Chapter 7: Uploading Videos / YouTube Traffic

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Chapter 7: Uploading Videos

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Now that you have created your video, it is time for the easy part…uploading your video to

YouTube. To upload a video, you will need to have a free YouTube account.

What video file formats can I upload.

YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the

.WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats.

What's the best format to upload for high quality.

YouTube recommends the following settings:

* MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format

* 320x240 resolution

* MP3 audio

* 30 frames per second

MPEG (MPG)

YouTube recommends MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) with MP3 audio. This option probably provides

the best compromise between quality and file size. Other versions of MPEG are also

acceptable.

AVI

This is the default format used by many editing programs. It provides excellent picture quality

but file sizes are large. This can be a good option for short videos.

*On a sidenote, your videos should

be short, if you have trouble getting around the 100meg limit you can find

software on to convert Mov to Mpeg.

MOV, WMV & Others

These are perfectly acceptable, but may not provide the same quality or small file sizes as

MPEG4. YouTube simply takes any video you upload and converts it to the FLV format,

which is the format for the Flash Video Player that YouTube uses.

Movie Length And File Size:

Movies must be under 10 minutes, under 100 megabytes in file size. This should not be a

problem, as most effective promotional videos are short. However, if you plan on doing some

sort of promotion that requires long videos with large file sizes, you can get around the 10