Yes upload to private so only you can see it, it processes quicker. Then when it’s processed fully to HD then release it to public. I used to make Linux videos, but have not bothered for ages in making them and don’t really miss it. There is nothing really new to report on in Linux, that no other site other than YouTube has not reported on.
With life getting in the way and no time I gave up doing videos. I was not in it for monetization or for billions of subscribers, as I’m not that good at speaking anyway. In fact my voice is so boring that many a time I would nearly be sound asleep at the sound of it. All those wasted hours making videos and hardly any views, simply because half who watched them were also falling asleep.
Then I tried live streaming and that went wrong, so yeah gave up. I still get the odd question about a Linux video tutorial I done, but it was so long ago that I couldn’t answer question, in fact the question was not a question at all, rather a load of muddled words. Then in 2019 YouTube had the child protection thing, where you have to mark all your videos as either for children or not. As a lot of parents out there leave their children to their own devices and let them watch whatever on the web, leaving the child to entertain themselves and YouTube had to put something in place. Enough of that, as I don’t want it turning into how to bring up a child debate. I took down and deleted some good, boring content and finished it with a live stream rant about YouTube.
I’m slowly turning my bedroom into a recording booth, to house all of my computers in and moving over to Twitch to do live streaming. I work night shifts and as the band I’m in cannot play anywhere at the moment, the only form of income is night shift work. So in a very long pipeline probably be in my nineties by the time I get my room done. I just enjoy my computers as they are. I can’t even be bothered anymore to try new OSES as my computers are running fine with what they are running. As for Virtualbox, can’t be bothered either, uninstalled it last week.
Once you’ve been through nearly every Linux OS and hopped to distro to distro for more than two years, you get to the point to just settle on one OS and call it a day of hopping around. Your hard drive can only take so much, whether it’s an SSD or a normal HDD. So for me I rather watch someone else’s review of a new Distro and not try it for myself.
For rendering video I used to use Kdenlive, but the problem with it, even though I used to install it straight out of the repositories, is all of it’s other stuff it installs. If you’re not using KDE then a whole bunch of other stuff comes down with it. You can install it as a Appimage, though it’ll probably ask you to install dependencies that it needs to run? The only time you need to edit a video is to make it streamable, as YouTube are not now that bothered as they used to be, it had to be rendered a certain way MKV was their choice, but MP4 has taken over.
OpenShot has choices for rendering for YouTube as Kdenlive doesn’t. Depending also on your bandwidth make your video the same as what you recorded in, with the highest quality at the same resolution. The only problem I find with YouTube is their way of thinking. Depending on the views you get, depends on the way that YouTube plays your video. In other words after uploading your video and YouTube has finished processing compare the two, from the original you made to the uploaded file and you’ll find a hell of a difference in quality the one you’ve just uploaded is bad quality. I still do not understand to this day why?
I know I’ve gone on about the negative, mostly in my experience. The YouTube filters are not as good as they used to be, you used to be able to make your video sharper or alter the color especially with gaming videos, contrast and brightness too, but they have taken that away, or at least they did six months after I started doing videos in 2016.