can someone make a detailed post on how to go about making a video for posting? ive no idea at all how to do it so the explanation would be best in bullet points and being fairly detailed.

Originally Posted by DeeYakaBaka

can someone make a detailed post on how to go about making a video for posting? ive no idea at all how to do it so the explanation would be best in bullet points and being fairly detailed.

Step 1: Choose your video creation software. Camstudio is free and should do everything you need. CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software
Step 2: Install the software and any codecs it requires (Read the installation guide)
Step 3: Read the instructions that come with the software. It's pretty basic, launch software, do stuff on your computer (e.g. play a poker game). Speak into mic optional. Press "stop" on the software when done. Make sure you have the proper microphone selected if you are using one.
Step 4: Use you software to review/edit the video such as adding text captions
Step 5: Save your video to a common format such as AVI
Step 6: Upload to YouTube (create account first)

Have problems with steps 2 - 5? Refer to your software website, forums, manual. Good luck! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

meh, sounds simple enough even for a donk like me.

first effort coming to a store near u very soon

Originally Posted by Pinguaq

Step 4: Use you software to review/edit the video such as adding text captions)

there doesnt seem to be an editing function in CamStudio?

Have problems with steps 2 - 5? Refer to your software website, forums, manual. Good luck! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

after googling, there seems to be 100's of pieces fo software available to edit AVI videos but some of them mention that AV software may prevent them from installing. Since im a donk with all things downloadable, any recommendations?


Edit: im obv asking cos i decided to jinx myself bigtime by videoing myself playing a few sngs tonight.....

Originally Posted by DeeYakaBaka

there doesnt seem to be an editing function in CamStudio?

YouTube - How to add screen annotations using Camstudio

Originally Posted by DeeYakaBaka

after googling, there seems to be 100's of pieces fo software available to edit AVI videos but some of them mention that AV software may prevent them from installing. Since im a donk with all things downloadable, any recommendations?

Choose one off of this page and then find a torrent Video Editing Software Review 2009 - TopTenREVIEWS (non that I condone piracy)

Originally Posted by DeeYakaBaka

there doesnt seem to be an editing function in CamStudio?


after googling, there seems to be 100's of pieces fo software available to edit AVI videos but some of them mention that AV software may prevent them from installing. Since im a donk with all things downloadable, any recommendations?


Edit: im obv asking cos i decided to jinx myself bigtime by videoing myself playing a few sngs tonight.....

Dont bother editing it. The guys at CR never seemed to. It just started when they hit play and they explained what they were doing then when they were done they just hit the stop button and said goodbye this is the end of the vid.

i was attempting to edit it so that some of the crap could be taken out as it lasted over an hour in total. i also forgot to include sound the first time so i was trying to figure out if i could edit in me chatting (still have no idea if i can or not)

im gonna experiment a little more over the next day or two till i get the hang of it all (the poker and the videoing) but id expect to post one by the weekend id guess.

Don't bother editing imo.

A useful thing to do is record yourself playing with no commentary (maybe 4 tables or whatever you usually play) and then play it back, this time commentating on it and you can pause it at certain points to explain stuff that you might not ordinarily have the time to in live play. Also you know where the long boring stretches are so you know when to have stuff to speak about and when you will be playing big hands.

maybe a stupid question but i assume a video of 4 tabling will still be viewable when reduced down to youtube size?