Twitch vs. YouTube

[Steel Wolf]

So I'm something of a nerdball.

 

...duh.

 

No, but seriously, I love "Let's Play" videos.  I love producing videos (having done production and mixing for anime fandubs for a number of months).  I would love to produce my own series of videos, it's just a question of what game and what content.

 

Right now, I have a couple of episodes of some videos running through blind playthroughs of the Investigation Missions in The Secret World, titled "Stumbling Through the Dark".  I'm also considering making a series of videos around EverQuest Next: Landmark, but that's neither here nor there.  Right now, I'm trying to determine the best place to host said videos--which ones are more interesting I'll gauge later.

 

YouTube has been my friend for a number of years.  I've used it through all the format changes and style adjustments and Google+'ing and even through the blanket answer of blocking ALL the things due to copyright whining.  There's an established userbase there.  People are familiar with the site.

 

But then I start hearing more and more about Twitch.  It's userbase is growing. It's a site specifically for these kinds of videos.  Also, no Google+ silliness or other combined idiocy.

 

Now I'm not familiar with Twitch, and really only just sorta perused the site a bit. I'm curious if anyone here has any thoughts on the best place to launch this idea...or if anyone would care about said idea at all, honestly. 

 

Thanks for reading, friend. ^^

[Kage]

Twitch is much, much more livestream based than youtube. You're basically streaming live, which well can be fun. It can also make your Let's Play a little bad if you plan on lots of edits ala Cry or Pewdiepie (ok I admit it I watch them T_T)

 

I guess my first question is what your plan is with the LPs. A streamed setup or lots of edits?

 

Twitch is fun for speedrunning charity marathons as well as real time interaction with an audience if you plan for having that.

[Steel Wolf]

Well, the videos I've got planned are pretty heavily edited--if I did a live stream of my playing an Investigation Mission in TSW, it'd involve lots of silences, muttering and annoyed growling...which probably wouldn't be very entertaining. 

 

So, I suppose that rather answers my question right out of the box it seems.  Jeez, this thread seems a waste now...

 

...uh....how about that sports team?  ^.^;;;

[Kage]

Well I could be very wrong But in my experience and as far as I know Twitch isn't available for video uploads but for livestreaming.

 

Sports teams? I root for the Ul'dahn Drakes of course. /shot

[Olofantur]

Just to tag onto ExKages note, Twitch does have some in system editing [the clips you stream can be edited and reposted as highlights alongside the full video]

 

But uploading Video is a no-go from what i've seen. Not sure what you're using as recording software but OBS [Open Broadcast Software] is what I use for my live streaming and recording, its fairly light weight and while not has configurable as some, it suits my needs since I do any tweaking in review after.

 

For video hosting Youtube followed by back ups on Springboard is fairly common, A regular program of mine links his Springboard in the youtube additional info to provide optional viewing in case you're fighting a copy rights claim and the video is temporarily suspended.

 

Oh! And while I hope you never have to deal with it, here are a few snips of infor on fair use to back yourself up, i've had to fight a few claims because of that twelves cursed auto-flagger.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

http://www.yourmoviesucks.org/2013/12/youtubes-content-id-system-sucks.html [A little ranty but is information is good.]

 

Hope to see what you put out there :cactuar: