Youtube - ideas and comments and questions...

[beenthere]

If a video has music that isn't part of the video (group singing, etc. ), I turn the sound off. Maybe just me.  :

[DouginUtah]

I tried BearShare  ******DO NOT TRY BEARSHARE!!!!!!!!! I can't get rid of it! Made a home for it's self and won't go away.

Bill,

Have you tried to get rid of BearShare using www.revouninstaller.com ? Use the free version.

[pigman]

   -Zoom and pan (move) slower than you think you should. Your audience will thank you ;-)
   -If you do do handheld video, hold the camera steady, relax your body, and only slowly move the camera.

Mooney, I wish you would train most of the TV show camera people. They move the camera fast and zoom in and out so fast it makes me dizzy. :(

[AvT]

Thanks for the help.  I've not followed the link yet but sometime in the night when I can't sleep...

I have noted that I'm getting some e-mail notices from YouTube - people friending on and such. 

Then I get a message from YouTube advising me that I could advertize.  I never thought of that and don't know if I want to. 

Anyone else doing this?

About the advertizing.  I'm not doing it but i have a relative that made millions with google ads.  I don't think it is as lucrative anymore but he got in on the ground floor and his website gets billions of page views a month and that is the key. traffic is the key. My son makes websites for fun so he got a google ads account and put some ads on his website.  to try it out i went to the site and clicked on three of his ads.  for those three clicks he got 45 cents. If I was making videos i would try the ads thing.  It is really easy to set up.  The ads will show up on your videos and will be relavent to the words you use in your descriptions and and tag words.  Dont get too excited about making money at it because you won't until you get hundreds of thousands of views. as for music like jeff says don't use it unless you own rights to it.  If you use the itunes music they will place ads on your video.  Your narration is good i would say.  If you get a fiddle and play turkey in the straw i believe you could use it on your video.  I'm not sure but i don't think any one owns the rights to some of those old country songs.  If you get the ads on your videos ( hope you try for the fun of it) don't click on them yourself  THYE WILL GET MAD AND TAKE YOUR ACCOUNT AWAY.  anyway that is all i know about the whole deal.  Jeff must know all bout this stuff too.

[AvT]

Then I get a message from YouTube advising me that I could advertize.  I never thought of that and don't know if I want to. 

Anyone else doing this?

Ooops, sorry, I misread this before I wrote that last essay up there.  I thought you meant youtube was asking if you wanted ads placed on your videos.  Well it just so happens you could place ads on other peoples videos with the same program but you have to pay of course.  I'm not sure how helpful it would be for you to advertize on youtube because im not too sure if they can target your ads to just people in your area.  Wouldnt be much good to you paying for advertizing in New Zealand.

Since I have never done the adsense thing I thought I would try and I was succsessful in getting an account today.  I wasnt able to get ads on youtube yet as they decide if your videos are good enough to place ads on.  I got a blog account with google to start my new adventure.  I have photos and videos and ads there if you guys want to see. To go see and yes I never know what to name all these accounts I have

http://albertasweats.blogspot.com/

[Bibbyman]

No.  You were right the first time.  They wanted to know if I wanted to allow ads on my videos.  I never thought about placing our ads on our videos or anyone else's.

My videos have had 2100 views since I put the first one up in early June.  I don't know if that's a little or a lot.  Mary ask, "How many of them where you?".  Well some.  We can get YouTube on the TV through our Roku converter box so I fire new ones up to show her.

Also, I've had some subscribers that look to me like spam so I've knocked them off.  What's up with that?

I added fade to the latest video.  Also had one long sequence of the back of a man talking to the crowd so I just found a good spot and made a snapshot and put a caption. You couldn't hear what he was saying anyway.

[AvT]

I saw that last video.  It is good as usual, but I was worried about the crowd so close to the buncher and skidder.

2000+ views isn't bad but if you had ads showing on your videos it wouldn't generate much money.  What seems to generate lots of traffic is the kids getting their girlfriend running around on the beach in her bikini.  they tend to get hundreds of thousands of views in a very short time.  I believe some of those kids make a living from the ads.  Too bad we are so old Bibby, we could have some fun with this.  I don't know any women that should be wearing bikinis any more that could help me cut lumber or Firewood on camera.  Oh well, maybe in my next life

[Bibbyman]

It wasn't my motive in any case to make money off of this.

I do see if I'm going to shot event videos like this I need something like a monopod.   The shots of the people fishing were about a 1/4 mile across the lake.  I cut out a lot of the wobble parts. I shot about 40 minutes and edited it down to something like 7.   I wanted to get a little of each machine and each man talking.  I'll post more on the content of the event in a post I started in the "alternative" section.

[Bibbyman]

Is there a way in the free version of Movie Maker software to keep the audio part of a video but replace the video picture with other video or a picture?  What I'd like to do is shot a video of me telling a whole story and maybe demoing some things but then cutting to video or photos as needed.

[Mooney]

Might depend on your version of Movie Maker, but you should be able to drag your video file into the second audio track, which will give you an independent audio version to work with. Then also drag your video into the video track.

If that works, you'll have your video, and then a duplicate of the audio in the second track. Now you can cut up your video file and insert photos and other videos as you please. You will want to mute (right click) the video track that you're cutting up, before you begin editing it, that way all you hear is the secondary, uncut audio track.

Hopefully that works for you?! 

[Bibbyman]

 

I think I know what you're saying but it'll take some time to study that out.

Thanks a bunch.  BTW,   I have the free download version.

I looked on B&N for Movie Maker for Dummies.  I think they wanted something like $220.00 for a copy.  Used ones they want something like $40.00.  Do you know of any other reasonable priced documentation for people starting out?

[Mooney]

http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/moviemaker/a/mov_mak_beg.htm

This article gives a bunch of links to tutorials to learn how to do stuff in movie maker. Seems pretty helpful! I would try these before spending that kind of money 

[Mooseherder]

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[Bibbyman]

http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/moviemaker/a/mov_mak_beg.htm

This article gives a bunch of links to tutorials to learn how to do stuff in movie maker. Seems pretty helpful! I would try these before spending that kind of money 

Thanks for the link.  I'll have to do some reading.   :P
 
Geeeesss, I'm tired of learning things.    :

[Larry]

I've been thinking about making some more video's.  The camera I like to use is a old Fuji FinePix.  It has all the features of a new one along with big buttons.  I also know how to operate it.  The handicap is the small XD memory card.  Figured I could correct that...stopped by Office Max and the salesman told me XD cards are obsolete and discontinued.  I would have to order one...but I looked down and there was one left on the hangar.  In business now with a 2 GB card...I can make a feature length movie.

We do have two newer camera's with big SD cards but the buttons don't fit my fingers at all.  They must be making the new camera's for midgets.

And thanks for the link Mooney...I was wondering how to dub over audio.  I'm not even sure if that is the right term.

[Bibbyman]

Two more YouTube questions:

1)  How do you replace a video that you've uploaded?   

I had one I wanted to make a small change to and did in my Movie Maker project.  I filled over the old project and then generated a new WMV file of the same name I had already uploaded to YouTube.  When I went to upload it,  it just started uploading like it was a new video.  I expected it to ask if I wanted to replace the old one.  I really don't want to delete the old one and upload a new one because I've already put the link here on the Forum.  If I delete the old one, then the link would be no good.

2) I'm having a struggle getting a link from YouTube that will post on the Forum and display.  I go to the "share" option and it puts a link string of text in the text box but there is something odd about that string.   Like this...

http://youtu.be/hyNh39oUnvE

I go to "show options" and then check "long link" to get the one that previews on the Forum.

xhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyNh39oUnvE  (with x in front so you can read it).

Is there a better way?

[Jeff]

The forum is not coded to use the share link, you need to use the regular page url for the video to embed.

You can not replace a video on youtube. You can only upload a new one and delete the old one. That becomes a problem if you posted the link somewhere because the new video gets a new URL.

[Jeff]

When I get time, I'll revamp the forum coding for yourtube to make the share links auto embed.

[Bibbyman]

http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/moviemaker/a/mov_mak_beg.htm

This article gives a bunch of links to tutorials to learn how to do stuff in movie maker. Seems pretty helpful! I would try these before spending that kind of money 

Well,  I've spent some time reading and watching the tutorial videos, etc.  And I got back on to Movie maker and tried to do some of the things I saw.  But...  I think my free version of Movie Maker does not have those features.  I can't get to show a separate audio track, for example.  I can't get it to do some of the edit stuff I saw in the instruction videos.  So...   I guess they want me to buy the full feature version of be happy with the simple version.  I think for now I'll be happy with the free version.

[Jeff]

I didn't know there was a pay version. In fact, I'm pretty sure there isn't.

[Bibbyman]

Ah-ha!  

There looks to be two different Windows Movie Makers.  I have one downloaded to a Windows Vista (OS) PC that is "Movie Maker".  But I can't get it to display the video.  This PC has some screwy things going on.  I think some of the video drivers are missing or not installed right.  

So I downloaded what I thought was Movie Maker on Mary's new PC with Windows 7.  It works and is what I've used to edit the videos that I've uploaded.  The Icon looks the same but the screen format is much different than what's on the Windows Vista PC.   It's Windows "Live" Movie Maker.  It does not have nearly the features as "Movie Maker".   I can't get it to display a timeline or a audio track like I can on the Vista PC (that is not working).

Maybe I need to see if I can get a copy of Windows "Movie Maker" (without the "live" part) on Mary's PC.

Don't you just love Windows!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Movie_Maker

[DouginUtah]

Bibby,

This might be what you are looking for. It is not the newer 'live' version. For Vista, which I suspect will also run on Windows 7.

http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Movie-Maker-Windows-Vista/3000-13631_4-10729231.html?tag=mncol;1

[Bibbyman]

Bibby,

This might be what you are looking for. It is not the newer 'live' version. For Vista, which I suspect will also run on Windows 7.

http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Movie-Maker-Windows-Vista/3000-13631_4-10729231.html?tag=mncol;1

Thanks...  I looked at it.  But I'm real leery about downloading free software from some place not Microsoft.   I did that once with some free CAD software and got plagued with popups and SPAM until I was able to kill it off.  Free always has a price.

I'll look on the Microsoft download site and see if I can get the non-"live" version.

I saw some movie editing software at Wal-Mart for $49.00.  I can't remember the name.  Are there any other products out there for the home user that someone can recommend?

[DouginUtah]

I'd trust CNet more than I'd trust Microsoft.  :  Look at how many downloaded it just last week.

[bedway]

Has anyone else had any experience with the revouninstaller free download? I use ccleaner and the usual other programs but was wondering if its use would be beneficial?