Sunday, June 1, 2008

How to promote Ron Paul through video part 1


Ok, so if you want to promote Ron Paul via video, you're going to want to do one of 2 things. In this 1st lesson I am going to teach you how to download previous videos that you find on sites, and how to convert them to a format that you can submit to other video sites. In the 2nd lesson I'll teach you how you can use a free software to compile videos together and edit them, put music on them, and make them your own. In the third part I'll summarize how you can use the same software to record the screen, and your voice through a microphone for those of you that want to create a video by recording maybe a slideshow that you created.

In order to download a video, you'll need to go to youtube, or google video, or other video sites, and find a Ron Paul video link that you want to download.
Then you'll want to copy that link and paste it into keepvid.com. then click download, a link will appear below. Click on it and then click save to disk and press ok.
Now once it downloads, you have to rename it to the name you want followed by .flv. So you click on the icon that will say "getvideo" and you change it to something like RonPaul.flv.

Now you need to convert that .flv file to avi. I use a software called Moyea, because you can also convert it to a format that works on the Ipod or zune and many other options. The problem is with a free account there are "watermarks" which is basically an image advertising for Moyea that is always on the screen.
To get Moyea, you're going to need to go to http://www.flvsoft.com/flv_to_video/ and click on the button on the far left that says free trial. (you can also download the lite version by clicking on the middle button, but I have no experience with the lite version)
Click on it and then save it to disk, choose somewhere on the laptop or somewhere that you'll be able to find. open the file when it's done and download it.
Once it's downloaded, open the file, click on the top left corner button to add a file. click on the .flv video such as the RonPaul.flv that you created. Now you will see it opened and there's a bunch of settings that you can adjust but there's not much of a need. Simply click on #3 Convert, and the file will convert to the format you selected.
Congratulations you have your video. Now you can upload this to a few video sites... starting with the popular here are a few

http://youtube.com/
http://video.google.com/
Http://vids.Myspace.com/
http://vsocial.com/
http://one.revver.com/revver
http://grouper.com/ Alexa
http://blip.tv/ Alexa
http://vimeo.com/ Alexa
All of the above have Alexa ratings lower than 10,000 meaning they are all among the top 10,000 most visited sites on the interenet.
http://jumpcut.com/
Alexa rating 12,600
http://www.videoegg.com/
Alexa rating 20,105
http://ourmedia.org/
Alexa rating 31,365
http://eyespot.com/
Alexa rating 39,000

If you want mre, read the comments section. But I recommend that you just do the top video sites, and if you want to do more promotion, just do so with another video

There's the end of lesson one. Thanks guys

Please note: I am not liable for any copywrite enfringement, it is your responsibilty to contact the person that owns the rights to the video or created the video and ask them if you can have the rights to distribute.