All About Making Videos Info Blog

When you are creating a video whether you are using a digital camera, a video phone or a camcorder you need to decide on where the video will eventually end up. There are a wide variety of video types and you have to determine where you want your video to be shown. If you want to create a DVD, depending on your editing software you can use a video with .avi, .mpeg. or .wmv extensions and the software will convert it to DVD format before it burns the video onto a dvd. Each of these types have their advantages and disadvantages. For instance, .avi is a Audio Video Interweave file is a format from Microsoft. It can be played using Windows Media Player or Quicktime. The files have a tendency to be fairly large the more minutes of video you have. Whereas the MPEG is video format standardized by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG); compressed using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 compression; often used for creating movies that are distributed over the Internet. And finally the WMV is Video file based on the Microsoft Advanced Systems Format (ASF) container format and compressed with Windows Media compression. You have to be careful when saving your movie to wmv as it might not be convertible to other more popular movie types.

Now Facebook does all the converting for you and according to their help sections:

Facebook supports almost all video file types. Here’s the complete list:

3g2 (Mobile Video)
3gp (Mobile Video)
3gpp (Mobile Video)
asf (Windows Media Video)
avi (AVI Video)
dat (MPEG Video)
divx (DIVX Video)
dv (DV Video)
f4v (Flash Video)
flv (Flash Video)
m2ts (M2TS Video)
m4v (MPEG-4 Video)
mkv (Matroska Format)
mod (MOD Video)
mov (QuickTime Movie)
mp4 (MPEG-4 Video)
mpe (MPEG Video)
mpeg (MPEG Video)
mpeg4 (MPEG-4 Video)
mpg (MPEG Video)
mts (AVCHD Video)
nsv (Nullsoft Video)
ogm (Ogg Media Format)
ogv (Ogg Video Format)
qt (QuickTime Movie)
tod (TOD Video)
ts (MPEG Transport Stream)
vob (DVD Video)
wmv (Windows Media Video)

The aspect ratio of the video has to be between 9×16 and 16×9, and the video cannot exceed the file size or length that the upload page suggests. No more than 1024MB and 20 minutes…

Here’s a list of some well-known formats that YouTube supports:

WebM files – Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codecs
.MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files – Typically supporting h264, 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
.FLV – Adobe-FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio

Videos can be…
High Definition
Up to 2 GB in size.
Up to 15 minutes in length

Now if you want do add a video to your own site your best bet is to get a flash video converter such as Free Video to Flash Program offered by : http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/index.htm I use this program to convert my Family Reunion Video to flash. It gives you the code to place in your webpage all you have to do is upload the video to your website into a folder and paste the code into the page or post. You may have to edit where the video is held. The best thing is to create a folder called video or a folder for each video that you upload. For instance, I named a folder FamilyReunionVideo2006 and uploaded the required files into that folder and edited the html code to reflect that change.