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Let's chat about some tools and tricks of the creator trade along with an unexpected turn into the world of retro gaming!
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Hello and welcome. My name is Tom and. I'm Heather and you're sitting at the Couples Table.
Speaker 2The Couples Table is a live stream podcast here On this channel. Join us for better or worse. For richer or poorer and in sickness and in health.
Speaker 1Every Friday, 1 pm, pacific Standard Time.
Speaker 2There you go.
Speaker 1What's up? What's up.
Speaker 2See, I need to tilt it like this, right? I don't know.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2How's the audio? Everybody, happy Friday. It is February 9th, let's go. Parker Jennings in the house. Mr Cameron junkie, hello. Hello, the real pal room. Hi audio hotline. Hey there, smirrel Lab, hi, kane Trouble is also here. What's up? What's up? It's good to see everyone. Happy Friday.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2There you go. How was that? Oh wait, I didn't see this. Hi, everyone Just coming from watching Tom's follow-up video on the prompter Great job. That seemed like it was a good video.
Speaker 1The timing of that was so weird because normally so. My most recent video on my channel came out yesterday and it's a 100-day follow-up on the Elgato prompter, which is something we're using right here. And it's funny because I normally schedule my videos in advance and this week was just sort of weird, so I almost wasn't able to film a video before Thursday, but for some reason on Wednesday I was like I really want to push through and make a video and I want to make that video. So I made it on Wednesday, published it on Thursday, so it's a very quick turnaround for me.
Speaker 1Yes, that was a 24-hour turnaround, I know people do that all the time but I don't. So that was a very quick turnaround for me and it just so happened, because it was originally going to be 90 days with the prompter but it just by coincidence yesterday was my 100th day of using it and I was like, oh, that's perfect, because the day I published the 100-day follow-up is day 100. And for some reason also total coincidence a ton of people's prompters got delivered yesterday. There was a whole shipping wave of people that suddenly out for delivery. So it was like this video came out. All these people are like oh my gosh, I just got the notification that it's out for delivery, or I just un-popped.
Speaker 2The stars totally aligning yeah it's all coincidence.
Speaker 1It seems like beautiful corporate marketing synergy. And it is absolutely not, but that was really cool. And then the funnier part too was oh here's this. After literally I was done filming that video, I had shut down my studio, I was importing the footage to edit it on Wednesday, and then this got delivered.
Speaker 2I don't know if you guys know about the tea with this thing.
Speaker 1The Padcast is the Parrot Pro. This was a Kickstarter item that I backed back in I don't know April or May Last spring. It was supposed to be delivered in July. You might notice that it's February right now. It is a Kickstarter, you're not buying it from a store, so there were a lot of Kickstarter issues with that. But that showed up and I backed that when I was thinking about I kind of want to teleprompter.
Speaker 2Did you backed that thing?
Speaker 1up. I backed that thing up back when I was thinking about whether to teleprompter or not.
Speaker 2Not knowing, my brain is turning into yours now, sorry.
Speaker 1We've been living together a long, long time. I didn't know at the time that the Elgato Promptor was going to be a thing, and then that came out in September. Still hadn't gotten this one, immediately ordered that one Because you can't cancel your Kickstarter, which I totally would.
Speaker 2Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1So yeah, that's there. And it's funny because I was like, oh man, I feel so bad for this product, but it seems nice enough, so I'm going to try to Right. But now that there's a comparison product, it's like I'm not using it in my studio for sure Mobile, but if there's ever a need for mobile scripting, yeah, we're not bringing.
Speaker 1Yeah, because it couldn't be really used. I wouldn't want to rig it up as a reference monitor or something or use it for a Zoom video call, but using it for mobile scripting. If there's ever a need where one of us has to walk down a street and read a script, there you go.
Speaker 2I mean mobile, yeah. Yeah, but it's not a thing that we have really ever had a need for hey, you know who knows.
Speaker 1But now that it's an option. You never know.
Speaker 2Yeah, All right, call me Cubby in the house. Patricia is here. Hello, hello, Sammy Superstar, what's up? Nick is really considering that teleprompter.
Speaker 1I feel like it would really help your recording sessions, Nick, but I also feel so I can also imagine you getting frustrated as you're setting it up.
Speaker 2Yeah, you also need to have it has to be connected to a computer.
Speaker 1And there's an adjustment period and it's a little, it's not finicky, it's just like you have to install the app and do some permissions and things in your computer that are like a little unusual.
Speaker 2If it hasn't been a pain point for you, then I don't think that you need it.
Speaker 1The thing is though I never thought I would have a teleprompter as a permanent part of my setup, and I love it so much.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, there you go, everybody that's. I mean, I love my, I never take it off, it's just always on there.
Speaker 1Yeah, there's no need to remove it.
Speaker 2Yeah, it is just confused. So where do you look? I know I talk about this every stream. Where do you look?
Speaker 1So when we're using it like this as a reference monitor, I kind of don't think about it, because it's far enough away where, unless you know, someone's looking at a prompter. Like if I look at anything on the screen it looks like I'm like at the camera, but I do see the lenses shightiness in the middle, so I kind of look at that.
Speaker 2Yeah, like right here.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2That's what I look at.
Speaker 1But a really cool thing about the video I made yesterday, the product designer from Elgato commented on it, along with like one of their software developers. So not just like the Elgato brand account, but like the people who work on the products, which is really, really cool. And the software. One of the developers said that, like in an upcoming version of the software, they're working on a feature that they hope will be included that allows you to place like a transparent red dot on the screen somewhere that you can focus on.
Speaker 2No one else would see it, but it's just something for you to look at, which is a great idea. Remember, hit that like button. Yeah, home sick. Max says, to be fair to the couple, heather could run any TV show. I know, there you go. Pete says I got the padcaster to before the Elgato was available. You might say I have some regrets.
Speaker 1I mean, what's the price comparison? Well see, I don't even remember, because the Kickstarter one, I think it was like 130. But then shipping ended up being like another $30, which was like, no, it's the good deals.
Speaker 2So okay. So Nick says I only script short form and ads, If you are, if you are someone who reads from a script like it is life.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Because then how else are you doing it? You know, like how do you read from a script without a teleprompter? Unless you did what I did, which is you look at you know, you look at your outline, you kind of memorize what you're about to say and then you go back to the camera.
Speaker 1That's what I did for you. Yeah, but I would always.
Speaker 2I'll let me tell you it. Cut the because I use it for client videos word for word. Read the script and the raw footage.
Speaker 1Yeah, less than half of what it used to be. For me it's insane. It's a huge difference. Yeah, the padcaster it comes in this little. You know they did a nice job on it, so it's like I don't even know if I'm going to make a video about it, because I think so many people have such a bad taste from the Kickstarter. There are a bunch of issues with the Kickstarter. The product itself seems fine for one of the one of these kinds of prompters, but like, yeah, in a studio situation I just why would I use anything else, you know? But basically what this one is is it's. It's significantly smaller. It has, like these little GoPro screws here and then it opens up to your 45 degrees.
Speaker 2Okay, so we're going to do Spar lab's asking for the second camera to show what we're looking at.
Speaker 1Sure.
Speaker 2But I think we should show this too Sure, so I hope audio does not cut out.
Speaker 1Oh, I'll, I'll. I can try to adjust the scene if it does.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1So here's it says are we audio? Scarlett two I two audio yeah. Okay, let me show the prompter first.
Speaker 2Oh boy, that's the microphone.
Speaker 1Here we are so here.
Speaker 2let me step back. I mean that prop your prompter, so you can see.
Speaker 1Yeah, so we're hi.
Speaker 2Tom, hello, so, yeah, yeah. So when it's this reference thing here like what do we look at?
Speaker 1you know, that's the. That's the tricky thing. When it's a script or a video call, it's very obvious what to look at. But when it's not that, then it's less obvious. Yeah, and then that's. And then there's this little one here. It does have a tripod mount on the bottom, so you might want to tripod and basically you can see what you're looking at. You want to tripod and basically the way this works is has a little cover and then it has the same rings it's the exact same rings as the Elgato prompter that go on your camera lens, like they have the same font on them and everything and then this slides elegantly right there. So it goes on the front of your camera like this, and you know it's super lightweight. And then you, you use your, your phone, you pop this little guy up here and then it's.
Speaker 2You know the more traditional one where you put your phone in the back, so it reflects your phone onto the thing and as you put your script onto the phone, they do have.
Speaker 1They do have an app they do have, which I haven't used yet, and it does come with a little kind of a chintzy. Well, actually, I have it right here it's. It comes with a little Bluetooth remote that you can, you know, like, stop and advance the script with, and stuff, so you know if you're doing something portable. The weird thing here, though, there's no guards on the side, so I feel like whoop phone could just easily fall out, but for this kind of thing I don't know if Doc's here, I know he had the original one in his studio forever before getting the Elgato. I don't know if Doc has the Elgato one, but anyway, yeah, I mean, it's a cool little like I.
Speaker 1I was always worried about this, the prompter that hangs off a camera lens, and it turns out that it's just not an issue. Yeah, sorry about the mic, but yeah. So anyway, I don't know how to do it this now, yeah, and so it's almost like I do. If I made a video on it, I would need to make two videos one that's just like explaining the experience of being a Kickstarter person, and the other as an actual, like product review.
Speaker 2Yeah, so okay, if you didn't here's, here's what the prompter. Where did you go? Ndi, okay, oh, there, okay. So let me switch back really quick. So this monitor is part of the Elgato prompter, right Like this whole thing right here.
Speaker 1That's the key to me.
Speaker 2Yeah, so you don't have to use a phone, an iPad or whatever. It comes with a monitor and then you can change what you see on the screen to be whatever you want. We're using it as a, as a, a third monitor right now. So, you see, I could just drag whatever. You could put comments there like this, but I think it's weird to look at something that isn't moving, you know so. So, yeah, that's why we are looking at ourselves once we change this. But yeah, okay, I hope that makes sense. That does. Okay, let's see. Intervite temperature is here. Made it Just hit upload on my latest video.
Speaker 2Now I can sit back and relax with you guys, while wife and both children are sleeping.
Video Production Tips and Tools
Speaker 1Well, congrats, yay, on all of those things I know.
Speaker 2I currently use duet and it has a logo which tells me where to look. Oh yeah, that's smart. Hey, kev, what's up? Jfk in the house, what's up? Uh, mr Cameron. He says I use them to place the zoom calls into my teleprompter area so that creates a face to face environment. That's where it's like perfect. So if you're doing FaceTime zoom, anything where you're using like a webcam type of situation, I think like that, this is what we've wanted.
Speaker 1Remote live casting.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know where you're actually. It looks like you're talking to somebody.
Speaker 1Yeah, Because it's just you just look at them and talk and it's great.
Speaker 2Yeah, um, let's see. I don't script live streams, but often present from slides, so having the feed on the screen is great for being able to refer to the slides while keeping camera in contact.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2Is YouTube just one giant advertising billboard?
Speaker 1No, I mean, that's a big question, right.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, it's not as much of a giant advertising billboard as, like Instagram.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Uh, but I guess it depends on the channel.
Speaker 1I mean YouTube make YouTube as a platform makes money from advertising? Yeah, If they make money at all YouTube channels that advertise things. There's such variety, you know, like some yes, some no, and I would say some niches are more prone to it than others.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, and I think that there are people whose channels don't make advertising money at all or they don't make money from advertising at all you know, cause they sell like courses or whatever. So I guess technically they're advertising their course. But yeah, all right. Uh, rainy Cajun is here. Pro tip, I took a small piece of Gap tape and put it in the center of my monitor to create a viewpoint. Oh see, of course you've got all the tips. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1That's a good one. I'm excited. I'm excited to see where they take their software, because it seems like they're going to add in some pretty nifty features.
Speaker 2Yeah, Uh, homesick. I reason for getting the prompt is to avoid moving away from the subject. I kind of distract myself and talk way more than I should. So the script right in front of me should help.
Speaker 1Yes, Even bullet points, like if it's not a full on script, but you just do the bullet points at least you know, like oh my God what happened Sorry. What order to talk in, what order to to to cover things in. And then for me, sometimes I forget or I go on a tangent and I just know if I get to the end of my bullet point list that I've covered every point I needed to cover, Because sometimes I can't do that.
Speaker 2Sometimes I finish a video and I'm like wait was there something really important that I was supposed to. I wish I could do that.
Speaker 1It depends on the subject, but for my regular videos I usually don't like. You know, I don't like reading a script for the most part.
Speaker 2Uh, audio hotline says I have the Padcaster V2. I hated it and never used it. Now I love. I have the Elgato and I love it.
Speaker 1Yes, corey is sparkly Mike.
Speaker 2Like in the sparkly Mike.
Speaker 1Reporter storecom. There's our advertising billboard.
Speaker 2World. According to Briggs, I have probably owned four different prompters. Elgato is my fave. I did a voiceover job a month ago and they had some crazy 4k prompter $4,000 prompter. Yeah, yeah, um, I don't I tennis like you've no idea.
Speaker 1How much has?
Speaker 2Elgato won 280. So what's the $4,000 difference?
Speaker 1This is. You remember, the ones that were in like the broadcast studio at my old school stuff.
Speaker 2Oh, like though, like the super heavy rolls on the ground.
Speaker 1No, no, no, no, just the. They're just the prompt. They're basically just this. It's a bigger version of this.
Speaker 2So why is it? What part is costing $4,000?
Speaker 1It's a great question. I think historically it's been because where else are you gonna go Wow, it's like diamonds.
Speaker 2Okay, and historically also.
Speaker 1It's those came out when, like small flat panel things were less common, so you'd have a bigger. They have a bigger screen, maybe a 15 or a 20 inch screen, and then the mirror, like a high quality mirror, and the shroud and everything, but you still have to put them on. You know, a tripod or a pedestal or a dolly or something like it doesn't include that at all.
Speaker 2It's just the same thing. It's just the compter part.
Speaker 1Okay, let's see, so it has a much sturdier area to mount the camera onto, because it doesn't weigh too heavy to hang off a camera's lens.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1And the monitors usually have more built-in stuff, more in outports, more menu controls and things, but they are, that's just they're. I think for a long time it was. There's no other option. And if your main target is like production studios and things, you know it's almost like medical stuff, like the insurance will just, they'll just pay whatever you say, you know like. When it comes down to individual consumers, I think people are more like wait, why am I paying this much?
Speaker 2Real about room. It will make the detour. Also. Everyone feel free to make the detour, Like that's what it's for.
Speaker 1Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2Did the huddle up get postponed? Yes, because I woke up with a sore throat and it didn't get worse.
Speaker 1It didn't but a couple of weeks ago I woke up with a sore throat and then it turned into COVID.
Speaker 2It has not gotten worse and tests are negative, but I was like you know what I'm just gonna not, so plan is next week. Stay tuned. Yes, yeah, also, tom and I fixed Just Create More, so I will definitely post it in there. If you want to check out Just Create More, it's at JustCreateMorecom. This is our community for other content creators. It's free to join and you just have to fill out an application that basically explains why you want to join.
Speaker 1If you've already been in it, you don't have to do anything. It just might look a little different. We tried, to like, simplify it.
Speaker 2So when you sign, in and there's a place.
Speaker 1It's all just kind of like everything just right here.
Speaker 2You don't have to go to like different areas for things. Yeah, maybe next couple of days we can do a little tour. Sure, yeah. And then I'm hey, all man, I wish I had the bullet point talent. I'm scripty, scripty, word for word or doesn't, doesn't work. That's how. Because it's like am I reading or am I not reading? How do you have these?
Speaker 1I think it's teaching, it's the lesson. When I used to do lesson plans I always had like originally it was this very nice like printed paper, and then eventually turned it into an index card with some bullet points on it and it was just kind of on my desk and I would just know like look at the next thing, and then you just go the next thing.
Speaker 2And then, historically, I am a. I think part of one of the things that I really like about my videos and one of the things that I feel like people gravitate towards is like seeing my thought form in real time and so having just the bullet point, I see it and then I kind of like explore it is going to be better than whatever I could script, because then it's like I don't like my emotion doesn't match, it's all weird, right, but if it's like a tutorial where I'm explaining something, then yeah, word for word is the way to go.
Speaker 1Yeah, Cause you can't. You know, you can't transpose like a menu thing or a setting or something.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, like those, like if I were doing an e-cam tutorial, well, I don't know, it's hard because I would just describe it, but If you're doing like a technical review and you need to have like I don't know how Tom does it. It's quite the talent, it's very.
Speaker 1Honestly it was. It was teaching. It was not a thing I could do before, but years of teaching helped build up the skill, which is cool.
Speaker 2You don't have to do that while you're teaching, though.
Speaker 1What bullet points.
Speaker 2No like.
Speaker 1Not be word for word, but you have to hit certain points and Cause I Hots will be aware of your audience and he's on the couch with a laptop, typing it like sentences with periods, not, you know. Bullet point to me is like oh, my teaching bullet points were yeah, my bullet points teaching would literally be like FCP export.
Speaker 2And then I know I need to spend 15 minutes talking about how to export from Final Cut Pro. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, bullet point. That's how I did it, but your, your outline is like it's like scroll through the notes that many times.
Speaker 1Well, sometimes I do scripty things, but my bullet points are more complete sentences because I try to get the thought out there, but it doesn't mean I'm going to say or include all of that.
Speaker 2It's like See, that's so hard. I have the idea.
Speaker 1I wrote it out. So there's my thought. The thought is there, but as I go through it as a bullet point, sometimes I combine them, merge them, go on a tangent or whatever. I don't know my brain's weird.
Speaker 2Yeah, so you guys didn't miss the huddle up next Wednesday.
Speaker 1That's Valentine's Day. Well, we're kicking it off on the day I was feeling guilty though, because I was going to be here in the middle and now I don't feel guilty?
Speaker 2We don't. It's just a fact.
Content Creation and Scripting Strategies
Speaker 1We should do something for Valentine's Day, but at you know, between 12 and 3 pm we won't be doing this on Valentine's Day. Tom's going to play hockey.
Speaker 2Nick says I find bullet points of my main topics on my phone that I refer to, and then I just make it up as I go on Too Lazy Descript.
Speaker 1Honestly though, I feel like yeah, there's nothing wrong with that you have it down?
Speaker 2Yeah, like it's not. That's why, if it isn't a pain point, right Like I have talked to many people who have YouTube channels and it's this like a lot of them wish they had us a place where they can read the script in front of them. If that is, you definitely get. This is the best prompter like on the market. I don't think there's even a comparison.
Speaker 1No, I've used many, there's not.
Speaker 2Yeah, but if you're not, you know, if you're fine, you don't need it, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah, the ability to summarize information, deliver it in an entertaining way, is the ultimate skill.
Speaker 1Yeah, when I think of Nick too, like so much of the channel is the personality.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, Because it's not anybody could do. I don't know interior design, but it's the way that you talk about it.
Speaker 1And so I don't know if a script would take away from, like, the personality that pops out, kind of like we were saying, as you're going through the thought, that's when we get to see the uniqueness?
Speaker 2Yeah, because then you're-.
Speaker 1Uniqueness. Hi cat, Yay, we're happy you're here too.
Speaker 2Michael, I have to do word for word or else I tend to stumble, but I do it by concept to allow for editing. Oh, that makes that's a good idea. What does that mean?
Speaker 1So like everything related to this top, like so when you're editing it's like okay, everything over here.
Speaker 2In this chunk. In this chunk, okay, got it.
Speaker 1Even if it maybe, I'm guessing, is not in order of how the video's going to go.
Speaker 2At some point I'm going to get that proper. It's been three years and I still can't veer off a script. Wow, I thought you just talked out your videos.
Speaker 1Well, you're doing great there. Yeah, that's crazy, yeah.
Speaker 2I know.
Speaker 1A blender to what, yeah, you're just going to wing a blender tutorial no.
Speaker 2I know the one that we just watched and where he was taking care of all his plans. Oh, I mean-, yeah, I thought that was for sure Just like well, you know, I have goals and stuff. I was like, wow, the script did. Maybe in the script it says pause here for genuine moment or something.
Speaker 1Stupid.
Speaker 2Pause here for dramatic effect.
Speaker 1Yeah, it is something I noticed, though, when I do read script for script on a prompter is I don't let things breathe enough, because it's just-.
Speaker 2Yeah, you just read.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like speed reading, blah, blah blah, and so it's like learning to take breaks and whatever is. Yeah, it almost like speeds things up too much and I had to learn to slow it down.
Speaker 2Yeah, so anyway, what else is up? This is the creator chat episode. Oh see, he said it was scripted, wow.
Speaker 1So what are you? Days away from 100K at this point.
Speaker 2Yes, this is my brother in genuine queue. Yeah, so Kevin is almost at 100K. Like I don't even know where you're at. You're very-. Oh, you're not going to see it because it's-.
Speaker 1I mean right now, this is 99.7. Okay, yeah, so within 300- 300 subscribers of 100,000. That's this month for sure, right.
Speaker 2I mean it has to be yeah. So congrats early. Congrats Panamonium Big Band. When I script out my videos too precisely, I sound robotic and it detracts from the overall vibe and my personality gets lost. Same, that's why I wouldn't use word for word for my videos. I don't think. But for client videos it actually works because it's like explaining the product. So I don't there doesn't have to be it's actually better that there is no personality because, it's just someone needs to explain the info on camera.
Speaker 2Kat says I love the Prompter, Frye Contact and using it as a confidence monitor. Are your views down over the last two months?
Speaker 1I'm just all over the place. All the time there's like no trends.
Speaker 2Yeah, I haven't I don't have like enough to go off of.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2Okay, Corey has a question, Sorry.
Speaker 1I Thoughts on.
Speaker 2YouTube trending for longer form content. What do you mean?
Speaker 1Like, is YouTube encouraging longer form.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, I thought you meant-.
Speaker 1It's almost like the pendulum is swinging. You know, like the reaction from short form now-.
Speaker 2Okay, so it's not like we're trying to make a long form video. Get on YouTube trending right.
Speaker 1Maybe I'm maybe I misunderstood it, but that's what I-.
Speaker 2So yeah, trapstè„·bcom just got my El Gato Prompter, my only want. I wish I could just I could adjust where the monitor sits to get the best reflection. Fill the screen reflection.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, cause it's not it's like you saw me open the other one.
Speaker 2Oh, the angle is-.
Speaker 1This one is that the angle. But again, I get that, but I also think of like, when it's designed for so many people who've never used a Prompter before it is just yeah, you need it. As dumb as I can, it's kind of like the general optimal angle and it's just right there, like they try to make it as idiot proof as possible, right? Which is what it's for. It's a very consumer level thing.
Speaker 2OK, let's get back to this. Is it trending for longer form content?
Speaker 1I don't know, but I feel like I've heard that conversation and I would definitely not mind it.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh, here we go. Like eight minute videos were the goal we're the goal. And now I've seen 25 minute deep explainer videos doing much better.
Speaker 1I've definitely seen. I've seen more long videos, like more videos of a greater length lately, but I thought I was just sort of getting into different channels where things are like 40 minutes or an hour or something. I don't know if that's a thing where people are switching. I do remember the days when people would like we got to make it 10 minutes and one second to get ad revenue, and then that was cut down to eight minutes. So then people went to eight minutes.
Speaker 2Oh see, that's why it was eight minute videos, Because that was the shortest maximum amount for midroll ads.
Speaker 1Yeah, which is why, like I don't, I haven't seen this as much with the eight minute thing, which is maybe a good sign. I remember, when it was the 10 minute thing, you'd see so many videos that were 10 minutes and one second and you knew it was just padded out like that makes me feel weird yeah because it's like, yeah, I don't remember, sometimes I would accidentally have videos, I don't know why that makes me feel weird, Like do you know why does that? Why does?
Speaker 2that bother me Well, because it because it's why are you making this video?
Speaker 1You're not making this video because you want to make the video. You're making a video to kind of like. You know it could be 10 minutes and 30 seconds, it could be nine minutes and 50 seconds, but you made it. You made it just over the limit here, I know, but it's whenever I had videos that were close to that, I would always cut them down to 9 58, just specifically. See that's the.
Speaker 2It's hard because I don't know. You know I don't hate on it because no, do you. You.
Speaker 1But yeah, let's see.
Speaker 2Cat tipped her prompter forward. It's not parallel to the floor. Actually, I think it's my tip because mine's on a tripod where each leg is adjustable. Oh, I was going to say how would you? I mean I don't know how you would do that without changing the camera angle. I don't know.
Speaker 1Interesting.
Speaker 2Let's see. Mark, would you recommend Elgato or Glide Gear 750 for interactive video conferencing?
Speaker 1I'm going to. I had the Glide Gear 100. I'm going to look up the 750. I'm going to say Elgato, but let me check the Glide Gear.
Speaker 2Cat says my take Video should be as long as needed and no longer.
Speaker 1Oh, I would definitely. Oh wait, sorry, sorry, sorry, oh no, no, because the 750, does it have.
Speaker 2Does it come? Oh, it doesn't come with the white stuff, right, the silver stuff? Yeah, I know it. No, get the Elgato.
Speaker 1Yeah, because this is like a tablet-based thing, unless you want a bigger surface and you want to use a tablet. But some people and I've learned this in the comments in my videos some people love using tablets and phones on their prompters and that's what they prefer. I hate it and I just will not use the prompter.
Speaker 2Wait. So what? Oh wait, wait, wait. We have to make the distinction, because some people don't record to their computer, most people don't, If you're-.
Speaker 1I don't.
Speaker 2No, but like, if you don't need to plug into the computer, then you would use that because you would just record to your memory card and use your phone.
Speaker 1I mean, I don't record to my computer, I record to my memory card, but I use the prompter, which has to be connected to a computer but it's in a studio slash office environment.
Speaker 2Yeah, like if you don't have a computer-.
Speaker 1The Elgato prompter has to be connected to a computer, so if you're not in that situation that is a huge thing, yeah. Then it would be very frustrating to use.
Speaker 2Yeah, because if you're using a tablet because you don't have a computer, I mean what are you editing on?
Speaker 1I don't know, I don't know they have Final Cut Pro on iPads now. Yeah yeah. So that's kind of the big thing there, I guess If you don't mind connecting it to a computer, the Elgato prompter is such a better experience. If you don't want to have to connect it to a computer, then the other one, the Glygear, is the way to go.
Speaker 2Ian Pindle hello from Oxford. Hey, okay, it's been a while, but lovely to see you guys. Hello, okay, I feel like we didn't finish this one though.
Speaker 1Yeah, the longer video thing.
Speaker 2The long video thing.
Speaker 1I mean, let me go through my subscription fee.
Speaker 2Okay, corey it seems like, from your perspective, videos are getting longer. I don't know if videos are getting longer for me. I don't think I would say that.
Speaker 1I mean just the ones you're making. No well, both the ones you're saying I'm just going through my subscription fee to have a 22-minute video.
Speaker 2Oh, that's a great idea. Let me do that.
Speaker 1An 8-minute video, a 12-minute video, I'm not counting podcasts and things. Six, 13, an hour 15.
Speaker 245.
Speaker 112, 3, 13, 26, 52, 16.
Speaker 2I have a lot of live streams which are obviously going to be long.
Speaker 1It seems like a lot between 10 and 20 for me, but let me tell you, if there's a channel I really love and they put out a long video, it's a treat.
Speaker 2It's the best. Yeah, you get excited.
Speaker 1I love it.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I think from my opinion. I think it's about type of content. So if you're doing tutorials and your thing is getting started with how to use the prompter and it's a 27-minute video, maybe that's not a getting started video.
Speaker 1I was trying to learn how to beat a boss in Mother 3. Last night In a video game. Yeah, talk about that later. But trying to learn how to beat a boss in a video game, I had to look up a video and literate the definitive guide, 27 minutes.
Speaker 2I was like dude, this battle is not like Right, but I feel like there's a way to. I don't know. I feel like there's a way that it could be the style of your channel that I don't know. Maybe you're putting some together, you show the whole thing and you don't do any cuts.
Speaker 1I think Kat said it. There it is. Kat said video should be as long as needed and no longer. That's the perfect way to look at it.
Speaker 2I remember telling my students that all the time that makes it seem like it needs to be short.
Speaker 1If it needs to be 45 minutes, it needs to be 45 minutes.
Speaker 2Yeah, I see what you're saying. For tutorials, that makes sense to me. But for, like, do I really have to record me coming into my office? It doesn't need to be there, but it's cool.
Speaker 1I think we're looking at the word need differently, because I would say it does need to be there because otherwise it's not your video Like, otherwise it's not setting the tone and the style and the thing for your video.
Speaker 2You tell him, tell me, I don't know.
Speaker 1That's my made a point button. Is that the top?
Speaker 2No one can hear that.
Speaker 1There's nothing happening. I'm just pointing out that I made a point.
Speaker 2He just looked like this. Oh my goodness. Okay, Corey says my take is YouTube is being consumed more on TVs. That's the push for longer content.
Speaker 1Interesting.
Speaker 2I have heard this many times. Okay, not many.
Speaker 1I've heard that a lot lately though.
Speaker 2Yeah, like it's come up in the past, this year, because? So what's your response to that?
Speaker 1That is different, that is interesting, because it's.
Speaker 2Okay, let's look up our TV consumption.
Speaker 1TV consumption. How do we look that up?
Speaker 2Can you see by device?
Speaker 1Oh, for our channels. Yeah, I didn't know what we were talking about.
Speaker 2Audience.
Speaker 1The same at what we watch on TV.
Speaker 2No, sorry, that's how I said it.
Speaker 1I know that was in the recap recently. Mine was 11% or something.
Speaker 2It was not actually a lot for me, but then what's the increase though Like? Is that normal for your channel?
Speaker 1Oh see, I don't know, I don't know how to find it also.
Speaker 2I actually don't know how to find it either. I don't know if it's on the phone.
Speaker 1There's my weekly recap again.
Speaker 2Is it in the weekly recap?
Speaker 1Mine was last week. It was one of the questions that was like how many people, what percentage of your audience, watch on the TV?
Speaker 2I made 14 bucks on my tutorial channel last week. Oh, last week. That's actually pretty good right. There you go. I think YouTube TV as a whole is increasing, but I think per channel it really depends, because I'm not going to watch tutorials on a TV, but abroad, in Japan, we mostly watch on TV. Now I think.
Speaker 1True, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I don't know, it depends.
Speaker 1Very true.
YouTube TV Viewership and Video Length
Speaker 2Let's see. Pete says that's correct on the TV portion. Latest from YouTube is TV viewership for videos is up to 10% Up a ton versus the past few years.
Speaker 1That is very interesting.
Speaker 2I mean, especially if you think, like you have, like I don't know if Mr Beast is still as big as he was, because I haven't heard about him in a while but if you have someone like him who's creating shows that basically match shows that you see on Hulu and Netflix, I can see how that kind of YouTube would be seen on TV.
Speaker 2Right, it's almost like better that way, great, I'd say. 30 to 45 minute videos are reasonable for me, though it depends on the content, the quality of the production and whether I'm super invested in the topic or not. Right, yeah, because like I have videos where I just sit, like I don't have a video, I talk about ADHD for 40 freaking minutes, no overlays, it's just me talking, and well, people watch it all the way to the end.
Speaker 1So it's like I mean, you are captivating.
Speaker 2I mean, I think it just depends, and it's like I don't know. It's kind of like weird to say whether that video is short or long.
Speaker 1Right, it's hard.
Speaker 2Yeah, it depends on so many things. I was thinking of using a 15 inch monitor and decimated to use decimeter. Oh, to flip the video to get a bigger image. Just not sure the extra screen size is worth the cost effort.
Speaker 1Like everything, it depends. The tricky thing with teleprompters is the bigger screen. So much depends on the distance you are from it, but also the screen size. A bigger screen seems awesome because there's more there, but then there is more for you to like literally look at yourself reading even on the Elgato prompter, which is pretty small, nine inch screen you still need both those margins you still need to make the margin of the script shorter, so that way it's more over the camera's lens.
Speaker 2Yeah, because otherwise it looks like this.
Speaker 1Like well, it also depends if this is closer to you, you're going to notice eyes moving, and it's further away, you can have wider margins and you wouldn't notice it. So so much depends on the specific setup.
Speaker 2Actually you try it. Let me see what Look from like edge to edge, as if we were reading yeah, you could totally tell me.
Speaker 1I mean, I'm looking from like edge to edge.
Speaker 2It's like so obvious you're reading.
Speaker 1Normally okay. Where I'm seeing our microphones in the frame is normally where my script is. If I look between our microphones. You can still see, but I'm not doing it that fast I'm here.
Speaker 2How about I put?
Speaker 1this okay.
Speaker 2Okay, you can read this comment, right here Okay we're any Cajun oh.
Speaker 1We're my comment box. We'll be able to pop it up on screen there or my comments there.
Speaker 2It is there, it is Okay ready the rainy Cajun, there we go there, it is Okay love long form videos for bedtime.
Speaker 1I save them up during the day and see how many I can view before falling asleep with my phone on or under me. Fun fact, air pod batteries can last all night. Oh, wow, my air pods have not been charging lately. It's really frustrating. Even today I took out lunch.
Speaker 2I was like oh, zero percent, that's a problem.
Speaker 1It is a problem.
Speaker 2Could you tell that Tom was reading?
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2That was on the prompter. Okay, we got a week re kit. What's wrong?
Speaker 1I was like you're looking at all these different things.
Speaker 2Okay, rim jam. I put out a 20 minute video recently thinking it'd be way too long, and one of the comments was thanks for getting to the point and not blurring the vid with BS. Yeah, that's funny. It's so hard to predict there's.
Speaker 1I put out a video Last week, my video about the wireless mics. I felt was as short as I can make it while addressing all the issues. I want to touch on with that and of course, like fun to people are like yeah, it was relatively short video and people are like the video should have been one minute long, like a lot. I don't know what you're talking about. Like why do you even want to watch a video? Then, like Like you're just arguing.
Speaker 2I love your imitation of what you think they sound like.
Speaker 1Obviously so it sounds to me.
Speaker 2Ian says I prefer to watch YouTube on the TV, though tonight it's in my office, I watch a lot of YouTube on TV. Interesting. I think I'm still a phone I I've had.
Speaker 1I mean, we do still have Boston and Maine live on TV Every day.
Speaker 2I know I bet if you looked at my, I don't know if they don't have stats as a viewer, but anyway, michael, I will see. Watch what I subscribe to on YouTube on my TV through. Roku Mark says would it be better to do a larger number of short, focused videos or longer videos easier to find specific interest, versus Building viewer relationships?
Speaker 1This is a this is a hard question. That is a YouTube huddle up question right here.
Speaker 2Yeah, but it's like I think you should do. What I would do is that I think it should be both, because I feel like the longer videos build the viewer relationships, while the the short focused videos are the discovery videos, because their topic focused versus person focused a lot of it does depend on the topics, like you know.
Speaker 1I don't know if I'm. The thing about my head was like a final cut pro tutorial, because I've kind of talked about it earlier. But if I did a video, I could do like my entire final cut pro workflow and it's a 50 minute video, start to finish or something. But I could also do like okay, here's how to import, organize footage and final cut, that's a video. Here's how to export. That's a video.
Speaker 2Here's how to do transition, whatever that's a you know so it.
Speaker 1And even though those could all be one video, it would be frustrating for someone who just wants to learn to export to have to sift through a 50 minute video to find their answer.
Speaker 2So it it definitely does depend on the topic, like if you go to my tutorial channel and you see the way that people find that channel, it's a lot of YouTube search and everything that is like the things that are searched are very specific problems like how do I find my subscriber count, my like live subscriber count, or how do I record my you know camera and screen at the same time, like that's one specific problem. That's a person who doesn't care who's talking about it, they're looking for the answer.
Speaker 2Yeah, but that's why I think the longer form it's like you, you've already subscribed to the channel. You might have come in through one of those videos and then now you're like interested in the person, but I don't know. That's what I think, michael. I then have to open my computer to get the link in the circuit part.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's the like, the interactivity, or you know, commenting or whatever people I know who watch mostly video essays.
Speaker 2Watch them on a large screen TV, yeah.
Speaker 1I love a good video essay.
Speaker 2I guess it depends on generation behavior. Someone said I think it was CEO of YouTube mentioned his children watch shorts on TV. Oh, that's all, no. I personally would never do that. Oh my gosh, I feel like I would get so motion sickness.
Speaker 1Fush constant.
YouTube Content Creation and Tech Conversations
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, yeah, no. Kevin says have you tried that Nvidia AI eye contact? I have not.
Speaker 1But the next comment, cuz I was like what is that? And then Kevin said I accidentally had it on for a meeting and even when I was looking down my eyes were creepily staring at the camera. I hated it. So it must be like no matter where you look, it makes it look like you're looking. Oh, oh, that's just. Oh, man, I Would not, I can tell it's just not into it.
Speaker 2Well, I would have no purpose for that. That that's. I feel like you work from home and you have to like get in a meeting or whatever right.
Speaker 1Well, it's funny if you watch when Elgato released their prompter not to talk about it too long, but they did a whole video like how to use the prompter and one of them was like are you stuck in a meeting? That should have been an email, like put your favorite sports game. And then it was like just don't cheer too loud, because the guy was in like a meeting and he was like yeah, all right. And they were like wait what?
Speaker 2I guess that would only charges one side of my AirPods.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2What is happening with the air pod church, see that's what happens cuz you just did that video about the batteries that can't be replaced. Not a fan of the AI eye contact. If I see a top of video under 10 minutes. I think Tom had a busy week.
Speaker 1I. They are just as long as they need to be, but sometimes they're Shorter. It feels weird when I do a sub 10 minute one, but the thing of my brain that pops up is this will be easy to caption Because a 30 minute video with specific problem with specific product names and things.
Speaker 2Can? I'll tell you what Tom's biggest complaint is right now in his workflow is the captions.
Speaker 1It's gotten better, though Descripted something like two, three months ago, where it that was the biggest.
Speaker 2Like I do catch, oh hey, captions you know how many times about comments anymore. You don't complain about some you would you never really complain about thumbnails Editing? Obviously never, never heard a single complaint.
Speaker 1Captions. Yeah, you know, many times I had to replace rotor pro instead of roadcaster pro. What the hell is a rotor?
Speaker 2Which is crazy. It's not even like the video is done.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's why it's frustrating, because everything's done. I got to go through and like, do, like upgrading a ninth grade of essay here, but the script got a lot better where now it can do product names. Even the Elgato prompter it knows when, most of the time knows when to capitalize the word prompter and when not to.
Speaker 2Wow, that's if I say why do you have to be that exact dude? It's I mean.
Speaker 1I like to be that exact. But even stuff like pod mic, you know there's a bunch of ways this. Is it two words? Is it one word? It knows now. Capital P, capital M.
Speaker 2Okay, so here's the thing. Are you Currently watching this stream on TV?
Speaker 1Oh, I think I'm gonna be able to comment, yeah, like it's cuz I'm looking like that hole where.
Speaker 2What device are you using to watch this?
Speaker 1TV, though they won't be able to tell well you gotta pull up your phone and let us know people a chore, oh boy because I think it's helpful for everybody. I remembered when Doc said he first like watched us and got into it. He was watching on a TV, he was like making multiple people.
Speaker 2Yeah, he was like making lunch or something and he heard you mention his name, he like got excited. Let's see. Corey says I love craters. Utilize chapters makes quick search just so much better.
Speaker 1Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2I mean that's like everybody.
Speaker 1Let me tell you if you can do that you should be doing that Let me tell you, when I open a 25 minute video and I need one specific thing, and there's no chapters and I'll forget it?
Speaker 2I would. I would just abort Back to go go refine search. Yeah, kane says I make long one-hour practice exam live streams. Save for VOD, then cut questions in a 15 minute VOD. You will split between viewing for each gives the audience choice for what they feel up to that's great, that's interestingly, longer form has increased TV viewing. Oh, really. So it's like because you made longer videos, tv viewing went up for you Interesting. So if you made longer videos, what if your TV viewing would go up?
Speaker 1That's a lot. Of my videos are 25 to 30 minutes already.
Speaker 2I know it's pretty long I.
Speaker 1Feel like they're too long sometimes.
Speaker 2Old school laptops simply because of the chat, nice laptop. Today I'm watching on my laptop. Last week as iPad, mac PC, I'm watching on my phone, almost everything on my phone, so it's kind of even well. We haven't had a TV person, but that's probably because the TV person is we can't.
Speaker 1They're stuck screaming at their TV right now.
Speaker 2Da Vinci is an auto tech generator, and all I'd have to do is edit a few typos, and I still don't want to do.
Speaker 1Yeah, I wish Final Cut had something like that, where it, just as you basically exported the video, it did the captains Simultaneously and you're done. I think premier does it too.
Speaker 2Oh cut does it.
Speaker 1Final Cut. You can do subtitles, but you can't easily as far as. I know export like the SRT file.
Speaker 2Yeah, so you can you can yeah, it's funny that you never knew this. I'm not like calling you.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean no, I would love to learn.
Speaker 2So text on screen. You know you add a text box that is different from captions.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2You so yeah, so like, it's like a different color on the timeline.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I know that yeah, that you can export.
Speaker 2I thought.
Speaker 1I don't know, I don't know, I don't, I don't know. Is there a risk week?
Speaker 2Seriously.
Speaker 1It's just the sound of our laughter reverberating.
Speaker 2Well, we're kind of like two and a half hours away.
Speaker 1We usually still feel them though.
Speaker 2Let me see If I work out, it goes on the big screen. Homeless Ignac, I think 90% of my live streams have chapters. I put them afterwards so people can practice guitar with me. See, that makes sense. Homeless Ignac, I was trying to like chapter marker hours.
Speaker 1Sorry, that was a 4.7 in Malibu.
Speaker 2Oh wow, that's a big one. That's a big guy. We didn't feel anything.
Speaker 1No, it was a rocking back.
Speaker 2We were like laughing though.
Speaker 1The dogs usually freak out, though.
Speaker 2Yeah, he'd been still sleeping. He didn't feel anything. Let's see, I'm at my computer for this, because I'm usually at my desk at this time. Phone it means I can get my boys breakfast while I listen. Curious, how much video podcasts are driving the TV video. Oh see, there you go.
Speaker 1Interesting.
Speaker 2I think a lot Right.
Speaker 1I don't know. I have no idea. I feel like live streams and video podcasts. Those are great things to put on the TV and then do your thing.
Speaker 2I know, but see, what I do is I put my AirPods on, I have it on my phone and then I go wash the dishes.
Speaker 1But I like putting stuff on the TV long form when I know I'm not going to have to change it or mess with anything.
Speaker 2X-PAT animator TV all the time.
Speaker 1TV all the time.
Speaker 2Mr Canberra Junkie says over at 5.5 in Hawaii. Well, this was in Malibu, which is a lot closer to Kevin. Yeah, oh, RIMJAM says I'm on TV now texting on my phone.
Speaker 1Nice hashtag rebel.
Speaker 2Michael, I open my phone with the YouTube app to comment on something I'm watching live on TV. Yeah, oh, because, yeah, because it says you can use the devices together. Oh, we see that smart.
Speaker 1That's the way to solve that. And if you have Apple TV I'm guessing some of the other ones too where you can do text-to-speech remote, I think you can go into the comments and just leave your comment that way.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I don't know. See, the world is an interesting place.
Speaker 2Yes, it is so, yeah, so, yeah, so, yeah. What else is up?
Speaker 1We have 10 more minutes, well, outside of the world of YouTube, we've been playing a lot of games. Oh, before that on Related.
Speaker 2Pings oh, you wanted to go there.
Speaker 1Well, no, we don't have to go there, but the pod might cover here.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I did ask Rode if I could show these, yet they said yes, because it's a thing, it's a real where is it?
Speaker 1It's not out yet, but they said I can show them, and obviously not just blue, but they gave me a blue one because it's the perfect shade of blue. But I had an awkward moment that I still haven't addressed in the comments for my most recent video. I had this mic, sort of just in the frame, just for funsies, and a bunch of people were like, oh, blue pod mic, crazy, crazy, crazy. And someone was like, hey, where did you get that white pod mic? It's beautiful, I need to know. And I was like I don't know how to tell the person. This is not a white mic If I'm going to help them discover color blindness right now, or like.
Speaker 2Oh, I don't know about that, so I just didn't say anything.
Speaker 1Oh wait, it was Nice t-shirt lady.
Speaker 2Respectfully. Thank you, rainy Cajun. Tom, real quick, what's your favorite cold shoe mount shock of Mike these days? It's still. It's been for a long time.
Speaker 1The video, mike and TG. I just really like that one. I think it sounds super good and it. I love the Dial, the game dial. On the back. Corey says I miss channel intros.
Speaker 2I know most people don't like them.
Speaker 1Yeah, I kind of miss because you know what it was like personality, right, it was like you get to feel I still put mine in. Sometimes it's literally like three seconds, but I put it in.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah. What do you think?
Speaker 1I thought about it, I thought I had a thought oh, I mean, I don't miss the you know like 20 second dubstep generated like Intros from 2014 or whatever.
Speaker 2Like, because it's like you try to you open up a tutorial for a very quick thing and half the video is the intro, I mean it is really funny when there's like a minute 20 video and there's a 20 second intro. Yeah.
Speaker 1It's also funny. I've noticed sometimes there'll be a one or two minute tutorial of some kind that I find and I'm like doing two X speed or double tapping to skip through and I'm like God, if you're making a minute and a half feel like an eternity, because the other, the flip side, is, of course you can watch an hour long video and be like, oh, it's done already. Yeah, crazy A C isn't that funny, yeah.
Speaker 2Exactly, exactly. Tom, did you ever get your grandfather's ham call sign? No, no, you did not.
Speaker 1I need to.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Analog Pocket and Old School RPGs
Speaker 1I've been needing to. It's always there. But we've discovered a thing about me recently what If I don't see something? It doesn't exist? So it which is something we've known about Heather for a long time, and so I have a thing on my to do list, but it's not literally on a list in front of me.
Speaker 2It is not a thing that exists.
Speaker 1It will not happen.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Drew's here. Hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 1I need to get that. I want to get that. That would be so cool.
Speaker 2Yeah, add that to the list.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Oh man, oh, all right, so we're going to talk about games. Oh, I just I sure you have sure, until I had a little show until. Oh, look at you wiggling in your seat. Do you want to do show and tell?
Speaker 1me? No man, we don't have to show and tell.
Speaker 2I'm saying that like some bad thing because Kevin is here, I have he hasn't said anything since he felt the earthquake. I don't know, he might have fallen into an abyss in Malibu or something, but if Kevin survived the quake, yeah, kevin, are you okay Pulling toys to let us know I don't feel really bad of something that actually happened.
Speaker 1It's like pinned under his desk. This isn't funny. For Christmas, Kevin gave me this yes. Which is a thing we had talked about like months before, and I kind of looked into and then understand this is an analog pocket and there's a bunch of like Game Boy emulator and emulator things.
Speaker 2This is pretty awesome, though, because this is like his talk about favorite.
Speaker 1You want to talk about the hours I have put on this thing. It's a good gift, so thank you. It can play any Game Boy cartridge Game Boy Classic, game Boy Color, game Boy Advance. You can take the old school cartridges, just pop them in here. It can recreate the Game Boy display so it can do a really nice like high res display and the highest quality possible for whatever cartridge you use. Or you can have it look like the old Green Game Boy or Game Boy Color or whatever and it really looks like the screen is the old screen. It doesn't look like a computer, fake version of it. But of course you can also put in like different systems and ROMs and things, which has been really fun.
Speaker 2So he loves it. Yes, he loves it.
Speaker 1So what I did with it, what I got it? I was like poking around in my old like links Awakening and my old cartridges and stuff. But then I played Chrono Trigger, your favorite game of all time.
Speaker 2My favorite game of all time. I played many a video game. That one is my favorite. She talked about it.
Speaker 1She talked about it since the day we met. Yeah, chrono Trigger, that was your phone case. It was your phone case, like design.
Speaker 2What's the big part of my life? I've never been an RPC person. I would be who I am if not for Chrono Trigger.
Speaker 1And I played that game on here, which I know it was a Super Nintendo game, but I played it on here and it was so much fun and I loved it. And then I was done with it and I was so sad that I wanted to do more. So then I dove into Earthbound, which I also really, really loved, and now I'm into the sequel.
Speaker 1The sequel, which is called Mother 3, but was never released in the US, so it was never translated. So there's only fan translations and it's a whole thing. But I'm doing that on here and it has been so much fun and I've never seen Tom play video games like this ever, and it's like it's awesome, you know, but I've never seen it and it's just like who are you?
Speaker 1So to get them to for Mother 3, I had to buy a fan translation cartridge because I really like I have my Lynx Awakening cartridge from 1995. That's like the one I played on.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And I like that, and so I was like I want to do this when I dive into this, this other new game, it'd be cool to have the cartridge of it, but it doesn't like exist, so about like a fan translation. Quality wasn't amazing, because when it got warm from being played, the text would start getting garbled on supreme. But then I learned this is where I was looking at tutorials recently. To bring it back to the topic I finally found a very good, like five minute tutorial that explained how to take a save from a cartridge and load it onto the micro SD card so you can then use a ROM and put the save state pick up where you left off.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1But the cool thing is, rather than emulating this is what I've come to understand about the pocket specifically, which is why I think it's so neat. There's lots of emulators out there but things are always like a little bit off in the games or like the. There's weird latency or control things. This and maybe it's splitting hairs. It's different than emulation because it essentially like the way that the hardware inside works. It like not physically moves or anything, but it reconfigures itself to be the device. That it's like emulating. So if you're playing a Game Boy Advance, it is working the same way as a Game Boy Advance or original Game Boy or Super Nintendo or whatever it might be, which is very cool because there's no you get all like the absolute, exact experience of the original game on the thing.
Speaker 1Even though you're playing on that, even though you're playing on that.
Speaker 2Well, I want to know when is the YouTube video coming out on? Tom plays video games now.
Speaker 1I play video games all the time, but not RPGs are different. Rpgs are very different.
Speaker 2That's time intensive yeah. He was like explaining to me, like leveling up, and I had to explain the rolling HP meter in the Earthbound series.
Speaker 1Because you don't just lose your HP when you get hit. You get hit and then it rolls back, but if you end the battle quick enough, you can avoid getting too much damage. Anyway.
Speaker 2Kevin actually had stuff fall in his apartment. That's like crazy, yeah, oh, what about tech audit TV? Tech audit TV wants to know the name of the device. I still might get more color, but can't stay on the screen.
Speaker 1The analog pocket. It's not the cheapest.
Speaker 2Analog is spelled with an E yeah.
Speaker 1Analog U E after G U E. Yeah, it's not the least expensive device out there, but it's like the most premium one and they have different they all. It seems like it's kind of hard to get not unlike the Elgato prompter, but they do like limited edition ones. So they did like a limited edition color run. They have a standard black and white one. They did like a glow in the dark one.
Speaker 2This is a newbie to RPGs.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2If you guys want to make recommendations specifically though here's what I'm looking for right now. He's into retro gaming.
Speaker 1I'm more into the old school ones that I could play on here, so something from a Game Boy or a Super Nintendo maybe, maybe a Genesis or a Game Gear or something if there were any RPGs on there.
Speaker 2He's into the super fix.
Speaker 1I'm not currently yet into random battles.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, if there's random battles, he can't do it Too much, just stress.
Speaker 1So everything I've played so far Chrono Trigger and both the Earth Bounds do not have random battles. You can see the enemy and you know.
Speaker 2Okay, adam Brown says hello to my favorite YouTube couple. I like Kara and Nate, but we saw you two come together. Wow, then your old school then, because we've been together a while I know.
Speaker 1What was it we were talking about today?
Speaker 2I know who's Kara and Nate. Do we know them? Do you watch them?
Speaker 1They're old school YouTube couple, kara and.
Gaming Nostalgia and Console Discussions
Speaker 2Nate, let's see Rocky is sitting next to me geeking out over Tom playing old RPGs, yes so.
Speaker 1There's a few. I have a few on there that I haven't. Golden Sun was one that's highly recommended for Super Nintendo but has random battles.
Speaker 2So, like Mr Camera Drunkie, what would your?
Speaker 1If I like Earth Bound and Chrono Trigger, what else would I like?
Speaker 2I feel like Lewis would be like jump into a Final Fantasy.
Speaker 1Oh, there are. Yeah, there are Final Fantasies on there.
Speaker 2But I feel like you're holding off on.
Speaker 1I know there's like I want to do Sea of Stars.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1Sea of.
Speaker 2Stars. This is one that just came out, but I'm like really liking.
Speaker 1There's something about the small. I know it feels like playing a Game Boy as a kid. This can only do the one thing it just play the games. It's small, it's vertical, it's just like listen. Come on now.
Speaker 2It feels good, it's a good.
Speaker 1It feels good. It's a good device, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a Tomb of Two. Game Review exactly. Oh man, there's gotta be.
Speaker 1One time I saw scary comment sections oh are they I? Don't know. I just meant person who knows nothing about games or viewing games.
Speaker 2Oh, come now. It's the enthusiasm. Oh come now, come on, you can't do it, that's it. Oh, come now.
Speaker 1You turned into like a British nanny. Oh, come now Frasier over here.
Speaker 2I started my gaming channel.
Speaker 1Yeah, I just realized that. As I said, it was a very positive experience. But you also like I went in with the noob angle, like I'm new to this Show me the way You've been doing it longer than like everyone who watched has been alive pretty much.
Speaker 2I know Wait what.
Speaker 1You had been playing games longer than most people had been.
Speaker 2Yeah, but I was new to that game, but anyway, star Ocean is good, but all my faves have random battles.
Speaker 1Really Like what. You just have to accept it as a thing I don't think you do. There's other games out well at.
Speaker 2The thing is it's the retro games have a lot of random battles but, like I'd say, you know 2005 and beyond. We did away with that. That's nice because that the game me acts aspect was it's turned into like puzzles. It turned into like right Harder bosses. It wasn't like you're just walking through the map and boom. Oh yeah, I still play ff7 on PC. Rebirth is coming out very soon and the demo's out. Oh, did file 5c3 or 6 have a Gameboy version? No?
Speaker 1Three does well. I don't know if it's a Gameboy version, but I know people play it on there.
Speaker 2I know, but see if you're gonna play file 5c3 like Play. Play what they just came out with on the switch last year, like they remastered all of them.
Speaker 1I know and I love the switch, but I really love the pocket.
Speaker 2Tetris and dr Mario are all I remember your dr Mario phase. They that app doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1So people got too mad was it on the phone or was it on the switch?
Speaker 2I was on my phone like remember that one, that's right, you battled with other people. Oh my god, it was so there's a problem. Mike Tyson's punch out paper boy, oh paper boy, oh my gosh. Tech mobile and Tetris is all. One needs Tetris. I mean shoot. I could bust that out right here, look.
Speaker 1There you go. I mean, I got my Tetris cartridge, I could pop it in right there we just played.
Speaker 2Tetris is so fun.
Speaker 1Tetris 99 is fun. What is it? What is it called? Tetris Maximus or something?
Speaker 2Yeah, like when you so Tetris 99. This is a free game on like all Nintendo switches, but it's basically you versus 98 other people and If you are the last person standing, you get the title. I think it's Tetris.
Speaker 1Invictus no.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, invictus, I think I don't know whatever, and then you get. You Get access to everyone else who has also been number one. Like to play them. It is a I don't like playing there, yeah crazy. But yeah, acabella, do a video on top up to about this analog pocket and where to acquire games and such. See Gotta give people what they want the acquiring game.
Speaker 1No, no, it'd be fun.
Speaker 2The you haven't been this into like a new thing since hockey.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean yeah, but it's. I mean it's really, it's fun, because it's like, oh great, there's 30 years of games to go through and catch up on, like you know, like it's great. The thing about acquiring games, though, is I'm not sure what the rules are, because what analog did? They marketed this, as you can now play all your cartridges. So cartridge for many, game Boy, pop it in here. Even you get an adapter to game gear games. But they also put Open PGA or FPGA or whatever in here, which means that it's capable of loading cores which are like other systems, so you can put the Super Nintendo core, the Sega Genesis core, the Game Boy Advance core.
Speaker 1All in your pocket and then once you have a core, you know if you somehow have created a ROM or have access to a ROM of a game, you could put that in there. But they're. They're kind of like oh, we put in this functionality, we don't know, you know what, what anybody would possibly do with that. And then if you go online trying to look up like how do you get games or do whatever people like oh, you install cores, and Then we don't know, I guess in theory someone could put a ROM on there if they had a yeah, cuz it's all like illegal I don't it's gray areas, but like the mother three fan translation of a game.
Speaker 1Like is like out of print You're buying a game.
Speaker 2You're downloading a game without buying it.
Speaker 1I Would never, would never I Did. I don't know what you're talking about I. Don't know what you're talking about. No idea. I definitely wouldn't go to Google and search like Rom downloads or something and just click on the first website.
Speaker 2That's not a thing I would do. I feel college purses. Thanks to miss Pac-Man, I'm not old.
Speaker 1I Love Pac-Man and miss Pac-Man though.
Speaker 2I was the difference between miss Pac-Man and Pac-Man.
Speaker 1She had a bow, that was it alright.
Speaker 2like game wise, it was the same.
Speaker 1I think some of the items are different.
Speaker 2I don't remember. Well, we went to David Buster's recently and they had a giant Pac-Man where like eight people could play at a time.
Speaker 1Oh, that was insane it was crazy.
Speaker 2It was. He was like a pool table like that size.
Speaker 1It was cool.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's fun it was really fun. The tech on TV. Have you guys experimented with vertical live streams that get pushed through the short feed?
Speaker 1No, I didn't know.
Speaker 2That was a thing. I just saw this on e-cam.
Speaker 1So you can live stream shorts, but that's not very short. I Know that vertical streaming is more of a thing.
Speaker 2So say, you wanted to go live to Instagram? Yeah, and YouTube Shorts, I don't know. So I think when they click on the short, it would look like an Instagram feed. Okay like Instagram live, right? No, the answer is no.
Speaker 1Yeah, clearly we're not.
Speaker 2I still play Castlevania of my og game boy, napster. For games, I Love David Buster's, so do we? They just opened up one here in our area. The closest one was like an hour and a half, yeah, so it's been awesome.
Speaker 1I caught it. Tv sounds like plexus, entire business model. I suppose some crazy person out there could hypothetically pirate movies and watch them be our platform, but They'd have to be crazy. Only a crazy person would do something that crazy.
Speaker 2I smell a class action suit. Res me a periscope so familiar that was like a Twitter.
Speaker 1It got absorbed into Twitter at some point. That was like only live streaming right, it was my gosh, you know we should do like talk about every platform. Oh Lord friends her my space.
Speaker 2Yeah, all of them live journal blog spot. I'm waiting for you to say a secret one I've never heard of.
Speaker 1I just know the ones that I. I'm sure you knew more than I did. I don't know a well incident messenger, msn messenger, what was it? Was it Yahoo chat rooms? We're had, like all the different topics.
Speaker 2Use Yahoo chat rooms. Yeah, that's cute asl 16 female Cali.
Speaker 1I was always like. I never said my actual name, but I was. I was always honest about like Whatever you know 14 MCA. Thank you, mr Camerajan, for this link you sent me what oh? 20 classic RPGs that are still great today.
Speaker 2Oh, I want to look at the list. Compuserve damn, I think I have to get one of these analog pockets and find time to play. I don't, tom is like. I Don't even know what used to do with your time, but multiple hours per day are now spent on that thing, which I love. Okay, I think it's a problem because I also play multiple hours playing video games, but right now I'm Doing PlayStation stuff, so yeah, she's on the PS5.
Speaker 1It's very different.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm playing yakuza.
Speaker 1Here's the number one.
Speaker 2Yo.
Speaker 1Chrono trigger is the number one on that list you guys have to play it.
Speaker 2Okay, it's like tick-tock your life streams appear in the same fetus shorts and are separate from horizontal lives. But I've done two vertical life streams and I probably get five times viewers. We should try it.
Speaker 1It'd be fun. Oh, earthbound's number six.
Speaker 2I started with ICQ.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, I remember that. I see Q I never had it, but I remember knowing of it.
Speaker 2I'm disconnecting from all this of the legal activity. I was never here. I CQ brought back memories. I see Q. Why does that sound familiar?
Speaker 1Well it was. It wasn't like aim, but it kind of was, wasn't it? You had like a number or something and people could chat.
Speaker 2CQ. It sounds so familiar.
Speaker 1Sorry, there's a lot of games on here I haven't heard of and I there's your list.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, we should call it. Yeah, it's a nap time for the babes over here After he plays at a lock pocket. Anyway, today was super fun and we will catch you next week, is there?
Speaker 1anything else, time to clear the table. Youtube huddle up.
Speaker 2YouTube huddle up on the day a dish, yep and yeah.
Speaker 1So thank you for hanging out with us. Thank you for all the fun. Hope you have a safe, happy, healthy, fun rest of your weekend this week day, friday. Weekend and see you next time.
Speaker 2See ya, bye.