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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition
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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

by Matthew MacDonald
May 2011
Beginner
584 pages
17h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Uploading Your Videos to YouTube

Before YouTube hit the scene, video clips hadn’t really taken off on the Web. They were all-around inconvenient: slow to download, with playback often jerky and sporadic. But today the landscape has shifted. Web connections are faster and browser plug-ins that support movie playback (like Flash and Silverlight) are more common. Ordinary people own all sorts of digital video gadgets that can shoot short movies, from true video cameras to digital cameras, cellphones, and webcams. Popular clips rocket around the world, going from unknown to Internet sensation in a matter of hours. Family members, adventurers, and wannabe political commentators all regularly use video to keep in touch, show their skills, and dish the dirt.

YouTube (www.youtube.com) is at the forefront of this revolution. Despite being a relative web newcomer (YouTube was created in 2005), it currently ranks as the world’s third most-popular site (behind Google and Facebook). And YouTube’s range of content is staggering. With a quick search, you can turn up both amateur and professional content, including funny home videos, product reviews and announcements, homemade music videos, clips from movies and television shows, and ordinary people spouting off on just about any topic (a trend called video blogging).

If you’re still considering options for putting your video online, there are three great reasons to use YouTube:

  • It performs well. YouTube uses Flash to ensure that virtually all browsers ...

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