Making YouTube® Videos, 2nd Edition
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2019947722
ISBN: 978-1-119-64150-6; 978-1-119-64152-0 (ebk); 978-1-119-64151-3 (ebk)
HELLO FUTURE YOUTUBERS! Welcome to Making YouTube Videos, 2nd Edition — the book that does exactly what it says on the cover.
You want to be the next YouTube star? Do you find yourself watching YouTube videos and thinking, “I could do that!” or “I really want to do that”? Well, you’ve picked up the right book.
Millions of people are uploading their videos to YouTube — and there’s plenty of room for you, too. All you need is to turn the creative ideas in your head into videos. You’re going to have so much fun, and we’re going to guide you through every step.
YouTube started in 2005 for people all over the world to share videos. We can’t imagine that anyone could have guessed how successful it would become. Would you have guessed it?
And now, if you want to learn how to do something, watch gameplay, or laugh at funny videos, where do you go? YouTube. And did you know that some people make YouTube videos as their job? How fun would that be?
They don’t teach you how to make YouTube videos at school, do they? If they do, you go to an awesome school. In Making YouTube Videos, we share what we’ve learned to help you make films. (We wish we had this book when we were kids. That would be impossible, of course, unless we’d had a time machine for us and for YouTube.)
They say that a wise person learns from his mistakes and a clever person learns from other people’s mistakes. We’ve learned everything we know from working in different areas within the filmmaking industry, and the mistakes we made along the way made us better. The great thing is that you get to avoid making a bunch of the mistakes that we made. You may still make mistakes, but it’s important to never give up!
In this book, you
Sometimes, you’ll see a URL (web address) for forms or examples we’ve placed online for you. You can find those extras at www.dummies.com/go/makingyoutubevideos2e
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Some figures will have a magnifying glass, like you see here. The glass is drawing attention to the parts of the screen you use. The highlighted text draws your attention to the figure.
You’re interested in making movies. That’s why you’re here reading this, right?
We also figure that you have a way to capture film (a camera or phone) and a way to edit it (a computer or laptop).
We would bet that you’ve been online before and know all about clicking icons, and that you’ve pressed the Record button on a camera.
As you read the projects in this book, you’ll see a few icons. The icons point out different things: