Put a sexy lady in the video thumbnail to trick people into watching it.

This is good Dante, actually interesting so well done you. 

You really need to do something about the sound quality though.  It isn't even that it's quiet its just coming through as really poorly recorded and that is A SHAME as what you're saying is interesting.  I'd sub to you if you ponied up for a new mic, without doubt.

You also sound like me which is a bit freaky but clearly a bonus.

Well done.

It's not the mic, it's that it was recorded really quietly, and I had to turn up the gain to have it audible, which kicked the quality on the crotch. Any future ones will have much better quality audio.

I do have a new mic anyway though.

Cheers for the feedback, will look at getting another one done soon.

I'll watch after I've played the game I promise

Video for Uni



Videos I've dun aboot games

First one I did...


Later on


The latest!


I'll have a look at yr video and I'll have some advice most likely

I hardly ever upload to YouTube now, need to do it more often.

I uploaded videos of playing Street Fighter and Mario Kart on YouTube. And my B&B music quizzes. Do they count?

I've uploaded some Atari 7800 footage, a shit attempt at Radiant Silvergun captured from a real life Saturn, and me setting fire to a Xmas pudding I made 2 years ago


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6DMZlrG3AjVhJ6mi_YHAQ

0:25 - The Pose. Bit after looks like a retirement-village ad.

Yo so Dants... what Mic do you have, and are you using Audacity?

I can't tell through the quality if you're using a pop-filter, but there are one or two moments that make me think you don't, so if you don't, definitely invest in one. 

I am not sure how you are editing things, but it's worth remembering audacity has a great function where you can select all your tracks and align them end to end in sequence which makes it a lot easier to edit different sections (turn on synclock whilst editing so stuff keeps locked together).

you're like me in that you go a mile a minute every so often, but due to the bad quality it muddies up and there just a few parts where it sounds like you are mumbling into the mic and I have no idea what you're saying, so try and pace yourself a bit better - I still struggle with that, but having a better mic helps.

The best advice I got was in response to my Dusker's review, which Matt Lees ended up watching and advising me on - video for context: 



I recorded this when pretty run down and it ended up being a bit dour. Matt's advice was all about cadence and performance and it was good. Your cadence is immediately better, but you have the same issue that I do in that you tend to trend upwards at the end of sentences, it's hard to get out of it, but It's worth keeping an eye one. Also pacing, gaps are good when they're needed and I am shit at this but it can be good to punctuate a bit more. 

A good tip for enunciation and all that was to stand up whilst you perform. Stick a towel under your feet to stop the foot noises and all that, and gesture with your hands and project forward - you can buy an articulated clamp arm that will work for most microphones and I recommend it because they're great. If you can't get one, sitting is fine but sit like you're a boarding school girl being given posture lessons. 

As for the writing, everything is good, and it definitely works for the video - the matched editing is good, and supports your points which is something a lot of gaming videos (mine included) don't bother with. Lee's advice on that was helpful - treat your audience like they're tumbling down the page and your paragraph starts are rungs for them to grab onto. Not that you haven't, but it's a great piece of advice especially for videos where people can switch of if they have it in a secondary tab. 

For length, the video sweet spot is 7-11 minutes apparently... a rule I frequently break because look at how long this fucking reply is.

Anyway, this is all advice, not really criticism as it's not bad stuff beyond the technical and performance aspects which just need working on. Heck, I need to work on it too, it's hard to get good at it, and it is a long process to find your voice.

Always happy to give advice on tech and software and editing and stuff. I'm hardly a pro, but I've been chipping away at it for a year now so I think I know my stuff.

Nate wins. And his dad is a massive clock.

My favourite video ever is Stoph's Pip-Boy unboxing.

There must be examples you can chuck in, Dante had a couple in his video. If not then you're probably better off writing an article or doing a podcast, video which bears no relation to what you're talking about isn't helpful.

Thumper is deffo an exeption, it's hard to tell what the fuck is going on if you've not played it.

I don't really make videos per se, but here's one of the most fun times I had on the strim.

 

I liked your video Dants, my only observation was what others had already said, pacing during voiceover and cutting in specific clips to illustrate points. Looking forward to more.

Oh also kudos for having the guts to put yourself out there on the forum.