James Rolfe (AVGN) not understanding computers for 3 minutes

[@avtaga]

It's amazing that James found the time for all of this overcomplicated solutions.

[@GeoffreyBronson]

Do you have the time to explain your comment?

[@jkadoodle]

He didn’t, Mike and Ryan were doing all of the work while James broke his wrist and back playing computer games for a few hours

[@ChrisDied]

Bet they could have saved some time by just editing on the "pc computer".

[@fritzlahenger1351]

He spent so much time over thinking ways to organize stuff.

[@markus7166]

​@@fritzlahenger1351that's typically what autists do.

[@Deathshuck]

Capturing game footage on PC then editing it on a Mac... what a fucking headache LOL

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

@@user-od9oj3pf7q Like damn just get sony vegas or something jfc lol you don't NEED to edit with a mac James

[@bluebirdsigma]

@@BananaPhoPhilly he even fails at video editing on Mac. He insists on using a discontinued version of Final Cut Pro and actively refuses to switch to the current one "because it's different"

[@mrmlpvideogerman]

@@bluebirdsigma a lot of people don't use final cut these days for exactly this reason. I heard that kind of reasoning long before James, and from different people.

[@bluebirdsigma]

@@mrmlpvideogerman I know the feeling, like the fanatics who insist on using Windows XP in TYOOL 2022

[@chrism1518]

Honestly, imagine using a Mac.

[@VaerosTrash]

Apple: Macs are friendly-user computers and it's more easy to use than a PC. Mac users:

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

Literally all Mike had to do was put the footage on a USB stick.

[@smallcheesebread6531]

Literally what are they talking about trying to send it through a network and firewire???

[@DrZuluGaming]

God this is less Angry Video Game Nerd and more Confused Computer Boomer.

[@mikecoolgreen]

That's what years of receiving justin's dutchovers do to a man

[@snakes6248]

Or Gen Xer, to be more accurate.

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

@@snakes6248 boomer is a figure of speech at this point. It doesn't strictly refer to baby boomers

[@fishingmule3266]

@@BananaPhoPhilly that’s pretty stupid. GenXers and Millennials are old and quirky enough to get their own memes about them. Boomers clearly wouldn’t be playing or talking about games or even interacting with KZbin to begin with

[@bigguy7353]

Just as bad as the ignorant thinking that everyone that's older than you is a "boomer". 🤦‍♂️

[@dmomintz]

It's amazing how little Mac people tend to know about computers

[@returnMarcco]

Ironic considering it's linux under the hood

[@riccardoolago]

​@@returnMarccoActually its Unix that is says everything and anything. I found a more detailed explanation on Quora Thanks "Becca Royal-Gordon" Is macOS essentially built on top of Linux? {In the beginning, AT&T created Unix. Due to monopoly laws, however, they weren't allowed to sell it. A lot of organizations licensed Unix and made their own variants; most were commercial ventures, but the University of California at Berkeley made a noncommercial version, called BSD. Meanwhile, Richard Stallman at MIT came up with an ideology of "free software"-more commonly called "open source" today-and started a project to create a "free" Unix-compatible operating system called GNU. Most of the GNU project went very well, but GNU Hurd, the core kernel component, was repeatedly delayed.* A young programmer named Linus Torvalds stepped in, starting his own successful project to create a kernel called Linux. When combined with GNU's tools, Linux provided a complete operating system that worked just like Unix, but had been written from scratch and licensed in such a way that it would remain open forever. Essentially, GNU and Linux are "knockoffs" of Unixes like BSD-very high-quality knockoffs, to be sure, but knockoffs nonetheless. All Unix variants-whether they're modifications like BSD or clones like Linux**-have small differences from each other; in practice, Linux is no more different than any other Unix variant. That isn't quite the end of the story for OS X, though. Just as Linux adopted GNU's tools but threw out its kernel, Darwin (the Unix part of OS X) adopted BSD's tools but threw out its kernel. If operating systems were families, OS X and Linux would not be the same person. They wouldn't even be siblings. They'd be cousins by adoption}

[@FriggnH8ters]

@@returnMarccobsd not Linux

[@nehuensio]

LITTLE MAC PUNCH OUT REFERENCE!!!!!!!😱😱😱😱😱

[@sassas1487]

@@nehuensioRELEASE THE BOGUS

[@UpsSyndrome]

As I'm watching this video, it's becoming abundantly clear why James never actually managed to find work in the film industry.

[@ict113090]

Well, he still could, he just needs a production company to do that stuff for him. He could still write and direct.

[@markus7166]

​@@ict113090you're kidding, right ? Is he going to make a movie about poop ? He's one of the most lazy, talentless hacks that somehow managed to luck into an easy career. He doesnt realize how lucky he got, and now he takes it all for granted. Had he started out with his "muh harrer" movies, he would be a nobody working an entry level grocery store job his entire life.

[@kendee_]

I mean the man's not disabled, he's just an autistic Gen-Xer

[@LukeMM95]

​@@ict113090He wrote and directed the AVGN movie...

[@ict113090]

@@LukeMM95 yeah on a bag of chips budget. IF he were to get an actual production company behind him with some real budget I could see him directing something good.

[@homerhat420]

This is what years of apple usage gets you

[@liarliarpumpkineater4808]

Apple people...

[@DSPHistoricalSociety]

Apple is a rip off

[@ibiza1290]

@@DSPHistoricalSociety That's his point.

[@DSPHistoricalSociety]

@@ibiza1290 & that was my agreement

[@henrynelson9301]

Fraps is the only screen recording software ever made, yes

[@PecoPecoHD]

Imagine using Fraps on 2019 when the video was filmed (I think). Dude I used Fraps to do cringey Minecraft gameplays on 2012, if he has the money for a top notch gaming pc he has 100 bucks for a elgato capture card instead of doing all of this crap.

[@thecubeman381]

@@PecoPecoHD the video was filmed in 2013. Should have still used HyperCam or smth.

[@skydiamsteam6005]

@@PecoPecoHD Big fail on the date

[@nlRov]

@@skydiamsteam6005 Big fail or not, by 2013 there were thousands of youtubers recording PC games without much issue. PC recording software wasn't invented in the last five years Mr. SkyDiams Team.

[@Mahoromatic]

​@@thecubeman381 I think Bandicam existed then. I started recording gameplay footage of Club Penguin in Hypercam 3 around the same time.

[@KingOfComedyXD]

I think TempleOS would be more up his alley

[@ilearncode7365]

This doesnt make sense. You literally have to be smarter and more computer savvy to use something like TempleOS vs windows. Do you even know what TempleOS is?

[@KingOfComedyXD]

@@ilearncode7365 look at my fucking username. Its a joke relax guy

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

midwit take

[@returnMarcco]

​@@ilearncode7365With those analytical skills maybe coding ain't for you

[@rhinoturk910]

@@returnMarcco ???

[@БорисОхлаждай]

I bet when James needs some light to read before sleep he would try to screw in a candle into a lamp, then his friends would try to help him by buying fancier lamp-stand, before deciding in the end to launch giant reflective panels on earths orbit to get sunlight from opposite side of a planet.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Sounds about right

[@markus7166]

>assuming he reads 😂

[@smallcheesebread6531]

This is the best comment

[@PhilipMarcYT]

It's like he was talking in English, but I didn't understand anything. Also, PC Computer?!?! Wtf.

[@elperroreggae]

Hahaha what's wrong with saying PC computer?

[@RejectedRecords1998]

@@elperroreggae PC stands for personal computer. He is saying computer twice in a row

[@elperroreggae]

@@RejectedRecords1998 but PC is also slang for windows in the early 2000s, I see James point also

[@KaptainKlassic]

Literally could have solved all those problems just by learning how to use a PC and tossing the mac.

[@KaptainKlassic]

@@user-od9oj3pf7q I think I'd rather find/learn an alternative editing software than go through all this mess just because you don't want to use a PC.

[@Herman_Hedning]

Do you want him to suffer?

[@bluebirdsigma]

@@KaptainKlassic he refuses to ditch a discontinued version of Final Cut Pro.

[@KaptainKlassic]

@@bluebirdsigma sad.

[@tjlnintendo]

No time

[@ChrisDied]

Ok now we know why he has no time for anything, it takes him a week to do something that should have taken literally 2 hours....

[@mikecoolgreen]

Between his technical troubles and deal with april's bulls while taking in all that 2nd hand abuse.

[@markus7166]

Did you hear him say it took a MONTH to figure out one tiny little issue. No wonder these incompetent tards only put out 3 videos a year 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@kevinbollers2]

"Wrist breaking hours" *Shows broken wrist*

[@MimonJesus67]

1:23 'a PC computer'

[@Fondoofus5542]

Personal Computer Computer

[@riccardoolago]

"Is like DC comics that was short for Detective Comics so it would be spelled Detective Comics Comics" -AVGN, The Town with no name episode

[@nehuensio]

@@riccardoolago i know i'm 11 months late, but the episode was acctually "the town with no name"

[@riccardoolago]

​@@nehuensio Well, better late than never. Thank you. I'll update the comment

[@GreenSabre187]

​​@@nehuensioI can say that it was "A town with no name" no "the".

[@ChrisDied]

I hate it when people complain about working long hours, like they are the only ones doing it....

[@riccardoolago]

You just described every mother on earth 😅

[@papytromblon]

The problem is because we live in an imperfect reality. Electrons move through reality. You're not going to be able to emulate everything the électrons are doing in software

[@mikecoolgreen]

The very same electrons that big ryan squeezed out of bimmy's time flow

[@BrownElectrons]

Hiyah!

[@rollinontheboard]

électrons?EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: ééééééééééééééé0☺

[@RetroVisionist]

"...PC computer.."

[@MCDreng]

I remember watching James behind the scenes of the Nerd videos as a kid and thinking he's so cool for being old school and dedicated but now I see he just overcomplicates things out of a fear of learning anything new (eg here, why learn to edit on the PC you captured on when you have a Mac that you've always edited on... well clearly converting the files into Mac compatible formats is messing up the videos so there's a reason... but nooo)

[@VideoGameAutopsy]

You think that's crazy? On his website (back in the day) he shared his unorthodox way of getting DVDR footage onto his Mac. He said that he would run the DVD recorder into a digital camera, and then run the digital camera into his Mac, using a firewire connection, just to get the footage in Final Cut's native codec. So, he pretty much ended up recording the gameplay twice.

[@GeoffreyBronson]

I never understood that at all, he made movie making seem so much more impossible

[@VideoGameAutopsy]

@@GeoffreyBronson He’s clearly not up to date on modern methods of capturing or editing footage. I can think of ten different ways of recording footage, and none of them would include recording straight off the screen and recording the audio on a completely different track. I think at this time (2013) he was still editing on a 2007 version of Final Cut Pro, greatly limiting his editing capabilities.

[@user-dnf83n0s8sg9u]

@@VideoGameAutopsy it’s not so much important that he has a new version though. to me the editing itself matters more, if it would speak for itself (hint: it doesn’t)

[@markus7166]

No one has ever accused him of being intelligent.

[@mystikgleam9541]

James not understanding how to efficiently record and edit all these years is so pure he truly is the internet’s dad

[@mrblonde609]

"PC Computer" Hahhahahaha

[@kevinpaz3142]

He is the Angry AVGN Nerd, right?

[@samsquanch1996]

Personal computer computer.

[@henrynelson9301]

Automatic teller machine machine

[@katokianimation]

@@kevinpaz3142 he liturally said it at episode 100 part 3

[@residentflamingo115]

DC Comics

[@PecoPecoHD]

On God thats some of the most complicated solutions to one of the easiest problems you can encounter while recording a game on PC.

[@Kasunoske]

i swear to god there was a video about james compaining about his new car not being able to connect to his ipod so he sold it and bought an older car with a tape deck becuase he had the tape deck - ipod adapter.

[@deiradinn]

For real?

[@Kasunoske]

@@deiradinn yeah I found the clip, he had trouble using the ipod radio adapter so he bought another car

[@majinya6199]

@@Kasunoske Why not just use an aux cable?

[@_zigger_]

​@@majinya6199 no time

[@markus7166]

​@@majinya6199retardation

[@Meme_Lor]

At least he's not as bad as Doug Walker, who couldn't even press a button to start recording

[@Meme_Lor]

@SFEX七瀬 the Nostalgia Critic

[@TheSultan1470]

Well... ok. He's an old movie critic. Not even a nerd.

[@redacted2275]

What Doug has to do with this? The type of people that needs to throw someone under the bus to defend something are pure fiIth.

[@colonel1003]

You don’t disrespect the Doug Walker

[@eddiearniwhatever]

Mac addiction is a serious problem. I never see PC users in this kind of a bind. But with the Mac I see it all the time, Mac users endlessly struggling with easily preventable UI/UX / compatibility issues because they won't use a PC. It boggles my mind honestly. I'm of James generation and I don't know anything about computers but at least I'm wise enough to switch tools when the one I have isn't doing the job. Maybe it's because I never got a Mac in the first place...

[@gurriato]

It just works. If it doesn't, it must be impossible.

[@eddiearniwhatever]

@@YourChannel-r4v That all makes sense. As with most people I'm not a computer nerd, and really do expect a computer, any computer, to be useful out of the box, just as with any tool. I think it is a realistic expectation. That's how they're advertised, in any case. And wasn't that Steve Job's vision with Apple, to make computers tools that anyone could use? A videographer wants to make movies just as a carpenter wants to make houses. I wouldn't expect a videographer to learn the complexities of tweaking Unix systems, just as I wouldn't expect a carpenter to learn how to forge hammers and nails. What seems funny to me is how Apple folks can't see beyond Apple. Yes they are amazing machines, no doubt. But for someone like myself they have limited useability. Simply because most of us don't have the time or inclination to do a bunch of complex tweaking to make them work in all circumstances. In Rolfe's case, he should have just got a PC for the tasks at hand so he could carry on with his project and not waste all that time trying to figure out how to make it work with a Mac. Or, hire someone who knows what they're doing to get it all working on his chosen platform, and teach him what's real so he doesn't run into those problems again.

[@CortexGrimuloid]

Even if you have zero experience with video production or editing, there are so many easy work arounds for these issues. Like why would anyone capture footage to one PC and move it to another to edit it, let alone on another OS? It's actually insane

[@CidSilverWing]

He "went Mac and never went back", shows what a stubborn out-of-touch hack he is and I can't believe I used to like him.

[@ZootWorld1]

I wonder how long it would take for James, Mike and Ryan to screw in a lightbulb.

[@markus7166]

Why do you think it takes 6 months to make one avgn video ? They have somehow managed to get worse at making videos, after 15 years of doing it. Imagine how stupid you have to be to get worse at the one thing you've practiced for over 15 years 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@riccardoolago]

First of all they would unscrew the burnt out light bulb and take another one but this one isn't good since the socket is too small, so Mike would try to build an adapter which however doesn't work, so they decide to change the chandelier and the ceiling light that , in fact, it was a bit full of dust and also ugly. (like having your unencrypted data...) The new ceiling light however is complicated to fix so they tie it to the new chandelier with rubber bands and...this chandelier isn't good for the bulb either, so you decide to dismantle the old one and use the old connections on the new one: To desolder the connections from the old chandelier it takes at least three days and to re-solder them and finally redo all the wiring, at least a week...ah, I forgot : Not even the old attachments were good so we proceeded to fix the adapter but in the meantime the elastics didn't hold up and the ceiling light fell so now we need some glue and...

[@mikecoolgreen]

I doubt your comment is far from the truth since we know good ol bimmy knows how to fix some home appliances ​@@riccardoolago

[@Falloutin3]

There are several ways to resolve this technical issue, like a capture card. But the LAST resort would be to record directly off the screen. But for crying out loud did James forget the basics of filmmaking? Did he really not bother hooking up the PC’s audio into the camera’s mic input?!?! “WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?”

[@JohnSmith-yd5wq]

No way could this problem be that hard to fix

[@Herman_Hedning]

No time

[@Austroid]

Irate Gamer's infamous "being a film director myself..." back when he reviewed movies applies to Bimmy all too well now.

[@Channeleven2345789]

James seems to be too accustomed to cheaper means of producing film, thus would not have such awareness of modern conventions. When Irate Gamer is looking better by the day, you know James had really gone south.

[@Ostnizdasht206]

This is why I don't use Macs.

[@Busterbalz]

I remember one of those old behind the scenes videos where James was talking about how he records gameplay and edits it, and he said "I went Mac and never went back" From that moment I knew he didn't know shit about computers or tech.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

didn't know, and didn't care, which is not uncommon

[@MCDreng]

Final cut pro is good for video editing though

[@henrynelson9301]

Macs are good for that stuff tho

[@segasonic23]

Macs are great for editing, sounds like you don't know shit about computers or tech

[@dawnbreaker2912]

100%

[@mikecoolgreen]

Ryan pretty much played a game of pinball inside of James' head over the years once he activated those electron circuits

[@Pangloss6413]

“I’m not the most technologically up to date person, which…you can tell”

[@Henskelion]

You should make a longer version of this that has all the insane shit from the 2021 BTS video like where he talks about "folders within folders"

[@juliethefoxcoon]

whats not normal about that? the stuff in *this* video is insane, but plenty of youtubers(even technically inclined ones like LMG) have a huge NAS with all their old footage, and they have nested folders for organization. hell, ive done professional video editing and ive worked with servers setup like that for actual big companies

[@Henskelion]

@@juliethefoxcoon The insane part is he describes having folders within folders - very obvious organization - as though that's completely unusual. The video gave me the impression he thinks it would be better to just have every single video he's ever worked on in one single folder on his desktop or something.

[@Vfl666]

take a wild guess

[@FKanimations]

What is this the 90s?

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

I knew he didn't know shit about computers when he started praising macs in that making of video.

[@dodgsonwevegotdodgsonhere9970]

I'm kinda shocked. I'd think every gamer above the age of 10 to have a somewhat decent grasp on computers.

[@KRYPTIC05]

No…not if they are people who played games on console majority of the fuckin time….

[@dodgsonwevegotdodgsonhere9970]

@@KRYPTIC05 Dude, I've played games on console for 20 years and even I know how to properly record game footage and set up cameras.

[@JohnSmith-yd5wq]

Or just I don't know read instructions on the internet. But James never read instructions in his life, just looked at the pretty pictures. James didn't even know how to skip cutscenes.

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

Imagine calling yourself unironically "gamer" in [the current year] 😑

[@dodgsonwevegotdodgsonhere9970]

@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 Ok, let me rephrase that for you. I'm kinda shocked. I'd think every "person who interacts for considerable amounts of time with gaming consoles and computers who integrate said interests around their personality" above the age of 10 to have a somewhat decent grasp on computers.

[@itsaaron9090]

I understand if OBS wasn't a thing back then but God Bandicam was at the very least

[@nehuensio]

obs was created in 2012, and the video is from 2013

[@ChaosHellfire]

God, this is just sad. This is something every generic youtuber can do. Its like he really IS stuck in the past...

[@jesustheres]

I love how he's putting a pc together on a carpet like that. Brilliant.

[@HIDHIFDB]

The static electricity is what makes the pc components run better!!!

[@ArtHazard]

@@HIDHIFDB gotta collect all the carpet electrons.

[@riccardoolago]

I hope it was shoot as joke and then they moved everything on the table...I hope

[@tiztu6321]

Pretty relevant profile pic lol @@riccardoolago

[@riccardoolago]

@@tiztu6321 oh, you mean for Serial Experiments Lain? Lmao

[@deiradinn]

This was painful to watch.

[@deiradinn]

@SFEX七瀬 he's very out of the loop.

[@Jombo1]

Ah yea, movie making sure is a real struggle... no wait he's just being incompetent.

[@YouMissedAgainTimes32024]

No time to understand PCs

[@mikecoolgreen]

No time to understand anything anymore as april's bulls slap him around with a pinecone club

[@struttux5156]

PC Computer 😭😭

[@dav786]

The joys of Apple

[@DSPHistoricalSociety]

Apple is a rip off

[@thebristolbruiser]

It sounds like more of a Winblows issue. Windows is notoriously bad for networking, so that explains the poor speed when performing a network file transfer. As well as that, PC motherboard manufacturers have never properly supported FireWire despite it being a far superior standard to USB at the time.

[@zachary_attackery]

@@DSPHistoricalSociety My 2010 macbook pro has never been reformatted, cleaned, or had anything else done to it and it still runs perfectly like the day I got it. In that same time my wife has gone through about 7 PCs that have to have something on them fixed every other month

[@DSPHistoricalSociety]

@@zachary_attackery Cool. I meant the phones.

[@gamingguy9006]

​@@zachary_attackeryAlmost never had to have any kind of repairs on any PC that I have ever had

[@TheCooderix]

And people are surprised his movie took ages to make and is total crap.

[@fritzlahenger1351]

What were they thinking?!

[@fritzlahenger1351]

@SFEX七瀬 Due to time, he had use a camera to record games on a computer. Don't why they can't just use software that can easily record games on pc. If he had more time, it would been easy for him.

[@neoturfmasterMVS]

Damn, has he never heard of OBS for free? Record and produce anything. MP4 file format? This is amazing anything ever got produced. Clean sound? Record through a nice usb audio interface and $99 Rode mic. Not knowing how to use a: Computer, Microphone, Audio interface, free OBS software, MP4 video format, etc, this is shocking. He spends so much "time" wasted. No wonder he's lost.

[@mikecoolgreen]

The only thing bimmy understands is when he has to fly caveman kieran back to jurassic Park world

[@Bourikii2992]

OBS wasn't even out for a year at the time let alone the standard software people used to capture game footage on pc as it released as version 0.32.

[@neoturfmasterMVS]

@@Bourikii2992 Ah I've come to the conclusion he barely made it through any tech stuff. Mike carried him all the way. Thank God for Mike and his friendship that kept James moving forward. He saved his life you know? James almost drowned in 2" of water that one day.

[@Bourikii2992]

@@neoturfmasterMVS LOL poor baby can't handle being wrong.

[@neoturfmasterMVS]

@@Bourikii2992 That how James does it. I feel for him. We need to do our best to support him. Just don't have the time.

[@Volgotha]

Just fucking dual-boot the PC and get the files from one partition onto the other one! holy shit!

[@jimmiester8331]

2:22 😐 bimmy roofe couldn't bother with capture cards?

[@mk-fu6dc]

this guy only operates tech made in the 80s and the 90s

[@flyingerasehead]

Would it kill James to just learn how to edit videos on PC? We all have our favorite setups, but if he is going to be a big movie maker it would be helpful to learn other things, as he just saw for a month.

[@TrillHanks]

Damn, I mean hypercam was around back then lmao... what a fucking headache

[@theseriousaccount]

Capture the screen->put file on thumbdrive->put thumbdrive in mac. Or transfer over network.

[@certainperson]

This is actual madness. They went through all that trouble JUST TO IMPORT the game footage into Final Cut. This kinda stuff doesn't even happen in the most bizzare fever dreams where obvious solutions to problems don't exist.

[@PhantomSputnik]

It takes 10 minutes to get obs up and running and it took these guys a month lmao

[@arriagatwo777]

He likes to complicate things despite the fact he "doesn't have time"

[@mikecoolgreen]

He complicate things because april told him that doing things the long way will keep her bulls from peeling his skin off

[@MrTyler189]

I don't understand the problem just take the video files and put them on a flash drive and put the flash drive in the mac and boom? Or do I not understand either

[@adamh5683]

Raw video files are far too large to reasonably transfer between machines with things like USB sticks from my understanding.

[@theseriousaccount]

Network transfer then.

[@ilearncode7365]

Format a usb HDD as exFat, record the video to it. Unplug from Windows, plug into mac. Done, your mac has the file now.

[@ilearncode7365]

Bonus solution. Install an HDMI capture device on your Mac. Use an HDMI active splitter on the PC. Plug one HDMI cable from the spliiter to the monitor, the other to the capture card. Play your PC Computer, and record on Mac. No screencap software needed at all.

[@mikecoolgreen]

A faster way to transfer the files is to replace your entire skin with wood and summon the woodpeckers with a whistle bc that's the bimmy way

[@taskentlutsow2110]

People around him aren't dumb. They do this on purpose. Must be a financial motive.

[@jedisquidward]

To be fair, this video is from at least 4ish years ago

[@projectapocalypse8274]

@@jedisquidward This was like 6 or 7 dude, way before Sceenwave were involved. I know you guys got a Screenwave hate boner and all but at least try to get angry at stuff they actually did.

[@dodgsonwevegotdodgsonhere9970]

@@projectapocalypse8274 Right, because fair criticism is having "a hate boner". What a well-thought and constructive response, did you spend last night thinking about it?

[@yaba2352]

financial motive? I think buying a damn USB drive would be cheaper than adding a FireWire port to a computer

[@Kravis63]

@@projectapocalypse8274 Did you miss the whole part where he talked about Ryan trying to help them….. You know that Ryan owns Screenwave, right? Lol

[@JeanChannel64]

This is harder to understand than electrons

[@Sly88Frye]

Geez! Just edit the footage on the PC it was recorded on and you would save so much time and headache. lol

[@totallynoteverything1.]

I guess this is just what happens when you use Mac

[@AoiShoudou]

big Big Ryan The Webmaster fan btw

[@glitch_wurld]

Wtf is he talking about

[@left-2-write28]

I have no idea but it's still frustrating.

[@MontaguStudios]

Ironic that he’s the “Nerd” yet has issues understanding computers.

[@nehuensio]

thats because he's the nerd of videogames and not of "PC computer"

[@mikecoolgreen]

He don't understand pc computers because it sounds like the Sony playstation to him

[@hellishcyberdemon7112]

​@nehuensio then in all his videos why does he get mad at naming structures and yet calls it a "pc computer"

[@SuperAhmetDoray]

One Word: Obs

[@chef7658]

I do IT and I feel like a bigger nerd now. You could have just not done it on the Mac if it gave so many issues. There is a point where the time that troubleshooting takes is not worth it. You either invest in something else or use an alternative methode.

[@theseriousaccount]

The mac was not the problem, he wasn’t even able to figure out how to record on the pc in the first place lol.

[@bulb9970]

Average Mac user

[@TheGamingManiacDS]

ouch

[@thatonezeldaguy250]

I was doing let's plays in middle school, James it shouldn't be this complicated lmao

[@dawnbreaker2912]

I'm not much of a film maker (I made some shitty digital cartoons in high school, and went to a film school for animation long ago), but even I could see in the 'Making Of' episode that all of his processes are just bizarrely, unnecessarily convoluted.

[@mikecoolgreen]

Bimmy's problems with technology grows worse as the bulls destroyed his old filming projects with caveman kieran's butter knife

[@Vincent-vn7xo]

Not enough time to learn how to use a PC

[@mikecoolgreen]

he only had the time for the bulls to fuck his brains out while they have their own monkey business with april.

[@badwolf66]

"A PC Computer" WTF type of wording is that? Bloody Hell James, do a college course on computers.

[@Kimarnic]

Bro I've been recording from my PS3 for years, just get an HDMI converter

[@TheSegacampGamerandWerecamp]

oh damn making that Episode where they had to play the Fan Games of the Nerd must have been a Nightmare for them but I'm glad they made the Impossible Possible!

[@joseparcenary4706]

The mistake was he bought a PC Computer instead of a Personal PC.

[@MrBoggy101]

This is mind-bogglingly overcomplicated. If he just learned how to edit a video in Windows, half of these "problems" would be solved. I've made videos in Windows Movie Maker, Da Vinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere, and Sony Vegas with no formal training. I'll give him a pass on his complicated setup until like 2011. After that, with the wealth he accumulated to buy quality modern equipment and the accessibility of youtube tutorials: He probably should've streamlined all of his setup to not be so antique and clumsy.

[@bobdeinterlace]

James is the type of guy to say he has no time for anything and putting out a few low quality videos a month is a full time job to him because he's too busy doing things in the most overcomplicated way possible for no reason, and I'm wondering if he's really like that or if he's just doing it to fuck with the Screenwave guys at this point.

[@mikecoolgreen]

Bimmy is actually like that bc april's bulls prefer it when the slave's brain is made of goo and farts

[@mikecoolgreen]

You can tell that the bulls work him overtime whenever april is somewhere else

[@SpartanUruk]

Why didnt he just edit on the PC? I hate apple products they make moving photos and videos impossible to achieve.

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

but then he went Mac...and nobody wants him back

[@JohnSmith-yd5wq]

Why would you use a keyboard instead of the x box controller that's sitting right there?

[@bluebirdsigma]

He literally doesn't know you can do that. He think controllers are for consoles and keyboard for computers.

[@DEVBEEF]

Some games don’t have controller support lol

[@bluebirdsigma]

@@DEVBEEF is Joy2Key still a thing?

[@PiroKUSS]

@@DEVBEEF AVGN Adventures has fucking controller support lmao, in fact the X360 controller's the default one.

[@ryllian1]

Keyboard is arguably better for platformers imo

[@cartoonhead9222]

FireWire? What the fuck?

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

Hasn't that not been a default format for like 20 years

[@DanielBMS]

There is a word I have not heard in a long time.

[@lauratiso]

@@BananaPhoPhilly 10 years at the max... We used it a lot at filmmaking around 2000s until 2010s

[@control_the_pet_population]

To be fair, I don't think this is new footage... I think its from 2012/13 or so. I think firewire was pretty much dead by that point, but I do rememeber reading that he still insisted on using some ancient 2007 version of Final Cut Pro... so he was probably using an out-of-date software on an out-of-date Macbook.... at that point it's only one more step to running Firewire cables across your basement while taking video footage by pointing a camera at a television screen.

[@1284productions]

they could of just used nvidia geforce recorder and google drive

[@markskirby]

This is like listening to a toddler explain why they like pizza more than French fries

[@generalofg3377]

oh no, he's old

[@thecianinator]

when did all of this happen? it's entirely possible that all the easy solutions we know about didn't exist when he did this.

[@mikecoolgreen]

2013, and james doesnt have any excuse to not have a better way make it easier to make that episode.

[@beesree39]

Here's the thing. It still worked out. Other than the AVGN Adventures footage being fucked, it was a good episode.

[@markus7166]

He hasn't made a good episode for 10 years 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@latviandragon2718]

jesus, were their no good screen recorders back then?

[@NotGuy64]

The video and this BTS was made around 2013, so Fraps and the first version of OBS existed. James probably could have made fraps work if just ditched trying to transfer the footage over to Mac

[@orbitalchiller]

*sigh, look at ceiling* ... wow !

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

Remember when james was a pioneer and way ahead of the curb then everyone else? Wow this is sad.

[@PeGeProd]

He was ahead because he was doing things in his own, specialized ways when no one else did. He is behind ages nowadays because he is doing things in his own, specialized ways when no one else does.

[@БорисОхлаждай]

@@sfex4290 ​ James was a professional filmmaker before youtube. And thanks to the relatively high production quality of his videos he was able to stand out from mostly amateurish youtube crowd of 2007. Nowadays he became complacent with the filmmaking process he developed years ago, practices that most modern youtubers would call obsolete at best and incompetent at worst..

[@mikecoolgreen]

Do you think the bulls made bimmy make a custom made pc using his jamaican roots

[@Kousaburo]

Around Mac's, never relax! C'mon James, Occam's razor.

[@BanjoSkeleton]

1 buy a capture card 2 email the files? ??????

[@raax7647]

man this still makes me laugh how ppl just figured out how james is stuck in the times and refuses to learn how to do stuff wayyy easier now than before he legit uses unorthodox methods that you would use if modern footage capturing software and hardware didn't exist like linking a camera to a DVDR and from that to a mac running an outdated version of final cut basically recording the footage twice, and the ironic part is he's doing this because back then when he was making movies as a kid and a teenager or in college, he explain in a video documenting the many home made movies in detail the many unorthodox and crazy ways he used to film subtitle and add music, and watching that video and this video, he's legit acting like its 1999 and we cant do this stuff with the click of a button. he's just stuborn and refuses to learn the most basic stuff a common trait among apple users

[@mikecoolgreen]

i think james rolfe should be a car mechanic with his supreme boomer logic.

[@barple367]

I guess using a capture card or bandicam or whichever softwares never crossed his mind, huh? For a guy who went to film school he sure doesn't know how to study up his equip properly

[@Spooky.Boogie.xj0461]

school is bullshit to be honest

[@RespiroOfficial]

He went to films school at a time when it was LITERALLY "FILM" (as in CELLULOID) school. He has to learn about digital editing and shit from OTHER STUDENTS.

[@barple367]

@@RespiroOfficial it's a typical rule of thumb to keep up to date on the most efficient filming/ recording gear if high quality video is what you're wanting in the modern era. I can understand that during the 90s that film school was actually about physical film tapes and equipment related to using it. That has nothing to do with the fact that you should try and use the latest of not modern tech to keep efficient. If James woulda done his homework while doing KZbin he'd have a lot easier of a time producing his content.

[@RespiroOfficial]

@@barple367 I agree his setup is inefficient but, sometimes, the "feel" of a setup, no matter how inefficient, makes it hard to move over to a more efficient setup, i.e. "If it ain't broke, why fix it?" Mentality

[@TheCynicalAutist]

@@barple367 He mentioned in his book that video use was not exactly encouraged at his college, and like Respiro said he and other students had to learn it on their own time.

[@MrLTiger]

this is why you should buy a computer for your kids, not a console

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

both...unless you are poor

[@_zigger_]

Console peasants = brainlets

[@Groypette]

why not edit the footage in the PC

[@ludilka]

From 2:22 and further it went to full insanity mode.

[@Gammera2000]

Theoretically, couldn't they just use a virtual machine to play the games?

[@ghostghostghst]

Woah early alopecia symptoms this is like the exact point it started lol