Forum:CoD Wiki YT Channel

So, I found out sometime ago that the wiki actually has a YouTube channel. When I went on it I immediately noticed how inactive it was. I was thinking to myself that we should put the channel to better use rather than let it sit there with nothing happening on it, especially when you consider that YouTube has a very large audience for Call of Duty. As for how we can put it to better use, I was thinking community content. What the content may be is what I'll leave for discussion (though I am thinking community montages with clips from different people could be a good idea if anyone here has any editing skills(and time)). 02:15, December 1, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion
This has been discussed before in Forum:Ideas for the Youtube Channel. No consensus was ever reached. I don't think making a forum that simply states "Let's have ideas" will be enough to do anything. 03:23, December 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * The only reason I'm asking for ideas is simply because I can't think of any right now. Kat said that commentaries would be a bad idea, but I can see some being an exception e.g. the MotD story video. 04:13, December 1, 2013 (UTC)

We basically came to the conclusion that nobody really has the skills or desire to put that much time into the YT channel. There isn't much we could put on the channel that would be specific to the wiki anyway. Joe Copp 04:40, December 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * I would be willing to do some content, but they would fall into game mode guides and/or regular commentaries. 04:54, December 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * If you we're to do anything with the channel, we'd need a quality assessment of what you're able to do. Which just makes this whole thing a bad idea imo. We have all the information about games on the wiki, I don't see the point in having a low quality youtube channel in our name when there's literally hundreds of channels who do the same thing. I.E driftor. KλT 05:07, December 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, the game mode guides would be a look at how the mode plays, how to set up a class for the game mode, etc. When I can think of more, I'll update you on it to see if I can get anything going. 05:39, December 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * Thing is, our videos would be as limited as our policies. If we have guides we can't use them on the wiki, and if we can't use them on wiki then the video being on our channel isn't much different to every other channel, and we hardly get noticed as it is. The best use of the channel is for videos we plan to use on the wiki as we have full control over them. I would have uploaded more campaign missions, however the recordings are quite large and if there's not enough room on my hard drive the game and video lags. 08:14, December 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * If some simple videos such as campaign playthroughs are needed then I could record them because I'm very able to (thanks to Nvidia Shadowplay which doesn't take as much disk space or recording resources as software recorders). However, I'm limited to CoD4, WaW, MW2 and BO2 (and although I have BO and MW3 not very legally obtained, I'd rather not use them), and my editing skills are only basic. 11:41, December 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * As long as you remember to turn off social apps editing is quite easy; just trim out loading screens that aren't cutscenes. I just used WMM for the things I uploaded. 06:53, December 2, 2013 (UTC)
 * Just one problem I figured; I'm not running Windows 8, so the files Shadowplay records (in manual mode) is 3.9 GB/roughly 11 minutes after which I'd have to restart capturing, and I might not always notice it (and it's noticeable on the video if I take my hand off the keyboard or mouse to press F9 (an idea that just popped in my head a second ago is binding capture to Mouse-4 which I rarely use, but I dunno if that's possible)). So I might have to use Fraps after all, dunno how much CPU it eats though because I haven't used it on my current computer but hypothesis is not very much. Also, I'm at my dad's place for the next few days so I'll probably do a test run on Friday and upload it and stuff. 11:12, December 2, 2013 (UTC)
 * I have Windows 8.1. You could send the files and I could edit them (I have Sony Vegas 12, in case you were wondering what my editing program was). 12:56, December 2, 2013 (UTC)

It's not that; I would need Windows 8 to be able to record seamlessly, when however I have got the clips, OS doesn't really matter. 14:58, December 2, 2013 (UTC)