Incorporate YouTube footage into your own videos
Written by amedeo on September 24th, 2007
Q: How do I incorporate user-generated content?
One answer (of many possible answers) in three seven easy steps:
- Visit YouTube, Revver or other video-hosting site and search for a video relevant to your needs; snow in Albuquerque, for example, if I was working on a scintillating weather story;
- Assuming the video is not stolen or copyrighted, get permission to use it from its producer;
- Use Zamzar or Vixy.net, to convert the footage into an editable format;
- Pull the footage into your favorite video editor and credit who captured it;
- Enhance the footage by adding the results of your journalistic work to it;
- Output your video to your site’s usual player and post it to YouTube or whatever site you’ve used;
- Let your collaborator know that the new work is up and open for mixing, if he or she wants to try out Zamzar or Vixy.net.
