Trying to get started on Youtube.

[VaultDweller (DayZ) 58]

Bandicam is far superior to FRAPS. I highly recommend it.

I use Bandicam in conjunction with Adobe Premiere and they work beautifully together. That, and smaller file sizes are a plus.

As for the mic, just get a decent headset or table mic.

Here's a video I recorded and modified using this combo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3FS1_5JomM

Bandicam is far superious then FRAPS,you're not serious now are you?

Have you ever used FRAPS to make that kind of assumption?

FRAPS blows laggy Bandicam by mile,the only program that can stay side by side to FRAPS is DXTORY.

(wich gives the same video quality with much easier sound recording and much much smaller video file convered into the parts)

[franzuu 211]

Bandicam is far superior to FRAPS. I highly recommend it.

I use Bandicam in conjunction with Adobe Premiere and they work beautifully together. That, and smaller file sizes are a plus.

As for the mic, just get a decent headset or table mic.

Here's a video I recorded and modified using this combo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3FS1_5JomM

1. For gaming footage 1080p is preferred.

2. For maximum quality it should be encoded at 10 Mbit/s at 1080p. That would be 10 Mbit/s max with variable bitrate. Use x264 or H.264.

3. Record and encode at 29.97 FPS. DO NOT let your frames fall below that when recording. It looks really bad. If they do then change game settings untill they don't or upgrade your computer (mainly GPU but make sure you don't have a CPU bottleneck either).

4. In the above video the audio was bad. None of the people talking had good quality audio.

5. If you can choose your audio bitrate then choose 265 kbps.

6. Use audacity to clean up your audio if there is any problems with it. (remove background noise and normalize and equalize your voice)

7. Use audio levels that are similar to other big youtubers (if they click from their video to your video then the game and voice volume will be the same on both videos)

8. Be confident +bonus, be interesting and funny

9. Don't be monotone

10. Don't shut up

11. Don't act if you can't put on a convincing display

12. Don't try to be someone your not (you won't be able to keep it up)

13. Don't shut up.

14. Don't make meaningless commentary (repeating what you are doing on the screen)

15. People don't care about your uninteresting day. Oh you met up with Mike at the park and went go-carting? You had a blast you say? WHO IS MIKE AND WHO THE FUCK CARES?

15.5 For interesting storytellers look at Day9 and Seananners.

16. If you are going to use a live encoder, all programs that don't record in a raw format (every frame is essentially a key frame), then you are going to either need a beefy CPU or you are going to make sacrifices in compression (looks good, bigger file) or quality (encodes fast, smaller file, shit quality). Ideally you'll want a small file with good quality, but that takes up CPU.

17. If you are going to buy any recording software then it should be X Split www.xsplit.com

18. Have good upload speeds. 1 hour of 1080p footage that is encoded at 8 Mbit/s average bitrate will be 3.6 GB (you can see where all these bandicams make compromises in quality with their 1 hour = 1 GB file sizes). That is 28800 Mbits (the speed in which your upload is measured with).

Personal pet peeves: I feel unwelcomed and weirded out if some youtuber I don't know starts a video saying "Whats going on all you Nimzors! Blah Blah Blah!" I'll be going "I'm not a Nimzor, who the fuck does he think he is with his 1000 subs? Good fucking bye!" I've closed the video numerous times because of that and I haven't been back to those channels.

Doing something like this is beneficial if you have a lot of subs and want to create yourself a rabid fanbase who will be identifying themselves as a "Nimzor" and spreading your name, fanart and videos far and wide. It worked so well for PewDiePie because "Bro" is so generic. "Whats up Bros my name is PewDiePie...." that makes you feel welcomed and won't alienate new people, unless they take offence to "bro" and it is also something for the rabid fanboys and girls.

19. Basically make people feel welcome without alienating new viewers.

20. Same thing with inside jokes. You can sprinkle them here and there but don't alienate new people by having too many of them. Don't also go around explaining inside jokes (oh god, I've seen people do that on youtube) it defeats the purpose and will cease to be funny for everybody involved. whatever you do, DO NOT point out that you made an inside joke (seen that too) now everybody who didn't know what it was or even notice it is going to feel annoyed and left out.

[Sticker704 121]

I was going to reply, but the post above me has ceased any need to do so. :)

[jason_crosby@hotmail.co.uk 55]

Yes I know there are thousands of people trying to do this every day but what the heck why can't i try too? I am looking for any help on getting into the hang of commentaries. So i would love anyone who can post links for any helpful programs or websites! ( I am fine with torrent links and I am pretty cheap XD) Thank you to anyone who helps!

Edit: Examples of what im looking for; People to make banners, Intros, Recording progams

The best tip i can give you is produce great quality content and the subscribers and views will fall into place! another thing is that its not something that can happen over night it takes time. Just work hard

[Nimz41 105]

Wow, Thank you everyone for all the tips! You guys have no idea how much I respect you guys. At first when I saw my first reply I was thinking shit This is just gonna be a troll thread. I'll post a video when I get one up! Thanks!