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Friday, December 18, 2015

First looks and impressions videos

In terms of confidence building and also varying degrees of success, the last week or so has been something amazing for me. I've been gearing up to ring in the new year with quite a few changes coming to my channels. I think I've also suddenly become a bit more visible to everyone on the internets. I don't know how or why this came about, but I am definitely happy about it! 
I was recently referred to a site called Keymailer by my good friend BurningPunch and it actually is working out in my favor. I have a bunch of new games to make videos on and I'm working on the first of (at this moment) four at this very moment. I need to reconfigure my OBS to make sure I can get these videos recorded and held to a proper standard of quality, so bare with me until I've got the formats for everything set! That being said, these four games are going to be used to start up two new series for my channel, stuff I probably should have been already working on, but I don't know, I never felt my opinion was all that warranted in the community (This has never stopped me from giving it though, haha). 
The two new series will be called On the Hunt and My Two (S)cents. On The Hunt (thanks for the title, Teth!) will be a series where I take a look at Early Access games that I play/have been asked to play and I'll let you know if I think these games are worth keeping a close eye on or not. My Two (S)cents will be more of a general opinion/review type show. I generally try to stay away from early access games, but there are just so very many of them out there. It's basically a genre in and of itself at this point, and far too many games are overlooked for no other reason than they are early access. I don't think I'll be giving a score for the games I feature in either of these series, but I will give you my personal opinion. I hope that's enough to help you decide whether or not you'll give the games I feature a shot! 

Friday, December 4, 2015

Video Quality

This is more of something I feel like I need to write down so I can remember for future reference moreso than a blog that I'm sharing with you guys and gals out there, but I figure putting it on the web means I can access it from anywhere should I need to! 

PS4 Video - 720p 60fps - Capture my microphone but not party chat (Needs in-game voice chat testing).

Game Capture HD - 1080p 60fps capture (w/ mic - use playstation eye and output sound through speakers if necessary to capture party chat/in-game chat)

OBS - 1080p 60fps - will capture video in full screen format (need a new monitor or to use tv and tweak settings)

Everything that PowerDirector edits will lose 60fps, but it will stay at 1080p or move to 1440p sometimes.  

Rerendering fraps videos -> "Best Quality playback" will make the video fullscreen size (Also drops quality down to 360p)

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Schedule Changes for 2016

Alright, I know, I know, it's been a long time since I've updated the blog with a new entry. I've mostly just been crossing things off the request list (which can be found here), but that doesn't mean I haven't been working on stuff in the present. There's actually a lot of changes coming to my channel starting in January!
Well, first of all, some series are coming back (namely Unfair-Y Tales!), but also a really big change in terms of scheduling is coming to the channel. I want to spend more time and getting a little more serious in terms of uploads! Right now I'm having a lot of trouble with my schedule because everything I've been filming lately has been part of the same day's upload schedule, so I really needed to find a way to space things out so I'd have time to work on things. I'm going to be changing my schedule in January to a 7 day schedule, so I can have even more regular content! I'm not saying I'll be uploading every single day, but there's certainly a chance that that will be a case. 
Before I show you guys and gals the new schedule I need to let you know that I couldn't have come up with this without CreepshowKate and Valleyofegeria. Their brainstorming help has been absolutely invaluable to me the last two months or so! So without further ado, here's the 2016 schedule as it stands right now:


Sunday

                                                                     Vlogs 
                                                                  Unboxings


Monday

                                                                   Tutorials
                                                                     Guides
                                                                  First Looks

Tuesday

Let's Plays

Wednesday

Stream Highlights

Thursday

General Gaming
Requests
(If a LP is getting long or has a lot of parts, and it's not a fighting game/beat-em-up I may also upload parts of it today as well)

Friday

       Series (Like Okamigakure plays, or other videos that are part of a playlist/not one shots)
        (If a LP is getting long or has a lot of parts, I may also upload parts of it today as well)

Saturday

Fighting Games
Beat-em-ups
(If a LP is getting long or has a lot of parts, and it IS a fighting game/beat-em-up I may also parts of it today as well)


    To sum up, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday are staying the same as my current schedule. The rest of the days are changing. The way my current schedule is, it's been very hard for me to work on specific videos because they end up getting pushed really far down the Tuesday pipeline, and it stops becoming plausible to even upload them by the time any of you guys would be able to see them, unless I spammed the hell out of the uploads. I try not to spam uploads because when there's too much content at once, a lot of it ends up being forgotten or looked over. There are a lot of days in this new schedule that have videos that can overlap, and I think coming from the rigidity of my current schedule, this will be a welcome change! Let me know what you guys and gals think! I hope you're all as excited about these changes as I am!