Half-Life 2 - 7 - No time for heli-chan
Channel: raocow
Date: 2020-05-07

things get a bit silly
slowly I'm learning, but reminder that this is all new to me, it might take time!

alright so I got some comments about how I might need to increase the bitrate in my recording, things like that, but here's the thing. The raw footage I have is about as high bit a rate you can get. The strange imperfections are a combination of things happening after recording. So like, for a long time now I've used a video renderer who is essentially tailor made for tiny sprite-based pixely videos. Basically, snes games and stuff. That's what it's made for. I've also used it on 3D things in the past though like mario64 and a hat in time and stuff, and it always worked fine! But the fine detail of Half-Life 2 are proving themselves to be too fine, and so things got grunky.

To make a long story short, I played around with the settings.

The result should be better, but there is another very important bottleneck, and that's youtube itself. Turns out there is only so much you can push through 720p. If I was exporting in 4k or something things would probably be fine but that's just... not something I can do with the tools and the time I have available to myself. Doing this video actually took twice as long as usual, I'm not sure if this is something I can keep doing on the regular, so until it's sorted I might have to settle for some in-between compromise.

Meanwhile, I know some peeps are going to sincerely be 'what I didn't notice anything raocow' but like, I feel it's my duty to at least give an honest shot at meeting the most people's expectations. Or something?

Anyways please enjoy the video, I drive a boat and possibly shoot a gun.

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