Recently I have started recording whenever I want to play Minecraft. I figure if I am spending time playing the game I might as well go ahead and try to capitalize on it also.
This is only the second video I have been able to get out in hmmm about a month now. So that clearly is not very productive if you think of it in Youtube pump the content out terms.
To that I say. Meh.
Even on Hive I find it hard to pump 'em out and I promise you a shitpost once I have locked in take me less time than some of your dumps.
So the episode
I call it an episode because it sounds fancy. Anyway in this one, I have accumulated over 6 Hours worth of footage... Except for what matters.
Like seriously, I am not even lying if I say this is likely the most boring Minecraft video on the internet. I did use all that regret though, and put it into learning to edit blazingly fast and play with adding audio.
The biggest tip I found was for scrubbing the timeline in DaVinci Resolve; using J - back, K - stop, L - forward and then double-pressing those to playback the video at 4x or more I was able to quickly skim and isolate areas which are better suited to timelapses.
As it goes, some things you can't fix in post.
The parts where I do speak are aimless and due to just winging it everything becomes one big blur.
I decided to still publish because the way I see it; If I don't fail at making anything worthwhile now but keep learning then all I have done is succeeded in remaining ignorant.
Audio
My biggest gripe with DaVinci I think would be non-intuitive audio handling and also clip arrangement.
As mentioned I edited this together in DaVinci Resolve and once you get down to it goes rather quick for linear media.
It becomes rather confusing to know how to best manage multitrack audio fades and even clip overlays although I did not muck with video transitions.
However about an hour in I found my groove and think that is probably what is important. Since with video you seem to be doing two main things. You check if it looks good and if it sounds good.
On first pass I did a bit of both, I scrubbed the timeline and split say a 30minute clip into different sections.
Maybe I have an ok talky part but rubbish for 10 more minutes, decide do I mute and keep the rubbish as a timelapse , cut it more or do I delete.
I don't concern myself yet with the sound at that point, I only consider is the sound that is there worth keeping.
Then on the second pass I scrub from the start again and start adding background audio, maybe muting a clip or I could do other fancy things.
I personally just added 6 songs I chose on Thematic and stuck to making them work across the video.
That was not about gaming!!!!!!
Watch the video and shhh.
