How to Make a Movie Trailer on YouTube
Want to make a movie trailer on YouTube? YouTube is a social networking website that allows members to upload a wide variety of videos, from movie trailers to home movies to slideshows and music videos based on favorite television shows. If you want to upload a movie trailer, you need to find a copy of it online or on television. While you could take a video camera into a movie theater and record it off the screen, that is highly illegal and considered a form of pirating. If you record the video off television, you may upload it, but you should always give credit where credit is due and recognize that copyright infringement may lead YouTube to remove the trailer.
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How to Make a Movie Trailer on YouTube
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Use a movie editor on your PC or MAC. You can use iMovie or something similar to create the video on your computer. YouTube accepts multiple formats including .3GP, which is the video format of many cell phones, .MOV from the Mac, .AVI, Windows media video and .MPEG. Check the help files on YouTube for more video formats.
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Edit your video. YouTube does not allow you to edit your video on the site. Your editing should all be performed locally on your computer. You can add music, credits and more. When recording a movie trailer, you may want to keep it in the original format as shown on television and the web in order to protect the copyright.
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Upload your video to YouTube. You'll need a YouTube account in order to upload videos. Creating a user account is free of charge. You can upload videos individually or in batch files (you'll need YouTube Uploader for this). Your video cannot be longer than 10 minutes (roughly 1 gigabyte of information).
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Enter your data. When uploading, you want to add a title, description tags and category. The more data you have, the easier it will be to search for the video online. You should also add any copyright information to the movie trailer's description.
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Be patient. Uploading can take a few minutes to a few hours, depending on your connection speed and the time of day. The larger the file is, the longer it will take to upload.
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