2010年10月10日星期日

YouTube Uploading Tips for Video Editing Tools on Apple

If your video uploaded to YouTube is in high definition, YouTube will offers the option to view the video in high definition, such as 1080p resolution. Online video in high definition is good for both uploader and YouTube, and will be more and more popular in the future.

*You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download normal YouTube videos to your computer. The paid version of Leawo YouTube Downloader can download high definition videos from YouTube.*

Some of the users may have these questions: How to upload videos in high definition to YouTube? How to use video editing tools to optimize the video for uploading to YouTube?

Below tips are for the Apple users as they use the video editing tools for YouTube uploads.

If you're a Quicktime Pro, Finalcut Pro, or iMovies user, check out the following tips on how to export your video files and get the best results out of uploading to YouTube and the transcoding of your files.

* iMovie:
File -> Export -> Compress movie for: Expert Settings -> Share -> Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie -> Options
* Finalcut Pro:
File -> Export -> Using Quicktime Conversion -> Options
* QuickTime Pro:
File -> Export -> Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie -> Options

In the Options box:

1. In the Video section set the following parameters:
* Compression Type: H.264
* Frame Rate: 30
* Data Rate: Automatic
(if you choose to restrict the Data Rate, make sure to choose the highest value acceptable to you - more bits = better quality)
* Key Frames: Automatic
* Frame Reording: Unchecked

2. In the Video section click "Size":
Dimensions: Set this to the original size of your video (Note: HD resolutions preferred- 1280x720 or 1920x1080)

3. In the "Prepare for internet Streaming" section:
Select the "Prepare for internet Streaming" and choose "Fast Start" from the drop-down menu.


4. In the Audio section, make sure that the audio codec is AAC. Always use AAC as the preferred audio codec.

5. Once you've made all of these selections, click the "OK" button to save your preferences.

6. Add a title to the video file and click the "Save" button to save your edited version of your movie. Your project will then be exported and be ready to upload to YouTube.

Note:
The tips in green are important. Please make sure you format your files accordingly.

Source is YouTube World.

2010年10月9日星期六

How to Download Google Videos and Convert to AVI

This question actually involves two aspects: download Google videos from video.google.com first and then convert them to AVI format.

The tutorial below will take Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and Leawo Free FLV Converter for example to show you how to download Google videos and convert downloaded Google videos to AVI. Leawo Free YouTube Downloader can download Google Videos, videos from YouTube, and other video sharing websites. And Leawo Free FLV Converter can convert those downloaded Google videos to other video formats like AVI and many other more.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downlaoder, type video.google.com in the address bar.

Step 2: Search and choose one Google video to play. A monitor message prompt from the right bottom corner of screen will remind users that a specific video has been found, ignore it or choose "Don't Ask Me Again" to close this prompt dialog.

Tips: you can also enter the video key words in the searching bar, and choose the target video site where the searching engine is going to perform the video search.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the downloading process of the selected Google video and watch it in the built-in FLV player at the same time.

Step 4: When the downloading completes, indicated by a yellow smiley, click "Download" button to save the downloaded Google video to the appointed folder on your PC. A green tick will appear when the saving process is finished.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to convert the downloaded Google video to AVI if you want the format conversion.

Step 6: Leawo Free FLV Converter will be invoked now. Select AVI as the target video format and click the green button to convert Google video to AVI immediately.

Reshipment from YouTube World.

2010年10月8日星期五

YouTube Rentals Beta - How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Two)


The YouTube Rentals Beta I'm going to introduce is a pay-to-view model on YouTube. It provides content owners a new way to generate revenue from their home-made videos on the site. YouTube Rentals allows partners the flexibility to benefit from a variety of videos, complete control over their video content and pioneering use of the world's largest online video community.

(Want to download videos from YouTube and all other video sites? Just use
Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.)

Currently, the YouTube Rentals Beta service is available only to the content owners in the US.

Want your content on YouTube be available for people to rent? You can
Apply Now.

Create the best rental experience

From the YouTube Rentals service, partners can get unprecedented flexibility and control over monetization, marketing, and distribution for online video.

  • Full control of your rights, dissemination of time, rental prices and lease.
  • You can choose to provide some content via the ad-supported model or make some free content for promotional purposes, to maximize your control over profit, marketing and distribution strategies.
  • Try using different prices, service time and the lease to improve the attractiveness of a specific video.
  • You can grow your audience on YouTube, learn what they like to watch, and tailor your content offering by tracking view trends.

Expand your audience and profit

If you are a YouTube partner, you will be able to benefit from this new revenue opportunities, and expand your influence via the world's largest online video community.

  • Learn a new way to distribute and earn profit from your online content. Create a new revenue stream by making video archived, offline video, or new videos available for rent online.
  • To communicate directly with your audience, announce new uploaded content or offline published content.
  • Exposure to a large audience. YouTube is the largest online video site and the third largest site in the world. (comScore,2009)

If you are already a YouTube partner and still have a question, you can go to the
YouTube Rental Support page.

YouTube Rentals Beta - How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Two)
is over. In the next part, I will introduce how to become a YouTube partner.

Source is YouTube World.

2010年9月30日星期四

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) - Benefits of YouTube Partner

If you have quality original videos and expanding audience on YouTube, you can apply for a YouTube partner to earn money from the plan.

Benefits of YouTube partner
YouTube is the biggest video sharing website in the world. Its traffic is much more than its competitors. (
Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a perfect tool to download and convert videos from YouTube and other websites, click here to read its manual.)

Being a YouTube partner has the following benefits listed below:

1. Revenue

As a YouTube partner, you will be able to enjoy opportunities to create revenue.

  • Earn money from the embedded advertisement on your video and advertisement beside your video.

  • Share income from your video rental.

  • Gain the opportunies of co-marketing and branded entertainment with top brand advertiser.

  • Use your own marketing channel to sell your own advertisement
2. Video statistics analytics

Use YouTube's Insight analytics tools to optimize your existing content and create more targeted content to satisfy your audience and advertisers.

  • Learn more characteristics of your audience and what they are watching.

  • Learn more about how your audience find your video.

  • Learn more about how are you and your competitors doing in terms of competition.

  • Learn what content you have is the most popular & engaging.

  • Tells you where your video is really successful, and where it is not good enough at a video level.

3. Protection

YouTube can protect both of your video content and brand.

  • Protects the integrity of your brand through the branded channel options available only to partners.

  • In addition, YouTube offers many Content Management tools for copyright protection that anyone may use, regardless of whether they are in a partnership with YouTube.

  • Rental of your videos are delivered via secure streaming way, to avoid downloading by other people.

4. Video quality

YouTube will process your uploaded video in reliable way, and display them on YouTube at the highest resolution as far as possible.

  • To those videos which are hot and attractive, YouTube will offer HD version accordingly.

  • Offers aspect ration of 16:9 for video players.

  • Join the ranks of YouTube's other high-quality video providers already in the Partner Program.

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) is over. In the next part, I'm going to tell you the
YouTube video rental plan and how to become a YouTube partner.

Source is YouTube World.

2010年9月28日星期二

How to Download Online Videos

If the online video you come across is played with an Adobe Flash Player, then you may use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download it off to your computer! Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a free all-in-one video downloader which can download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion and other video sharing websites as long as they are played with Adobe Flash Player.

Suppose you are going to download videos with this video downloader, the easiest way is to drag the YouTube video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and then the video downloader will begin the downloading automatically.

Of course, you can also type the URL in the program address bar, this applies to all the video sites, for example, Google Video. Browse videos in its built-in FLV player with high speed, then download them to your appointed folder within just a click, and convert them directly to the format you want for your phone and portable media player.

The tutorial below will take YouTube and Google Video respectively for example to show how to free download video.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, click settings icon, choose "Show hover window on program startup" in "General" tab from the pop-up window.

Step 2: Browse YouTube videos in IE or any browser, choose the one you want to download, and then drag the selected video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the video downloading progress. When the downloading completes, double click the downloaded video, you could play it with the built-in player, or click "Download" button to save the downloaded video to your PC.

Step 4: For downloading Google video and other online videos, type the URL in the address bar and choose one Google video to play. Then repeat the Step 3 shown above.

Supported video / audio formats for uploading to YouTube

YouTube accepts a wide range of video formats uploaded by users. The below video formats are all accepted by YouTube. Some of them have the best visual effect on YouTube. You can take a look at them and tune your video formats for YouTube.

List of some well-known formats which YouTube supports:

WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
.MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (typically supporting h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
.AVI (Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
.MPEGPS (Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
.WMV
.MP4
.FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)

YouTube accepts all of the above video formats uploaded from users. To most users, we find that the below video settings have the best visual effect:
Video format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 recommended
Aspect ratio: Original screen aspect ration without top or bottom black border, for example, 4:3, 16:9
Resolution: 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) Recommended
Audio format: MP3 or AAC Recommended
FPS (Frame per second): 30
Video length limit: 15 minutes (2 to 3 minutes recommended)
Video size limit: 1 GB

Tips:
a. If you think your video won't be accepted by YouTube, you can convert it to video format MPEG4 with audio format MP3 to get the best visual effect.

b. To convert any video format to the 'YouTube supported video formats', you can use some free or paid video converter. Good Freeware for this purpose are FormatFactory or FFMPEG. The former is graphic user interface, while the latter is command line user interface.

c. By default, Windows Movie Maker will save your video item as . MSWMM file. MSWMM is project file, which is not accepted by YouTube on uploading. To upload your Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube, please choose 'save it to my computer' option to save your video project as an accepted video format, and then you can upload the saved video to YouTube.

d. To download videos from YouTube, you can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, which is free and clean.

Source is YouTube World.

2010年6月12日星期六

waka waka - Shakira's song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

Are you ready to the imminent 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa? Because this great quadrennial worldwide football game is coming today on Jun. 11, 2010!

The World Cup theme song - waka waka (This Time For Africa), is created and sang by Shakira, a famous Colombia Latin singer. Waka waka is a verb in the language of Creole in Africa, its meaning is "flame, shine, warmly burn". Added the the South Africa's guitar solo background music with rhythm , this song has a strong flavor of Africa. Shakira will performance this song together with South Africa's local band Freshlyground on this World Cup closing ceremony.

As the World Cup theme song singer, the Latin singing queen Shakira said, "African music has the power of inspiring, and be reckoned in the global popular culture. I'm very proud that waka waka (This Time For Africa) is chosen to be the theme song of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. FIFA World Cup is a worldwide game; it closely links together people from different countries, different races and different area, which is what I want to express in this song." At the same time, she is very happy to cooperate with the most famous band in South Africa - Freshlyground.

Below is the music video by Shakira featuring Freshlyground performing Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM) Song). (C) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment on YouTube. You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download this music video to your computer hard disk.

Source is
http://youtubeking10.blogspot.com/2010/06/waka-waka-shakiras-song-for-2010-fifa.html