AVI format and won’t accept clips over 100 megabytes. These produce good resolution video clips which are also big files – around 100 Megabytes for 30 seconds or so. My Canon digital camera shoots video in AVI format and I’m guessing that’s the norm for most digital cameras. The crucial bit, however, is getting the video ready to upload to YouTube in the first place. Uploading a video to YouTube is easy, so I won’t go through that here.
Not only would it save me the bandwidth of putting the video files on my own website, the clips would also act as a way of inviting more people to come and visit Travelhappy. The obvious answer was to use, the hugely popular video sharing service. Given the way video has become so prevalent on the Web in the last 18 months, I wanted to start incorporating video clips into my webpages to go with my articles on the Komodo Dragons of Indonesia, the crazy busy streets of Hanoi, Vietnam and the amazing colours of cuttlefish underwater while scuba diving in Bali. I love taking photos, but sometimes a quick 30 second video clip can capture a situation even better, and provides both great memories and a better way to show off some of the things you’ve seen on holiday. I shoot quite a lot of video clips on my digital camera when I’m travelling. Preparing those clips to get them ready to put on YouTube isn’t quite so straighforward. Everyone’s uploading their video clips to YouTube these days and it’s easy to shoot your own clips on virtually any digital camera.