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Ask them here, I would say.

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Found a great series of books, The Maze Runner. Kind of like the Hunger Games, so check them out.

I guess do you have any tips? And how do you make the cool intro like dish has? I don't want to copy his, but it would be cool to have one. Do I need fancy stuff, like a mic, and a capture camera instead of a regular video camera? Because I don't think I'll buy a mic or capture card. The videos with my camera are kind of blurry, but I can still read everything. Is Windows MovieMaker an O.K. program to use to edit them? Also, how long should it take to upload a video around 9-10 minutes long to Youtube? Also, what about commentary? Would I have to do it live since I don't have a mic?

Any help is appreciated, since I'm kind of a noob to stuff like this.

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You have good taste. I've still never gotten around to reading book 2, even though I got the first one for Christmas in 2010.

Wait... in what way is it like the Hunger Games? Do you mean writing style, or the fact that they're both sci-fi?

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IDK, they just sort of reminded me of the Hunger Games, with them being put off on their own, by a government organization, ya know?

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Hm. Anyways, it was a great book.

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Well, I guess since I've been around YT longer (I think), I'll try to give you a few pointers, note that this is how I do it, not necessarily how you should do it (but if you want to, that's completely fine.)

I use Windows Movie Maker to make my videos. It's not the best one out there, but if you want a cheaper option (still does fairly OK in things you can do with it), WMM is the one for you.

For recording, if I'm recording my TV, I use my laptop's built-in webcam, which also has a microphone in it. To get decent quality, I try to get it as close to the TV as I can so that I still get the entire screen, and it doesn't show a bright white light for the whole video. But there's a whole other complicated way to do it with capture cards and tons of cables and stuff like that, but I wouldn't venture into that if you're not willing to spend $50+, so that's why I use my webcam.

Recording from your computer is a bit more complicated. I think I'm lucky to borrow my dad's headset+mic, but you can get a fairly decent one, surprisingly, very cheap. I think I saw one on Amazon for around $5-10. As for recording the video itself from the computer (if you actually want to do that), I use a free program called CamStudio. It's a free download, and it produces pretty good videos.

As for the intro, I made a custom logo on Google Docs (I've had an account there ever since 7th grade, when I used it in my computers class) using the Nintendo logo, and overlapped it with my username. Then, after that, I put a stock picture (AKA pictures from Google Images) of the game that I'm playing, along with a well-recognized song from that game playing over it.

If you want more help, there's a lot of videos about how other LP'ers record their videos, so if you want to check it out, feel free.

Just my .02.

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Stupid Minnesota...

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Everybody else uses capture cards, I've watched those videos. My video camera has a built in mic, but it wasn't picking up sound very well. So I learned how to turn the mic gain up, so hopefully you can hear better now.

I think I can find a decent logo creator online for free. Thanks for the help! Is it easy to add music on WMM? And do you do live commentary?

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It's very easy to add music, just drag and drop onto the bottom (or next up from bottom) timeline. And, yes, I do live commentary. I don't think I would do good with post-commentary, because I know what's going to happen ahead of time, and I like to be surprised.

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My goodness, the Yankees have gotten quite better.

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Yeah, they just signed Hiroki Kuroda and traded for Michael Pineda, giving up Jesus Montero.

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Crap.

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GIVING UP Jesus Montero, however. Who's their DH going to be?

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ASSIST

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I FINALLY GOT IT.