It's important that you don't focus on buying the best card out there, I just bought Roxio's ne GAMECAP for 80 bucks off buy.com I highly reccomend it, it is so simple to use, you don't have to deal with a million cords and splitters at all for great quality at a very low price

My vid:

the aspect ratio is perfect on youtube btw^

Yeah, Roxio makes a great card if you aren't concerned with recording in HD. It looks excellent for non HD, even without color correction. The problem is if you are trying to build an audience, a lot of youtube viewers in the gaming genre simply won't watch videos that aren't in HD.

That does look very nice.

I'm certainly no baller, but since I can get a nice HD one for less than $250 I think it's worth it. If I do this I'm going to do it a lot. If I give up because I don't like it or whatever then yeah I will have wasted my investment. But I could see getting the ~$80 non HD one and if I get hooked I'll buy the HD one anyway so I may as well just buy it first.

The other issue Deorum addressed. I'm basically investing an extra $140 or so on top of the cheaper ones to have HD and no regrets. Not that I'm knocking your decision. And I suppose one could argue that if you're good enough and interesting enough to build an audience with HD, then you should be good enough to do it without it.


I think what I'm going to start doing is recording myself with my digital camera doing live commentaries. Then I'll watch it back and even though I won't have the game to watch I'll remember what was going on and be able to work on my presentation or whatnot.

I figure it might be a good way to sort of gauge my interest over a period of several weeks.

lol I'm an idiot.

I can just point my camera at the tv and at least watch it on that as I go. Won't be that great of quality but it's better than pointing it at me haha.

pointing your camera at the tv doesnt have the best results ime. i tried streaming for a friend of mine over skype and there was a contrast issue that could not be corrected easily.

i come from the opposite school of thought as topher. i wish i had spent the 2-300$ when i had it because of the enjoyment/entertainment it would have provided.

if you get an editing program you can make my mw3 montage =)

Right, well I'm just doing that part of it for myself to get a feel for what it's like to do live commentary.

I've already done about 6 SnD games using this method and so far I'm at least not discouraged by what's come of it.

I only said "um" a couple of times at most each video, and didn't have many periods where I struggled to find something to talk about.

Will keep you updated.

Question:

I've been writing some COD raps. I'm actually quite impressed with what I've put together so far, having never written any sort of song in my life. It's come a lot easier to get a bunch of lyrics down than I thought it would.

My question is do any of you guys know how I can turn lyrics into a song that goes with a video on youtube? I mean, I don't have a studio obviously, and I don't have a clue about what I would need to purchase to make this happen. Assuming there's some software to help with this, then I'd need to purchase a mic? I suppose I could just rap into my headset when I get my capture card, but I'd like to be able to make it more of a finished product.

Any ideas/suggestions much appreciated.

Never mind ^^

Google has a ton of stuff about this.

If any of you guys think you can come up with a good hook feel free to lmk lol. Will eventually post this stuff for some lulz. Will be a month or so I'd imagine.