# Making narrated videos
Nowadays I'm experimenting with making narrated gameplay videos, and posting them
on youtube. My main goal is to practice english, and practice speaking itself. It
was a struggle until I learned the process, because the audio track coming from
the microphone was of very poor quality, even if I was using a very good microphone.
Sadly it seems it needs some post-processing, no matter what. So, here is my process,
which is a bit time consuming, but at least it works fine, and the quality is quite
good.

## The process
- Record the video with Shadowplay (comes with the nVidia driver), making sure the
  gameplay audio and speech are recorded to separate audio tracks.
- Import it into Kdenlive, apply the effect called "Noise Suppressor for Voice" to the
  speech audio track, and render it into a wav file (this noise reduction works better
  than the one in audacity).
- Import the wav into Audacity, play the audio, and remove any unwanted sounds from it,
  like breath or other mouth sounds (select on the timeline and press Ctrl-L).
- Import the video and the edited audio back into Kdenlive, combine them, adjust volume
  levels if needed, then render.