Steve Dotto here.
How the heck are you doing this fine day?
Me?
Actually, I’m kind of sore.
After a month of hiatus, our fitness class started up again today and I did not exercise
once during the entire month off.
I’m paying the price for it today.
Now while I did not exercise my body over the last month, my brain was working overtime
and I will share what I’ve learned in that time with you today on DottoTech.
Ask DottoTech is a show where you ask questions and I do my best to answer them.
Now you can ask me those questions on Twitter, you can ask me those questions on Facebook
or you can ask me those questions on YouTube.
Now the first question that we have actually came to us via Twitter and it’s from Mrs.
Voepel who says, “I need to send a video to family that is over 20MB”—I think she’s
referring to her video, not her family being over 20MB— “I can’t send it in a text
or Gmail.
What can I do?”
Well, I actually have a suggestion for what you can do.
Why don’t you think about saving the video to YouTube and then using a YouTube link to
share it with your family?
Now there are a few things you’re going to want to do.
Because it’s family video, you probably don’t want to post it for the entire world
to see.
So you’re going to want to set some privacy settings on YouTube but you can protect the
content on YouTube so that nobody else can see it and then you can use YouTube as basically
your distribution medium to get it to your family.
It’s quite simple.
Now I have here my personal YouTube account.
When you create a YouTube account—you’re going to need a Gmail account or Google account
in order to create your YouTube account but once you create it, you want to go into the
area called Creator’s Studio when you are in YouTube.
Creator Studio will give you this thing here called a dashboard.
The dashboard is where we manage our videos.
We determine how much privacy there is set on those videos and we can do other things
with those videos as well.
But I’m going to first of all show you the process of uploading a new video, say your
first video, and then what you want to do to protect the privacy and then how you find
the URL, the link to share it with your family and I think this will be a good solution for
you.
So the first thing you want to do is just to upload the video and you can click right
up here.
When you’re in the Creators Studio, the management area, at the upper right-hand corner
you find the ability to upload.
Now you can just drag the videos and drop them here or you can click here and you can
navigate to your videos the way that you would normally navigate to any other file.
So I’m just going to grab a video that I have here, which is a nice little video I
shot on the iPhone of our niece and my partner having a nice playtime.
This is the sort of personal video that you might want to use.
So the first thing that you’re going to do when you upload the video is you’re going
to give it a name.
See just this process of selecting it, has started the process and now you see is actually
uploading to YouTube.
But worry not because it’s set here at unlisted, meaning unless you share it, unless people
know how to look for it, they won’t be able to find it.
You could actually make it so they need a password to find it by making it private but
I think unlisted would probably do for the most part for you.
Now what you can do is you can give the video a name.
I’m going to call this Fun Times because it’s playing with the child and then you
can give it a description and you can add tags if you want.
These things are more for videos that you’re going to be sharing with the public than private
so you don’t need to worry about them.
The next thing you do need to worry about though is making sure that it is set at unlisted
and by being unlisted, it means that it’s not going to be available to the public unless
they know it’s there.
Once you’ve done all of that, you can say done and then you have to kind of sit back
and wait because it’s going to take a few moments for the entire process to happen.
Now what’s going to happen is over the internet now, your video has been taken and it’s
being uploaded to YouTube.
Once it reaches YouTube, YouTube will take it and it will compress it and it will compile
it so that it’s ready to share it and serve it.
Now YouTube has hundreds of hours of video being uploaded to it every minute so yours
is just another one in the queue.
It doesn’t take very long for it to happen but it does take a few moments, a few minutes
depending on how large and how long your video is for it to be successfully uploaded.
Now when you just start out, if you have a free account and you haven’t set yourself
up as a YouTube partner like you’re doing business with YouTube, you’ll be limited
to probably I think under 15 minutes for a video but still plenty of time.
But you see this video is already up and it’s ready to go in.
It even has a thumbnail in place and you can actually share it right from this point if
you want.
But I’m not going to recommend you do that.
However, I am going to ask you to notice this URL.
This link is something that you can now share in an email or share in a tweet which will
allow your family to view the video from YouTube even if they aren’t logged on or anything
like that.
They can just click on this and the YouTube video will play.
When we click on return to editing, that’s going to take us back into the editor.
Actually, let’s just go here and let’s go back to the Creators Studio.
Now we see the video uploaded in Creators Studio and here’s where we can go in and
we can really get granular about what we want to do with it.
We can click on the Edit button right there and then that will allow us to go into the
video in the full editor—and this is what I do with all my videos that we upload, the
video that you’re watching right now we do this on our main channel for very single
video—and we go through the video, we add thumbnails, we add descriptions and all that
sort of content to it.
But here’s where you can go to view it to make sure that it’s all in good shape and
here’s where you go to change the sharing settings.
Right now, it’s set to unlisted.
If we go to private, in order for people to view it you have to share it with individuals
and only they will be able to see it.
It will be based on them actually logging in.
So as I say for the most part, I think if you just leave it as unlisted, you’ll be
fine.
Again, we have the URL button you can share.
So if we put that URL into an email—let me just go in and let’s create a new email
and show you how this might happen—we’re going to paste that URL into the video and
now if somebody were to click on that URL, this is what they would see.
They would be brought to a YouTube play page and you’ll see the video just for your family
or the people who you want to share it with.
Now you’ll notice that comments are disabled on this video.
If you want your family to be able to actually go in and comment on it and be able to make
little comments, you go into your Advanced Settings here and you turn on Allow comments
and then all of the people you are sending it to can tell you how awesome it is to have
the video shared with them.
So there you have it, Mrs. Voepel.
That’s how you can share larger videos with your family by texting or emailing it to them.
The next question we have on Ask Dotto Tech comes from John Boyd and it came to us in
YouTube comments.
Now John had viewed the video about my 3 Favorite Gmail Add-ons and he says, “Maybe you better
guide us how to install these add-ons into Gmail.
Thanks.”
So I was remiss in not doing that, John.
I’m happy to share that.
Let me show you how you go about adding those add-ons into Gmail or indeed into any web
browser because that's exactly what happens.
We don’t actually install any add-ons of the sort that I was showing on the Gmail video.
We don’t actually install it in Gmail but instead these are things called browser extensions
and they work the same or relatively the same on all the major browsers.
So here I am in Chrome which is the one I used on the demo and all you have to do to
add any of these extensions is you go into your Preferences within Chrome and once you
go into preferences, you will see the extensions option right here.
Extensions are where we turn on and off our different extensions.
Now typically speaking, those extensions will appear here on the browser bar so you can
see the ones that I have turned on all available to me here.
Now sometimes, they’ll just appear in the Gmail window itself.
Now if you want to add new extensions into Chrome, you can do it a variety of different
ways but the easiest way is to go into this menu here click Get more extensions.
Search for the extension in the Chrome web Store and then when you find an extension
that you’re interested in adding—I don’t know which one it’s going to be; let’s
say it’s going to be Turn Off the Lights, I don’t even know what Turn Off the Lights
is—they all work the exact same.
You click here on Add to Chrome and it installs it in your Chrome browser.
It’s just that easy to add the extensions.
So that’s how we extend the functionality of browser-based tools like Gmail.
I know you’re wondering well okay, this is great, Steve, but how do I do this in safari
because I’m a Mac user and I use Safari.
Well, let’s just open Safari.
In Safari, we have Safari Extensions and we have Preferences, two places that we can go
to work with our extensions.
Safari Extensions brings us to a web page where we can search for and install our preferences
but the Preferences is where you go to actually manage them.
Now I don’t have very many installed in Safari but here I can turn them on and off
just as I can in the Chrome browser.
Very similar process, just slightly different interface.
Not to be left out, let us take a look at Firefox.
Firefox works with extensions pretty much the same but slightly differently.
Firefox, we find our extension under the Tools bar in Add-ons.
This bring us in and allows us to manage all the extensions the exact same way as we managed
them in Chrome and in Safari.
So there you have it, John Boyd.
This is how you install your add-ons for Gmail into your different browsers.
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Have fun storming the castle!