How to make a You Tube video to promote your business

Creating your own video messages to tell people about the products and services your business offers is very easy following these instructions:

1. Using whatever video recording device of your choice, record your video and upload it onto your computer following the devices instructions.
2. Open Windows Movie Maker, a default program on Windows computers.
3. Under File select “Import into collections.” Find where your video file is saved and select it. Make sure to unclick “Create clips for video files.”
4. Click on the video thumbnail and drag it down into the Timeline.
5. Trim the dead space off the beginning and ending of the video by placing the time bar in the timeline at the place you want to cut the video. Go to Clip in the top menu bar and select “Split”.
6. Select the video clip that you now want to delete and hit the delete key.
7. With the video clip you are working on selected, go to Clip and select “Audio” then select “Fade In”. Do the same for “Fade Out”
8. Repeat step six, only this time select “Video” instead of “Audio”
9. Import the Intro and Outro slides the same way your imported the video files.
10. Drag your Intro slide onto the story board before the video clip. Repeat two more times so that it is three clips long.
11. Select the first of three Intro clips and go to Clip, and select “Video” and then “Fade In”
12. On the last Intro slide, do the same thing only select “Fade Out”
13. Click on the microphone icon on the top left of the story board or go to Tools and select Narrate Timeline to create your audio introduction. Make sure the time marker is at the beginning of the story board.
14. Click start narration and record the introduction into the microphone.
15. When you are done speaking click stop narration and save.
16. In the story board, clip the extra off the front and end of the intro narration the same way you clipped the video (Steps 4 and 5)
17. With the narration selected, go to Clip and select “Audio” then select “Fade In”. Do the same for “Fade Out”.
18. Repeat steps 10-17 for the outro.
19. Go to File and select “Save Project As” to save the project file. It will default to save in the folder “My Videos” under “My Documents”. If you want it somewhere else, be sure to select otherwise.
20. To save the video for publishing, go to file and select “Publish Movie”. Make sure “This Computer” is selected and click next.
21. Name the movie and click next. It will save into the computer’s “Video” folder in your documents on the current computer you are on.
22. I select “Best quality for playback on my computer” the recommended setting. Then click Publish.

Along with this instruction for creating the video,we have three addition pages of instructions to help you with other parts of creating a You Tube video.

How to publish a You Tube video to your WordPress blog

How to create intro and outro slide graphics for you You Tube video

How to publish your completed video to You Tube