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Blog 1: Intro to my suffering10/18/2022 I have embarked on a journey, a journey known as Genius Hour. Genius Hour is a project given to me by Mr. Barker where I can do anything as long as I can track my progress and make a presentation. I have decided to create a YouTube channel to record my shenanigans when I play games. I thought it would be fun and fairly easy, it is the first week and I have already been proved wrong. The first step to creating my gaming empire was of course to create a YouTube channel, I have just decided to use my personal YouTube account for this as my comments on other videos might invite traffic to my channel. The next step was figuring out how I was going to edit videos so I looked throughout the internet to find easy and free software to use. I found an app on my iPhone called “Video Up!” which is a free editing software that I will be using to edit my videos. It has limitations but I’ve already thought about ways to get around some of the limitations. I immediately got started on working out how the app worked and learning exactly what I could do with it, and this is what I came up with. This was just a random compilation of videos on my phone mixed with a few memes. In the video, I was testing what exactly I could do with the program that I had and the exact possibilities, the result speaks for itself. I then posted the video on YouTube to learn what it was like and to see if I would have any problems with posting videos. Luckily the posting and sharing of the video went well and I didn’t have any problems. Now I had a problem, I needed to record videos on my PC. What I wanted to do was get an external hard drive so I could store the videos somewhere safe and personal. I had some extra money so I bought a 2-terabyte hard drive. Now I had the storage so it was time to use it, except there was a catch. I had all that storage but moving files to the file was not fast at all, so I spent 3 whole days downloading all the stuff I needed. I would go into all the problems but it was so awful and there were so many that I’ll have to go into it later to explain it all. After everything was finally downloaded I was ready to start recording. I wanted to use the program OBS to record but it wouldn’t work. It turns out that my computer’s drivers are too outdated to run OBS and record. I tried updating them but it was just too limited by the technology, but it was at this point I remembered a possible route to recording. There is this program from Geforce called Shadowplay and I adore Shadowplay. Shadowplay is incredibly easy to use and records everything from your game and your microphone. After a bit of testing, I created a test video to make sure that it would record sound and to see where it would put the video file. After all that pain I finally recorded and posted my second test video which is just me messing around with the menus of Payday. After all this pain I have finally gained hopefully the ability to record and edit a video which will hopefully be coming out soon. Please subscribe to my channel. I went through lots of pain and I just know it isn’t over.
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