Tuesday, April 8, 2008
YouTube Tricks and Tips (Part One)
There are all kinds of applications for getting your videos up on the web. Tim Frakes and I recently taught some East Africans how to shoot, edit, and post videos. We used Pinnacle Studio. Pinnacle was recently bought by Avid, a well-known video editing maven. You get many options for editing videos for a consumer-level application, plus simplified Web publishing, for about $50. Here is a link: http://tinyurl.com/2vj7xn
On the free tip, I found a site called DVDVideoSoft (http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/). They offer a slew of free apps for video that look very interesting. The one called YouTube Uploader looks very useful for getting your videos up on the popular video site. The site says there is no spyware or adware, but as with any free software, use at your own risk.
A YouTube tip: if you copy and paste the code that YouTube generates to post in your own site, make this one change first. In the box where it says "Embed," click on the link that says "customize." There, check a small radio button that reads "Don't include related videos." This will keep the YouTube player from showing your visitors other YouTube videos after your video has played.
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