Increasing Video Popularity With Thumbnail Images / YouTube Traffic

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website. There are many other features available for you to use when editing your videos, and

you may want to learn them at some point. Also, as we will discover in Chapter 8, it is easy to

outsource video production, if you don’t want to use this software at all.

Increasing Video Popularity With Thumbnail Images

YouTube thumbnail images are currently created from a frame at the middle of your video. That means, if you

video is 2 minutes and 22 seconds long, the picture thumbnail for your video would be take from about the 1

minute, 11 second mark. A good thumbnail image can increase the amount of viewers you get from video

search. Therefore, if you want to control the thumbnail image (which may be useful to get more YouTube visitors

to click on your video) you may want to insert a static image halfway through your video.

YouTube has received many requests to allow users to pick their own thumbnail image for each video, so

hopefully in the future you will be able to choose the image yourself. But until that time, the only way to pick

your own is to place an image for the thumbnai l at the halfway mark of the video.

Saving Your Video As A “.MOV" File:

The last step is to save your project as a .mov file. You simply click save to my computer and

the software will create a .mov file (it will take anywhere from 2 minutes to an hour depending

on the file size). YouTube accepts many file types. YouTube accepts video files from most

digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file

formats. If you create a video with a file type that YouTube doesn’t accept, you can usually

find a utility online to convert your video from one type to another.