Making and Optimizing Your Videos
Welcome To Hunting is designed to make sharing your videos with friends and family as easy as possible. All you need is a Camcorder and you're off to the races.
Digital and Analog Camcorders
If you already have a digital camcorder (one that captures in Digital8, MiniDV, HDV, or any of the DVD formats), then you're ready to start shooting your masterpiece. Your camcorder will need some kind of direct connection to your computer, either to the USB or FireWire ports or by inserting the DVD you've recorded. Once you've downloaded the video from the camera, you can upload it to Welcome To Hunting or bring it into an editing program to play with it some more.
If you have an analog camcorder (one that uses VHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, 8mm, or Hi8 tape), you can still get your videos onto Welcome To Hunting. It will require an extra step and some additional equipment, though, since these camcorders are not usually equipped with computer connections. You will need to digitize the video with a converter box, which will convert the analog signal from the camcorder to a digital signal that the computer can understand. After the video has been digitized, you can manipulate it further or upload it.
Editing and Improving Your Videos
If you want to be a bit more hands-on with your video, most new computers come with basic video-editing software installed (like Apple's iMovie or Windows MovieMaker). Once you have copied the video from your camcorder to your computer, you can bring the video into these programs. Most allow you to not only edit the video, but add effects, titles, and music to make your video look and sound more interesting.
Uploading Your Videos to Welcome To Hunting.com
Once you're happy with your final result, you'll need to save the video in a format that can be compressed before uploading using the Riva FLV Encoder. You must save your video as an .AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, or Windows media WMV file see specifics — these are the most common formats and they can be compressed using the Riva FLV Encoder. Then simply compress your video using the Riva FLV Encoder and upload it to our system. If you don't have any idea how to compress your videos go to our full screen page and upload the .avi file (assuming it is less than a gig) and we will compress it for you.
Making Your Video Easy To Find
When you upload your video, we require you to choose at least one category and enter at least one tag to describe the content in your video. Adding this information helps other Welcome To Hunting members find your video, so if you want an audience, help them out! The more accurate the tags are on each video, the easier it is for everyone to find great hunting videos to watch.
Make your tags as descriptive as you can—if you took a video of your last elk hunt with your bow, you might want to tag it like this: Elk hunting, Bow. Each tag is separated from the others by a comma.
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— The Welcome To Hunting Team —
