How to make a Youtube Video

pabloB · 10 Feb 2008 at 18:07

Hi there chaps.

Basically I want to collate a load of footage from my works football team and pop a soundtrack behind this and pop it on youtube and also pop it onto the network at work for everyone to see. We're trying to build a Sports and Social bit to the Intranet so it would good to have something like this.

The footage comes from my camera which makes AVI files.

Also what software am I looking in order to create a slow motion or a replay type thing - off course I've no ideas if this is even possible.

Off course if software is free then great but i'm not adverse to having to pay but freebies are priority off course.

Also if there are any decent tutorials people could point me to i'd appreciate it.

Cheers

Paul

FatRakoon · 11 Feb 2008 at 01:20

Try Windows Movie Maker?

If its not already on your PC then updates will probably get it for you.

Not a bad program to do such things.

pabloB · 11 Feb 2008 at 13:21

FatRakoon said:
Try Windows Movie Maker?

If its not already on your PC then updates will probably get it for you.

Not a bad program to do such things.

Cheers pal i'll give it a shot!

Anyone got any experience of making such a video etc etc??

FatRakoon · 11 Feb 2008 at 13:54

I look at YT but never really given much thought of actualyl uploading a video to them, but it looks easy enough.

As for the making of the videos, this is very easy and Widnows Movie maker, while not the best out there by a long way, does let you get into the basics vry quickly and easily and to be absolutely honest, since its already in your PC and its free, then why not use it?

The thing with uploading videos and indeed videos on the whole on the internet, is that they take up space and bandwidth, so in oder to get these down, you need to lose quality... Some videos I have seen on YT are so bad that they are not really worth watching, but also I have seen good quality videos too, that take so long to get, that they pause when you are tryign to watch them.

Fortunatly, Movie maker does let you output the finished video at a few different levels of quality... You need to experiment and see which ones you can get away with.

To be honest with you, it also depends on what you are plannign to put onto you tube, and different videos might get away with this type of compression, but the next video you do, might need another type in order to get the video as small as possible, but without sacrificing too much quality.