Starting YouTube

Today I have a question, but first I want to tell you what I have been doing the last couple of days in regards to YouTube.

A couple of nights ago I thought out an idea of what I would like to do on YouTube, given my restricted equipment and set up. I want to do gaming videos, as that is something I know and love to do, and if I can entertain people and show them things they didn't know at the same time, that is a bonus. After watching a Video Creators vlog on How To Legally Use Copyrighted Music, Games, and Movies on YouTube one of the things that jumped out at me was that Blizzard, the makers of my all time favourite PC game World of Warcraft, allows users to record and post their gameplay for entertainment and money. Xbox also allow uploading of their game content, but not to make money from, and recently I have been playing Skyrim on my Xbox again, with the Special Edition having just been released.

The next thing was I started searching YouTube for videos on how to record gameplay. This is where my options were reduced. To record long gameplay footage of my Xbox I would need to buy some equipment. Not a lot, but more than I can afford right now. The items I would need are a HDMI splitter, possibly 2 HDMI cables if I can't find two spare ones in our pile of cables, and a Video Capture Card (about £50+ for that one). However, with Windows 10 there is an inbuilt Gameplay Capture that records up to an hour of game play, which is activated by pressing the windows key+G.

Next thing, I do not have is a Video Camera, but again on my laptop I have an in build web cam that can easily record me while I am playing games on the laptop.

So, I think that maybe to start World of Warcraft again might be the way to go! And you can play your characters that are under level 20 and make new ones, without paying to play. So I can make some home trail videos without spending anything.

I even have a plan of what I want to do, but you will have to see my videos to find that out!

However, after this evening of trying to do some Video Editing.. I think I might have another area of Videos to look at doing. My Journey into YouTubeing.

So now I am going to ask for some feed back, would you like to see my process for what I am trying to do and start with YouTube? Let me know in the comments.

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