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3 years ago
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Are there any experienced Let's Players out there? Kinda wanna try making some gaming videos, but I'd like to get some advise, first, specifically regarding software, and hardware.
Software:
What would be a good choice for recording and/or editing software? Preferably cheap (or free, if possible), since I'm just giving things a go, for now. Don't wanna to go buying $100 program that might only get used three times, ya'know? XD
Hardware:
What should I expect to need from my computer? Would I need something "beefy", or would a mid-range 'gaming laptop' be adequate? How much RAM and/or ROM should I expect to need per recording? Should I look at getting a microphone that isn't built into my laptop?
Any other suggestions, or recommendations?
Software:
What would be a good choice for recording and/or editing software? Preferably cheap (or free, if possible), since I'm just giving things a go, for now. Don't wanna to go buying $100 program that might only get used three times, ya'know? XD
Hardware:
What should I expect to need from my computer? Would I need something "beefy", or would a mid-range 'gaming laptop' be adequate? How much RAM and/or ROM should I expect to need per recording? Should I look at getting a microphone that isn't built into my laptop?
Any other suggestions, or recommendations?
The nowerdays "industry standard sorta" is OBS wich is short for Open Broadcaster Studio
https://obsproject.com/
Its an open source software to not only stream but record videos for absolutely free.
For a hardware it depends.
If you want to stream Minecraft or so, youre good with a mediocre machine.
Like, i7 3770 or so and 8-16GB RAM and a GTX 1660 or so.
Coupled with like 1TB HDD and a 500GB SDD for your OS and the main games.
If you want to stream something like Cyberpunk 2077 youll need the beefy shit.
Like a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with a RTX3080 TI or even 3090TI with 32-64GB RAM.
With a setup like this you need an NVME M.2 SSD to get the good speed!
Maybe even a capture card (Elgato 4K60 PRO) wich gets your HDMI output to get back into the PC for OBS so its no more extra performance for you graphics card.
For a mic:
You need an audio interface like a Scarlett Solo.
And a mic like a rode nt1-a is perfect. Its very very cheap for what it is capable of.
Hope this helps!
Wow. I'm going to have to look some of this up, but, thanks for the comprehensive info. :D
Does OBS do editing, as well?