Uploading a Video

I'm sure you have noticed by now, but I like to make slide shows and videos. I found that watching clips later was more interesting when they were pieced together. They're even more interesting when you have some background music. I've pretty much clipped together all my digital home videos from this year, and already burned them onto a DVD. That DVD is slightly more interesting than the average home video where you are watching six hours of your nephew sleeping. Not that my sister video taped six hours of her first child sleeping or anything... or made anyone watch it... I'm just saying if she HAD it might have gotten a liiiiiiiiiiittle boring after a while. A "while" being the first eight minutes.

Anyway, after I piece a few of the videos together, I used to upload them straight to blogger for the sole reason that I was actually too lazy to create a YouTube account. I know. Pathetic. But then one day when I wanted to find the original little slide show I made for Jeff on our first anniversary.. I had to dig through old posts. Then blogger decided to make uploading videos more annoying, and for a while they even took the option down. They didn't like having to host all those videos and actually encouraged people to use another hosting site. So, I started uploading to YouTube.

Why would that make a difference? The benefit of YouTube is that once your video is there, you can send the link to anyone you want. With blogger, it has to be your blog link. You can't take a video from blogger and post it on Facebook, or in an email, or do anything else with it. As far as I know, anyway. But hosting your video with a site like YouTube means you can share it pretty much with the world. Unless you'd rather not. Then you can make it so private you can only allow twenty-five people to watch it. Or, you choose not to list it with their search engine, and the only way people would be able to view it is if they have the direct link, which you could share. I've also uploaded a video to another site called Vimeo. I am not as fond of that site, unless you pay for an account you are only allowed to upload so much per week, which for me, is usually one video. That's why I pick YouTube, although I have had the occasion where people in Germany are unable to view a certain video because the song I used in the background was copyrighted a certain way. And one of my recent videos has the sound completely disabled because of the same copyright problems. For that, I used Vimeo to publish the video, apparently they're not as strict.

And both YouTube and Vimeo are free to use! So that's another reason to love them, although Vimeo encourages you to pay for a premium account and YouTube is owned by Google so they're free.

So, that's just a little tip. Upload your vidoes to YouTube, then you can share and view them easier.