Creating And Uploading Your Videos
When you have all of the equipment you need to make your video posts then you are ready to get started. Pick out a location that is interesting and clean! No one wants to see a messy room as a background. If you are more comfortable making a video using a plain background hang a sold color sheet or piece of fabric behind you since that is more interesting than a beige or white wall. Create a short video clip for your first video blog post and upload it to your computer.
Use your video editing software to make changes to your video. Enhance the quality of your video by making colors more video, increasing the focus, or even changing your color video to black and white. Add any affects that you feel would be useful such as a fade in or out and even music. Also use text affects to insert the domain name of your website and/or your logo so that if your video is shared or distributed later viewers will always know where it came from.
As soon as you are happy with your video use your editing software to compress the video into a small file size. This is necessary to ensure fast loading and easy viewing of your video. In addition to helping your visitors some websites only allow videos of a certain size to be uploaded so the smaller you compress your video the better. Remember, compressing a video will affect its quality so only compress your video as much as needed and not more.
There are two easy ways that you can use to upload your videos to your video blog. The first way is to upload your video to your own channel on YouTube or a similar site that is free and easy to use. These websites will help your own site get traffic and will also let you easily embed your video onto your own vlog. This is perfect for those using free blogging platforms like Blogger.com.
If you have invested in your own Wordpress blog and domain as suggested then you have the option of uploading your video the same method or upload your video to a folder in on your domain and use a video plugin to show the video on your blog. A few plugins that can be used are:
XHTML Video Embed
FLV Embed
Embedded Video With Link
When you have created your video clip and posted it on your vlog you have successful created your first post! Now your video blog is up, running, and ready to be viewed it is time to start making your money.
