YouTube also has features films both box-office block busters and sleepy little independent films. Blockbusters usually cost $3.99. You pay through Google Wallet (Google’s online payment service). Many sleeper films are 99 cents. YouTube even has original films of its own. There are many independent, old or poor films for free but since they’re free films. It does not cost anything to check them out. One great independent film is “Life In A Day” which is spectacular.
One of the best things you can do with YouTube is create a channel to promote yourself, your business or your cause. Post videos about your work or anything you think people might be interested in. Try to make all of your videos on one subject or related subjects. Upload your videos then change the background for your channel to make it look unique. Use Photoshop or some other illustration program to create some custom art work or just use a original picture with some writing on it. Read more…
Once you have a YouTube account and you have signed in you can subscribe to you favorite channels. Let’s say you come across a great Photoshop tutorial by ajwood2001 and you wood like to see what other videos he has. Click on the user name ajwood2001 and it will take you to his channel. Let’s say you really like the tutorials on Mr. Wood channel and you would like to keep up up with his new videos. Just click the “Subscribe” button at the top of his channel page.
You can manage your videos visibility, stats and comments right inside YouTube. You can see your video’s stats, thumbs up and thumbs down all from the Uploads page.
You can edit your videos right inside YouTube. You can cut, append, edit the sound track and more right inside of YouTube.
From the Analytics page you can see how many people are viewing your videos and where they are viewing them from.
To upload video to YouTube you must first have a YouTube account. If you already have a Gmail account just use your Gmail login.
YouTube supports many video formats including WMV, AVI MP4 and many others. See a list.
Of course you can watch YouTube videos from the YouTube website but what if you have dialup or even worst no Internet at all. With the “Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV” extension for Firefox you can download YouTube videos when your near a high-speed connection and them watch them later when you don’t.
I know you’ve seen the sleepy cat videos, the failed skateboard stunts and the Cosplayers on YouTube. What you may not have seen is all the great educational videos. You can learn almost anything on YouTube. Anything from math to cooking. As a matter of fact, education videos are the largest growing area of YouTube. Read more…
Back in January we looked at how to use RSS. What we did not cover was where to find media to put in your RSS aggregator. This month that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to learn how to find digital media. Read more…
