Where to Host Your Videos
Published January 3, 2012 | 
Sorry, it’s been a while since we posted. We hope you and yours had a safe and happy holiday and took lots of videos. If you are looking for a place to present your videos to the world there are several choices out there. You will have to explore each of them on your own because each of them presents different requirements, load limits, etc. But the main thing we are all looking for is a FREE or very inexpensive place to present your great videos to the world.
Each of these websites are considered FREE:
http://www.facebook.com – Free upload of your videos that you and your friends can view
The video is under 1024 MB and under 20 minutes
The video was made by you or your friends.
You or one of your friends appears in the video.
http://vimeo.com/
500MB per week
Create Groups and Channels
HD uploading
Easy embed features
Robust privacy controls
http://www.vidmeup.com/about
Add your own domain
Upload 750 MB
Customize your pages
HTML5 Video Support
YouTube – of Course
Pretty liberal limits as to size and type of video, HD video limited to 20 minutes
Free to Sign Up and May earn some bucks with your video.
Very Strict about copyright stuff so read the rules before uploading videos
You must be very careful about including people in your video without their permission and using music that you don’t own the rights to or have permission to use. There are some Royalty Free music out there to use but be careful and read the fine print when downloading their music from their site. One of them that you might want to check out is Ricks Royalty Music Library of music he created himself and offers free to use with the provision that you site a credit in your project. http://Music4YourVids.co.uk
If you have a larger project you might have to get your own domain that allows unlimited diskspace and a large bandwidth. You can check out Godaddy for inexpensive domain and hosting solution with 99% uptime and the best customer service department I have ever worked with.
My Video is Ready – Now What?
Published May 19, 2010 | You have edited your movie and it is what you want now what do I need to do? Once you are satisfied with how your movie looks and sounds then all you have to decide is what format you want to move it to. Whether you want it burned to a DVD or even a Video CD (depending on the size and whether your player will play the disk). Video CDs only hold about 20 to 30 minutes of video and can only be played on players that accept the VCD format. DVDs on the other hand can handle up to 2 hours of video and can be played on any of today’s DVD players.
There are a variety of different software packages that can handle making a DVD or VCD and are usually included on your PC or Apple Machine that has a DVD Burner. You should buy a package or spindle of DVDs to practice with and to make copies of your finished products. Remember to label your DVD with the name of the movie and date so you can distinguish it from the others you have made. A Permanent Marker is best for this type of thing. You can buy DVD labels that stick to your disk but they require a printer and ink. You will also need a cover for your DVD such as a plastic CD Case or DVD box. Nothing fancy is needed just something to keep your disk from being scratched.
To get your video up on a website you have to have a software package that will compress the video into internet acceptable format. Facebook, myspace and youtube all have their own requirements for uploading a video you will need to check with them on the file type they require and the file size limits.
Now if you want to upload a video to your own domain you will probably need to convert you movie to what is called Flash Movie. There is some inexpensive software that convert most video files into a flash movie and produce the files you need to include when uploading it to a page. More on that in another post.
Cheers!
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