There are many ways to create videos. I use iMovie on my Mac. You can use Animoto or Jing for free or whatever video software you have on your computer. Jing is also great to create screenshots and tutorial videos on your computer. The video has to be 5 minutes or less for the free version of Jing. Animoto is free for a 30 second video. It is best to keep your videos short and sweet. Most people don't have time to watch long videos. Make sure to create a call to action on your video at the end of it with an annotation or audio command. You may want to add music to your video as well. You can do this easily on your YouTube video manager. That is where you will add an annotation too.



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IOLE Premium
Thanks for this tutorial, tas88. At some point in the future I can go back to this.

For your readers who are more into tablets, there's a Capture app for youtube which uploads videos straightaway. The longest video i experimented with was 25 minutes in length.

Best wishes!
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dwdad99 Premium
Good advice. Thank you for the information. Sometimes we just post stuff without having any reason and the video gets lost.
Dave
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nathaniell Premium
Is there a way to use Jing to create videos for YouTube? Last time I checked they use .swf files, which cannot be placed on YT, only on screencast.com. I don't know if they changed this.
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tas88 Premium
yep..with a converter
http://www.freeswfconverter.com/
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tas88 Premium
You want to convert it to a MPEG 4 for YouTube
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gbpack Premium
Excellent ! Thank you.
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gbpack Premium
your link to the first video about RSS feed needs a password, or it did when I clicked on it. Also, I would love to see a training from you about all the steps and strategies for doing a pay per view campaign. I know nothing about spending money to advertize and would never do it for fear of getting charged to much because of my ignorance. I don't even know where you are referring to, to advertize. On You Tube? or else where?
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tas88 Premium
Looks like I will have to create a video on how to do the RSS feed because this link is protected now. I will also create a training on YouTube advertising.
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