Destroy All Humans 2 - Behind The Scenes (Patreon)

Hey everyone, sorry for the delay on this one!

Honestly, the main thing is that I don;t really have a fat lot to say about this one in regards to Behind the Scenes stuff as it was a more straight forward video in a few ways, some of which will have to carry over into future videos for the time being.

EDITING & PC PROBLEMS

One problem I've been having lately, not just with this video but with all of my videos is editing them in Sony Vegas. My PC has taken a  fairly drastic turn for the worst in the last couple of months (frustrating as now is the time I'm not at my day job and can afford the time to edit more often) and so a lot of thing that I'd normally be able to do with relative ease has been a real chore of late.

Doing lots of visually heavy editing (which is something I enjoy and am kind of known for doing at this point) is one of them. There's a few parts where I'm trying to edit bits of camera footage, or in general any parts of the video with too many layers made Sony Vegas almost grind to a complete halt. In the image above for instance I was simply trying to lower the volume of some of the music tracks, and this caused Vegas to crash 3 times within 10 minutes.

That's kind of why there aren't any juicy VFX breakdowns or anything like that here for today's Behind the Scenes as I couldn't really do anything like that in the first place...

Vegas usually (before the last couple of videos at least) will crash maybe once or twice per project, which isn't a big deal... whereas now it's happening maybe 2 or 3 times per editing session.

Not to mention rendering the video took 2 hours, which is an all-time high given videos of this length used to take anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour to render... so something is clearly wrong.

I'm not a PC buff, and given the age of this thing I'm quite happy to outright replace the entire PC tower for a new one, but now's not the ideal time to be going out and looking into these sorts of things so I'll have to make do.

You may have noticed on Twitter I've been doing a lot of drawing, and this is basically my other way of having at least some sort of creative output still while this is all going on. Drawing is nowhere near as demanding on any computer (even mine) as video editing, after all!

CHANGES TO VIDEOS

The way I write videos is basically going to remain the same, but you'll have noticed Destroy All Humans 2 is the first video I've gone all-in with cutting back on drop shadow effects, and generally had the gameplay fully on screen, without a background image visible around the sides.

Again, I'm partly doing this to cut down on the amount of layers I'm using but I had also been considering doing this for a while... and while it kind of sucks that there's a change in editing style between videos on games in the same series... ultimately it's not a huge change. I actually kind of like the way it looks, and I'll still be using my usual background blueprint image for gameplay that doesn't naturally fit a 16:9 ratio... like the demo disc stuff!

WHAT'S NEXT?

Well, this is actually a little up in the air at the moment.
On the one hand I obviously have the third and forth games in the Destroy All Humans series to discuss... and ideally I want to do those while I'm still able to (as the PC suddenly dying on me is now a fairly realistic concern at this point)

BUT... there is another video I'd like to do. Much like the PSVR video I uploaded recently, this would also be something I've not done before... and would probabaly be of interest to some people...

GAMES COLLECTION / ROOM TOUR VIDEO?

That being some sort of video focused on my shelving, my games collection and generally talking about my opinions on the mindset of collecting games, and perhaps show some areas of the room that don;t normally appear in my videos that often.

That little tangent I went on at the start of this DAH2 video could be considered a sneaky preview of what I'd like to do!

I know most people do a simple quick tour of their room or collection and narrate as they go along, I've never been one for unscripted content so I've actually written a script to just generally discuss some points while showing some of the things I own and how I've laid them out and organize them etc.

While I filmed some of the nice shots of my magazines recently for the DAH2 video, I actually have a lot of archived footage from last year from when my newest shelving was being built, as well as general shots of some of the more noteworthy bits of my collection here.

The only problem is that while this is the video I'd like to make next... ironically it's the camera footage that seems to slow down Sony Vegas the most at the moment, and naturally a video like this would be 95-100% camera footage so.... I need to see what happens.

What do you guys think? Would this be of interest? I can try and get it working from a technical standpoint, and if that works then I can perhaps ask all other subscribers through a community post.

Another similar styled video I'd like to eventually do is a "how I make my videos" video, and present it in a  similar way, focusing on filmed shots of my equipment and generally discus my mindset on creating videos etc...

But that's WAAAYYY off, perhaps after I get this theoretical new PC I'm in need of.

Anyway I think that about does it for the BTS this time. Sorry it's not AS much, but at least you can see I still have ideas for the future despite my current technical problems!

Thanks for your support and stay safe out there. The world is still all over the place right now!

- Pete