As of right now, I'm trying not to hyperventilate or hit my laptop screen. I think I'll just start off with what happened first for today.
So this morning I decided to download Audacity to remedy my audio overlap problem on my Capture device. I have used this program before, so I have a understanding of how it works (at least, to a certain degree). After re-acquainting myself with the controls, I was set to try it out.
However, I was waiting for my new PSP A/V cable so I could try to play my PSP on my computer (or even my TV if it didn't work). So late in the day was when it arrived and I immediately opened it and tested it out with the Capture Card. It didn't work, but I have yet to test it out on my TV and I hope it works nicely.
Moving on, I tried to make my first Let's Play with the Audacity program and Capture Card running at the same time. Now, the first game I used was a Playstation (1) game called "Top Shop". It is a board game that very good friend of mine allowed me to have, and I've already beaten story mode in truth. So while I was doing it, both programs worked as smooth as I expected them to be (meaning the Capture Card got glitchy at times, but worked fine most of the time). Unfortunately for me, I did an hour's worth of commentary and it was pretty...nerve-wracking. But I did a good job.
Of course, when I finished I had no idea what to do exactly with all my stuff. I saved all my stuff onto a USB drive (because my laptop doesn't have Windows Movie Maker [WMM], but my PC does) and tried uploading everything onto Movie Maker.
Thankfully, the video uploaded easily as a MPEG-4 file. Unfortunately, watching the video showed me that the audio glitches out and slows down in certain parts...but that could have been fixed with the microphone commentary.
Unfortunately (again), the audio was in a format that wasn't compatible with WMM. And then I accidentally deleted the audio file and lost all my commentary. That was the first frustration I faced tonight (but fortunately, I figured out how to convert audio from Audacity to an MP3 file and that included downloading LAME for Audacity).
The second frustration I dealt with was with Youtube and Google accounts. I have two e-mail accounts: one for school, the other for personal. Now, I wanted to delete my Youtube for one of my e-mails, but I didn't want to lose everything and decided to use the other e-mail account. When I successfully did that (sort of; I had to activate it and that took a while), I tried signing up to make a Youtube account for my Let's Plays. However, it kept redirecting somewhere that was only a blank page. It keeps doing that even now, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. In any case, I'm trying not to pound a hole in the wall after all I've done today. I just hope I can try this again without any hitches.
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