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Title: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on April 29, 2019, 10:37:48 am
Hi everyone!

Now that we have updated the getting started threads with Knossos instructions (so newbies won't have a heart attack when they see the old wXLauncher instructions  :lol:) and I have completed the 'promotion via articles' cycle for the time being, i have turned my attention to the HLP YouTube Channel, with its one video  :p

Well now it has two! Achille44 has kindly created an up-to-date version of the 1999 vs now intro video which looks stunning. Here is the link :-)
https://youtu.be/RM1YC_gK-qo (https://youtu.be/RM1YC_gK-qo)

NB - I may need to attribute the music. Can anyone provide the details (other than being the X-Factor music  :p)

I am still looking for banner art to take the place of the grey rectangle shown in the attached image. You can see in the second screen-grab that any image used for the channel art needs to be quite large - a 1080P screenshot will not work I'm afraid- I tried. If anyone can provide something that would be  great. A 4K-screen grab might work, nut my PC is not beastly enough to handle 4K (plus my 1080P TV/Monitor wouldn't display it anyway.)

If anyone is doing playthroughs, recording demos, cut scenes, weapons and graphics tests etc. that they would like featured on the channel please send through the files and I'll upload them :-)

There is one video in particular I am trying to find which I suspect one of you fine people created. It shows GTVA  cap ships fighting Shivans. Except the T&V blob turrets have been replaced with rapid firing pink anti-everything guns which look spectacular! Anyone know what it is called or can share a link? I would love to add it to the liked videos, or add it to the channel if someone has the original file.

My dinner is getting cold so I'm off to stuff my face :-)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on April 29, 2019, 10:44:38 am
Finally~ :)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on April 29, 2019, 10:51:19 am
...Those screen-grabs I mentioned and forgot to attach doh!

[attachment eaten by a Shivan]
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on April 29, 2019, 11:03:38 am
They're not visible unless you're logged-in; you should put them somewhere (heh I'm the one to talk :D), but for such a PR-related thing I'd consider it necessary.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: 0rph3u5 on April 29, 2019, 11:27:18 am
NB - I may need to attribute the music. Can anyone provide the details (other than being the X-Factor music  :p)

0:00 - 1:30 - I think that's the soundtrack from the original FS1 intro
1:38+: Artist: Two Steps from Hell; Title: Heart of Courage; Album: Legend
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on April 29, 2019, 12:33:55 pm
NB - I may need to attribute the music. Can anyone provide the details (other than being the X-Factor music  :p)

0:00 - 1:30 - I think that's the soundtrack from the original FS1 intro
1:38+: Artist: Two Steps from Hell; Title: Heart of Courage; Album: Legend

Thank you, updating now :-)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Colt on April 29, 2019, 01:00:23 pm
Just subscribed to it. If I come across that video you're looking for I'll let you know. Keep up the good work!
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: HLD_Prophecy on April 29, 2019, 01:09:16 pm
I recall Axem had some neat showcases and the like on his channel - would be fun to see those brought over! Ask him about that rainbow beam of death demo. :)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: niffiwan on April 30, 2019, 04:26:56 am
Just need it rerecorded now that the sound panning issues have been fixed :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBHG5F6Ps0
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: niffiwan on April 30, 2019, 05:07:48 am
Regarding the YouTube 2560x1440 banner art, I've just found out (https://superuser.com/questions/295938/how-to-take-a-screenshot-of-a-window-larger-than-the-screen/) I can take (probably) any size screenshot while still using my 1080p monitor. Wonderful!

So - what do you want a pic of? :)

(https://i.imgur.com/7MUZmma.png)

Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on April 30, 2019, 05:17:19 am
Regarding the YouTube 2560x1440 banner art, I've just found out (https://superuser.com/questions/295938/how-to-take-a-screenshot-of-a-window-larger-than-the-screen/) I can take (probably) any size screenshot while still using my 1080p monitor. Wonderful!

So - what do you want a pic of? :)

(https://i.imgur.com/7MUZmma.png)

Ooh, sounds good, thank you.

Re what to use as an image. I'm not sure exactly. Something that shows off HLP at its best, and looks good in a 'letterbox' format since the banner is very wide but not very tall. The attached screen grab is a good example. I'm open to suggestions, either that or surprise me  :)



[attachment eaten by a Shivan]
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on April 30, 2019, 05:35:11 am
https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Screenshots
https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Screencap_Contest
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on April 30, 2019, 05:43:17 am
https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Screenshots
https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Screencap_Contest

Thank you.

I will have a look at these again, but the dimensions of all the ones I saw before were too small. The banner needs to be 2048 by 1152 pixels. 1080p screen-grabs are too small, hence the need for 4K screen-caps.

Who would have though YT would be so picky?  :P
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: niffiwan on April 30, 2019, 05:44:55 am
https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Screenshots
https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Screencap_Contest

yeah, all my submissions are of Star Wars ships, and I think HLP YouTube needs something FS2 related.  And, maybe it's obvious, but I can only easily retake @2560x1440 my own screenshot submissions :D
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 30, 2019, 09:38:34 am
I forgot I intended to make this artwork. If no one does it by Wednesday night, I will.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Colt on April 30, 2019, 10:32:38 am
Just need it rerecorded now that the sound panning issues have been fixed :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBHG5F6Ps0

That was absolutely glorious.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: niffiwan on May 01, 2019, 04:48:42 am
I forgot I intended to make this artwork. If no one does it by Wednesday night, I will.

I don't think I'll have time until the weekend so be my guest!
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: niffiwan on May 05, 2019, 09:58:22 pm
Not sure if mjn.mixael has sent you some artwork or not, but in case not I've created the following screenshot for the YouTube channel. Funnily enough it's from BtA :) I was looking through the wiki screenshots for inspiration and liked this one (https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/File:RScreen0109.png). I just played with the mission a bit to make the action fit into less vertical space.

(https://i.imgur.com/ccQBndb.png)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 05, 2019, 10:08:36 pm
I always thought it should be the forum banner.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on May 05, 2019, 10:16:29 pm
I think it is too small (or was not fitting as YT had some very specific demands).
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: niffiwan on May 05, 2019, 10:34:17 pm
HLP scales it; the original on imgur (https://i.imgur.com/ccQBndb.png) is 2560x1440
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 06, 2019, 03:42:04 am
Not the literal same image ;)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on May 06, 2019, 08:27:18 am
Artwork is up and looks fab. About section and social media links updated. I found the video with the pink space dakka-dakka and added it to the liked videos playlist (It's called 'Freespace 2 SCP Postprocessing Build 3.6.13')

So I think the channel is good-to-go and ready for sharing. I ask that a few of you fine people take a look and let me know what you think and let me know your thoughts. If I have done anything wrong or missed anything please let me know ASAP.

Ideally please take a look as both a subscriber and a non-subscriber since apparently the home page may look different dependent on the visitor's subscriber status. In particular I need to know if the channel intro video - the latest 1999 vs 2019 into video - shows on both the 'new visitor' and 'returning subscribers' homepage.

Many thanks in advance,

Kind regards,

Iain 'Sessile Nomad' Baker
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 06, 2019, 09:13:32 am
Looks a bit bland on the mobile app but beats a blank space  :yes:

Just my opinion :)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Mito [PL] on May 06, 2019, 03:47:47 pm
Okay, so my three coins dropping into the discussion (heh):

So firstly, I think the HLP logo in the channel would look better displayed against a black/dark background (but I'm swayed, I'm using Youtube dark mode all the time :P).

So, what kind of content can we expect in this channel? Because it's obvious for me that it's going to feature some kind of FSO engine technical novelties or maybe mod trailers/teasers? I have got a few ideas on what we can include here too, and how we can separate this into playlists. For example, create playlists like these:
Getting started! - videos on how to set up Knossos and FSO, some sort of showcase of how FSO functions and settings affect the game, ect... Of course, it should be slapped on the main page.
Campaign playthroughs - preferably one playlist per campaign/mod, the videos should consist of the gameplay with some tips and information conveyed through subtitles or something like that (like in that one MattTheGeek's video on Her Finest Hour), with maybe multiple videos per mission to showcase possible different approaches in more complex missions. Of course, everything recorded with as much FSO graphical goodies as possible :P
Gameplay tips and tricks - about: how to get better at playing FSO. Maybe showing some AI behaviours, comparing stats ect.
Freespace Open news - I think this would be a nice place to show off the new functionality and features of FSO when they're introduced. For example, things like Axem's moving arms Sathanas or cloak shaders. Or The E's videos on implementations of HDR/PBR in FSO.
Mod trailers/teasers - just as the name says. If any new big mod gets a trailer or something, it should be featured in this playlist.
The fun corner - funny Freespace videos, like that musical Shivan beam. Maybe some memes or funny bugs?
Modding tutorials - videos on how to set up mods on Knossos, use FRED, PCS2, make models, write scripts ect. ect. And I think Asteroth's (?) FRED tutorial streams could fit here?
Interviews and discussions - As the name suggests. I think the dev commentaries from one of BP-related channels and Firesteel's videos would fit in.

Maybe there would be even place for some streams, like Firesteel did on Twitch earlier?

I also think that there's a better way to upload videos than just be provided with a video file and having to upload it yourself. I think Youtube allows for multiple users to use the same channel and upload videos to it, but I'm not sure how that exactly works. This would eliminate the need to effectively upload the same video twice and the requirement of your presence to make uploads.

There's also a question whether you're thinking of bringing old clips from other users over to this channel, or just inserting them in playlists. I personally think it would be the best if every new FSO video was appearing on this specific channel. Maybe we could negotiate a bit with people who are making Freespace videos on their own right now so that they would entirely move their videos here?
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on May 06, 2019, 09:12:33 pm
I personally think it would be the best if every new FSO video was appearing on this specific channel. Maybe we could negotiate a bit with people who are making Freespace videos on their own right now so that they would entirely move their videos here?

I'd second that. The question is now - how could this be done in a reasonable easy way? Because elseway the number of people willing to share their videos will be even shorter. AFAIK (I don't have YT though) you'd have to upload the videos somewhere else (like MediaFire), then have them on YT ASAP.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Colt on May 06, 2019, 10:16:26 pm
Campaign playthroughs - preferably one playlist per campaign/mod, the videos should consist of the gameplay with some tips and information conveyed through subtitles or something like that (like in that one MattTheGeek's video on Her Finest Hour), with maybe multiple videos per mission to showcase possible different approaches in more complex missions. Of course, everything recorded with as much FSO graphical goodies as possible :P

If campaign playthroughs are among the content of the HLP YT channel in the end, then I'm open to sharing the vid files of my recent YT playthrough of Freespace Blue (Blue Planetfied-FS2 original campaign). :yes:
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: karajorma on May 07, 2019, 03:03:42 am
I'd second that. The question is now - how could this be done in a reasonable easy way? Because elseway the number of people willing to share their videos will be even shorter. AFAIK (I don't have YT though) you'd have to upload the videos somewhere else (like MediaFire), then have them on YT ASAP.

Is there really no way to have a video on two channels at the same time? Even if both channels want it?

I think at the very least we can set up a playlist with other Freespace videos we don't have on that channel. The HLP channel is definitely welcome to link the Diaspora videos either directly on the channel or via a playlist. Diaspora should also be a featured channel.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on May 07, 2019, 05:52:53 am
This seems to be relevant: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2404846?hl=en
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: mjn.mixael on May 07, 2019, 07:06:13 am
Guys... Getting other's work hosted on the HLP channel is the wrong way to go.

Let's Plays are generally the work of people trying to grow their own channel. No one doing that is going to hand HLP their views and watch time. I'd also suggest that Let's Plays are outside the scope of a channel like this, but I'll get to that. Having an HLP playlist of Let's Plays is the best way to go here.

Original work (cutscenes and the like). Being one who fits in this category... I don't want to hand over my views. I worked my ass off on these and gave them away for free. The least I can ask for is to get the YouTube credit. With that said, doubly uploading these (unless the artist is ok with it) would be kind of a dick move. Again, link to or playlist these from the HLP channel.

Tech demos and other misc stuff. These make the most sense for actual uploading to the HLP channel, especially if it's big flashy new features or models. We could make our own highlight videos for new SCP releases or something.

Trailers. Yes definitely. Get these on the HLP channel. These are promotional, so duplication shouldn't matter.

Finally, I'd suggest this is a great place for some modding tutorials specific to FS. (FRED, tables, PCS2, etc) This is also a good place to for newbie tutorials like a video run through if the Knossos first-use setup and/discussing graphics flags or other FAQs.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on May 07, 2019, 07:18:03 am
Looks a bit bland on the mobile app but beats a blank space  :yes:

Just my opinion :)

Just had a look at the mobile version and you make a good point. The HLP logo covers up the Bomber. Perhaps we need something with more going on in the centre of the image?

Any offers anyone?
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on May 07, 2019, 07:24:08 am
Okay, so my three coins dropping into the discussion (heh):

So firstly, I think the HLP logo in the channel would look better displayed against a black/dark background (but I'm swayed, I'm using Youtube dark mode all the time :P).

So, what kind of content can we expect in this channel? Because it's obvious for me that it's going to feature some kind of FSO engine technical novelties or maybe mod trailers/teasers? I have got a few ideas on what we can include here too, and how we can separate this into playlists. For example, create playlists like these:
Getting started! - videos on how to set up Knossos and FSO, some sort of showcase of how FSO functions and settings affect the game, ect... Of course, it should be slapped on the main page.
Campaign playthroughs - preferably one playlist per campaign/mod, the videos should consist of the gameplay with some tips and information conveyed through subtitles or something like that (like in that one MattTheGeek's video on Her Finest Hour), with maybe multiple videos per mission to showcase possible different approaches in more complex missions. Of course, everything recorded with as much FSO graphical goodies as possible :P
Gameplay tips and tricks - about: how to get better at playing FSO. Maybe showing some AI behaviours, comparing stats ect.
Freespace Open news - I think this would be a nice place to show off the new functionality and features of FSO when they're introduced. For example, things like Axem's moving arms Sathanas or cloak shaders. Or The E's videos on implementations of HDR/PBR in FSO.
Mod trailers/teasers - just as the name says. If any new big mod gets a trailer or something, it should be featured in this playlist.
The fun corner - funny Freespace videos, like that musical Shivan beam. Maybe some memes or funny bugs?
Modding tutorials - videos on how to set up mods on Knossos, use FRED, PCS2, make models, write scripts ect. ect. And I think Asteroth's (?) FRED tutorial streams could fit here?
Interviews and discussions - As the name suggests. I think the dev commentaries from one of BP-related channels and Firesteel's videos would fit in.

Maybe there would be even place for some streams, like Firesteel did on Twitch earlier?

I also think that there's a better way to upload videos than just be provided with a video file and having to upload it yourself. I think Youtube allows for multiple users to use the same channel and upload videos to it, but I'm not sure how that exactly works. This would eliminate the need to effectively upload the same video twice and the requirement of your presence to make uploads.

There's also a question whether you're thinking of bringing old clips from other users over to this channel, or just inserting them in playlists. I personally think it would be the best if every new FSO video was appearing on this specific channel. Maybe we could negotiate a bit with people who are making Freespace videos on their own right now so that they would entirely move their videos here?

All great suggestions :-)

Re other people being able to upload stuff. Yup, sounds good to me, so long as the content isn't something that will get community strikes and the like. I may not be able to devote as much time to HLP promotion as I have recently for much longer what with job, life, kids etc. so other people being able to do stuff without me would be very handy for everyone.

Re other peoples videos. Hummm... not sure. I added vids to the like videos playlist just so the channel had something on it. Ideally we would want original 'in-house' content on the channel. Cool vids from other channels can be added to the liked vids playlist. Probably better than trying to migrate them over. 
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on May 07, 2019, 07:35:11 am
Guys... Getting other's work hosted on the HLP channel is the wrong way to go.

Let's Plays are generally the work of people trying to grow their own channel. No one doing that is going to hand HLP their views and watch time. I'd also suggest that Let's Plays are outside the scope of a channel like this, but I'll get to that. Having an HLP playlist of Let's Plays is the best way to go here.

Original work (cutscenes and the like). Being one who fits in this category... I don't want to hand over my views. I worked my ass off on these and gave them away for free. The least I can ask for is to get the YouTube credit. With that said, doubly uploading these (unless the artist is ok with it) would be kind of a dick move. Again, link to or playlist these from the HLP channel.

Tech demos and other misc stuff. These make the most sense for actual uploading to the HLP channel, especially if it's big flashy new features or models. We could make our own highlight videos for new SCP releases or something.

Trailers. Yes definitely. Get these on the HLP channel. These are promotional, so duplication shouldn't matter.

Finally, I'd suggest this is a great place for some modding tutorials specific to FS. (FRED, tables, PCS2, etc) This is also a good place to for newbie tutorials like a video run through if the Knossos first-use setup and/discussing graphics flags or other FAQs.

Yup, agree with all this. I'm looking into how some of the playlist functions work. Ideally I would like to be able to create multiple liked playlists. So for example, if we found someone had done a particularly good play-through of a campaign, that could be a separate liked playlist.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on May 07, 2019, 07:40:55 am
I'm afraid what MJN said applies to most YouTubers, just that it will be much harder to fill the channel with content, so it would rather become a collection of playlists... Trailers for HLP projects are scarce, and modding tutorial videos...are there any?
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on May 07, 2019, 07:55:27 am
I'm afraid what MJN said applies to most YouTubers, just that it will be much harder to fill the channel with content, so it would rather become a collection of playlists... Trailers for HLP projects are scarce, and modding tutorial videos...are there any?


Modding tutorial videos. I haven't seen any, but if someone were to make some that would be great. The channel can be whatever HLP wants it to be really. Now that it has been set up people can create and upload/submit new content as and when they see fit.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: niffiwan on May 07, 2019, 08:22:10 am
Looks a bit bland on the mobile app but beats a blank space  :yes:

Just my opinion :)

Just had a look at the mobile version and you make a good point. The HLP logo covers up the Bomber. Perhaps we need something with more going on in the centre of the image?

Any offers anyone?

Horizontally flip the image?

Otherwise I'm happy to have another go, just need to find some inspiration...
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: mjn.mixael on May 07, 2019, 08:27:13 am
Which brings me to the part I said I'd get to but didn't. I see the channel more like a studio PR channel than a "place for all freespace content". The channel would link relevant videos uploaded by others about Freespace. The channel's own content would be less videos that people actually made and more about the things the community is doing. For example...

-Instead of text interviews, you could do video (or audio) interviews.
-Instead of posting a highlighted campaign in the announcements, you could have someone representing HLP play a bit of it and talk about it. This would be especially great for new campaigns. I'm not talking full playthroughs, but get a recommended mission from the dev, play that, and talk about things related to that release.. then end the video with a "and it's available to play right now. Download link in the description".
-Like the above, but look at new model/asset releases.
-Home-brewed trailers for major SCP features and/or releases

Finally, it's important to recognize we are passionate about a very old game in a very niche game genre these days. Be prepared for low views for a while otherwise we'll get discouraged. The only way to increase those views (and our playerbase) is to get things out there for people to watch in the first place.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on May 07, 2019, 08:33:19 am
Looks a bit bland on the mobile app but beats a blank space  :yes:

Just my opinion :)

Just had a look at the mobile version and you make a good point. The HLP logo covers up the Bomber. Perhaps we need something with more going on in the centre of the image?

Any offers anyone?

Horizontally flip the image?

Otherwise I'm happy to have another go, just need to find some inspiration...

That helped :-)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on May 07, 2019, 08:37:38 am
Which brings me to the part I said I'd get to but didn't. I see the channel more like a studio PR channel than a "place for all freespace content". The channel would link relevant videos uploaded by others about Freespace. The channel's own content would be less videos that people actually made and more about the things the community is doing. For example...

-Instead of text interviews, you could do video (or audio) interviews.
-Instead of posting a highlighted campaign in the announcements, you could have someone representing HLP play a bit of it and talk about it. This would be especially great for new campaigns. I'm not talking full playthroughs, but get a recommended mission from the dev, play that, and talk about things related to that release.. then end the video with a "and it's available to play right now. Download link in the description".
-Like the above, but look at new model/asset releases.
-Home-brewed trailers for major SCP features and/or releases

Finally, it's important to recognize we are passionate about a very old game in a very niche game genre these days. Be prepared for low views for a while otherwise we'll get discouraged. The only way to increase those views (and our playerbase) is to get things out there for people to watch in the first place.


Yup, sounds good. There are a lot of FS playthroughs out there already, which we can link to, so there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Having this as a 'what HLP has done and is doing now' channel sounds like the right way to go, since the content out there at the moment does not cover this.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 08, 2019, 01:21:35 am
Bit late to the party but I support the playlist method.   It's what most of the channels I follow do.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Mito [PL] on May 11, 2019, 07:26:50 am
There are two things that I'd want to mention.

1. @MjnMixael: I perfectly understand your standpoint here. Of course, you want your videos to be yours, since it's important for your work and promotion of your skills. But not everyone has got such worries - I can imagine that some random Freespace player who would be able to make such a playthrough video series wouldn't necessarily need this minor amount of views FSO video get and probably wouldn't even want to bloat his channel with this (or create one especially for this). Like, for example, Colt. Basically, if people want to upload their videos directly to HLP's channel - let them! Of course there should be a mention of who made the videos in descriptions.

2. Youtube allows you to create many different playlists (like most channels there do) and they also let you link to other channels' videos in them. This is pretty often used by content creators who make collab series once in a while, if videos are split between channels both channels include all of them in their playlists. Besides, I'd say that using the "liked videos" playlist is considered not professional at best.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: mjn.mixael on May 11, 2019, 10:50:50 am
1. @MjnMixael: I perfectly understand your standpoint here. Of course, you want your videos to be yours, since it's important for your work and promotion of your skills. But not everyone has got such worries - I can imagine that some random Freespace player who would be able to make such a playthrough video series wouldn't necessarily need this minor amount of views FSO video get and probably wouldn't even want to bloat his channel with this (or create one especially for this). Like, for example, Colt. Basically, if people want to upload their videos directly to HLP's channel - let them! Of course there should be a mention of who made the videos in descriptions.

I did not say to disallow this. If someone wants to do that, fine. I'm saying it should be outside the scope of the channel to solicit it. There was talk of finding other's Let's Play series or other FS work and move them to the HLP channel... of trying to make the HLP channel the the place for FS video content. I'm just saying that's the wrong way to go about it.  I would nuance more what the channel should be. Instead of being "the place to find FS video content" it would be more "the place to find video content that promotes HLP's work".
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on May 11, 2019, 10:59:43 am
Does YT reward it when you're just hosting playlists on your channel (not money or clicks, but preference in their search algorithm)?
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: TechnoD11 on June 04, 2019, 10:51:56 pm
Hey All,
I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but I decided to take this 'HLP YouTube Channel' thing kinda two-fold: One, to actually poke around YouTube and see what kind of content I'd like to see that YouTube is lacking and two, to give me the opportunity to play a new FS campaign myself! (or one that I just hadn't played in a while...)

And you know, it's been a looong time since anyone's uploaded any Transcend gameplay.
This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCDRygu5whY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCDRygu5whY)
is the best I could find for Transcend Gameplay and holy **** does it look bad.

So I did a thing. Behold:
(https://8ebjfw.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mlMZQ5lLnoXBnx4-Ec6N2MpqzZxpp5FeczC0_30GGcn0_ZHJxnhhoVc8lVfAvT6TGSQII2gNDc5ePIGmtKO01-DY-Z-e6VeXl76AF2qkhdnH3Cvk6ntsuZuKmN-K5bGq6t6hUuEwiqiHsGdbXJDN0vWSdbKMG5rubMZfd_EmVczUoFgPvbXS1wxCG01hwZ5udLpGTlnG0t-vxsLbLn5-fkQ?width=890&height=133&cropmode=none)

I made a complete playthrough of Transcend on Hard difficulty, recorded at 70Mbit/s, 60FPS 1080P with all the wonderful graphical goodies enabled. I took the liberty of editing all of the missions and briefings into 8 episodes (trans coded H.264 master quality), mostly to remove all of the times I died playing...

So I don't have a youtube channel myself and would have no issues providing these for the HLP youtube channel. I guess Iain if you want me to send you a link to download (nearly 45GB!), let me know.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on June 05, 2019, 01:02:18 am
Hey All,
I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but I decided to take this 'HLP YouTube Channel' thing kinda two-fold: One, to actually poke around YouTube and see what kind of content I'd like to see that YouTube is lacking and two, to give me the opportunity to play a new FS campaign myself! (or one that I just hadn't played in a while...)

And you know, it's been a looong time since anyone's uploaded any Transcend gameplay.
This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCDRygu5whY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCDRygu5whY)
is the best I could find for Transcend Gameplay and holy **** does it look bad.

So I did a thing. Behold:
(https://8ebjfw.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mlMZQ5lLnoXBnx4-Ec6N2MpqzZxpp5FeczC0_30GGcn0_ZHJxnhhoVc8lVfAvT6TGSQII2gNDc5ePIGmtKO01-DY-Z-e6VeXl76AF2qkhdnH3Cvk6ntsuZuKmN-K5bGq6t6hUuEwiqiHsGdbXJDN0vWSdbKMG5rubMZfd_EmVczUoFgPvbXS1wxCG01hwZ5udLpGTlnG0t-vxsLbLn5-fkQ?width=890&height=133&cropmode=none)

I made a complete playthrough of Transcend on Hard difficulty, recorded at 70Mbit/s, 60FPS 1080P with all the wonderful graphical goodies enabled. I took the liberty of editing all of the missions and briefings into 8 episodes (trans coded H.264 master quality), mostly to remove all of the times I died playing...

So I don't have a youtube channel myself and would have no issues providing these for the HLP youtube channel. I guess Iain if you want me to send you a link to download (nearly 45GB!), let me know.

Nice! Yep, send the link/s and I'll upload them. Perhaps we can create a 'HLP Plays...' playlist, and this can be the debut play-through.

Probably best to send the links one or two at a time and I'll get them uploaded over the course of a week - I have started a full time adult education course so my free time is limited to a few hours in the evening at the moment.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Mito [PL] on June 05, 2019, 03:32:01 am
Mmmmm, that's really nice. Just as I thought, there are people that would happily "donate" their videos to the HLP channel.

I just want to compliment your work, Techno.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on June 05, 2019, 05:36:14 am
Thanks for the kind-hearted donation! :)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Colonol Dekker on June 05, 2019, 07:50:44 am
Great!

Now the Transcendent is loose on Youtube :shaking:  :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Cyborg17 on June 05, 2019, 03:19:01 pm
I can't wait to watch them.  I wish my rig was better.  I would want to upload a playthrough of Bem Cavalgar. *grumble grumble*
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: TechnoD11 on June 05, 2019, 09:45:31 pm
Thanks for the kind words everyone! Video links have been sent to Iain. Hopefully you all should be able to view my less than impressive aim soon!
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Goober5000 on June 30, 2019, 02:47:45 pm
On Discord, Darius pointed out this guy's Solaris playthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1--Xey0Rfk-NZBMfhxiHZ7X9tEsL7hQ_

There are a bunch of other playthroughs on his channel too.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: starlord on June 30, 2019, 03:06:03 pm
Any news on that transcend long play? I’d love to see it.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on June 30, 2019, 03:09:19 pm
Any news on that transcend long play? I’d love to see it.

I'm uploading the first video as we speak. It looks like each video will take several hours to upload, so I'll do one or two a day. That should have them all uploaded by weeks end :-)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on June 30, 2019, 03:31:34 pm
Finally some content~
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: starlord on June 30, 2019, 05:48:34 pm
Sweet. Many thanks.

Any chance of doing other campaigns? Synk comes to mind...
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on June 30, 2019, 07:55:49 pm
First video is live :-)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: 0rph3u5 on July 01, 2019, 01:09:25 am
First video is live :-)

Neat.



Meanwhile, I would like to request these two playlists being linked:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWRVvhjcnlx3ehcW5pODBuQkuqi9iDRf9

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWRVvhjcnlx3N9RtaYhdmqIpsyROO21_K
(as soon as its live on Knossos, which should be this week)

Both are 99% identical to the "finished product" on Knossos.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: starlord on July 01, 2019, 02:27:03 am
Another idea of campaign long play would be scroll.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on July 01, 2019, 06:41:46 am
First video is live :-)

Fine fine~

Another idea of campaign long play would be scroll.

Would be nice to see, too. :nod:
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on July 01, 2019, 06:47:42 am
Here's Solaris content, made by Woolie Wool: https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=95719.msg1885284#msg1885284
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Iain Baker on July 06, 2019, 05:02:51 am
Hi all. I forgot to mention it, but all 8 of the transcend videos are up on the HLP YouTube channel. :-)

Going forward the admins will need to allow individual members to upload their own videos. Each of the transcend videos took several hours to upload and process, and my PC isn't beefy enough to do that and multi-task anything more complicated than a word doc. I simply cannot afford to have my PC's resources being hogged for that amount of time. Secondly, I should be starting a new job soon too, so I will no longer be working from home, and I am loathe to leave my PC running all day when I am not there.

I'm sure everyone here is responsible enough to upload only what is appropriate :-)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: Nightmare on July 06, 2019, 05:24:13 am
I'm sure everyone here is responsible enough to upload only what is appropriate :-)

Hopefully~

... isn't WoD supposed to have some... questionable content? ;)
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: 0rph3u5 on July 06, 2019, 06:57:37 am
... isn't WoD supposed to have some... questionable content? ;)

Thanks to how Spoon set up the release, it shouldn't be hard to set-up a "clean" recording that doesn't violate any YouTube's content policies.

Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: 0rph3u5 on July 06, 2019, 06:59:58 am
As for the time required - For my channel I am uploading .mp4s because that's what the came-with-drivers NVidia tool puts out - those YouTube processes itself, and in about 10 minutes a piece. For what I see in the previous posts the Transcendent-stuff was in .mov; which isn't exactly a portable format AFAIK.
Title: Re: HLP YouTube channel
Post by: TechnoD11 on July 06, 2019, 12:33:53 pm
As for the time required - For my channel I am uploading .mp4s because that's what the came-with-drivers NVidia tool puts out - those YouTube processes itself, and in about 10 minutes a piece. For what I see in the previous posts the Transcendent-stuff was in .mov; which isn't exactly a portable format AFAIK.

This is correct. I rendered the videos using H.264 master quality for minimal compression. Using a heavier compression encoding would substantially reduce file size.

I didn't want to sacrifice visual quality though, which is why I opted for the H.264 (and yes, I am aware some of that fidelity was lost anyway to YT compression).

I think Iain has the right idea moving forward with allowing individuals to upload their own videos.