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Broadcast Yourself - How to Get Started on YouTube

By Gretchen Siegchrist, About.com

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Find Your Video

Click on the Browse… button to search your computer files for your video. Videos must be shorter than 10 minutes and less that 100MB.

YouTube will compress whatever you upload, so it’s best to start with the highest quality video you can. You may have to do a little bit of compressing before uploading, but try to keep the video as close to 100MB as possible. Otherwise, the image quality will suffer after it’s re-compressed by YouTube.

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