Converting Your Video
It is not necessary to convert your video, but if you want respect and bug-free video... Follow this tutorial. All cameras have unique resolution, quality, format, and codec. This creates hassle for sites such as YouTube, Google Video, and Stage 6. This tutorial will show you how to freely convert your video into native format so the sites will display your video very clearly and smoothly. This will give you an upper edge that most don't have.
Your first step is to open up Windows Movie Maker. It is not the best program, but for our purposes it will work fine. Our other tutorials will cover other steps involved with other programs. Not sure if you have windows movie maker? Well you can run this command to find out.
Click on Start->'Run' and type in "moviemk".
Now Windows Movie Maker should open up. After it has opened up look for a link that says "Import Video". Click it and navigate to where you placed your video file (.avi, .mpg, .mp4, etc.). It may take a few minutes for windows to import the file, it will try to detect scenes. Just ignore that for now.
After your video has been imported you may notice some clicks in the window box. Click on all of the clips and drag them into the storyboard. After you have dragged them into the storyboard, click on the arrow under the section "Finish Movie". Next click on the link "Save To My Computer."
Type in a name for the movie and click next. Make sure you make note of where you save it to!
A movie wizard will pop-up. In this case you want to do advanced settings so you can have a .wmv in 320x240 resolution to comply with YouTube standards. To do click click on "Show More Choices."
From the combo list chose the option "Video for Broadband (512kbps)." This will give you the best quality while complying with the standards.
Your video should now be converting. Depending on how long, the quality, and size, it could take awhile for it to convert. In the meantime go do something and come back in a few minutes when its done. After it has finished converting you should find the converted file in .wmv format to where ever you saved it to. You are now ready to upload a quality movie to YouTube!