Hell, I even have a checklist that I went through;
- Webcam, cheap and looks like it's from the early 90's; Check. (Trust T-something).
- Headset-like-thing, tough I sound like I'm one mile away; Check.(Logitec Game Headset/Xbox Live Headset, yes I was wearing two headsets to get some decent sound)
- Any ideas on what to say; Check-ish.
- More complaining about GTA; Check.
- A recording device(As I have NO idea on how to capture and record using this webcam otherwise, it's no camcorder); Fail/Check(FRAPS and GunCam running at the same time).
Right, so I started off. First thing that goes wrong is the sound, which isn't ... there. Turns out to be that my recording volume settings were off-scale. Well, fixed that and went on. Back to the beginning; Introduction, yada-yada-yada. What did I forget? Oh right, to click "record".
So, finally it went well. I figured it was recording video and sound, so I talked for a session straight worth 16 minutes. Me, talking to a camera as if it's a human being. Lovely.
It goes wrong again. reviewing it - No visual. At all. Cuts out after 40 seconds, then goes black. So, I figured; Screw it. I'll just make it an audio blog, as the sixteen minutes of sound was still there. Instead of exporting both video and sound, I export the sound.
Quickly correct myself saying "Audio Blog" using that Sony Vegas Editing Program(Bought it this afternoon, the Photoshop under Video Editing, figured could come in handy during the editing of the video blog). Paste some pretty pictures, incase some people wanted to watch an audio blog.
All went well, until I decided to export it into an AVI file. Y'know, just actually turning it into a video. The program kept giving me errors until I had enough of it, deleting everything I made and just said "The hell with it all".
Unless video blogging is a sport, I'm doing something very wrong. Maybe it's just that I'm overlooking the obvious?
Hell, the more times I get screwed creating a video blog, the more impatient I get to create one...