Know Your Schitt! Part 2: Ideal Settings.

Welcome to Know Your Schitt! A Garry's Mod Machinima tutorial series teaching you how to make your GMod machinima look its best. Never forget though, that you will never succeed in making something halfway decent if you're not willing to put forth the time and effort it requires to stand up to scrutiny.

Today, we will be learning the ideal settings for our three main tools in order to make your video look its best for the YouTube format. We will be going through 4 different steps in this tutorial:
1: Setting up Fraps
2: Setting up Garry's Mod
3: Setting up Sony Vegas
4: Setting up Vegas Rendering

Music: Lost in Las Vegas - Two Steps from Hell

[DasBoSchitt]

These videos are very much passion projects. I've been doing them for 4 years before ad revenue was even a factor. I'm likely to mention this in the next tutorial when I get around to it

[fernandodias]

you really should continue with this tutorial, you're good at it.

[TheJrm]

WE NEED ANOTHER ONE!!!! HURRY UP, PLEASE!

[ImmaBigE]

You're a great narrator. It makes the video a lot more watchable and inviting when the speaker has both a quality mic and a good narrative style.

[Dragondraikk]

"I still can't decide between wmv and mp4 formats"

Well youtube has recently made that decision easier, as something within their conversion process causes very ugly and very common artifacting for wmv, be aware!

[WondrousLanternProductions]

What I like about DasBoSchitt is that even though he makes funny and random videos, he seems really cool and helpful in real life.

[FlipYard]

Thanks for this tutorial man! I'm working on a Gmod animation myself!

[theshal]

You're incredibly informative, I feel like, if I was willing and able to purchase the software required, I'd be able to carry out everything you explained no problems. Keep up the great work, BoSchitt. Love your stuff.

[DasBoSchitt]

Well I'm already 7 minutes in to the video and I have one more skit I want to make. It's likely going to be around 8 minutes, which has really been the norm for the Idiot Box for years. Remember, episode 10 was long because it was a milestone :)

[PlumBrendan]

omg, when i tried to record videos they were SO laggy, but if i put it in that resolution it is MUCH smoother, I was really watching this for entertainment, but i've learned a new thing! Thanks DasBoSchitt!

[sernikb]

This is the best tutorial series that was ever made i think .

[wMTF]

Is there a chance you could provide a tutorial on rendering using Adobe Premiere Pro? The only reason for this is that I don't have Sony Vegas, and Premiere Pro is my video editing software of choice.

[SaNdMaNxISxSaND]

Honestly you should have tutorials for everything that has to do with computers. You make it fun to watch, and it also is extremely clean looking. 100 times better than any other tutorials I have seen.

[rexthesheep]

My video always looks terrible when I export from Vegas using MP4, even though I had similar settings to you. I might have to revisit WMV sometime.

[ChaosBW]

I am almost positive that it is.
Small file sizes, ease of use, lots of quality options.
It's just great.

[NamelessPlayerOfficial]

Damn, if only i can afford a fucking AWESOME PC that runs any game without problems.

[gamingguyty]

I'm starting up a game review channel and while your information was more for aspiring Machinima makers I still found your tips, especially those regarding Fraps, a huge help. Other than that, love the Idiot Box. Thanks again for taking the time to make this.

[Lehtolaproductions]

So what you're saying is that you need a beast of a computer to make a gmod video? My computer fucking sucks, and before anyone says "hurr durr buy a new one" I don't have any money. "Get a jerb" I'M FOURTEEN AND I LACK KNOWLEDGE SO ME PRINCESS. My allowance is farely good, but I can't really save up with it because that would take YEARS. I'm in a bit of a pickle, I mean I would really want to make more gmod videos. And now I mean gmod videos like DasBoSchitt or kitty0706. I wish I wasn't broke :(

[facing_wrlds]

Those render settings are a godsend, a lot of my videos crash when rendering to MP4 so these options help a lot.

[dynamoproductions]

Its me, I came up with the idea. I am not so patiently awaiting my royalties 😡