Here's a little story about my first foray into video editing. I was noticing that nobody had watched any of my Youtube videos related to gaming, which essentially were uncut broadcasts from twitch. I realized that this simply will not do, and so last night I set about editing my most recent broadcast into a highlight reel.
To begin with, I should have paid more attention to the fact that Youtube has a video editor right through your account. I did not know this until after I was uploading the video. At any rate, I found a decent video editor online that was relatively cheap. I was going to use Movie Maker, but it wants nothing to do with .flv files.
I then go about editing my video, and I realize pretty quickly that I know absolutely nothing about what I'm doing. I add the video as a resource, OK, then put it into the "story" section. I started to figure out more and more while literally just trying to cut out the parts of the video I felt were not very entertaining. Meanwhile I didn't realize it, but I had actually made some slowdown effects, and a remix effect at a couple random points in the video. I left them in because I sort of find them amusing, and furthermore because I have no idea how to "undo" it.
The video is now up on my Youtube channel, obviously as time goes on, I will get better at it, but it was my first try, and somehow a couple of neat effects happened without me trying. Please check it out, and comments are welcome here and/or on the comments section on Youtube.
So, this week the broadcast went very well. I am really happy with how it came out with the exception of my fan blowing on the mic every once in awhile while it was oscillating. It isn't that big a deal, and kind of makes me laugh. We were able to broadcast on time, pretty much, and we played Mortal Kombat for Genesis and Sega CD.
We were going to play Balls the directors cut for 3do as suggested by nupoile, however, the 3do doesn't seem to want to send the composite signal to my capture box. Go figure, the console with no region locking, or game protections whatsoever, has a video signal capture block. So, my buddy picked out Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. We did a blind coin flip and ended up with Mortal Kombat.
Since I have Mortal Kombat for Genesis and Sega CD, we played on both, starting with Genesis, and switching to Sega CD about half way through. I had a blast playing one of my favorite fighting games of my childhood.
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