For your Video Blog assignment do the following:
- Open up Photo Booth from Applications on your computer
- Choose the record a movie clip (film strip) icon
- Press the red record button and begin recording
- Choose the stop button to finish recording
- Play the video to preview and trim if necessary
- Trimming can be done by highlighting the sections that you want to hover over
- Scroll over the video in the bottom menu, right click, and select “Reveal in Finder” (leave this window open)
YouTube Uploading and Embedding
- Open up YouTube in your browser and select “Sign In”
- Choose “Upload” on the top right hand side of the page
- Drag and drop your file from the Finder window
- Give your video an appropriate title
- You can make your video Unlisted or Public, but NOT Private, then select “Publish”
- View your video and preview it to confirm its quality
- If you want to make additional changes, select the “Creator Studio” which can be found by hovering over your user avatar.
- The Creator Studio is fairly intuitive and good for improving the lighting in your video
- Select Share < Embed < then copy and paste the embed code.
- In WordPress, enter the “Dashboard”. Use the “Text” viewer, then paste the embed code, and “Publish”