid manner. I'm very happy with it! But there is something I forgot to record for my own interest and use next time I decide to start my work on a fresh computer.

It's very important that when you plug in the USB Blue Microphone (Nessie) that you go into the recording settings and make sure its set to 44100Hz CD Quality instead of 48K DVD quality. If you choose 48K you get a hissing static in the background of your recordings when you use Audacity. At 44K you don't get that problem. It drove me crazy trying to figure out what was causing that static and I thought it might have been a faulty USB port. On the old laptop I would change ports and the problem would go away, but I think that had more to do with clearing defaults each time.

Secondly, I had some sound quality issues on the recordings. S sounds were very harsh and sounded like the gain was up too high. After testing, I found that it sounded bad because the laptop was outputting HDMI to a television, and each had their own volume settings. If the gain on the laptop was too high it affected the sound quality on the output of the television. Turning the laptop volume down to 50 or less and then turning up the television volume resulted in clear sound with no more harsh S sounds.

I had a similar problem with my audio recordings a while ago. Recording too high creates a lot of audio clipping, so you have to record at a low volume and amplify it to get clear audio.

Not a driver issue, not a port issue, not a faulty microphone, just a combination of recording outside specified ranges that the microphone can support and gain balance issues between the laptop sound and television sound competing with each other.

Game recommendations

I'm thinking of what games people would like to see, and I'm open to suggestions. Here are some of the games I own right now, not including computer games. Let me know if there's something you would like to see!
PS4 Games
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Aaru's Awakening
Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed
Alien Isolation
Apotheon
Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender DX
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
Assassin's Creed Unity
Batman: Arkham Knight
Battlefield 4
Battlefield Hardline
Broken Age
Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Contrast
CounterSpy
Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition
Dead Or Alive 5 Last Round
Destiny
Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil Edition
Doki-Doki Universe
Don't Starve: Console Edition
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Driveclub
Entwined
Ether One
FEZ
Far Cry 4
Futuridium EP Deluxe
Game of Thrones Season 1
Grand Theft Auto 5
Grim Fandango Remastered
Grow Home
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Hohokum
inFAMOUS First Light
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition
Journey
Kung Fury: Street Rage
Limbo
Lords of the Fallen
Mad Max
Mercenary Kings
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Metal Gear Soliv V: Ground Zeroes
Metro Redux (Last Light/2033)
Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor
Mortal Kombat X
Never Alone
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood
Outlast
Pier Solar and the Great Architects
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare
Race The Sun
Resogun
Rocket League
Rocksmith 2014
Rogue Legacy PS4
Samurai Warriors 4
Secret Ponchos
Shadow Warrior
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Skulls of the Shogun
Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones
Stick it to The Man
Strider
Styx: Master of Shadows
Super Exploding Zoo!
Super Meat Boy!
Super Time Force Ultra
Tales From The Borderlands
Tembo The Badass Elephant
The Last of Us Remastered
The Swapper
The Unfinished Swan
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Thief
Titan Attacks!
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
Tower of Guns
TowerFall Ascension
Transitor
Trine 2: Complete Story
Tropico 5
Unmechanical: Extended
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Watch Dogs
Xeodrifter
PS3 Games
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Aaru's Awakening
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed IV
BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Origins
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 4
Binary Domain
Bioshock Infinite
Borderlands 2
Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons
Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Call Of Duty: Black Ops II
Call Of Duty: Ghosts
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
Chariot
Closure
CounterSpy
Crysis 3
Dark Souls II
Dead Or Alive 5 Plus
Dead Space 3
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Destiny
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dishonored
DmC Devil May Cry
Doki-Doki Universe
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon's Crown
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
DuckTales: Remastered
Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition
Dyad
Entwined
FEZ
Fallout 3
Far Cry 3
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
Fight Night Champion
Final Fantasy 13
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
GRID 2
God Of War 3
God Of War: Ascension
Gran Turismo 6
Grand Theft Auto V
Hitman HD Collection (silent assassin, contracts, blood money)
Hitman: Absolution
Hohokum
Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami 2
ibb & obb
Ico
inFAMOUS
inFAMOUS 2
Injustice: Gods Among Us
Jet Set Radio
Journey
Kick & Fennick
KickBeat
Killzone 3
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Kung Fu Rabbit
Labyrinth Legends
LittleBigPlanet Karting
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Machinarium
Malicious
Mass Effect
Max Payne 3
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metro: Last Light
Mirror's Edge
Mutant Mudds Deluxe
NBA 2K14
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Oblivion
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD
Papa & Yo
Payday 2
Pinball Arcade
Poker Night At The Inventory 2
Pro Evolution Soccer 2014
Prototype 2
Puppeteer
Quantum Conundrum
Race The Sun
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
Rayman Legends
Red Dead Redemption
Remember Me
Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles
Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles
Rocksmith
Rocksmith 2014
Rogue Legacy PS3
Saints Row: The Third
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Skullgirls Encore
Sleeping Dogs
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Spec Ops: The Line
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones
Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark
Stranglehold
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Tales From The Borderlands
The Cave
The Last Of Us
The Stick Of Truth
The Swapper
The Unfinished Swan
The Wolf Among Us
Thief
Thomas Was Alone
Titan Attacks!
Tomb Raider
Tower of Guns
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Unmechanical: Extended
Vanquish
Vessel
Walking Dead Season 1
WipEout HD
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Yakuza 4
Zen Pinball 2
PSone/PS2 Games
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Chrono Cross
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Grandia
Shadow of the Colossus
Vagrant Story
Xenogears
PSVita Games
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Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender DX PS Vita
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND
BreakQuest: Extra Evolution
Broken Age
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
Counterspy PS Vita
Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
Destiny Of Spirits
Doki-Doki Universe PS Vita
Dokuro
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
Dragon's Crown PS Vita
Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition
Entwined
Fat Princess: Piece of Cake
Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection
Final Fantasy X HD Remaster
Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster
Final Horizon
Futuridium EP Deluxe
Galaga Legions
Germinator PS Vita
Gods Eater Burst
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Gravity Rush
Grim Fandango Remastered
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd
Hohokum PS Vita
Killzone Mercenary
Knytt Underground PS Vita
Limbo PS Vita
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut PS Vita
Lumines Electronic Symphony
Machinarium
Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection
Metal Slug XX
ModNation Racers: Road Trip
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
MonsterBag
Muramasa Rebirth
Murasaki Baby
Mutant Mudds Deluxe PS Vita
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD PS Vita
OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood
Persona 4 Golden
Pinball Arcade PS Vita
PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD
PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate
Pure Chess
Race The Sun
Rayman Origins PS Vita
Resistance: Burning Skies
Rogue Legacy PS Vita
Sine Mora
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time PS Vita
Smart As...
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed PS VITA
Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny
Soul Sacrifice
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones
Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark
Street Fighter X Tekken PS Vita
Super Exploding Zoo!
Super Meat Boy!
Super Stardust Delta
Super Time Force Ultra
Surge Deluxe
Sword Art Online -Hollow Fragment-
Tearaway
Terraria PS Vita
The Swapper PS Vita
The Unfinished Swan PS Vita
Thomas Was Alone
Titan Attacks!
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Unit 13
Urban Trial Freestyle PS Vita
Velocity Ultra
When Vikings Attack!
Wipeout 2048
Woah Dave!
Worms: Battle Islands
Xeodrifter
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward