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You have a lot to improve. First off, get a professional microphone. There's a lot of background noise. Your card reviews are just reading what the card does. That isn't informative or worthwhile. You're going to want to go into more detail on these videos. Next, MAKE FRICKIN SCRIPT! There are too many "uh"s and "hold on"s. Make a script and record audio over the video file. In making a script, you're going to want to lay everything out. Never ever ever move your camera... just fyi ;D Move what's under the camera.

I didn't get anything from the videos. Decide what your goal is. The card reviews were just reading the cards and the deck reviews just described the deck AND read the cards. I want to know matchups, standard decklist,etc. I'd also highly recommend you stop giving advice until you are a recognized player. If you haven't proven yourself at nationals/worlds, I'd advice to let the higher level players give the major advice. You just won't get a great following until you have a large number of respected players thumbs-upping your videos.

Hope this helped... gl and hf with the future videos. Also, don't ever forget to edit. If the video is bad, don't release it.
 
Zero said:
You have a lot to improve. First off, get a professional microphone. There's a lot of background noise. Your card reviews are just reading what the card does. That isn't informative or worthwhile. You're going to want to go into more detail on these videos. Next, MAKE FRICKIN SCRIPT! There are too many "uh"s and "hold on"s. Make a script and record audio over the video file. In making a script, you're going to want to lay everything out. Never ever ever move your camera... just fyi ;D Move what's under the camera.

I didn't get anything from the videos. Decide what your goal is. The card reviews were just reading the cards and the deck reviews just described the deck AND read the cards. I want to know matchups, standard decklist,etc. I'd also highly recommend you stop giving advice until you are a recognized player. If you haven't proven yourself at nationals/worlds, I'd advice to let the higher level players give the major advice. You just won't get a great following until you have a large number of respected players thumbs-upping your videos.

Hope this helped... gl and hf with the future videos. Also, don't ever forget to edit. If the video is bad, don't release it.
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Michrophones are too expensive and I actully just like doing the stuff. I am analysising the card and what it does same with the decks. I will give deck examples and more detail. Like I said I am knew at this.
 
Stop right there! Decide why you are making these videos. If they are purely for your own fun, ignore this post. If you are trying to help anyone at all, no excuses will be tolerated. I know that microphones are expensive, but I certainly cannot watch videos with the sound quality that yours has for long periods of time. If you want to help people, go big or go home. Your videos will not help anyone unless you devote serious time, effort, and money into them.

As far as my second point, I watched the video from the point of a new player who has never heard of any metagame decks. You told me what the cards did and nothing else. That didn't help me at all. Your response shows me that you are not ready to be holding these types of shows. You responded negatively to my concern. Don't do that ever. Take all advice -- good and bad. Don't try to justify it to the viewer. Take their advice, do a double take of the episode, and see how it works. If you don't have time, don't make videos.
 
First off, NEVER EVER EVER tell your viewer why your video is bad. That is just dumb to preface the video with "the sound quality is bad". Hope that it gets ignored. When I hear that, I listened in for more bad sound quality. Once again, if you really want this series to go anywhere, you're going to have to commit time and effort. Money also. It is VERY obvious that you didn't write a script as I told you to. Zekrom's resistence is two colorless energy? That's interesting. You are also going to want to remove the "um" and "uh"s. Some editting work will do wonders for that... Also, remove filler words and phrases. "That's pretty good" should be obvious if you are talking about a top tier deck.

Next, you used a lot of jargon. What is a pre-evo? Those things are called basic pokemon. Pre-evo is jargon... not official terms. "this card is pretty bad against Gothitelle Runiclus because if you fail turn one you're probably not gonna get it out". As a player, I understand what you mean, but this sentence is pretty meaningless to a new player. If you fail what? Why would you not get it out against Gothitelle Reuniclus? Perhaps say that they can lock down your entire deck by preventing you from using your trainers... that would be more meaningful.


As far as video goes, your hands make the video look less professional than they could be. Perhaps just keep some cards on a playmat. I would recommend you work on some animations with cards moving around. This would help you show cards that you don't have with your or at all.


2-3 cleffa in a deck? Which deck do you think you are playing? o_O You should never do that in general... especially when the deck in question is ZPTS. ZPTS barely runs 1 cleffa let alone 2-3. Focus on good advice.


If you want to make these projects work, try out my advice. I have experience in this field, so I'd highly recommend you consider what I am saying. Your negative responses are not appreciated...


Now for a personal thing. I have a distaste for "scores" as they imply that a 9 is always better than an 8. That just isn't true. I would always rather zoroark, a potential 8, than Zekrom, a 9, in my stage 1 deck. Scores are meaningless and arbitrary at best...
 
My clear suggestions here would be these (this is based on your Donphan Prime card review)

-Better quality on equipment, the booming sound is irritating.
-You kinda fiddle around with the card too much which is a bit weird
-Lighting I guess

My best suggestion would be to follow something like what J-Wittz did in his older episodes of Prof-It. Get good background picture and flash the card scans instead of you holding the cards itself. Prepare a script because you act like me in impromptu speeches (nervous and really trying to grasp for words). A script solves those problems because you get to read it out and prepare for it.

After you improve on the videos itself, then you could focus more on the in-depth content. Because if your video quality isn't good, you'll end up not having any viewers at all even if you presented good information. I am by no means a professional in videos but this is all I can give from the perspective of someone who always watches youtubers like nicepeter, nigahiga and card reviewers like jwittz
 
I could use my moms camera for this. I don't know how to edit or post pictures on screen. Can anyone help? By the way I am using a webcam.
 
Zero said:
You have a lot to improve. First off, get a professional microphone. There's a lot of background noise. Your card reviews are just reading what the card does. That isn't informative or worthwhile. You're going to want to go into more detail on these videos. Next, MAKE FRICKIN SCRIPT! There are too many "uh"s and "hold on"s. Make a script and record audio over the video file. In making a script, you're going to want to lay everything out. Never ever ever move your camera... just fyi ;D Move what's under the camera.

I didn't get anything from the videos. Decide what your goal is. The card reviews were just reading the cards and the deck reviews just described the deck AND read the cards. I want to know matchups, standard decklist,etc. I'd also highly recommend you stop giving advice until you are a recognized player. If you haven't proven yourself at nationals/worlds, I'd advice to let the higher level players give the major advice. You just won't get a great following until you have a large number of respected players thumbs-upping your videos.
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First two things you need to do. If you wanna get recognized, you need to be professional. These are staples.

I know a mic can be expensive, so at least try getting rid of the background noise, if that's possible.
 
Not a video maker but IIRC a Mac has good video editing tools or ask a good video editer for good programs on Windows if you think Macs are pricey. (we all do)
 
tybike said:
I could use my moms camera for this. I don't know how to edit or post pictures on screen. Can anyone help? By the way I am using a webcam.
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Fully aware that you are using a webcam... that is why it sucks. I use sony Vegas pro for editting, but that isn't very affordable. Try using Windows Movie Maker and decide if you like editing. Then, I'd highly recommend you make the investment in Sony Vegas Pro...

As far as cameras go, just get a cheap Sony camera. I spent $200 on mine and I am very happy with it. As far as mics go, logitech microphones are very inexpensive, but they aren't horribly professional. Blue Snowball microphones are very inexpensive (for what they are) and work very well...

You're going to have to invest time and money... work on making a script and post it here before anything else. Let's see if you even have talent. You are just wasting your time if you don't work hard on the project. I know it is hard and expensive, but if you think it is worth it, GO FOR IT! The community grows every time someone has a professional package that teaches about the game... you can get there... you just aren't there yet.
 
Well thanks everyone for your help.I am trying my hardest on this and I will try to get better. I findit actually harder when I write a script for some odd reason. :-(
 
But at least a script would make your narration miles more fluid. Just think of what're you gonna say then write it down. After that, proofread and make changes. That will result in better results as compared to impromptu.
 
You need a script. It may be harder, but it is easier for your viewers. Also, do multiple takes. If one has an error, toss it and try again. Your viewers dont know how many takes it took, so take as many as you need.
 
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