Sharing videos on YouTube

First of all it is necessary to say that on this video hosting you can meet a huge amount of both amateur videos, and professional clips and short films. Among the main advantages of the service can be noted HTML code generation, which makes it possible to embed video on your ownwebsites, blogs, as well as just on social networks. This and a huge number of other opportunities in early 2012 made the site of the resource third in the world by the number of visitors (4 billion visits per day).

To upload a video to YouTube, You must have your own account on the site of the service or be registered on Google. Today registration of new usersonly with Google. This procedure is quite simple: you must specify your name, surname, gender and age. You will also need to come up with a password and enter your mobile phone number to service the message with a secret confirmation code.

After you fill out all the required forms, will receive an SMS with a confirmation code. Enter it on the page that appears. Now you have an account on Google, which opens the possibility to use various services, one of which is YouTube.

Next, in order to upload the video to YouTube, just go to the video hosting site and log in by clicking on the button "To come in"located in the upper right corner of the page. Then enter your login and password. The main page of the YouTube site will be loaded. At its upper part is the search bar, and to the right of it - the menu item "Add video".

We click on it, then the page for download will open. Here you can upload video from your computer to the site, and also record it from a webcam. Push the button "Select files on your computer". Find the required video file on the hard disk or flash drive and click "Open".

After that the download process begins, as evidenced by the appearancestatus indicator. While the video will be downloaded, you can give it a name, prescribe tags, specify the location on the electronic map, and select a category. Once the video is fully downloaded, a special H.264 codec, installed on the service, will compresssent video and convert it to MP4 format. Now you need to select a picture that will act as a preview, and do not forget to save all the changes.

It is worth noting that new users are able to download video clips, the duration of which does not exceed 15 minutes. However, users with a higher ratingcan upload videos with a longer duration. For example, in December 2011, one of the users uploaded a video to YouTube, the duration of which was 596 hours 31 minutes and 21 seconds, but it was immediately deleted.

As you could see, putting videos on YouTube is pretty simple. It is only necessary to have a personal account onthis service. Also on the site you can subscribe to the channels of other users. Today on this resource there are quite a lot of video blogs, music videos, video lessons and Internet shows. Still quite often YouTube is used for live broadcasts from sports competitions or concerts.