The whole thing works out better than it sounds
Blind playthroughs of Apex Legends are pretty straightforward in theory. You record yourself playing the game without watching anything beforehand, capture whatever happens naturally, then edit together the moments that made you laugh. The funny stuff comes from mismatched expectations, confused movement calls, and the general chaos of not knowing what map rotation is currently active. I've been doing these for a while now and the process has settled into something reasonably repeatable. Here's how I actually do it end to end. First, you need a clean capture setup. I use OBS at 1080p 60fps with my game audio at 15db and microphone at 0db. The key thing nobody mentions is your mic levels. When you're blind and something ridiculous happens, you tend to speak louder without realizing it, and that peaks right into distortion. Set your compressor threshold around -12db and a ratio of 3:1. Keeps things even without sounding processed. For the actual gameplay, I skip into a ranked match or a standard custom lobby and just play. No research on the current legend buffs, no checking where the LTV drop is, no looking up weapon attachments for the Volt SMG I keep picking up because it has a blue bar. That uncertainty is literally the entire point. The funny moments come from treating a G7 Scout like it's a full auto rifle because that's what the HUD made it look like, or trying to slide cancel into a wall because I thought the animation would give me cover.
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After the match, I pull the raw footage into DaVinci Resolve. My editing flow is messy but fast. I watch through at 2x speed and drop markers on anything that made me cringe or laugh. A marker takes two seconds. By the time I finish one match, I usually have twelve to twenty markers across a forty minute clip. Then I create cut sequences between those markers. Each segment is typically five to fifteen seconds long. I don't do transitions. Just straight cuts with maybe a slight fade if two clips feel jarring next to each other. The audio mix matters more than the visual side. Game sound eats everything else. I sidechain the game audio to duck down about 6db whenever my microphone picks up sound. That takes about three minutes per project if I automate it manually, or thirty seconds if I use a sidechain compression preset. Either way, you need to hear yourself react clearly over gunfight noise and ability SFX. I ran into a specific problem last month that took me a while to figure out. I recorded a full blind run and went to edit it, only to realize my OBS audio was split across two tracks instead of one. Track one had game audio, track two had mic audio, and they weren't aligned properly. The result was my voice echoing about half a second behind the actual events on screen. Completely unwatchable. The fix was simpler than I expected. I just exported both tracks separately, imported them into Resolve as mono files, and used the synchronize function on the waveform peaks. Took about eight minutes total. Since then I always record game and mic audio to a single stereo track from the start. That prevents the drift issue entirely.
One counter-intuitive thing about these videos is that the funniest moments aren't always the loudest reactions. Some of my most viewed clips are thirty seconds of me slowly walking into a trap because I didn't recognize the sound of a Pathfinder grapple hook vs. a Wraith portal. The comedy is in the realization dawning on me in real time. Don't over-edit the reactions. Let the awkward pauses breathe. Another thing beginners miss is that legend selection changes everything about the blind experience. Playing blind as Bloodhound is almost comically frustrating because your entire toolkit revolves around revealing information you're deliberately avoiding. I tried it once and spent forty minutes just hopping around looking for enemies while my teammate repeatedly asked if I could see anything. The footage was good but exhausting to edit. Octane or Pathfinder are better picks for blind runs since their abilities don't require knowledge of enemy positions. You still end up in bad situations, but the comedy comes from your own mistakes rather than confusion over ability usage. There's a real limitation here that I should be upfront about. These videos don't perform well as evergreen content. Apex Legends rotates its meta frequently and references to specific weapons or map features age poorly. A video I made six months ago about being confused by the new cover system in Storm Point gets zero traction now because the current season doesn't have that same map mechanics. If you're doing this for views, you need to publish quickly after recording, ideally within forty-eight hours of the match while the community is still discussing whatever patch notes came out. Otherwise treat it as a hobby project and don't expect meaningful algorithmic push.
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I also won't pretend the editing process scales well. A single two hour blind session produces roughly three to four hours of raw footage after you account for death screens, lobby wait times, and menu navigation. Filtering that down to a ten to twelve minute final video takes me about forty five minutes to an hour. If you're doing this weekly for a channel, budget at least two to three hours per upload. The alternative is clipping shorter matches and posting daily shorts, which moves faster but tends to underperform on watch time metrics. If you want a different approach entirely, you could skip the blind element and just record normal gameplay with a focus on capturing genuinely funny situations as they happen. That removes the uncertainty from the equation and lets you play competitively while still getting entertaining content. It's less novel but far more efficient. I tried it for a week and went back to blind runs because the output quality was noticeably better even if the process was slower. The download side of things is simple enough. OBS Studio is free and handles the recording. DaVinci Resolve has a free tier that covers everything needed for this workflow. If you want to stay fully open source, Kdenlive works too but the audio sync tools are clunkier. No paid software is required unless you want Premiere or Final Cut, which you don't.
I've noticed a pattern in my own uploads where the top performing clips share a specific structure. There's usually a setup phase where I'm confidently doing something wrong, a moment of realization where I become aware of the mistake, and a brief fallout sequence. The three act structure happens naturally without planning. Don't force it in editing. If a clip has all three beats it'll land. If it only has one or two, it'll feel flat regardless of how good the individual moments are. There's no formula that guarantees a viral clip. The best I can say is that consistency helps. I upload roughly once a week and my subscriber count has been climbing slowly for eight months. Not dramatically. Just steadily. The blind playthrough angle gives the content a recognizable hook that makes it shareable in Discord servers and subreddit threads. That's about all the strategy I'd recommend.
