Chapter 15. Sharing Your Movies Online

In This Chapter

  • Creating an online archive at Photoshop.com

  • Sharing movies online with YouTube

  • Choosing a movie player program

  • Exporting QuickTime and Windows Media movies

Making movies with Adobe Premiere Elements is so much fun that it's easy to forget the most important part: Sharing your movies with others. Entertaining and informing others is one of the main reasons for manipulating raw video clips into interesting and creative movies.

You can share your completed movies with the world in many different ways. This chapter shows you how to share your movie projects in the online world of the Internet. I help you identify some of the special problems involved with putting movies online, help you choose a player program for your movies, and show you how to export your movies in a variety of Web-friendly formats directly from Adobe Premiere Elements. I also show you how to upload your movies to YouTube.

Archiving Movies on Photoshop.com

I'll never forget the first time I left a vinyl record sitting next to a window in direct sunlight. I came back a few hours later and the record was warped beyond repair. Ruined! If only I had a backup!

Today most media is stored on computer hard drives rather than on vinyl LPs. Computers don't warp if you leave them out in the sun, but the digital age has made us no less vulnerable to data loss. An unexpected hard drive failure can mean that all your stored music, photos, and movies are gone forever. But if you have ...

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