Digital Foundry today launches a new channel on YouTube - DF Clips - which aims to bring more of our work to a wider audience. Looking at the way our content is 'consumed' on YouTube via analytics, it's clear that while we've built up a large audience and an excellent supporter community, YT itself isn't really a platform best suited to longer form, in-depth material. DF Clips aims to shine a light on more of what we do by producing smaller, standalone 'chunks' based primarily on our existing work.
Here's how that works. Similar to Linus Tech Tips' LMG Clips, the major news topics and discussion points in DF Direct Weekly are split up and uploaded as standalone videos. In addition to that formula, we'll also be isolating smaller parts of our larger videos, like making a smaller edit of our AMD 4800S Xbox Series X CPU video that gets straight to the gameplay.
The clips channel is also an interesting vehicle for us to explore shorter form content. So, for example, in the wake of our massive DLSS 3 coverage from earlier this year, I spent some time combing through the 4K 120fps captures we spent literal days getting together, then isolated which frames were generated with DLSS 3 and which were traditionally rendered, producing an intriguing comparison. It's a pretty cool video! However, there's no real DF video potential here on the standard channel, but it did end up as bonus material for supporters. Today, we have a new channel where we don't need to worry too much about crucial things for the main channel like average view duration - we can just share some very cool stuff.