11.03.2008
Once I’ve shot the video and edited it, it’s time to upload it and publish it. Here’s my publishing checklist!
- Export a full resolution file from iMovie.
- Open it in quicktime pro and watch it one last time so I know I haven’t missed any editing flaws.
- Compress it by exporting an “appleTV” version of the video which gives me a nice M4V.
- Upload that to Tube Mogul and then crosspost to Blip, Youtube, Howcast, Google, and Yahoo.
- Manually upload to Vimeo and Facebook and Flickr since tubemogul crossposting doesn’t work for those. Also Tumblr!
- Write the post on my blog to go with the video.
- Grab the embed code and the video file permalink from blip.tv.
- Publish it on my blog and twitter about the blogpost. Through the magic of the internet, the post automatically shows up on my soup and the twitter automatically shows up as facebook message. I include a subscription link to iTunes. There are lots of ways to subscribe to my videos, but that one is the easiest for the most people.
- I then try and tell a few friends about it when I’m done because I’ve just done a bunch of work and it’s nice to get some feedback. If you leave comments on my videos it makes me super happy.
So that’s my checklist. It takes a while! Let me know if you do anything different or have any questions about it or any ideas that I’m missing here!
Thanks for the insight. I notice that your blog RSS feed sometimes contains the m4v video file and sometimes doesn’t. Do you pay any attention to that?
Good call Michael, I added video files!
I guess you need to add that to your checklist
Sounds like a repetitive task. If your hourly rate exceeds “$x/hr”, it might eventually be cheaper to outsource that to some needy person in a third world country… or the one we live in!
Love your videos Bre. It was a sad day when I found out you’d stopped presenting the weekend projects, but I’m glad to see you haven’t retired.
Thanks for the insights! I’m definitely trying some of the steps! Love your videos.
Nice to see your work flow. Thanks for sharing.
I would add cross posting to Viddler.com as well so that I can feature your videos to the front page when asked.
One step I add to that - and so does Roxanne Darling from BeachWalks.tv - is I bring the M4V file into iTunes and add “album art” and other ID3 tag information.
I export my own still frame from the video and save it as a jpeg. You can use an image editor to add the video title to your jpeg if you want. Then once the M4V is in iTunes, command+I to bring up the file information. I drag my jpeg file into the “Artwork” tab, and I fill in all the other ID3 tag stuff under the “Info” tab.
When you close the dialog, the ID3 information is saved to your M4V file and will travel with it. So iTunes subscribers get this extra info displayed in iTunes, and so will anyone who direct-downloads the files.
iTunes copies the M4V into your Movies folder or wherever you’ve told it to store your stuff, so you may need to replace your original M4V with the new ID3 tagged one iTunes saves.
Oh, one more step, I change the M4V file extension to MP4 as my very last step before uploading. I feel like that’s helpful for people who don’t want to use iTunes and don’t like it trying to open every M4V file for them.