# Some basic tips for video creation

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## Recording software
Highly recommend using [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/). It's completely free and arguably the best one, and it's pretty easy to use.
bonus: Use "Window Capture" and select "Olympus" to record only your game instead of your whole screen (looks much better this way).

## Video editing
The one I use and recommend is [DaVinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve). (for download click on the left option, the one on the right with "Studio" in the name is the paid version. it'll ask you to put personal information but you can just write whatever)
It's really powerful even for the free version. might be a little hard at first, but there are many easy-to-follow tutorials online that will help you.
If you don't like this one, there are plenty of other good video editors that are available, feel free to use a different one that is to your liking.

## Tags
Proper title, tags, and other information on the video is very important to let more people find your video easily and gain more attention on it.
I'll be focusing on "Tags" and "Category" specifically here but you should look into the rest as well.

- **Tags**
After clicking on "Upload video" and selecting your file, a window will appear.
Scroll down to "SHOW MORE"

Now go to "Tags"

In there, **write only things relevant for your video.**
Examples: **"NosTale"**, **"NosTale Private Server"**, **"Nostale Olympus"**. if your video is about fernon raid for example put **"Fernon Raid"**. And anything else your video is actually about.

- **Category**
Scroll down a bit further and you'll find that.
Put **"Gaming"** and **"NosTale"** as shown.

## Thumbnails

A good thumbnail is another thing that is very important to get people to click on your video. and it's very easy to do.
You can even just use paint, but I recommend [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/) as a free and pretty good image editing software.

The process is pretty simple:
1. have the image size as 1280x720
2. choose a background.
3. put an image render on top. you can [download this file](https://mega.nz/file/Uz5WzIaT#JPkXxac4CiSsdId0LnFLSOa5KwrRlEst2JVXXeKz20g) for them.
4. put some text.

(you can also just have an ingame screenshot that looks good and put text on it)

An example of a thumbnail i made:

## Music

Youtube has a lot of great royalty free music you can download use freely to enhance your videos without getting copyrighted.
Go to [YouTube Studio](https://studio.youtube.com/) and then to "Audio Library" and explore the music there.