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320x240? Are You Serious? Yes. We’re talking about internet bandwidths here and bit rates comfortable for people on dial-ups. If people want to see your video in HDV, you’re looking for another venue. What YouTube and others like it give you is easy access by a lot of people. Video quality is the trade you make. It’s a trade that’s been trending that way starting with the low-cost (and low-quality) VCD format being extremely popular in Asia, and more and more people watching movies on their laptops, iPods and other portable devices. At the moment, 320x240 is where a significant part of the viewing population is. Uploading Your Video After you’ve logged into YouTube, look at the top of the screen for My Account. Click on that, and then select Videos. From there, click on the button that says Upload Videos. (Figure 1) Enter a description for your video (Standard accounts are limited to 10 minutes or 100MB). This description will help people decide whether or not they want to see your video, so be as descriptive as possible. If you’re loading videos only for friends, Doug and Jimmy at the Zoo will probably be sufficient, but if you want people you don’t know to watch it, you’ll want to be more descriptive. Here you can also select options to make your video public or private and to allow people to comment, make video responses, rate your video, embed your video on web pages and blogs, syndicate it and make it playable on mobile phones. (Figure 2) Click Next and use the Browse button to find your video. (Figure 3) YouTube takes your uploaded video and converts it automagically to a flash animation – this may take several hours or just a few minutes. When your video is on the YouTube servers, you’ll see URLs you can send to people so they can see your video directly. You’ll also find the HTML code necessary to embed your video on a web page or blog. (Figure 4)
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