This thread needs more bumps. Good luck and all the best for your channel! :)
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Okay, I'll give my feedback related to your League video and also use this as a bump so more people can see your thread.
I only watched your Illaoi game because for some weird reason, Youtube would not load other games from you, so I sticked to what I could. You showed a nice gameplay and an average game that entertained me, I like watching League videos in general. But well, what do you have to offer to your viewers? You make brief comments while you play a full game and shares your reasoning behind things, say about mistakes you commited or your doubts in certain cases, but that is something I believe I can see in pretty much most league videos. Examples of other league youtubers:
ThePeacePidgeon makes awesome montages like a pro, its very enjoying to watch (btw, he was employed by Riot because of that);
Sp4zie has fun playing the game with his friends and that fun spreads to the viewers as well, making it entertaining to watch. As a bonus, he also makes simple edits;
Trick2g overreacts to everything and screams so much that you can really feel the hype in his videos, his confidence in what he does. Even tough I don't like when he flames his subs or anyone whatsoever, I enjoy his videos;
Trinnimortal makes videos where he takes good clips from games with his friends and feature then in his video alongside very nice edits, he puts music in the right spots, sometimes you can really see the hype building up from the music, what he says and what he does;
Foxdrop and Stonewall008 preemptively records games and later on commentates on what they were doing, what they should have done and also talks about the champion played in the current meta and that with no pause, making it consistent;
and many more with their different methods I don't want to talk anymore :P
Do you want to specialize in making full gameplay? There is no editing involved but you must be confident in what you'll say and show to keep your viewers interested. And if you want to gain new viewers, I personally don't think full gameplay is the right approach, maybe you could make some basic cuts and do some small montages to make more fast and filled with content videos.
By the way some personal opinion, I thought the sound was really weird to hear. I could hear champion's voices but no announcer and almost no sound effect from spells, that annoyed me a bit. Try using some music (though you must watch out for youtube's copyright, and that I can't help you with) to fill the gaps where you don't commentate. The noise of your mic was kinda distracting, and I think you can fix that with some audio editing program like Audacity if you can't afford a better mic. Maybe you can research more about editting stuff in some videos.
As advice, I suggest trying to learn some basic editing and make some pretty thumbnails and cool titles, they can be click baity but you must watch for not overdoing it as click bait gets very annoying. Also, music is good.
I guess that finishes my feedback, I'll stick to your channel unless I lose interest, you must watch out for that league videos rivalry, huh? haha. Good luck with your channel, Eskimo!
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Thanks a lot for all the advice :)
Unfortunate to hear you couldn't open the other videos though, they were all recorded with the same format so I don't really know why it would be like that. And yeah my mic starts to act up a bit when I unmute so it was a bad time for me to record since it seemed like sister left the kid for something idk. Ill start playing around with some stuff like that since schools ending next week, Ill have plenty of time to play around with new things. If you have any editing software you could recommend let me know, college atm so that is why I can't really justify setting money aside to upgraded my computer and software if I don't really have many people who like me, since I can play at a decent rate for myself after all. And thanks for some of those youtuber examples, I don't watch many so that would help me try and find a format to work with.
Ill try and look into some software now to help me out. Ill play around with some different ideas for my videos, have one more full game I had recorded from when I did ranked so after that Ill try posting some other ideas around that then and see which one suits me best.
A lot of my friends don't have that much time to play so I don't think I can get many times recording gameplay with them, especially since I wont be able to cut the audio, from what I found for obs, I am unable to separate the audio tracks because my headset is not perfect. If I were to do that I would be unable to hear my games audio again, so ya, its not as good on my end to do that. But ya thanks for the advice, I think Ill just stick to full gameplays for games that need it, aka ones with stories then.
But ill try some editing then, because since I don't really pay that much attention to the meta and whatnot, I don't think Ill be able to talk for a whole 30-40 min straight about things in game and more. Really appreciate your time in the advice though :)
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For recording I really don't know what you can use, but I'll leave two things that may help you about that. In this video another League of Legends youtuber talk about what he uses to make his videos. I think it would be a good idea to give that a watch, since it may help you with the tools. And a pretty standard editing program is Sony Vegas, that's the one most people use because it's relatively easy to use if you give enough practice. There's Adobe Premiere too, a professional one, but I think it's harder to understand how to work with.
By the way, keep an eye out in this site. It sometimes showcase recording programs, some weeks ago there was a recording tool called Action! for free that day only. Maybe you can find it again for free.
And about not being able to watch some videos don't worry, I guess it was a problem on my internet/mobile device since long videos take longer to load and if they take too long, they timeout.
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Ill give the video a look at later on today, thanks again. And Ill be sure to check on that site too.
Hopefully Ill be aiming for either next week or the week after for some uploads that are not full game commentaries then.
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Bump!
Good luck on your channel! I could give you advice, but I possess no abilities in how to stream, since my connection doesn't allow me that...
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So I started a new youtube channel to try and see if people like my personality or not. That way if I can start getting a following I can have a reason to upgrade my computer so I can record and stream in higher quality for my viewers. Using OBS for my recording right now and only have a few league of legends games uploaded but I am planning to do a few lets plays for other games, one I have in mind is Tales of Zestria, just need to find some time to record it. Bought it with the anime sale and am so excited to finally play a tales game again.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDesertEskimo
But ya if you like me, share with your friends or something, the sooner I get a bigger following the sooner my quality and amount of videos will increase. Am planning on doing lets plays on any of my many steam games, probably a few league videos, and some first look for newer indie games in the future. I would stream too atm, but my laptop just can not handle it with any "decent" quality. Sorry for the bad quality though but if I can get a following I will be doing much better quality content eventually. But ya any help is appreciated, and if you have any suggestions be sure to comment on my videos or this thread on what I could do to make my videos more entertaining. I'm kind of shy so I'm trying to get over it for future jobs and whatnot by getting into youtube so ya.
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