Youtube Starting Help?
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dandoolittle
Site owner, lovely and adorable
Best way is by being social fella and making bloody good content.
The one thing I find is to not pretend to be someone else, be yourself and find something that's unique to you
The one thing I find is to not pretend to be someone else, be yourself and find something that's unique to you
SwissMotard
The Swiss Motard
As Dan says, put out great content and interact with people and they'll come flocking.
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CaptainCranky
Misunderstood genius
The key is being social, as Dan says.
That means - watch, and comment on, other motovloggers channels. Eventually your name will appear familiar to people and they will check you out. I did this for 6 months before I uploaded my first vlog...
This is where it pays off - these channels will be curious to check you out - because you aren't someone who just popped up out of the blue and asked them to watch your stuff. ONLY THEN will their greater audience even notice you.
There is no short cut to this, I have seen people appear out of nowhere and literally DEMAND attention, and even start merchandising, but because they didn't watch and comment on other people's vids nobody knew who the hell they were and it simply didn't work.
Another reward is you will form great relationships with motovloggers around the world. And not just on-line - I have met and rode with 25 motovloggers and I live pretty remote. But when I've travelled, they were keen to come and meet me because we already "knew" each other. It's the best bit of the whole thing for me
Another hint I can give you starting out -
Put something in the "About" tab on your YouTube channel. Even if it's just what bike and camera you use, where you ride... you know - something is better than nothing and you can always update it. I know many of my fellow vloggers who will check a channel out and are more likely to look right into it if there is a description.
Lastly - put a link to your channel in your signature here
Now for your vlogs - do test runs and make sure the sound is ok. It can take many attempts to find the right position for your mic. Even if you are not talking, use an external mic - NOT the camera's built in one, no one likes to hear the crackly shit that the wind makes in the in-built mic when you ride!
Good luck, hope you have as much fun as I do at this!!
That means - watch, and comment on, other motovloggers channels. Eventually your name will appear familiar to people and they will check you out. I did this for 6 months before I uploaded my first vlog...
This is where it pays off - these channels will be curious to check you out - because you aren't someone who just popped up out of the blue and asked them to watch your stuff. ONLY THEN will their greater audience even notice you.
There is no short cut to this, I have seen people appear out of nowhere and literally DEMAND attention, and even start merchandising, but because they didn't watch and comment on other people's vids nobody knew who the hell they were and it simply didn't work.
Another reward is you will form great relationships with motovloggers around the world. And not just on-line - I have met and rode with 25 motovloggers and I live pretty remote. But when I've travelled, they were keen to come and meet me because we already "knew" each other. It's the best bit of the whole thing for me
Another hint I can give you starting out -
Put something in the "About" tab on your YouTube channel. Even if it's just what bike and camera you use, where you ride... you know - something is better than nothing and you can always update it. I know many of my fellow vloggers who will check a channel out and are more likely to look right into it if there is a description.
Lastly - put a link to your channel in your signature here
Now for your vlogs - do test runs and make sure the sound is ok. It can take many attempts to find the right position for your mic. Even if you are not talking, use an external mic - NOT the camera's built in one, no one likes to hear the crackly shit that the wind makes in the in-built mic when you ride!
Good luck, hope you have as much fun as I do at this!!
SwissMotard
The Swiss Motard
Good luck!
TriumfAnt
It was good while it lasted
It's great if you can talk fluidly on a topic for 5 minutes, but if you're anything like me, get good at editing.
I've found that if I'm unsure whether something should stay in the video or not, then it gets deleted. It's better to have a shorter video which keeps to the point, than a longer video that waffles on. Don't forget to have fun
I've found that if I'm unsure whether something should stay in the video or not, then it gets deleted. It's better to have a shorter video which keeps to the point, than a longer video that waffles on. Don't forget to have fun
RoninK6
Rogue Samurai
Youtube has turned it into a bunch of baloney ~_~ :.....
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2972003?hl=en
revvinrav
Wannabie Member
I have this and i used it for the size. If you go on my channel you can see that the size is right, its just the quality of the picture that is crushed :/
revvinrav
Wannabie Member
Is there any particular effect you gave your text while making it? maybe rasterized the layer, or maybe vectored everything. Ive tried it on several different browsers and it doesnt look as crisp as i had it on photoshop. If you wanna see what im talking about, just look me up on youtube as revvinrav. Maybe its just me that i think less of what i madeHmmm, it looks good on my end... could it be your browser??? Do you have another browser you can try
RoninK6
Rogue Samurai
Hah, you're getting highly technical on me 
... but the text is vector-based (hope I'm using the right term here 
) - nothing real fancy. I saved the photoshop document all in layers and then the file to YouTube as a full-quality jpeg using the "Save for Web & Devices" option (optimized, no blur).
Did you do your text using a font or did you do draw it in Photoshop yourself ???
Also, I see a lot of anti-aliasing happening around your text. Almost like a jpeg (or a low-quality jpeg) was edited into your Photoshop document and lost quality (or something ...). Did you pull your text from somewhere else ???
Just some thoughts ... hope I was able to help out a little bit .....
btw, misread what you read earlier, sorry ~_~ .....
... but the text is vector-based (hope I'm using the right term here ) - nothing real fancy. I saved the photoshop document all in layers and then the file to YouTube as a full-quality jpeg using the "Save for Web & Devices" option (optimized, no blur).Did you do your text using a font or did you do draw it in Photoshop yourself
???Also, I see a lot of anti-aliasing happening around your text. Almost like a jpeg (or a low-quality jpeg) was edited into your Photoshop document and lost quality (or something
...). Did you pull your text from somewhere else ???Just some thoughts
... hope I was able to help out a little bit .....btw, misread what you read earlier, sorry ~_~ .....
Riding Japan
Wannabie Member
i m still trying to figure that out myself xD
