How to Create Videos for YouTube

Even if you upload your videos elsewhere, YouTube is the place that everyone seems to expect them to be placed. Many sites make it very easy to add your video and will take care of all the behind-the-scenes technical stuff, leaving you free to get on with your life.

This means that it makes sense to create your videos with YouTube in mind.

Fortunately, that’s reasonably easy. Part of the reason they’ve become as successful as they have is that everything has been made as easy as possible.

If your file format isn’t one of the common formats that YouTube supports automatically – and there are some “common” formats in their list that I’ve not heard of, along with the expected ones like mp4 and move – there’s even help for converting them from things like Camtasia camper files, MP3 files, and other formats. Or you could simply use something like VLC which seems to be able to play and convert anything you care to ask it that even remotely resembles a video or audio file.

If your YouTube hasn’t been verified then your account will almost certainly have a maximum duration of 15 minutes. Which unless you’re uploading something like a full school play or a sales webinar will be plenty long enough. But there is a relatively simple process to verify your account to allow you to upload longer videos.

If you’re a professional video producer then you can tweak all sorts of settings to get your videos as near-perfect as possible. But the chances are that your video recording program or even your mobile phone will use defaults that are plenty good enough without you needing to worry about things like bit rates and codecs and other things that techie types drool over.

The type of video you create for YouTube will depend on your intended audience

• It covers anything and everything but it can be very useful for promoting products and local businesses.
• A simple slideshow-style video works well. It’s an especially good format if you’re camera shy as all you have to do is narrate your slides or if your accent is thicker than most people can easily understand then you can use a voice-over artist from a site like Fiver.

But I’d suggest that you should do your narration if at all possible. Everyone seems to hate the sound of their voice when they hear it recorded, so don’t worry if that’s the case for you.

There are several bonuses with narrating your video:

• Your personality comes across
• There’s no time lag between creating the video and waiting for the voice over to be recorded
• It’s easier – you can create the video in one process rather than trying to patch together the video and the audio

Once you’ve uploaded your video, let people know by Tweeting about it and maybe linking it from your Facebook page and website.

YouTube today is the requirement for everybody, be it understudies, grown-ups, or the more seasoned ones. At times, there is the stuff that you need to tune in to in any event, when there is no web. For this reason, there is a choice on YouTube to download those recordings disconnected. In any case, if you need to save them in a more modest size so your gadget’s stockpiling isn’t influenced, you can change each one of those recordings from YouTube over to MP3 design utilizing devices that convert YouTube recordings into the MP3 design.

Then let it sink or swim on its own accord – don’t try to give it a false popularity boost. Instead, spend the time you’d spend pressing “refresh” in the hope that your stats will have increased producing another video.