YouTube hints and trick (pt 1)

Getting the most out of YouTube, how to make money off YouTube and how to get the most out of a successful video.

1) Work out what your YouTube channel is for. If you are mainly using it to promote your music don't clutter it up with videos off the kids, your favorite sports clips or the like. Set up a different account for that. Keep everything linked to your account related to the music.

2) Monitor your videos, use the insight area to see how people are finding your videos. This information can be good for working out what's working and will help you find the people that will like your videos.

3) Tweak the words. From looking at the data from the discovery section of the insight area you will see which search tearms people are using to find you on YouTube, Google, Facebook, MySpace and other search sources. The trick here is to visit the sites people have searched on to find you, then search for the same terms as the user.

e.g. If insight says that someone found your video by searching on YouTube for "Best new band" then search for "Best new band" on you tube and start by going through the listings until you find the link to your video. Have a look at other links this search return, especially the links that come nearer the top than yours. Then see how they have written up their videos, what keywords they have used.

Then blatantly copy everyone and look for simular words or phrases that turn up in lots of different places.

4) Occasionally change the picture. YouTube gives you a choice of images to show as the video still, unfortunately not enough in my opinion. If you have more than one that looks good and is visually different then try changing the default image every few months, you might just get someone to watch the video again ;)

5) Playlists. These can be a great way of introducing people to your music. Set up playlist with phrases you discovered from looking at the search results. So using or last example you would set up a playlist called "Best new band" and add your band to the play list along with other popular bands that people search for. Put your song in around position 3-6 with the songs people like first. This could entice people to play the playlist and hear your song.

6) Communication. Whenever you are communicating with your fan-base remember to put in a link to your latest, greatest or most relevant video. It's not only a great way to pimp your YouTube space but it's also a good way for people to refresh themselves with your music.

7) Activity Sharing. Make sure you are linked up to all your social networks so that new videos automatically get posted to your fans.

8) Be part of the community. Leave comment on other videos related to yours, don't use the "check out my band" approach just a simple "Nice song" or "I love it" would do if you can't think of something constructive to say. Add songs you think your fans would like to your favourites and 'like' some of the videos to.

9) Friends v Subscribers. Friends are good but if you want to make money off YouTube at some point then currently YouTube cares most about the number of subscribers you have. There are a few trick you can try. Firstly don't upload 5 videos in on day then nothing for 6 months. A little patience can go a long way. Uploading a video on a regular schedule, e.g once every 1-2 months will encourage people to subscribe. Though most people will not without you reminding them to do it. YouTube has just launched a 'Subscribe widget' which allows you to add a subscribe to this YouTube channel link on your website and on other social networks just think about gently prompting your fans to think about subscribing.

May well add more later but that should give you something to think about...

New Video Musa M'Boob and XamXam - Karimi Nyan

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Going to be playing with aMUSICsite.co.uk and turn it into something....

The changes have started NOW...

The day after....

This volcano has given Europe a unique opportunity to see how well it could adapt to an airplanes free airspace.

It's time for the railways to learn how to adapt fast to changes in demand and be able to supply extra carrying space when demand changes.

They could learn a lot from the computer networks that can adapt to changes in demand.

First step would be to upgrade your pipes and tubes. A well coordinated high speed transport system covering the whole of Europe, with built in redundancies so maintenance or accident will not disrupt the service.

Then smaller local transport systems feeding out from the hubs to the local area.

Best way to do it would be with the economy of scale. The whole of Europe upgrades to the same platform.

Now rolling out a new rail system across the whole of Europe using the same system is not going to be an easy task. Though now might be a good time to start talking about it.

In the UK we are in the middle of an election my vote goes to any party that can organise a cross party body to come up with a workable plan of how the UK could best adapt to a permanent European no fly zone, how long it would take to deploy, how many jobs it would create and how the UK can benefit from doing this even if flights resume.

Give me that before the election and you have my vote. If you can't keep up with this rapidly changing world then I don't want you running MY country.

John Watts one camera live video.

Shot and graded by me.

Mac mini server with raid 0 running final cut studio.

After months of research and still a lot of unanswered questions I took the plunge and bought a mac mini server. The main aim is to run final cut faster than my old 1GHz mini computer.

My first job was to set up the raid 0. This caused my first problem. As my computer is linked up to a HD ready tv (not full HD) Leppard don't seem to like the fact it runs at 1360 x 768 over HDMI. This caused the screen to be drawn larger than the tv hiding the menu bar, so I missed the option to go to the disc utility when first installing. Found it on the second attempt. The raid is a bit quirky as you have to drag both the drive into the setup to raid them together. I went for a 125kb stripe size. The second install seemed to be quicker...

Once up and running the next step was to install final cut. Went for a full install of almost 50Gb which is not a problem in the nice new 1Tb partition. The problem was, for some reason, the installation took over 6 hours!

Not sure if this was a problem with the USB transfer speed from the external LG DVD drive but it would start of saying something like 8 minutes to install, then go up to 200 hours and take about an hour per disk.

Still this gave me time to set up some if the server preferences, watch two football games and a movie while waiting. Also found I could not share the network connection with my old mac like you can with normal OS X. Apparently there is a way but a bit more complex, so I left that alone for now.

With final cut motion was unticked by default but I installed it anyway to see if it works. On my previous mini both motion and color would not work, so I was hoping they would with the new server.

Finally after a very long wait it is installed and I restarted and gave final cut a quick run...

Unfortunately none of the Final Cut apps would run at the highest resolution I could get out of my machine and eventually got my machine into a state where my tv could not display the output. So a reinstall was in order. Fearing another 6 hour reinstall of Final Cut I was happily surprised to see that the reinstall just replaced the OS files and left all the Final Cut app on the machine.

Leaving Final Cut aside I set about transferring all my apps over and setting up the web servers, mail, iTunes, video tools and Googel's Picasa.

Everything is fast and snappy and
Picasa crunched throughout 35,000+ photos and grabbed the faces in an impressive time.

I have a feeling Final Cut is going to work like a dream when I get my new monitor tomorrow.