Have You Started Making Your Own YouTube Videos

Are you a fan of YouTube?

If you enjoy watching free videos online then YouTube has to be the first place that you go to, if you have not heard of YouTube, where have you been?. Most people only watch videos on YouTube but there are those who also post their own videos and as more people start to use camera enabled mobile phones and devices, it is becoming much easier to be part of the YouTube community by creating and uploading your own videos.

If you have never uploaded a video before, you may be wondering whether or not you really should. To decide whether you should make and upload your own videos to the YouTube website, you may want to look at the advantages of doing so, apart from the fact it is fun to do.

The biggest advantage to making your own YouTube videos is that your videos can be about whatever you want them to be. Be creative, make a video on something that you enjoy doing, or maybe a local event. Your video may even go viral (this is when others share your video because they like it), one day you may login to YouTube and find that millions of people have watched it from all around the globe.

The most popular videos on YouTube right now are comedy sketches, how-to videos, and clips of movies and music. Why not start by making a video blog of yourself, use your web camera to record a two minute video each day telling everybody what you have been doing, sounds a bit lame, but it is a easy way to start your video career off. If you have a video camera, why not record you and your friends doing what ever you do, enjoy skate boarding, then record your friends trying that special trick.

YouTube will accept any video as long as you are not infringing on somebodies copyright - what does that mean? well, do not just record a television show, movie or music video, you do not own these. Anything you create with your camera, phone or computer will be just fine but use your best judgment.

If one of your videos gets really popular and starts to receive thousands of views, you may even be invited by YouTube to place advertisements on the video, how cool is that, you will get paid by Google for having a popular video. There are many people earning hundreds or even thousands of dollars every month using this method, but do not start out thinking what video can i make to earn some dollars, just make something that you enjoy or makes you laugh.

As mentioned before, making videos is so easy with webcams and mobile devices and generally the quality is just fine, but for better quality videos, you will want to have a movie editing software program. Movie editing software programs will not only give you the ability to preview your videos, before uploading them to YouTube, but gives you the ability to edit them, add other images and sound to the video. There are many video editing programs that you can use some are free and some you need to buy. Most modern computers will come with free movie editing software, so start there before you decide to buy anything.

Another benefit of making your own videos and uploading them to YouTube comes after the video has been uploaded, people can leave comments or just select that they like the video. This will give you great feedback as to what viewers think of your efforts, allowing to improve future videos, or it may give you ideas for future videos.

So start today, turn on your web cam or point you camera phone at some event, record and share it, i promise you will enjoy the experience. Visit my blog Andy´s YouTube Blog and let me know how you get on, leave me a comment with the location of your video and i will put it on my blog for others to see it.