Hello Hive!
In todays post I wanted I wanted to talk about my recording process for when I create videos.
This is my computer, or my home studio if you like 😂. There's wires everywhere, however I've managed to shove the majority of it behind my desk, (shhh don't tell my housemate).
Recording gameplay is actually a pretty simple process, as there's a vast amount of different programmes that you can use. The most popular one is OBS Studio and its completely free! OBS allows me to record my screen, record computer audio and also allows me to record microphone audio.
Another feature that this programme supports is multi-track recording. In a nutshell, this means I can assign my computer audio to one track, and my microphone audio to another track. They both record at the same time, but when I upload the file to an editor, it would mean that I would be able to change the volume levels of both tracks independently of one another. This is useful because it would mean that I could make my voice louder, or the gameplay quieter without changing the volume of the whole recording.
(OBS on the left, Audacity on the right)
It looks like I have a lot of sources running and capturing things, but in reality most of those sources are hidden, (meaning they aren't actually capturing anything), or I don't actually need because they're left over from when I use to stream. I'm just to lazy to tidy it up basically 😂.
The programme open on the right is Audacity. I use this programme to record my microphone audio, (I'll get on to why I record this separately in a moment).
This is a screenshot of the editing software that I use, Wondershare Filmora X. Filmora is by far the cheapest editing software out there, or at least it was when I checked. I think I paid £45 to keep it permanently. There is a free version of it, in which you get access to maybe 75% of all its features, however anything that you export will have a big Wondershare watermark plastered over the front of it.
I'm very happy with Filmora, and it comes with lots of copyright free music, stock images, basically anything you need to to edit a video with. There's only one thing that I don't like about this software; it doesn't support multi-track recording 😭. This is why I use Audacity to record my microphone audio; I'm then able to make adjustments to my gameplay volume or my voice as and when I need too.
What software do you use or do you have any recording/editing tips that I could use? I'd love to know!
