Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
publishing has never been so easy
This footage was filmed in the classroom, edited with the YouTube video online editor and published within 10 minutes!
OK it's not going to make us money but the concept was important ...
OK it's not going to make us money but the concept was important ...
Monday, April 11, 2011
What is YouTube?
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.
The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, BBC, Vevo, Hulu and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 and older. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, BBC, Vevo, Hulu and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 and older. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
Video technology
Playback
Viewing YouTube videos on a personal computer requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to be installed in the browser. The Adobe Flash Player plug-in is one of the most common pieces of software installed on personal computers and accounts for almost 75% of online video material.
Uploading
Videos uploaded to YouTube by standard account holders are limited to 15 minutes in duration. When YouTube was launched in 2005, it was possible to upload longer videos, but a ten-minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films. The 10-minute limit was increased to 15 minutes in July 2010.
Partner accounts are permitted to upload longer videos, subject to acceptance by YouTube. File size is limited to 2 GB for uploads from YouTube web page, and to 20 GB if Java-based Advanced Uploader is used. In December 2010, YouTube announced that holders of standard accounts would be allowed to upload videos of unlimited length, provided that they have a good history of following the site's Community Guidelines and policy on copyright. YouTube accepts videos uploaded in most container formats, including .AVI, .MKV, .MOV, .MP4, DivX, .FLV, and .ogg and .ogv. These include video formats such as MPEG-4, MPEG, VOB, and .WMV. It also supports 3GP, allowing videos to be uploaded from mobile phones. Videos with progressive scanning or interlaced scanning can be uploaded, but for the best video quality, YouTube prefers interlaced videos to be deinterlaced prior to uploading. All the video formats on YouTube use progressive scanning.
What are the benefits?
Content accessibility
One of the key features of YouTube is the ability of users to view its videos on web pages outside the site. Each YouTube video is accompanied by a piece of HTML, which can be used to embed it on a page outside the YouTube website. This functionality is often used to embed YouTube videos in social networking pages and blogs. Embedding, as well as ranking and commenting, can be disabled by the video owner.
YouTube does not usually offer a download link for its videos, and intends for them to be viewed through its website interface. A small number of videos, such as the weekly addresses by President Barack Obama, can be downloaded as MP4 files. Numerous third-party web sites, applications and browser plug-ins allow users to download YouTube videos. In February 2009, YouTube announced a test service, allowing some partners to offer video downloads for free or for a fee paid through Google Checkout.
Platforms
Some smartphones are capable of accessing YouTube videos, dependent on the provider and the data plan. YouTube Mobile was launched in June 2007, and uses RTSP streaming for the video. Not all of YouTube's videos are available on the mobile version of the site.
Since June 2007, YouTube's videos have been available for viewing on a range of Apple products. This required YouTube's content to be transcoded into Apple's preferred video standard, H.264, a process that took several months. YouTube videos can be viewed on devices including Apple TV, iPod Touch and the iPhone. A TiVo service update in July 2008 allowed the system to search and play YouTube videos. In January 2009, YouTube launched "YouTube for TV", a version of the website tailored for set-top boxes and other TV-based media devices with web browsers, initially allowing its videos to be viewed on the PlayStation 3 and Wii video game consoles. In June 2009, YouTube XL was introduced, which has a simplified interface designed for viewing on a standard television screen.
Who can't visit YouTube?
- As of December 2010, YouTube is blocked in the People's Republic of China
- Morocco shut down access to YouTube in 2008.
- Thailand blocked YouTube between 2006 and 2007 due to offensive videos relating to King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
- Turkey blocked access to YouTube between 2008 and 2010 after controversy over videos deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The block was lifted briefly but reimposed in November 2010.
- On December 3, 2006, Iran temporarily blocked access to YouTube, along with several other sites, after declaring them as violating social and moral codes of conduct. The YouTube block came after a video was posted online that appeared to show an Iranian soap opera star having sex. The block was later lifted and then reinstated after Iran's 2009 presidential election.
- On February 23, 2008, Pakistan blocked YouTube because of "offensive material" towards the Islamic faith, including display of the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. This led to a near global blackout of the YouTube site for around two hours, as the Pakistani block was inadvertently transferred to other countries. Pakistan lifted its block on February 26, 2008. Many Pakistanis circumvented the three-day block by using virtual private network software. In May 2010, following the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, Pakistan again blocked access to YouTube, citing "growing sacrilegious content".
- On January 24, 2010, Libya blocked access to YouTube after it featured videos of demonstrations in the Libyan city of Benghazi by families of detainees who were killed in Abu Salim prison in 1996, and videos of family members of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi at parties. The blocking was criticized by Human Rights Watch.
- Some schools have blocked access to YouTube, citing the inability to determine what sort of video material might be accessed by students
Uploading to YouTube
Usually you would take some video, download it onto your computer and maybe edit it to be just how you want it before uploading.
This workshop is only looking at how to upload, it is not a workshop on video editing.
Uploading from a computer
Google instructions
Uploading from an iphone (sorry I can't cover all smart phone technology!)
You can also select to autoshare any YouTube video you upload to social networking sites making life even simpler for you to get your content out there.
This workshop is only looking at how to upload, it is not a workshop on video editing.
Uploading from a computer
Google instructions
Uploading from an iphone (sorry I can't cover all smart phone technology!)
You can also select to autoshare any YouTube video you upload to social networking sites making life even simpler for you to get your content out there.
Embedding a YouTube video
Any time you see a YouTube video you will notice there is a button underneath that says SHARE
Clicking on this will give you the option of a tiny URL type link that you can copy and paste into a medium like twitter, onto a blog or anywhere really.
You also receive an option to email the video but you must have a google or YouTube account.
Here is an example of some embedded YouTube video
Clicking on this will give you the option of a tiny URL type link that you can copy and paste into a medium like twitter, onto a blog or anywhere really.
You also receive an option to email the video but you must have a google or YouTube account.
Here is an example of some embedded YouTube video
Sharing a YouTube video
Any time you see a YouTube video you will notice there is a button underneath that says SHARE
Clicking on this will give you the option of a tiny URL type link that you can copy and paste into a medium like twitter, onto a blog or anywhere really.
You also receive an option to email the video but you must have a google or YouTube account.
You don't need a google account, but if you have one you can link this to your YouTube account.
You can then use YouTube to actually send a link to the video.
You can also share directly to social networking media such as FaceBook or Twitter, but there is a show more link if you want to share it somewhere else.
The video will become embedded in your social networking page.
If you want to embed the video yourself into a web page of your own you can click on EMBED
YouTube will supply you with the HTML code that you can copy and paste. It will look something very much like the following code:
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iWzwLGJ0BIo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Clicking on this will give you the option of a tiny URL type link that you can copy and paste into a medium like twitter, onto a blog or anywhere really.
You also receive an option to email the video but you must have a google or YouTube account.
You don't need a google account, but if you have one you can link this to your YouTube account.
You can then use YouTube to actually send a link to the video.
You can also share directly to social networking media such as FaceBook or Twitter, but there is a show more link if you want to share it somewhere else.
The video will become embedded in your social networking page.
If you want to embed the video yourself into a web page of your own you can click on EMBED
YouTube will supply you with the HTML code that you can copy and paste. It will look something very much like the following code:
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iWzwLGJ0BIo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Tips for good usage
This site gives some very sensible and practical tips for best practice on YouTube more from a behind the scenes perspective rather than video content or editing.
Some free apps from YouTube
YouTube also supply some online video creation tools that you could try out.
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