You Don’t Need The Sharpest Tools
Written
By Trey Sherrod
Pressing
“Broadcast Live” on my PlayStation 4 was the first time I was
introduced to streaming myself. I made some League of Legends videos
of me getting a lucky kill or soloing dragon at level 3. I never
pursued a career in professional LoL, by any means, but something
stuck with me from posting those one to two videos that I got a sense
of accomplishment from.
When I
found out about the broadcasting capabilities of the PS4, I knew the
tech was limited but still I made my account on Twitch and YouTube. I
streamed Battlefield 1 as well as Rainbow 6 Siege and held decent
viewership. I had a lot of fun meeting new people as well as
capturing some of the sickest moments live for others to see.
I had a
$40 PlayStation camera, a monitor, and Kontrol Freeks; everything was
great.
That
is until I started really paying attention to the quality of the
larger streamers on the platform. You see, I never watched a lot of
streamers and didn’t know much about streaming since the only form
of gaming content I consumed were YouTube videos. This gave me a
drive to get better equipment so I could produce high quality
content. I wanted everything to be as crisp, clean, and even flashy
as it could be.
I kept
grinding streams through the blue screens on games that would crash
the entire stream, leaving me to lose viewers in the few minutes of
down time as I load the game and eventually the stream back up. I
kept grinding when I was having to read chat on my phone, and had no
alerts or overlays. I felt like I was doing the people I streamed for
a disservice if I missed a follow or, god forbid, as subscription.
And yet, I kept on.
I
continued to explore the streaming space, seeing what all people had
to offer on these platforms. In this time I realized one major thing…
The quality is found in the person creating the content, not the
tools they use to provide it. Yeah a high quality mic, new camera,
and high end PC will deliver the content as clean as possible, but
it’s the content provided and the person providing it that really
getting the message across.
Because,
hey, at the end of the day, we all as content creators have one job
to do. And that’s to deliver a message.
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