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Category Archives: Using user-generated content

Upload video footage to media mixing sites; place audience-generated concoctions on your site

Build audience interaction and interest by making your footage available to your customers using these sites:

Jumpcut;
eyespot;
Cuts;
and more.

Host the results on your site.
If that doesn’t go far enough for you, open an Omnidrive account, share the username and password with your customers, upload your media, encourage mad alchemy and host the best work that emerges.

Incorporate YouTube footage into your own videos

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 [...]