Chapter 4: Uploading your clip to Google Video

In this section, I’m going to take you through uploading a video to Google Video using steps. This will be the most complicated part of the whole process.

Step 1: Login to your account at http://video.google.com

 

Step 2: Click “Uploaded Videos” in the upper right hand corner.

 

Step 3: Click “Upload Video” in the dark purple bar just underneath the Reports Tab.

 

Step 4: Click “Learn More” under 2. Desktop Uploader

 

Step 5: Click the Install button for your operating system.

Step 6: Click the Run button, when prompted. You may need to click Run a couple of times, before getting to the install screen.

Step 7: Follow the install instructions to install the Video Uploader.

 

Step 8: At this point, you should have the Video Uploader open, if not please open it.

 

Step 9: Click Login and enter in your Google Video Account information.

 

Step 10: Click Add

Step 11: Using the window that came up, locate the desired video on your computer and click Open. Step 12: Repeat Step 11 as many times as you need to, to upload all of your videos.

Step 13: Click the check box stating you are allowed to publish the videos.

 

Step 14: Click Upload

Step 15: Sit back and relax while the videos are uploaded. Once they are completed move on to Step 16.

Step 16: In your web browser, go back to your Google video account. Under the videos tab, click “Video Status”.

Step 17: You should see each video you uploaded listed here. Click the Add Information button.

Step 18: In the title put a good description of the video, using as many terms as possible. This will allow the video to be found more often for each term used.

Step 19: For the description you can just use what you put for the title, in the following format. Please note that this ebook has to wrap the lines, which is why I’ve labeled what should be on each line.

Line 1:[Title Text Here], from
http://www.thevideosense.com/[YourUsernameHere]

Line 2: Make money like I am by supplying videos like this from the web to
http://www.thevideosense.com/[YourUserNameHere]

See Appendix A for more examples. Step 20: Check the Certify box.

 

Step 21: Select English for the language.

Step 22: Now you will be presented with the options for how to classify your video. The best performing Genres are Comedy, Music Videos, Sports and Animation. Make sure to check at least one of those, plus any others that fit, each time you go through this process.

Step 23: In the URL field enter in:
http://www.thevideosense.com/user/[YourUserNameHere ]/

Step 24: In the Full Name field, enter a term about the video.

 

Step 25: In the Role field, enter a different term about the video.

 

Step 26: Click Save Information

Repeat Steps 17 thru 26 for each video that you have uploaded. It can take up to 8 hours for the video(s) to be approved by Google. Once the videos have been approved they will show up under the Live Sub-tab. Follow the steps below to obtain the code needed in Chapter 6: Adding your videos to The Video Sense.

Step 1: Login to your Google Video account and click the Uploaded Videos link.

Step 2: All of your videos should be listed for you, find the desired video and make sure the status says “Live.”
Step 3: Click the View link for the desired video. This will spawn another window with your video in it.

Step 4: Click the “Email – Blog – Post to MySpace” button on the right hand side.

 

Step 5: Click the “Embed HTML” link.

Step 6: You will see a box with a bunch of HTML code appear just below that. This is the code that you need to copy and paste into your TVS account.