Tips on Making & Presenting Demo Reels

Video Transcript

"Hey. I want to thank you for watching this segment on You Tube on Expert Village. My name is Craig Scime from Clear Star Media, and I just want to wrap things up. Whether you have a camcorder and the ability to take the footage from your camcorder and get it on to your computer, or even a small digital camera with a video feature, or like we showed you earlier, a simple webcam that you can plug with an USB port right into your camera. All those ways are great to get your footage on to You Tube. It's a great way to share with family. Let's say you're out of town and you want to show Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad the different things that you are up to and what you're doing, well certainly post it on You Tube and remember, if you don't want everybody to see it, go in and click that button to make it private. Now let's say you want to make something longer. What do I mean when I say longer? Well you got to remember, clips on You Tube can only be a hundred megabyte in file size. And let's talk about those file sizes real quick. You want it to be either and MP4, M Peg, it will take an AVI but AVI's take up more file size and it can also be an MOV, which is an Apple format or a WMV, which is the windows media video. Any one of those formats You Tube will take. Rein code into a flash player. Now the flash player is built right in, so as long as your computer has flash, it's really easy. Just click and it plays instantly. Normally when you had to go to websites years ago, you would have to click and download the video based on one of those Windows Media Player or the QuickTime Player. But now it's real simple. With You Tube you just click that. And as I was getting to say about time, it can only be ten minutes in length. However, You Tube does have a way around this. If you are going to be putting up your own content, not taking stuff off of t.v. shows and trying to put on t.v., because that is not allowed, or showing anything that's nude and nudity or anything of extreme violence, you can go ahead and if you're a director and sign up for a Director Channel. And that will allow you to showcase longer videos. And it's got to be original content and it's a great way to show what you're really doing out there in the real world. Maybe you're going to be the next Steven Spielberg. Well, sign up for that director account and let us see your work. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch us on Expert Village."