Leawo MP4 Converter Giveaway on Facebook

Leawo MP4 Converter is now for free as long as you become a fan of Leawo Software on Facebook! The address of Leawo Software on Facebook is http://www.facebook.com/pages/LeawoSoft/133545973323280?v=app_7146470109

Leawo MP4 Converter can convert video to MP4 rapidly for portable media players. Merge or join multiple videos and convert into one MP4 file.

Now, just to be a fan of LeawoSoft on Facebook and you can get the key code for Leawo MP4 Converter.

How to be a fan?

1. Click the 'Like' button on Facebook.

2. Enter your Name and Email.

3. Get it! Click 'Get it Now' button on the image.

To learn more information, you can go to these pages -

http://www.leawo.com/software-giveaway.html

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Note:

1. If you do not receive the keycode, please contact their customer services via giveaway@leawo.com or post on the discussion board. This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. You understand that you are providing your information to Leawosoft and not to Facebook.

2. You can't get free upgrade or technical support for this giveaway version of Leawo MP4 Converter.

Optimize Video for YouTube

If you have video to be uploaded to YouTube, it's very important to optimize the video before uploading. A well-optimized and high definition video can bring viewers better visual experiences, and may drive more viewers to your video.

(Want to download videos and movies from YouTube for free? You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader. It is a free YouTube video downloader that can download and convert videos from YouTube and other websites. You can learn more features of it from its user guide.)

Before start, you can learn more information about Supported video / audio formats for uploading to YouTube.

In general, for best upload results, ensure your video and audio lengths are the same. If you're using an editing package, make sure that the file you upload to YouTube does not have edit lists. You can go to YouTube Uploading Tips for Video Editing Tools on Apple to learn more details.

Now let's begin to learn how to optimize widescreen video for YouTube uploads.

* Video needs to be original!

Original here means video with no decoding or encoding process. As each re-encoding can generally degrade the quality of your video and create some specific problems too, which we'll address below. So the less a video is re-encoded prior to uploading, the better the resulting YouTube video quality.

* Aspect ratio & no letterboxing or pillar-boxing bars

The aspect ratio of the original source video should always be maintained when it's uploaded: Uploaded videos should never include letterboxing or pillarboxing bars.

The YouTube player automatically adds black bars so that videos are displayed correctly without cropping or stretching, whatever the size of the video or the player. For example, the player will automatically add vertical bars (pillarboxing) to 4:3 videos in the new 16:9 widescreen player size. If the player is re-sized (when embedded on another website for example) the same process takes place, so that 16:9 videos are letterboxed (black bars top and bottom) when the player is sized to 4:3, for example. Similarly, anamorphic videos will be automatically letterboxed when shown in either 16:9 or 4:3 sized players. The player can only do this if the native aspect ratio of the video is maintained.

If letterboxing is added to a video before it is uploaded (to create a 4:3 video from a 16:9 master for example), the widescreen player will add pillarbox bars too, resulting in black bars all around the video (windowboxing) and a bad viewing experience (see the diagram below).

How to do it (Click to enlarge the picture)


How not to do it (Click to enlarge the picture)

* High definition is recommend

With new video formats developed and HD supports, YouTube offers the option to view video in high definition, such as 1080p, as long as the video you uploaded to YouTube is in high definition. HD video is the preferred format which results YouTube videos of the highest quality currently available.

* Frame Rate

The video frame rate should be the same as the original where possible - up-sampling from a 24fps original can cause judder artifacts for example. For film sources a 24 fps or 25 fps progressive master yields the best results while videos that have had a re-sampling transfer process applied - such as Telecine pulldown - often result in a lower quality video.

* Testing

Since there is no facility to re-upload videos, it's important to test your audio and video quality are satisfactory before you release your video publicly onto YouTube. Once a video becomes popular, the number of views, user ratings, user comments and other community data, cannot be transferred if another, higher quality version of the same video is uploaded. Make sure you get it right!

YouTube Uploading Tips for Video Editing Tools on Apple

If your video uploaded to YouTube is in high definition, YouTube will offers the option to view the video in high definition, such as 1080p resolution. Online video in high definition is good for both uploader and YouTube, and will be more and more popular in the future.

*You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download normal YouTube videos to your computer. The paid version of Leawo YouTube Downloader can download high definition videos from YouTube.*

Some of the users may have these questions: How to upload videos in high definition to YouTube? How to use video editing tools to optimize the video for uploading to YouTube?

Below tips are for the Apple users as they use the video editing tools for YouTube uploads.

If you're a Quicktime Pro, Finalcut Pro, or iMovies user, check out the following tips on how to export your video files and get the best results out of uploading to YouTube and the transcoding of your files.

* iMovie:
File -> Export -> Compress movie for: Expert Settings -> Share -> Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie -> Options
* Finalcut Pro:
File -> Export -> Using Quicktime Conversion -> Options
* QuickTime Pro:
File -> Export -> Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie -> Options

In the Options box:

1. In the Video section set the following parameters:
* Compression Type: H.264
* Frame Rate: 30
* Data Rate: Automatic
(if you choose to restrict the Data Rate, make sure to choose the highest value acceptable to you - more bits = better quality)
* Key Frames: Automatic
* Frame Reording: Unchecked

2. In the Video section click "Size":
Dimensions: Set this to the original size of your video (Note: HD resolutions preferred- 1280x720 or 1920x1080)

3. In the "Prepare for internet Streaming" section:
Select the "Prepare for internet Streaming" and choose "Fast Start" from the drop-down menu.

4. In the Audio section, make sure that the audio codec is AAC. Always use AAC as the preferred audio codec.

5. Once you've made all of these selections, click the "OK" button to save your preferences.

6. Add a title to the video file and click the "Save" button to save your edited version of your movie. Your project will then be exported and be ready to upload to YouTube.

Note:
The tips in green are important. Please make sure you format your files accordingly.

How to Download Google Videos and Convert to AVI

This question actually involves two aspects: download Google videos from video.google.com first and then convert them to AVI format.

The tutorial below will take Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and Leawo Free FLV Converter for example to show you how to download Google videos and convert downloaded Google videos to AVI. Leawo Free YouTube Downloader can download Google Videos, videos from YouTube, and other video sharing websites. And Leawo Free FLV Converter can convert those downloaded Google videos to other video formats like AVI and many other more.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downlaoder, type video.google.com in the address bar.

Step 2: Search and choose one Google video to play. A monitor message prompt from the right bottom corner of screen will remind users that a specific video has been found, ignore it or choose "Don't Ask Me Again" to close this prompt dialog.

Tips: you can also enter the video key words in the searching bar, and choose the target video site where the searching engine is going to perform the video search.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the downloading process of the selected Google video and watch it in the built-in FLV player at the same time.

Step 4: When the downloading completes, indicated by a yellow smiley, click "Download" button to save the downloaded Google video to the appointed folder on your PC. A green tick will appear when the saving process is finished.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to convert the downloaded Google video to AVI if you want the format conversion.

Step 6: Leawo Free FLV Converter will be invoked now. Select AVI as the target video format and click the green button to convert Google video to AVI immediately.

Reshipment from Leawo Software User Guide

YouTube Rentals Beta - How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Two)

How to Become a YouTube Partner Part One - Benefits of YouTube Partner


The YouTube Rentals Beta I'm going to introduce is a pay-to-view model on YouTube. It provides content owners a new way to generate revenue from their home-made videos on the site. YouTube Rentals allows partners the flexibility to benefit from a variety of videos, complete control over their video content and pioneering use of the world's largest online video community.

(Want to download videos from YouTube and all other video sites? Just use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.)

Currently, the YouTube Rentals Beta service is available only to the content owners in the US.

Want your content on YouTube be available for people to rent? You can Apply Now.

Create the best rental experience

From the YouTube Rentals service, partners can get unprecedented flexibility and control over monetization, marketing, and distribution for online video.

• Full control of your rights, dissemination of time, rental prices and lease.
• You can choose to provide some content via the ad-supported model or make some free content for promotional purposes, to maximize your control over profit, marketing and distribution strategies.
• Try using different prices, service time and the lease to improve the attractiveness of a specific video.
• You can grow your audience on YouTube, learn what they like to watch, and tailor your content offering by tracking view trends.

Expand your audience and profit

If you are a YouTube partner, you will be able to benefit from this new revenue opportunities, and expand your influence via the world's largest online video community.

• Learn a new way to distribute and earn profit from your online content. Create a new revenue stream by making video archived, offline video, or new videos available for rent online.
• To communicate directly with your audience, announce new uploaded content or offline published content.
• Exposure to a large audience. YouTube is the largest online video site and the third largest site in the world. （comScore，2009）

If you are already a YouTube partner and still have a question, you can go to the YouTube Rental Support page.

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Three) - Qualifications & FAQ

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) - Benefits of YouTube Partner

If you have quality original videos and expanding audience on YouTube, you can apply for a YouTube partner to earn money from the plan.

Benefits of YouTube partner
YouTube is the biggest video sharing website in the world. Its traffic is much more than its competitors. (Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a perfect tool to download and convert videos from YouTube and other websites, click here to read its manual.)

Being a YouTube partner has the following benefits listed below:

1. Revenue

As a YouTube partner, you will be able to enjoy opportunities to create revenue.

• Earn money from the embedded advertisement on your video and advertisement beside your video.

• Share income from your video rental.

• Gain the opportunies of co-marketing and branded entertainment with top brand advertiser.

• Use your own marketing channel to sell your own advertisement

2. Video statistics analytics

Use YouTube's Insight analytics tools to optimize your existing content and create more targeted content to satisfy your audience and advertisers.

• Learn more characteristics of your audience and what they are watching.

• Learn more about how your audience find your video.

• Learn more about how are you and your competitors doing in terms of competition.

• Learn what content you have is the most popular & engaging.

• Tells you where your video is really successful, and where it is not good enough at a video level.

3. Protection

YouTube can protect both of your video content and brand.

• Protects the integrity of your brand through the branded channel options available only to partners.

• In addition, YouTube offers many Content Management tools for copyright protection that anyone may use, regardless of whether they are in a partnership with YouTube.

• Rental of your videos are delivered via secure streaming way, to avoid downloading by other people.

4. Video quality

YouTube will process your uploaded video in reliable way, and display them on YouTube at the highest resolution as far as possible.

• To those videos which are hot and attractive, YouTube will offer HD version accordingly.

• Offers aspect ration of 16:9 for video players.

• Join the ranks of YouTube's other high-quality video providers already in the Partner Program.

How to Become a YouTube Partner Part Two - YouTube Rental Beta

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Three) - Qualifications & FAQ

How to Download Online Videos

If the online video you come across is played with an Adobe Flash Player, then you may use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download it off to your computer! Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a free all-in-one video downloader which can download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion and other video sharing websites as long as they are played with Adobe Flash Player.

Suppose you are going to download videos with this video downloader, the easiest way is to drag the YouTube video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and then the video downloader will begin the downloading automatically.

Of course, you can also type the URL in the program address bar, this applies to all the video sites, for example, Google Video. Browse videos in its built-in FLV player with high speed, then download them to your appointed folder within just a click, and convert them directly to the format you want for your phone and portable media player.

The tutorial below will take YouTube and Google Video respectively for example to show how to free download video.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, click settings icon, choose "Show hover window on program startup" in "General" tab from the pop-up window.

Step 2: Browse YouTube videos in IE or any browser, choose the one you want to download, and then drag the selected video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the video downloading progress. When the downloading completes, double click the downloaded video, you could play it with the built-in player, or click "Download" button to save the downloaded video to your PC.

Step 4: For downloading Google video and other online videos, type the URL in the address bar and choose one Google video to play. Then repeat the Step 3 shown above.

Source is Leawo Software user guide.