Posting Video Quick-Guide

There is more to add for the above and I had mentioned it in my previous video (I think that got lost somewhere in the forums)...

It's a small thing, but it is a MAKE OR BREAK thing to seeing a video work. Let me explain with a video from one of my private music playlists:

This is the URL as it appears if you JUST load the video from a youtube search or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUYjd2rjsE

^^ THAT will load and work in our editor to post. Here is what it looks like:



..and as you can see, it plays normally.

This is what it looks like if I load it under my own playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUYjd2rjsE&index=4&list=PLDu83GkhEBIVKWg-WH-oS9WoNbeVG4IBr

This..will NOT work. The first half of the URL hasn't changed and looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUYjd2rjsE ...and JUST like the original one that DOES work. The SECOND half:

&index=4&list=PLDu83GkhEBIVKWg-WH-oS9WoNbeVG4IBr is added by Youtube for their use and will break our video player. Nothing will show up, pasting this line in.

So...to make this a little more visual, in ANY long youtube address? You want one piece of it, and the trash you delete afterward will ALWAYS start with a &:

https: //www. youtube. com/watch?v=1UUYjd2rjsE&index=4&list=PLDu83GkhEBIVKWg-WH-oS9WoNbeVG4IBr

Keep the green, Trash the red, each time, and you should have complete success with posting videos in the future!

*** For Advanced Use

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This is a trick to use for people who have the basic posting of a video down cold, and are annoyed by LONG videos where people have to sit and wait forever to find the spot YOU want to highlight.

Annoying isn't it?? Some videos can be an hour long and you only really care to share a few seconds of that for a particular point supported or disproved.

What to do??

Well... Lets start with the URL I used up there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUYjd2rjsE
That is the original video code to play in our editor ..and again, here is how it looks in normal play.

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----but lets say within that video, you are only sharing it to highlight the cave dwellings used as background. Which is more effective to share it?

"Just play the video to around the 30 second part and look at the background! See?"

or...



"Press play, and the first 5 seconds are the cave dwellings to look for!"

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How did I do that? I just added a few characters at the end ...(grin)

This:

https://youtu.be/1UUYjd2rjsE

Becomes this:

https://youtu.be/1UUYjd2rjsE?t=28s

...and as you can see, the second video starts precisely at the 28 second mark, leaving a reader to decide if they even care to see the rest, or the 27 seconds leading up to the scene of interest.

?t=28s

The above is all that was added to achieve that result.

@wrabbit2000,

Yup! That was made with Camtasia 8. The college made it available as a gift to all full and part time staff/faculty, which includes me..so.. It can do a lot more, but I'm learning. It is quite a program!

I hadn't thought about it that way, but depending on what you're asking? Yes on both possible questions. The technical reason in the video was to get the keyboard shortcut on the screen and visual, to reinforce what was happening in the video. (I have some better ideas about how to do that for future ones too..these were a bit haphazard for not having an outline to follow, myself)

In terms of my personal use of keyboard shortcuts over mouse clicks, when possible? I hadn't been like that for most of my life. It really picked up when I started working for Disabled Services on campus. After that first semester and having to help students learn key commands I didn't even know myself, I realized something. The blind students weren't simply maintaining speed with the class in exercises. They were FASTER, more accurate and more confident in what they were doing, despite the obvious disparity between the blind and the normal students.

It didn't take long of forcing myself to keep my right hand off that damn mouse unless I NEEDED the cursor for something, to find I was also gaining speed I could never have achieved using a mouse. That carried across all parts of MS Office, and has begun to simply carry into everything I do on a computer. (It's amazing to find how much of the MS Office command set is borrowed or sets the standard...whichever direction that originally went..to be a universal set in many ways)

The seconds lost in simply reaching over, grabbing the mouse, doing something with it, and moving back to the keyboard doesn't seem like much....but compare the level of work after an hours time, without having to do it. It's downright amazing at first....then you'll wonder how you worked any other way! 

** BTW.. That goes for movement of the cursor within a document and line positions too, surprisingly enough. Someone may have to see that done a couple times to believe it, too. However, you can become significantly faster in moving around a document for cursor positions by keyboard than by just clicking a mouse to the spot (Then again, my students also listen to English spoken at 5-10x normal speed and understand it as naturally as a casual conversation). :)