Video - BETA UPLOADER
Overview: The following tutorial is a step by step guide on how to use the Photobucket (beta) video uploading tool. This tool will allow you to upload videos faster than ever, upload a particular section of the video, and capture video directly from your webcam.
Requirements: You must be a Photobucket account holder running Windows XP or higher. You must be running the most current version of Windows Media Player, and have the most current video codecs installed on your computer. If Windows Media Player will not play your video, it will not be supported here either.
Note: If you are using Firefox and run into difficulties, refreshing your browser will help!
Steps to Take:
- Log into your Photobucket account at http://www.photobucket.com
- From the navigation bar at the top of your album, select the "albums & upload" tab.
- Navigate to the album you would like to upload your video into. From the upload panel, click on the "old uploader" link.
Note: If you are already using the old uploader, this step will not apply to you.
- Click on the "video" tab at the top of the upload panel.
- Click on the "Try It" button to access the Video & Webcam uploader.
Note: This button will not show up on Macintosh operating systems.
- You will now be prompted to install an "ActiveX" add-on that will enable your browser to work with Photobucket's new video uploading tool. Please click on the message in either location that it pops up at.
Note: The location and wording may be different depending on which browser you are using. The images from this tutorial are representative of how it looks in Internet Explorer 7.
If you are using the Firefox web browser, you will have to 'Edit Options' in order to make Firefox allow software to be installed from Photobucket. Once Photobucket is added to the list, you will have to refresh your browser in order to ACTUALLY install the necessary plugin. After the plugin installs, you will now be ready to use this feature. Refreshing your browser at this point may also be necessary.
- Select the "Install ActiveX Control..." link to begin the installation of this add-on.
- Select the "Browse" button to locate a video file that you would like to upload from your computer. If your computer does not have the particular codec installed, you may not be able to upload it here.
Note: Supported video file types are 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, 3p, asf, avi, divx, dv, dvx, flv, moov, mov, mpe, mpeg, mpg, qt, wmv, xvid
Note: Make sure the file name does not have any special characters such as ( / * , ‘ …etc.
- You can simply "drag and drop" a video file from your computer into this window.
- Record directly from your webcam here.
- To drag and drop a video from your computer simply locate the file on your hard drive and "drag and drop" it directly onto the window that says "You can drag a video here".
- Record from your webcam by choosing the video and audio capture sources for your particular hardware configuration. Click on the "Select Webcam..." button to initialize the recording process.
- After you have chosen a video by one of the available methods, it will now display in the window on the left. It is not uploading at this point, but you will be able to preview it by clicking on the "Play" button.
- This new video uploader will give you the capability of choosing to only upload a particular section of your video if you do not wish to upload it in its entirety. Simply move the playhead to a desired location in the video and click on the button as shown here.. This location will be the new starting point for your video when it uploads.
- Next, you will want to move the playhead further down the timeline in order to set a new ending point for your video when it uploads. Click on the button as shown here.
- After you have set your starting and ending points, you will need to click on the "Publish" button in order to initialize the uploading and encoding processes.
Note: If you would like to upload the video in its entirety, simply click on the "Publish" button without setting any points. You will be able to upload up to 5 minutes of footage for a Free account, and up to 10 minutes of footage for a Pro account.
- You will see your video begin to play in the preview window on the left. In this step, your video is now being encoded. When the video has been successfully encoded, you will see a message that says "Your file is encoded!" Your video file is being published to the server, please wait...'
Note: Please do not interrupt your computer during this process. It may take a different amount of time depending on the length of the video, your computer's CPU, your internet connection, and the web browser that you are using.
- When your video is successfully uploaded into your account you will see a message that says, "1 of 1 video has uploaded!"
- Your video is now ready to be shared and linked around the Web!
