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Easy Allies |EZOT2| Love & Respect
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rochellepaws
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Great news about fiasco! I think once a month is the perfect frequency.
You should watch some of the fiasco episodes from their GT years, and some of the recent ones they did in EZA.
no videogame related, it is a tabletop game of roll playing.
check out the "pilot" here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEd_Kj0mkM
also, all streams get archived, you can check them on the Easy Allies Plays channel for that
Between Easy Update and this, Ian intros are so good.
Oh I didn't realize it was you in that tweet. I didn't mean that but I'm pretty certain I saw someone tweet him for the song before.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Yes more fiasco!
Can't wait
Can't wait
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Anyone at EZA going to check out the Dark Souls 3 DLC?
I guess it's not as big of a deal to me in this particular instance since I watched things live, but yeah, 100% agreed. I honestly can't believe EZA doesn't record streams separately and isn't backing up their content systematically? Like, Bloodworth said it himself and I still have genuine trouble believing this.
At the very least they certainly shouldn't have to resort to downloading streams in the first place when it comes to significant streams like this, any of the group streams really, and in general I hoped they had archival plans in place, even for smaller streams, that aren't just "let's export everything to youtube and call it a day". :/
Hard drive space is such a flimsy excuse nowadays.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
No. it's just something one person likes to do
Bloodworth
Member
As far as I'm aware, it's just one person that does it. (beaten)
Brian_FETO
Banned
I've always kind of assumed it was a Twitch thing that Otoshi either doesn't fully understand or is just overly excited about (or both) haha
Oh fair enough, I've seen it on multiple streams and thought it was a joke that was flying over my head.
"It's just one person that does it." Bloodworth, 2016
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Hah I was just about to do that joke.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I love it doe, so stupid.
I don't remember what stream I was watching but he did that _constantly_.
Grayfox341
Member
Yuuuuup. I'm sure Brad is all over it as well.
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Yeeees. Maybe also a pvp allies stream screwing around?
IdreamofHIME
Member
Any more tales from Japan due soon?
HylianScribe
Member
The new camera was working fine for our Tuesday group stream, and since it wasn't in use until our reactions stream, the settings should have been the same. However upon trying to use it in XSPLIT again it was acting up and I couldn't figure out what was wrong (it actually looked like it was trying to use the "green screen" mode to edit out backgrounds because everyone had a weird outline around them). Also despite them saying it is officially supported by XSPLIT, it has ghetto controls compared to the old c920/930 within XSPLIT. XSPLIT doesn't even fully recognize the device properly (in the settings menu in XSPLIT when using the old C920, it has a proper device profile, but not with the c922). However, as we said on the stream, we bought an SDI device (and I bought an SDI cable off Amazon that's arriving before the next group stream) that should allow us to use the podcast camera which should provide much better video quality. The Logitech/Microsoft webcams are not meant for the setup we do, they're best when used for close-up, small group shots (4 or less). The c920 and 922 look amazing when it's just one of us, but not so great for 7-9 people in a wide shot far away (focus issues).
Yes, we can (and have) easily enabled local recordings for our streams in the past. Our rigs can easily handle it + streaming. The only issue is like, a marathon stream, I'm not sure if we'd run into any problems with a 6-8 hour non-stop recording. However, this might not have solved the issue we had - a copyright notice that muted our audio. If we uploaded the local recording to YouTube, who is to say it wouldn't get slapped with a copyright violation, muting that segment? The only work around is recording using the normal camera to record alongside our streaming and then editing in that audio if any segment is flagged and muted. It's doable, but extra setup. Also, you can't blame the Pikachu song. We do a 2 min buffer after it of non-copyrighted audio that has never failed us. Yes the Pikachu song gets flagged, but Twitch does not excessively mute before/after those segments anymore. So it was NOT the Pikachu song, for some reason Twitch flagged the Switch Trailer music for that playthrough. Probably because we weren't talking that much, and in later plays with audio enabled, we were talking over it which might have prevented Twitch from flagging it.
We also have better mics that we need Ian to setup, simply because I am not an audio specialist and am terrible at audio mixing/setup. Not my thing. Ian was not around to help us get that setup. Once he's back and can get it setup for us, and we start using the podcast camera, it should be a big jump in quality.
As for playing stuff on YouTube - from now on if we're playing videos that we have in advance, it will be a file loaded into Xsplit. However, it's not always possible - it may be E3 time, a trailer might only be on YouTube, downloading/ripping it might take too long so we have to go with screen capping the video for playback. However, as I said in the stream chat, we are going to upgrade some of our accounts on YouTube to RED so we don't ever get ads again. That will solve that.
The ad thing I know is annoying, but I've tried my best to implement safeguards to catch them before switching to the feed with them, like ensuring after EVERY YT VIDEO I PLAY I MUTE the video after moving the slider down to fade the song out. That's because some of you in chat still troll and link to inappropriate or licensed music for the jukebox segments despite my warnings for game music only, and I can't trust chat. By doing this, I click a link, it plays the video, but it's muted so I can see if it's an okay song. This also catches a stupid ad if it's playing, since it's muted, so I can wait for the skip button and move on to the actual song. However when I need to show the video, and I jump to the video too soon, sometimes it catches the ad. I just have to be patient and stop listening to people screaming "hurry up Damiani!" when trying to get the video setup because in the name of getting something running ASAP, you sometimes get those very brief hiccups. That's what happens when you don't have all the media available locally and edited to only what you want to show.
Yes, we can (and have) easily enabled local recordings for our streams in the past. Our rigs can easily handle it + streaming. The only issue is like, a marathon stream, I'm not sure if we'd run into any problems with a 6-8 hour non-stop recording. However, this might not have solved the issue we had - a copyright notice that muted our audio. If we uploaded the local recording to YouTube, who is to say it wouldn't get slapped with a copyright violation, muting that segment? The only work around is recording using the normal camera to record alongside our streaming and then editing in that audio if any segment is flagged and muted. It's doable, but extra setup. Also, you can't blame the Pikachu song. We do a 2 min buffer after it of non-copyrighted audio that has never failed us. Yes the Pikachu song gets flagged, but Twitch does not excessively mute before/after those segments anymore. So it was NOT the Pikachu song, for some reason Twitch flagged the Switch Trailer music for that playthrough. Probably because we weren't talking that much, and in later plays with audio enabled, we were talking over it which might have prevented Twitch from flagging it.
We also have better mics that we need Ian to setup, simply because I am not an audio specialist and am terrible at audio mixing/setup. Not my thing. Ian was not around to help us get that setup. Once he's back and can get it setup for us, and we start using the podcast camera, it should be a big jump in quality.
As for playing stuff on YouTube - from now on if we're playing videos that we have in advance, it will be a file loaded into Xsplit. However, it's not always possible - it may be E3 time, a trailer might only be on YouTube, downloading/ripping it might take too long so we have to go with screen capping the video for playback. However, as I said in the stream chat, we are going to upgrade some of our accounts on YouTube to RED so we don't ever get ads again. That will solve that.
The ad thing I know is annoying, but I've tried my best to implement safeguards to catch them before switching to the feed with them, like ensuring after EVERY YT VIDEO I PLAY I MUTE the video after moving the slider down to fade the song out. That's because some of you in chat still troll and link to inappropriate or licensed music for the jukebox segments despite my warnings for game music only, and I can't trust chat. By doing this, I click a link, it plays the video, but it's muted so I can see if it's an okay song. This also catches a stupid ad if it's playing, since it's muted, so I can wait for the skip button and move on to the actual song. However when I need to show the video, and I jump to the video too soon, sometimes it catches the ad. I just have to be patient and stop listening to people screaming "hurry up Damiani!" when trying to get the video setup because in the name of getting something running ASAP, you sometimes get those very brief hiccups. That's what happens when you don't have all the media available locally and edited to only what you want to show.
Seriously, what's stopping you?
Hi Damiani, thanks for your comprehensive post. I really appreciate it.
I hope this doesn't come across snarky or anything, not my intent, but this would probably be worth testing out for the sake of knowing if that'd work out, no?
I totally understand wanting to avoid such extra setup. All I can say is that I would really appreciate it if this would be considered for future ''significant'' streams, especially if there's a good chance of the content of the stream containing stuff that could get hit with a copyright violation like this. (Pretty much just the reaction streams I imagine?). I'm sure many other Easy Allies fans would feel the same way.
But yeah, thanks again for taking the time to explain the situation like this.
I hope this doesn't come across snarky or anything, not my intent, but this would probably be worth testing out for the sake of knowing if that'd work out, no?
I totally understand wanting to avoid such extra setup. All I can say is that I would really appreciate it if this would be considered for future ''significant'' streams, especially if there's a good chance of the content of the stream containing stuff that could get hit with a copyright violation like this. (Pretty much just the reaction streams I imagine?). I'm sure many other Easy Allies fans would feel the same way.
But yeah, thanks again for taking the time to explain the situation like this.
Waiting to see how it turns out and the lack of extra funds.
Some of the things that person quotes is so funny because they're utterly random and normal things
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Man that BF1 stream was a blast to play in. Even though I'm not good at them, playing with people you know is a ton of fun.
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Holy shit Kyle coming for Woz this weeks tetris was pretty sick.
Seriously.
It's amazing to me like sometimes he's chuckling like a crazy person at a story he thought out at lvl 15 or higher and plays perfectly like nothing is happening.
They did play some Fiasco already a few times when they couldn't do Tabletop Escapades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEd_Kj0mkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8U1MQXeOQ
They also played Fiasco at GT before, but I didn't watch Tabletop Adventures, so I didn't watch those.
They probably decided to create this series because a lot of people were very exited by them playing Fiasco the last 2 times.
I loved it as well, although I am not sure yet how I will find the time to watch it each time (but once a month should be fine). They are quite good at improv and the two previous other episodes are very funny, so I am looking forward to it.
edit: Whoops, I refreshed the page, but I didn't see there was a new one, I hope it didn't already get answered.
I have noticed this as well (although I didn't see the last one yet). It is a win-win for us as his improvised stories are most of the time amazing. It is possible he disabled the music before he goes in such a story mode. When I played tetris (years ago), my best scores were also without the music on (of course, I am not sure if he does).
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Dang! I fell asleep on the last epic run. That was great
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Maybe it would be nice if you spoiler tagged that so allies that want to go into Pokemon sun/moon blind can do that, sorry for the inconvenience.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Just caught that monster last run, awesome
I was thrown off by the extra hour early start last night, ended up passing out early anyways
I was thrown off by the extra hour early start last night, ended up passing out early anyways
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