Welcome to 8 Hours of! The one-stop channel for 8 hours long videos to fall asleep and relax to.
The majority of videos are recordings from video games. This enables me to combine my huge lifelong passion for games and relaxation. I use various tools to be able to turn off the hud, weapons, or anything else that interrupts the visuals. I usually spend hours to find that one perfect spot in the levels until I feel it's good enough to record and upload.
I use Windows 11 and Nvidia's Shadowplay to record the videos. I then edit them in Davinci Resolve and render them. A typical render takes around 6 hours.
For non-game videos, I use my Sony PCM-D100 to record the audio and my phone or GoPro to record all the visuals.
I hope you enjoy the content and please say hi in the comments, I read every single comment! :)
Take care!
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Hey everyone,
As you might have already noticed, I've started uploading more regularly, and I'm thrilled to continue bringing you even more content. I can't wait to share all the exciting new videos I have planned. Whether you've just joined the channel or you've been with me since the beginning, your support is truly appreciated.
So here's to the future! I'm incredibly excited about what's to come, and I'm so grateful to have such an awesome community backing me. Stay tuned for more updates and content—I promise you won't be disappointed!
Thank you once again for being a part of this journey.
Best wishes,
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60 000 subscribers!
Thank you for sticking around even though the channel had its ups and downs over the years.
I finally feel like we are back on track with regular uploads and the channel is starting to grow again.
A huge thank you to both the old-timers who have been with me for years and a mega thank you if you are a recent subscriber.
I have so much more to upload before the end of the year so please stick around! :)
Take care everyone and see you soon!
3 years ago | [YT] | 11
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Hi everyone!
Just a heads up. I will be changing the thumbnail style on both the old videos and future uploads from today. The old thumbnails are something that has been with us since 2014 so it's time to change the design to something a little bit more ... modern :)
This will take a week or so to complete.
Take care!
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Hi everyone!
First of all... 50k subs just happened. It's just insane how fast the channel has been growing lately. Thank you so much, everyone!
Sooo... 4 months has passed and tomorrow I am able, for the seventh time I believe, to re-apply to get monetization back on the channel (they keep denying me).
Unfortunately, that means even more videos has to be deleted. I guess I am getting a little desperate at this point.
What I will do is that I will delete most videos, only leaving the ones that I am 100% certain will (probably) not cause any problems for Youtube. I was almost thinking of just deleting every single video and see what happens but let's not be that crazy ;)
I will, of course, re-upload similar videos later on that are more in terms with Youtubes vague rules. I so don't want to give up on the channel just yet so I hope you bare with me through these troubled times :)
Oh btw,
The baby was born on the 28 of December and she is awesome :)
Take care everyone! :)
6 years ago | [YT] | 22
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Hi everyone!
So maybe you have noticed a lack of new content lately.
There's a baby on the way (our second) so there's been a lot around that lately and I suspect I will be even busier the closer we get to December :).
I didn't even have time to clean up the channel from videos that I suspect de-monetized the channel.
I hope you had time to download some of your favorite videos because the "big cleanup" will happen from today. I'm not sure when I can start producing new content again but I will really try my best to set aside some time soon.
Hope you guys stick around and don't give up on me :)
Take care and thanks for your continued support!
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Hi everyone!
So here's an update about the duplication / de-monetization issue I ran into a little over a month ago.
I re-applied to Youtube to enable the channel to be monetized again but got denied yesterday. I now have to wait another 30 days to do the whole process all over again.
The difference is that this time they were a little tiny bit more specific about what the problem is. It seems like (I'm still guessing) they are
not too keen on the video recordings from the various games that I uploaded. I'm guessing, even though I got permission from the game studios,
the Youtube feels is pretty much a copy and paste of material and from that, they feel it's a "duplication" issue.
Unfortunately, that means that I will have to delete all the videos recorded from games, I don't really have any other ideas at this point.
I'm sorry if there's a specific video on the channel that you enjoy that now will be deleted. I really didn't want to delete anything but I need to try to solve this.
Thanks for your understanding. Sorry for the long text as well! :) Take care, everyone!
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Thanks, everyone for your support! I have been in contact with Youtube support but I am starting to think I am just talking to a bot / computer :). I have a video for tonight at least. I was going to release it yesterday but all this other stuff got in the way. I will see you in a little while!
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Hi everyone! Some bad news.
I just got an email from Youtube saying that my channel was demonetized for "duplication". They gave me a very vague explanation of what duplication actually means but they seem to think that I have uploaded copyrighted material without permission. I have been very careful to have permission for anything that was copyrighted but they won't allow me to send proof of it.
I was able to talk to the support but they couldn't help me at all and now the even turned off that function for me.
I'm not sure how to continue from this point. I've been uploading videos for almost 5 years and really loved doing this for you but if I can't monetize the videos it will be difficult to justify putting all this time into it.
I will be able to re-apply for the monetize function to be turned on again in 30 days and I will do so and see what happens but it's looking pretty grim at this point. I'll let you know what's going on when I know something new.
Take care, everyone!
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Hi everyone! First of all, thank you so much for the Patreon feedback. I will set something up soon.
Remember it will never be a requirement to donate anything to the channel but if you feel that I deserve a tip then it's of course greatly appreciated :)
I would like to take a second and thank all of you for the support. I just have the best subscribers on the planet :D I hope I can continue to provide the best relaxing sounds for you for many years to come.
Take care everyone!
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Hi everyone! Please read all the text :).
It seems like Youtube is demonitizing a lot of relaxing channels since yesterday with the vague reason of "duplication".
This channel has not be demonitized as I write this but who knows, it might happen at any time. I will however remove all videos that are NOT 8 hours. I don't know if a 1 hour version of a video is considered as duplication if there's also a 8 hour version but it's worth a try. Better safe than sorry.
I was just wondering how you would feel about me setting up a Patreon account. Any donation would be greatly appreciated but of course not required.
I love making videos and I spend all my free time to work on the channel, answer comments, taking requests, editing and render videos.
The money made from this channel so far has 100% gone back into the channel in the form of upgraded hardware, audio equipment, purchasing the games I am recording and so on.
Well, I won't take up more of your time. Please take care everyone until next time! I have a lot of cool videos for June coming up so stay tuned! :)
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