by samproof | Jul 24, 2025 | livestreaming
If I was to start streaming today this is what I would grab to get started – without draining your wallet Chances are you already have the basics, hell if you have a smart phone you can just start mobile streaming. But if you have aspirations of doing bigger and...
by samproof | Jun 12, 2025 | Content Creation, video, YouTube
Long, long ago.. like 15 years ago apparently (feels like longer) I stumbled my way into what would be the debut episode of Tony E. Valenzuela’s BlackBoxTV with an awesome cast and crew of like minded YouTubers. Back then we had a tight knit little community of...
by samproof | Oct 25, 2024 | livestreaming
OBS is an awesome program and it can do a variety of things, including offer you multiple ways to do the same thing. Similar to how in Photoshop you can remove the background from an image in 5 different ways, OBS let’s you go live via different encoder types or...
by samproof | Aug 27, 2024 | video
YouTube is expanding its courses feature, and rolling it out to more creators to offer in-depth learning programs. Courses will have a special badge, a dedicated tab on the channel page, and quizzes linked to specific videos. Creators can manage discussions and...
by samproof | Jul 12, 2024 | Content Creation
If you’re a content creator, you’re often doing the jobs of 5, 10 even 20 people trying to get the world to know your videos exist, I’ve got a bunch of quick and easy ways to help you simplify your workload, maximize your reach and give you back some...
by samproof | Feb 12, 2024 | livestreaming
This weekend was a huge event, I am of course talking about the SuPurr Bowl (Think the kitten bowl, but LIVE on Twitch and YouTube) presented by CuteAvalanche and hosted by yours truly. Point of fact, I was also a producer, videographer, editor, social media manager,...