Thursday, April 28, 2011

how to upload video to Youtube

so you take that video on your camera of you doing a back flip on your bike.  now what? show your friends and family? or you could share it with the world and make a viral video!  so you have your back flip video right, take your USB cord and connect your camera to your computer putting the USB cord in the correct spots.  what should happen is a notification that your camera has been connected will appear.  click the "import pictures and media".  while the video is importing name the video "YouTube back flip video" once you have successfully  imported you YouTube back flip video to your computer fire up your internet and open up YouTube.  if you already have an account sign in.  but if you do not have an account register.  registering only takes about 2 min and only requires you to have an email.  so now that you are on your account you will see to the right of the search bar a button that says "upload".  click this button and at the next screen click "upload video".  by clicking this you will open up your documents.  remember where you imported your YouTube back flip video to and locate it.  open it by clicking on it and that will start your upload!  Yay you are done you have uploaded your first video to YouTube!!!  but wait, why am I only getting 13 views on my video???  to make your video easy to find you need to edit the information on your video.  to do this you are going to hover over your name in the upper right hand corner and you will see a group of things drop down.  click the "my videos"  once you are here you are going to want to click edit video under you YouTube back flip video.  once there you will want to insert a description describing you video and some tags to help people find your video.  a good example of some tags would be "awesome bike back flip"  and add any more tags that you think would help people locate your video.  and remember to have a good title that people will click.  hope i helped you have fun YouTubers!