Ok, you're looking to add those cool annotations to your Youtube videos?
Well, for the next few minutes I'm going to show you how to effectively use annotations
to connect and engage with your audience.
Plus, I'm going to show you a few things that you might not know.
Ok, now adding those Youtube annotations could really engage your audience.
Now, you can add a speech bubble, you can add a note, a title, a spotlight, or just
even pause the video at the right time.
Ok, that was just a little bit awkward.
Well, I'd better show you exactly how to make those annotations on your Youtube video, let's
take a look!
Ok, you ready to put that cool annotation in your Youtube video?
The first thing we need to do is click on the Video Manager button up here in the upper
right-hand corner.
This is going to load in all your videos and what we want to do is select a video that
we want to add that annotation.
Once you find it go ahead and click the edit button.
Then the next step that we need to do is click on Annotations.
This will automatically start playing the video, we want to hit pause.
What we want to do now is use this slider right here and scrub it to that point in time
where we want that annotation to show up.
So right at 15 seconds.
Now the next step that we need to do is click on the upper right-hand corner where is says
add annotation.
We can do the speech bubble, a note, title spotlight, label, and pause.
For this one we're actually going to do a speech bubble.
So it adds this little speech bubble here and what we want to do is be able to move
that around so all you got to do is click on it, hold your mouse button down and you
can move this anywhere in the video frame.
The next thing I want to show you is you can actually put dialogue in the speech bubble.
You can either double-click on that and we can actually say hi, or you can go on the
right-hand side in this dialogue box and you can go ahead and type more information or
all the information there.
Underneath that there is a couple really cool tools.
The first one is what we call impact.
This actually will put a bevel and also a shadow on that speech bubble.
This one right here will actually change the size of the font.
This will actually change the font color.
And this will actually change the annotation background.
So if you want it purple, or we can have it be green, or we want it to be black.
Ok, the next thing I'm going to show you is how to do the start and stop time for the
annotation to pop up in that video.
Now to do that you can either adjust it here, you can just select the time, so right now
it's at :15 it's going to pop up.
Let's go ahead and make that :14.
And you can have it end, let's say, on :25.
Now another way to do that is to come right over here and just click on this, hold your
mouse down, and you can kinda make it as big as you want or as small as you want.
And this is when the annotation is going to pop up.
Ok, now the last function that we have is the link button.
So we can go ahead and do a link.
You can see here that we can do a video, a playlist, a channel, you can even tie it to
your google+ profile, you can have it subscribe to your Youtube channel, fund-raising project,
or merchandise.
So let's go ahead and put a video in there.
We also want to test this out to see if it actually works.
It actually pops up a new window, ok perfect.
Let's go ahead and go back to that.
The last thing we want to do is we want to be able to hit save here and then also publish.
Now this is live and it's ready to go, this dialogue box will be here with that link so
when they click on it it will actually take them to that video which is really, really
cool.
Ok let's do our next annotation.
The next annotation is a note, note is the same as speech bubble so we don't need to
worry about that.
So what we want to do it title, title you can go ahead and start typing stuff in, you
can see what that does.
We can change the font size, we can actually change the font color, and you can have your
start time and end time.
This brings a great title in there if you want to just put something in your video.
Now I'm going to show you my favorite annotation tool, which is spotlight.
Now, once we click to the end I like to put a little teaser at the end to get people to
subscribe or look at my playlist or even watch other videos on my Youtube channel.
So as you can see this one is for the "subscribe to my channel", this one right here is to
watch a video, this one's to watch a video, this actually goes to a playlist, this one
right here this is what I like, it goes to my google+ profile.
So people can click on it, go to my google+ profile, and get more information about me.
Ok, I'm going to give you one last bit of advise.
You want to really keep those annotations very simple, and you want to make it very
easy for them to subscribe to your channel.
HELP ME!
Subscribe!
So we can get rid of these annotations!
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