Sharing Videos with Your Peeps - I Must be Old School

April 28th, 2006
Written By: Adam Sussman

I guess I’ve fallen behind on the latest trends in technology. Last weekend I was helping my mother-in-law figure out how to share the video footage she shot of the family parting with her sister who lives in a different state.

I knew enough to tell her how to connect the Sony Camera to her USB port, set capture footage using Windows Movie Maker then burn it to a DVD. Well today I just read a quick blurb in my copy of Wired Magazine on how to “Shoot, Share and Spread” your own videos. Catchy title huh!

I was thinking this information sure would have been helpful to me last week so I thought it was worth posting.

The article first talks about how to shoot the footage. Wired recommends using a miniDV cam that can capture 720×480 pixels and it also talks about lighting, audio and editing. But since we already knew how to shoot the footage, the information on sharing it was more interesting to me.

The article goes on to say that before you are ready to share your footage you must shrink it down. They recommend using iMovie or Windows Movie Maker and exporting it to MPEG-4 compression. Additionally you should try to keep it fewer than 30 to 40 megabytes.

I guess I am still old school. I thought my mother-in-law had to burn the DVD or host her own website to hold the video footage. The article recommends YouTube or Ourmedia as a place to store your videos. Apparently YouTube is “totally idiot-proof”.

Once you have done this you are ready to email your friends and family with a fresh new link pointing to your video footage. You can also place some HTML code they give you on your own website, blog or Myspace profile.

For those that want to go viral, then you better “Spread It”. There are video directories out on the web such as Google and Video Bomb.

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2 Responses to “Sharing Videos with Your Peeps - I Must be Old School”

greg
April 29th, 2006 05:01
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not only can you use video as a way to share, but it a great way to lure visitors to your site. if you can get something humorous on video, it can really help to draw in the eyeballs.
MCaplan
April 29th, 2006 18:40
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You are sooooooooo knowledgable! A handy tool in my How-to arsenal for sure