 It's that time again. Time for another YouTube tip. Last week we asked what you wanted and you said more free tools to add to your arsenal. So today, Mike is going over 5 free powerful programs that can positively impact your channel. And this just in, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. This episode is brought to you by Game On Snacks, jerky that's changing the game. Enter the promo code FREEDOM at checkout for 10% off all orders. What is up everyone? My name is Estie Mike and last week we discussed 5 free useful internet tools. And today we're going to discuss 5 free powerful programs that are a must have for any channel that is just starting out. That of course doesn't have a lot of money. If you have all the money in the world, go ahead and buy whatever you need and just take your channel off right. But if you don't like most people, then you should take this video to heart. Number one, Audacity. Whether you're a gamer or a filmmaker, it's always nice to have a nice voice recording software where you can do cleanups if needed. Audacity is a simple yet powerful voice recording software that can help take your game channel to the next level or help give you a solid platform to record voiceovers to. Now if you are a gamer, I always recommend recording your voice by itself. This way you always have the opportunity to clean up your audio. You can add effect chains to it, give it a little bit more bass. And of course you can always make your voice prominent over your game audio. That's one of the most common things I see is the game audio is so loud that you can't hear the voice. So if you do it this way, you have control and you can actually turn one up louder than the other or one down lower than the other to make one sound better than the other. That's a lot of others. Number two, OBS. This is targeted to anyone who likes to compliment YouTube with live streaming and allows you to create different scenes and layer assets on top of one another so you can actually make your live stream as presentable as possible. And of course you can use it as a screen recorder and record your gameplay as well. Number three, GIMP. This is a powerful photo editor that is a must have for anyone who wants Photoshop but can't afford it. GIMP allows you to create multiple layers and erase backgrounds so you can have those must needed transparent layers. Number four, free API converter. I don't know about you guys but I've had really bad luck with converters. I tried to find a good one for a while and every single one I got either was a virus or contained with bloatware. I had to fill out 17 surveys about different stuff and I never even got to the converter that I needed to use. But this free converter is free and clean and simple to use and it's not full of bloatware. I actually use this program quite often. It allows you to convert your files so it will cooperate with your system. Whether it's downgrading to something that your computer can handle or converting a file that your computer will actually like more. Like for instance, mine doesn't like quick time movie files so if I can convert it to something like AVI or something that my computer will like I can edit a lot easier. I found that I use this the most when it comes to gaming. Now those of you gamers can probably understand where I'm coming from but with my gaming channel when I was running it I would always have stupid issues. Whether it was the webcam coming out of sync or the video breaking mid-recording. I was able to use this program to make my webcam sync up again by simply converting it and sometimes I was even able to recover broken files. And number five, Celtics. This program is a shout out to all you filmmakers and storytellers out there. In school I actually used this program quite a bit before I switched over to final draft. Now Celtics is a free script writing software that is actually quite powerful. What's nice about it is it helps format your scripts in a professional manner. As you start typing your script it actually saves your characters and scenes and locations and stuff and as you're typing it will help you fill out and speed up the process and format it professionally. So whether you write scripts for short films or features or comedy sketches or whatever I highly recommend looking into this because it can help take your script from average to professional. Not only that but it will look more professional as well. Which in the filmmaking industry it is quite important to have presentable scripts. So check it out and see how it can benefit you. But anyways guys that's it for this video. If you have any further questions regarding anything that we talked about today be sure to leave it in the comment below and I'll do my best to answer it. And of course if you want to see more of this face the links are in the description below to my personal channel where you can come hang out my face every single day. So anyways guys that's it and we'll see you next Tuesday. Click here or visit the link in the video description.