I decided to record some DayZ videos, but I need your help!

[whackacrow 0]

Hi guys,

I recently got DayZ and I thought that it would be a perfect game to record for Youtube, if not a way to test out my computers' recording capabilities.

I had fun recording the video, and I've got several hours of footage, some of which features my friends. I'm thinking of making more DayZ videos in the future, but I need your help: please watch the video and give me constructive feedback: ie, how should I record the video? Do I need to be more talkative/animated? Do I need to make these videos shorter/longer? Do you have any other suggestions for me?

YouTube link:

Thanks for your help, I appreciate all advice given to me!

- Whack a Crow.

[sandorski 17]

I think you over edited it. Too many short clips, feels like a Highlight vid and very disjointed.

As for dialogue, from what I saw you were doing alright. It seems standard that successful Youtubers doing such videos always Talk constantly during their plays. This is generally fine, but some end up talking about inane things or become stuck on cliches of their own making that begin to annoy after awhile. Dialogue is probably the most important part of such videos and if it doesn't come to you Naturally, it will be very difficult to succeed.

I think also(could be wrong) you generally need to approach Gaming differently when doing these types of Videos. Rather than Playing the game, you are more a Narrator of a story. As such, Vids should be more thematic, with stated Goals and the Vid/Discussion be centered around the intended Goal, but it should also include commentary on what is actually happening at the time.

Another approach to it though is to be a particular Type of presenter. Things like being the Rager like Uberhaxornova, king of Sarcasm like SSoHPKC, or one of many other types. This is going to be even more difficult to master than dialogue though, if it doesn't come naturally, you'd best spend lots of time developing it before trying it in a Video.

Just my meandering uneducated(in these matters anyway :blush:) opinion from having watched a crap ton of Gameplay videos.

[ssg (DayZ) 8]

I watched your whole video without pausing it once or doing something else while I was watching it. It was quite entertaining even though you just looked for some loot from newbie zones. You had way too many scenes on your video. I prefer longer videos from one event. I know it might take some time to record something interesting and most of the games interesting encounters are very short. Maybe you should make shorter videos or just scrap the little encounters? Uploading some big epic encounter would be awesome. If you want to do diary like videos then its fine to make them from small clips. You just seem to cut your videos from strange locations. Like when you got sniped it just showed when you fell to ground nothing what happened before it. Well little running but you where not even near location where you died.

I have been thinking of recording game for me and my buddies. Not for the public. I have tested fraps, dxtory and bandicam. I'm thinking of buying bandicam because I don't want to invest for new HDD.

What are your specs? I'm not sure if my computer just sucks or I have some problem because recording 1080 really drops my FPS and when I watch video its laggy and has lot's of FPS drops. Anyway my specs are AMD 965BE, HD6850, 4Gb 1600Mhz ram just for comparison.

[whackacrow 0]

I think you over edited it. Too many short clips' date=' feels like a Highlight vid and very disjointed.

As for dialogue, from what I saw you were doing alright. It seems standard that successful Youtubers doing such videos always Talk constantly during their plays. This is generally fine, but some end up talking about inane things or become stuck on cliches of their own making that begin to annoy after awhile. Dialogue is probably the most important part of such videos and if it doesn't come to you Naturally, it will be very difficult to succeed.

I think also(could be wrong) you generally need to approach Gaming differently when doing these types of Videos. Rather than Playing the game, you are more a Narrator of a story. As such, Vids should be more thematic, with stated Goals and the Vid/Discussion be centered around the intended Goal, but it should also include commentary on what is actually happening at the time.

Another approach to it though is to be a particular Type of presenter. Things like being the Rager like Uberhaxornova, king of Sarcasm like SSoHPKC, or one of many other types. This is going to be even more difficult to master than dialogue though, if it doesn't come naturally, you'd best spend lots of time developing it before trying it in a Video.

Just my meandering uneducated(in these matters anyway :blush:) opinion from having watched a crap ton of Gameplay videos.

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I watched your whole video without pausing it once or doing something else while I was watching it. It was quite entertaining even though you just looked for some loot from newbie zones. You had way too many scenes on your video. I prefer longer videos from one event. I know it might take some time to record something interesting and most of the games interesting encounters are very short. Maybe you should make shorter videos or just scrap the little encounters? Uploading some big epic encounter would be awesome. If you want to do diary like videos then its fine to make them from small clips. You just seem to cut your videos from strange locations. Like when you got sniped it just showed when you fell to ground nothing what happened before it. Well little running but you where not even near location where you died.

I have been thinking of recording game for me and my buddies. Not for the public. I have tested fraps' date=' dxtory and bandicam. I'm thinking of buying bandicam because I don't want to invest for new HDD.

What are your specs? I'm not sure if my computer just sucks or I have some problem because recording 1080 really drops my FPS and when I watch video its laggy and has lot's of FPS drops. Anyway my specs are AMD 965BE, HD6850, 4Gb 1600Mhz ram just for comparison.

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Thanks for the advice guys, I'll take your advice on board! :)

My specs are:

- 8GB RAM

- Sapphire HD 7850 Graphics Card

- AMD Phenom II 3.4GHz

:)