Ian Marcus Stapleton, or Ssundee is known for his family-friendly content, devout christian faith, and unbreakable positive attitude. With over 9 million loyal subscribers and 3.8 billion views, he is one of the hardest working gaming YouTubers on the entire site, and an inspiration to thousands of gamers.

The fact that he is able to still get over a million views on a Minecraft video in 2018 is a testament to his talent as a creator. If you’re wondering what software he uses to record his let’s plays, audio, and edit his videos – you’ve come to the right place. We’ve done all the research to find out every tool he utilizes to make the videos on his channel come together.

So let’s dive right in and answer the question – what does ssundee use to record his screens?

What Does Ssundee Use To Record His Let’s Plays?

Like most other Gaming YouTubers we’ve looked at, Ssundee records all of his let’s plays with OBS. In recent years, OBS has become pretty much the exclusive desktop capturing program among content creators. It’s completely free, open source, and even allows for streaming to all the popular platforms.

It’ll save you a ton of money on a capture card if you’re gaming primarily on PC. We even use it ourselves when we need to capture desktop footage for our videos.

What Other Software Does Ssundee Use?

Like most other creators, including us at FilmToolKit, Ssundee uses Audacity to record his audio tracks. Audacity is pretty much the one and only software used for PC audio recording. The software is very lightweight, but is used by professionals all over the world.

You can download it yourself in less than a minute, then just plug in your mic and hit record and you have turned your computer into an audio capturing device!

What Editing Software Does Ssundee Use?

After he’s captured his gameplay with OBS and recorded his vocal track in Audacity, you’re probably wondering what editing software Ssundee uses to assemble his content.  As of September 2018, Ssundee’s videos are official edited in Adobe Premiere Pro by his editor.

Aside from a few large YouTubers who prefer Final Cut Pro X, premiere is used by pretty much every major content creator you could think of. It’s even our editing software of choice! We even determined it to be the best editing software for let’s plays in a previous article. Here’s a few reasons why it’s our favorite.

• Excellent Learning Curve.  Anybody can figure out how to piece together videos within minutes in Premiere. However, if you put in the time, you can learn how to do literally anything imaginable in the software.
• Very compatible with rest of the creative suite. – YouTubers like Ssundee often use lots of other programs like Photoshop and After Effects in their creative workflow. Premiere is incredibly compatible with all of them, and you can often drag and drop between the different programs you end up using.
• It’s regularly maintained. Premiere is always being refined and updated to fix crashes and add features.
• It’s super popular. Because everybody uses it, you can easily exchange project files with collaborators.

Bonus: Student you can get Adobe premiere along with the entire Creative Suite for only $19.99 a month.

 

When he was editing his videos by himself in July 2017 and earlier, he was editing in Sony Vegas. Sony Vegas was one of the most popular professional grade editing softwares back in the earlier days of YouTube, but has since been overtaken by other programs.

Vegas is still a great editing software that can do anything you need it to do, but it is a bit less user friendly than Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X.

Who is Ssundee’s editor?

Some time in 2017, Ssundee posted the following message on twitter:

Going to talk with an editor soon! I suck at editing and need a gooder editor.

— SSundee (@SSundee) July 27, 2017

Two days later, he introduced Russel, his new video editor who has been editing his videos ever since. This has given Ssundee much more free time to produce his content, and as you may have noticed, Russel brings his own personal style to each video.

In Conclusion…

With amazing free software like OBS and audacity, all of us have the power to make professional grade let’s plays in 2018.

While his editor uses Adobe Premiere, and Ian likes Sony Vegas, you may use whatever editor you want to get your content out there. Plenty of YouTubers have made Windows Movie Maker and iMovie work for them, so we think you should stop reading this article and get out there to start creating!

If you’re interested in learning more about the software and equipment used by other famous YouTubers, check out one of our many guides.