A status note on my Youtube playthrough/tutorial videos

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Apologies to any and all trying to follow along, but I seem to have mis-configured MS Expression in encoding Parts 6-10, so have been having to re-encode them.  I at least want the text in the video readable, which it wasn't, and the audio was pretty terrible too (not that I have a golden voice by any stretch of the imagination).

I moved all the previous 'takes' (games) and the subpar 6-10 to a Scraps playlist on my Youtube account.  Unfortunately I can't do anything about 1-4, as I recorded those with other software that recorded in pretty low quality (especially the framerate), despite having small footprints, not recording smoothly at all ... in fact the video I uploaded from parts 1-4 is the raw video generated by the recorders I was the direct output they generated.  With Microsoft Expressions Screen Capture I am using now (from part 5 on), the raw video is in a proprietary format Youtube can't recognize, so I have to encode it first.  Unfortunately, the encoding process is slow ... a one-hour video takes 3-5 hours to encode during which all four cores on my poor legacy CPU are choked so I cannot continue playing and recording while encoding, then another hour to upload to Youtube which chokes my upstream so I can't do much Internetwise.

The last of the re-encodes will finish in a few minutes now, so hopefully I can get back to recording new stuff.  Unfortunately, I wasn't careful about the order of the re-encodings for parts 6-10, so 10 finished first, then 9, then I discovered it was out of order and prioritized 6, 7 and 8 to go in order.  The fixed versions of 6, and 9 are thus already uploaded to Youtube, 10 will finish in half an hour at the time I write this.  The original subpar 6-10 recordings are, as I mentioned, still available if you really want to watch them, but I've moved them into a Scraps playlist.  

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Eek, I derped.  'A few minutes' was just the end of the first pass on the last video ... 2nd pass will take another 4 hours ... arrgh. :/  Wonder how badly my laptop would choke playing FE ...

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Hi Chibia, could you share a link to your vids, please?

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Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

The last of the recordings is complete (finished the game ... I'll leave how it ended as a surprise), but encoding is taking ludicrously long.  One video is going to take 13 hours to complete its 2nd pass to encode :/

Time now to install the beta patch and play some games without recording them.  Its a lot more work than I thought ... but I'm learning some things so hope to make another recording, but its going to take days, I expect, to catch up on encoding the recordings and I can't play while encoding as it gobbles all of my processing power of all of my cores, and my laptop has proven insufficient, even with highly reduced settings, to playing Fallen Enchantress. :/