Sunday, April 28, 2013

YouTube Tutorial: Uploading Your Own Videos

YouTube has been around for eight years now and has transformed how we view various types of videos. People regularly download their own flicks, and one can spend hours on end viewing them.

The idea for this tutorial came when I was approached with one of those revolting voting competitions. It was a singing competition that my friend's daughter had entered in. She had a video and all. I watched it, the young lady has a great sound, similar to Taylor Swift. I suggested to the mom that they upload the vid to YouTube. After all, many famous musicians, including Justin Bieber and Drake, got noticed this way. She claimed she didn't know how to do it. I said I would teach her.

Folks download videos to YouTube and WorldStarHipHop everyday. I wondered how hard it could be. Turns out, it wasn't very hard, even for a tech-savvy person such as myself.

This tutorial is based on someone that has a smartphone with access to YouTube. However, these tips can apply to a laptop or tablet.

1. Create the video and save it into your media.
2. Go to YouTube. Make sure you have an account. If not, sign up. It's free and quick.
3. Go into your personal account. There will be a download arrow that will allow you to send your video. Press or click on this arrow.
4. You will then have to search for your video in your media. Once you have found it, select the video.
5. Downloading should begin immediately. It may take 5-20 minutes depending upon the speed of your Internet and the size of your video file.
6. Now your video is downloaded!  Use the share option to post the video and send it to others.

There you go! Now you can make videos for YouTube and get them more worldwide exposure. Good luck and happy video making!

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