Hello, dear reader, I hope you’re doing well. This blog is going to be dedicated more to the how of creating videos rather than YouTube’s features. I will cover the basics of figuring out what equipment you need for making gaming YouTube videos, the software, and my process. I’m still very new to it all so if you have any comments to add feel free to email me at [email protected]. I can update the article if there is enough new information. You can also comment on the blog.
Hardware is important. You need to ask yourself what kind of videos you want to make. Are you going to be filming people, video games, or are you going to animate your own videos? You need to answer those questions for yourself. I realized I wanted to make videos of iPad games. This gave me a specific answer to the questions and focused my search for equipment. I needed a good iPad, an Elgato HD 60 game capture device, a lightning adapter for the iPad to connect to the Elgato device, a computer, a good microphone, headphones and a place to record.
Depending on some of your hardware choices you may have a variety of software to help you edit videos. Macs have the free iMovie software, but there are a variety of programs available. If you’re willing to increase your budget you can always go with Adobe Premiere. It works for Mac and PC. YouTube itself has several features to keep in mind. Once again, make sure you can legally monetize your videos. If you can, then you can sign up through you to for an AdSense account. When you are verified, you can then decide on what types of ads you’ll allow. YouTube now has a scheduling feature you can use for videos once it verifies you as a Creator.
My process is to hook up my iPad to the Elgato game capture device, capture video through my Mac, record audio with the microphone (you can use a headset to cover both the headphones and microphone), listen to in-game audio with a separate pair of headphones (I use earbuds rather than headphones) edit using iMovie, share the video file as a QuickTime file (the most time-consuming part), and then use a program called handbrake to compress my video and keep it at high quality. The video is then ready to upload to YouTube. Uploading to YouTube takes quite a bit of time. It can also tank the speed on your Wi-Fi. You may want to make sure no one else is trying to use the Internet when you upload your videos. You can then edit the title, add tags, and include a video description for the final product.
I know this was a very general overview of the process. I may do future posts related to specific pieces of the process in the future. Let me know if you have any questions. If you’ve never had any interest in YouTube videos then I hope this will at least give you some sense of the work involved. It certainly helped me appreciate the time spent by creators on YouTube to produce content! Have a good day, dear reader!
Hardware is important. You need to ask yourself what kind of videos you want to make. Are you going to be filming people, video games, or are you going to animate your own videos? You need to answer those questions for yourself. I realized I wanted to make videos of iPad games. This gave me a specific answer to the questions and focused my search for equipment. I needed a good iPad, an Elgato HD 60 game capture device, a lightning adapter for the iPad to connect to the Elgato device, a computer, a good microphone, headphones and a place to record.
Depending on some of your hardware choices you may have a variety of software to help you edit videos. Macs have the free iMovie software, but there are a variety of programs available. If you’re willing to increase your budget you can always go with Adobe Premiere. It works for Mac and PC. YouTube itself has several features to keep in mind. Once again, make sure you can legally monetize your videos. If you can, then you can sign up through you to for an AdSense account. When you are verified, you can then decide on what types of ads you’ll allow. YouTube now has a scheduling feature you can use for videos once it verifies you as a Creator.
My process is to hook up my iPad to the Elgato game capture device, capture video through my Mac, record audio with the microphone (you can use a headset to cover both the headphones and microphone), listen to in-game audio with a separate pair of headphones (I use earbuds rather than headphones) edit using iMovie, share the video file as a QuickTime file (the most time-consuming part), and then use a program called handbrake to compress my video and keep it at high quality. The video is then ready to upload to YouTube. Uploading to YouTube takes quite a bit of time. It can also tank the speed on your Wi-Fi. You may want to make sure no one else is trying to use the Internet when you upload your videos. You can then edit the title, add tags, and include a video description for the final product.
I know this was a very general overview of the process. I may do future posts related to specific pieces of the process in the future. Let me know if you have any questions. If you’ve never had any interest in YouTube videos then I hope this will at least give you some sense of the work involved. It certainly helped me appreciate the time spent by creators on YouTube to produce content! Have a good day, dear reader!