Record Video To Your Computer and Upload Later

Sometimes recording live video into YouTube doesn't work of you may simply want to record your video, perhaps try a few takes of even edit it a little bit. There are many ways to do this here is what is probably the simplest.

1. Go to >> start >> All Programs >> and open up windows movie maker
2. Go to the file menu >> capture video
3. In the box that opens select your webcam to be the video capture and audio capture device
4. Click on next
5. Choose a title for your video and select where it will be saved to (be sure you know where to find it)
6. The next window allows you to choose video quality. Between the two radio buttons select "other settings" and not "best quality for playback on my computer"
7. After "Other Settings" you will see a drop down box, click on it and select "Video for Broadband 512 kbps". This is a good balance between quality and file size (remember you are going to upload it) but you could experiment with other settings.
8. Click next and position yourself to be in camera shot.
9. Click on "start capture" and after a brief pause begin speaking.
10. When you are finished click on "stop capture" and then "finish".
11. You can check the video back and record another if you are not happy. If you have used widows movie maker you'll know how easy it is to edit your video but that's another project.
12. The video can be found in the location you chose to save it.

Now it's time to upload your video which is a very similar process to step 2 (recording live YouTube video)

1. Logon to your YouTube Account
2. Click on "upload"
3. Fill in Title, a brief description and a Tag (tag could be just your name)
4. Select upload a video and browse for a video file on your hard drive
5. The upload will take a little while so please be patient