How to put your videos on
YouTube
by Mark Shapiro
 YouTube
is currently the world's most popular video
upload site and gets about 65,000 or more
videos a day submitted to them. YouTube
says that their videos account for 60
percent of all videos watched online and
that their visitors spend an average of 17
minutes per session on the site. According
to Nielsen NetRatings, YouTube has nearly
20M unique users per month.
So how do you get to join the party and have
your videos online at YouTube? It's
really easy. First you got to shoot, create
and compress a video.
How to
put your video on the web
Making Internet Video - The Big Picture
Make sure when you are done with your
YouTube film, that you output it in the
right format. YouTube will accept a variety
of the most common video formats - QuickTime
.MOV, Windows .AVI, or .MPG files. Not a
problem, eh?
Video Formats for YouTube
Here is the issue. Once your video is
uploaded to YouTube, it gets automatically
transcoded into Flash Video (FLV) with a
size of about 320x240 pixels. The audio is
converted to mono. The video is
then streamed out over the net at about a 200 kb per second
rate which, when compared to a typical DVD rate of
about 8 megabits per second, does not
provide a high quality video viewing
experience.
However, according to the people at YouTube,
if you really want your stuff to look good,
they recommended saving and uploading your
video as a MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at
320x240 resolution with MP3 audio.
They also recommend 320x240 resolution
(half screen size), MP3 audio and a 30
frames per second frame rate.
Also, as you are limited to a
maximum 100-megabyte (Mb) file size and maximum a
10 minute length, a 1 minute 100 Mb
file will look better then a 10 minute 100
Mb file. The more raw data you can send
to YouTube, the better the flash compression
process should be. If you are trying to
impress and show off your video shooting and
editing chops, you might want to cut your 6
minute video short into three pieces and
send then as three standalone 100 Mb files
of two minutes each, rather than as one six
minute 100 Mb file.
You can
upgrade to a Director account which will
enable you to upload films longer than 10
minutes but you are still limited to 100 Mb
file size per upload.
The
Director account also allows you to add
custom items and logo on your Profile pages
and a custom URL per video. (this means you
can drive viewers to your personal web site
and SELL your stuff).
Right now, you can only get a Director
account when you first sign up for your
YouTube account. That means if you already
have a YouTube account, you need to sign up
again with a different name. This will
probably be fixed soon.
YouTube Upload Page
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload
You can upload video from your computer,
your desktop webcam or even your cell phone
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How to Make
it Big on YouTube -
Fake porn and other keys to YouTube fame
Victoria Times
Colonist, Canada - 6 hours ago
Now that websites like YouTube
have created a democratized platform for celebrity, anyone who
uploads a video has a chance to become a sensation. ...
Here's
a great article from
makeuseof.com . It lists a) different
tools that let you download desired videos from popular
video sharing websites(incl. youtube, googlevideo, metacafe,
myspace, dailymotion…), b) flash media
players to view and manage these files on your desktop and
c) tools to convert these files from one
format to another so that you can transfer them to your Ipod,
PSP, Mobile phone and whatever portable device you want.
Ooh, and most of these tools are free, all non-free ones are
clearly specified.
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By Adam Turner
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Monday, 29 January 2007
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Video sharing site YouTube
is set to share its revenues with
its millions of users, turning their
15 minutes of fame into cold, hard
cash.
Addressing the World Economic Forum
in Switzerland, YouTube co-founder
Chad Hurley said the company was
preparing to share with users the
advertising revenues generated by
the sites' 70 million video views
per day.
"We are getting an audience large
enough where we have an opportunity
to support creativity, to foster
creativity through sharing revenue
with our users," Hurley said. "So in
the coming months, we are going to
be opening that up."
Hurley provided no details as to how
the revenue sharing would work, but
one option would be a GoogleAds-like
system considering Google acquired
YouTube for US$1.65 billion last
year.
A revenue sharing model would put
even greater pressure on YouTube to
stop users uploading copyrighted
materials, with the Fox network
currently demanding YouTube hand
over details of the user who posted
unbroadcast episodes of the hit TV
series 24 and The
Simpsons. |
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