Category: Geeks r Us
It seems that I'm stuck using the Mac for Youtube videos until I can find a Windows solution to recording on a computer without a webcam. BRight now, I'm using Photo Booth.. It works maybe 80% of the time and the rest of the time it cuts off my videos. I can watch them correctly in Photo Booth, but when I put them on Youtube, they get cut off. I never know which ones will be fine and which won't and the cut-off time is always different even for videos of the same length. I've tried reuploading these videos but they always cut off at their original points. Can anyone recommend a better program for using on the Mac? I'm using Snow Leopard if that helps. I love the ease of use of Photo Booth but I'm getting really sick of having to make two, three or even four versions of the same video in the hopes that it will upload correctly.
Try Quicktime. I think it has that capability. I know iMovie does, but can't tell you much about using it.
Thanks. I'll do that.
I thought the Mac was the superior machine for photo, video and audio editing. I do neither of those, but have known people who preferred macs for this. Now that they have a reader, guess I'd have thought the blind would be no different.
It's great when it works. And thankfully, this QuickTime Player seems to be doing the trick! I created three test videos. The first and the third I uploaded in the normal way, by saving them to my computer and then going to the Youtube site to upload them. The second one I used the option to share to Youtube but that one didn't process properly. The first and third were over five minutes and over seven minutes respectively and neither cut off! I've been saving them for the web and not with the save-as option. I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. The first option saves as an m4v and the second saves as .mov, the same format used by Photo Booth. Which is better for Youtube and is one smaller than the other? Man I'm glad this problem seems to be fixed! But I'm still considering that Webcam so that I can record with my Thinkpad.
if you are wishing audio only use sound studio, if using a mac with a built in web cam, you can use a wide range of apps such as qt, photobooth, i movie and more, luckily I have an iphone4 and well its all just a breez from there.
For audio, I used to use something called TapeDeck, which worked wonderfully. But Youtube won't accept audio, so i need to save to a video format, even though I cover the camera. At any rate, this QuickTime seems to be doing the trick. I'm on a macbook, so yes, it has a built-in cam.