 In this video, we'll be looking at some best practices when uploading videos to YouTube and the actual process of uploading videos to YouTube. So if that sounds like something that is of interest to you, then stick around because this video is for you. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. Now a little while ago, I did a whole introductory video to the YouTube Studio interface and went through all the different sort of menus and sections and options that you have available to you within there to give a bit of an overview of how to use it really. So I'll leave a link to that video up in the top corner and also down in the description. And this is sort of a follow on for it from it because what I didn't cover in that video was exactly how you upload a video to YouTube. Now incidentally, I did also do a video on how to set up a live stream to YouTube. So I'll link to that one in the top corner as well and also in the description of course. But let's get on to the actual uploading of a video to YouTube because there are a few sort of best practices that you might want to follow. Now there is a little way that you can get coached on this on an ongoing basis by a little thing called TubeBuddy but I'll talk about that a little bit later because it's something that I use and I find it very useful to just remind me to do all of the things that I'm supposed to be doing. Although I've got a bit of a confession to make. There's a couple of things that I've not really been keeping on top of lately. So I'll touch on that a little bit later as well. But first of all, let me just go straight over to my screen sharing and I can show you, here we are in my page. By the way, my subscriber count is creeping up if you haven't subscribed already. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel and turn on those notifications so that you get notified the moment that I make any new videos. And let's come over to create a video. And by the way, if you are a subscriber and there's anything that you think that I could be doing better, I'm always open to feedback and creative criticism and also suggestions of anything that you'd like to see covered on the channel as well. So I have been known to bump up videos up my list. If somebody have requested specific videos and also just create entirely new videos for people who have asked for them. So feel free to leave your suggestions and comments in the description below as well. So I'm gonna go over to here to the upload video. So I've clicked on the create menu at the top and then upload video. If you watched the streaming one before, then that's where you set up a stream. But we're just going to upload a video. And then once the little window pops up, did I even press that? Clearly not. There we go. I don't know quite what happened there. It took a little bit of time, didn't it? But there you go. So I'm just gonna drag and drop a little test recording that I did onto here to show you the process because it'd be nice and quick to upload as well. So you just drag it on. You don't actually have to wait for it to upload. It will just immediately pop up into this box and it will give it the name of the file as a default, which I call test recording, as you can see down here. So that is the name that it has given it. And full disclosure, if suddenly there's been a bit of a jump on the screen, it's because I inadvertently press my finish button on my stream deck instead of the little zoom button. So I wanted to press, so I have to stitch these two files together afterwards, but never mind. So there you go. You can see the name of the title of the video has been given the same as the title of the file that I uploaded. The description has already pre-populated with some information. Now you can set a sort of default introduction that you want to have included. So I have all of this at the bottom of all my videos. It includes some links to some of the software and programs that I use and a few other sort of useful links and things like that at the bottom as well. So I just have that going in there as a default and I explained how to do that in that other video that I mentioned, which was all about the YouTube interface. And in there I talked about how you can set these sort of presets up from the beginning. So I just normally go into here and then I would just click down a couple of paragraphs, a couple of rows rather lines and then type in my new description for whatever this video was going to be about. Now I'm not going to actually go in and edit this too much in here because I want to show you some of the best practices and I'm basically going to steal them from TubeBuddy because it tells me what to do every time I upload a video. So I think that that is useful. So we'll come in, have a look at that afterwards. So here you've got a place to upload a thumbnail and it's simply a case of dragging the thumbnail and dropping it onto here. If not, then it will, if you don't upload a thumbnail manually, it will just pull out some random frames from the video and you can actually select which frame to use as a thumbnail. Obviously I totally recommend creating a proper custom thumbnail. Here you've got the ability to add it to a playlist as well by clicking the little drop down and then you can just select which playlist you want to add it to. So I suppose I should add this to my YouTube channel Tools playlist and then click done and you can highlight multiple different playlists if you want and then I'll come down here a little bit further and this one is just default. I've set that not made for children and then there's a little show more icon but I'm not actually going to edit this all in here. I want to just sort of click through this and we'll come into the main editing interface afterwards because it's got a bit more information on it there and I'll leave end screens and all of these things as well but we all be able to just obviously do them as you go through them in here as well but I'm just going to get this loaded into the interface first so that I can show you some of these best practices. No copyrights found, fortunately because I use Epidemic Sound. So incidentally, if you are a creator and are looking to use music in your videos then I can highly recommend heading over to Epidemic Sound and the way to get there is to go to takeonetech.io slash epidemic and sign up for a free trial there and that gives you an access to a huge catalog of really high quality music that you can use in your videos and sound effects by the way I'm not too big on the sound effects personally but I know that some people can carry them off. I personally can't so but I do have music obviously at the beginning and the end of my videos and also in my intro and I use it on my live streams and things like that as well. So Epidemic just gives you access to, as I say, a huge library and allows you to whitelist your YouTube channel, your Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, wherever you want to use it or maybe even on your podcast as well and yet you get access to this library and then you don't have to worry about copyright strikes so you hopefully, when you're on this page in YouTube, you won't ever need to worry about any copyright infringements or anything like that. So I highly, highly recommend that. And by the way, the quality of the music in there is absolutely excellent, proper real musicians rather than just sort of generic stock music. So in here you have the ability to choose whether you want to make it a private video that only you can watch. You can actually share a link by email to people with that but it is essentially private. The next option is unlisted which means that it won't be shown in anybody's feeds, it won't be put into any searches or anything like that on YouTube. However, anybody who does have the link for the video which is by the way here, this video link, anybody who has that link would be able to watch it and they would be able to forward that link onto other people and they could watch it if that is what you wanted. Or the other option is public. There is also the option to set as instant premiere and with the instant premiere it is essentially, the video is plain but it is intended for you to be sort of watching along with it so that you can sort of have it as a premiere and comment and so on with anybody else watching at the time but it's not a live stream as such if you see what I mean. The next option is to schedule and so if you click on that one you can just basically schedule a date when you want it to go live and that would be then public but you can also set it as a premiere at a particular time as well. So I'm going to just come back to this one and I'm just gonna make this a private video for the moment or an unlisted video and then that's be a fairly good example. So if I click on save and then you'll think about it for a moment and save the video and you can see at the bottom by the way the upload status. So it doesn't actually have to have uploaded, the upload doesn't have to have completed for you to complete this process. It will continue to upload in the background. As it happens, it was a pretty short file and the upload has completed. So from here you can copy the link and share that if you want or you can simply just click on here to share it out to any of your social profiles but as you will remember we didn't actually go through the process of setting up all of that information. So I want to come and show you how you can add sort of more complete information than you can add in that first full window some things you will need to actually come back in to adjust potentially. So let me just close that down and then the place where you will find this is in your content. So I'll click in my content section. You will remember this from the first video about the YouTube Studio interface. So this is my little test recording here. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just click on that to go and edit the details and here is where I'm gonna sneakily share with you some of the top tips that I get from TubeBuddy. So just before I go on, what is TubeBuddy? Well TubeBuddy is as you will find out a sort of interface which is or a service rather that is very deeply integrated with YouTube and it allows you to do things like searching for optimized keywords, things like that, assessing your YouTube channel and your videos for the performance that they have and also how well they are set up. If you have been following the best practices and so on it gives you little check marks to make sure that you have done all of the things that you're supposed to do for each video which I'll show you in a moment. And yet it's a really good service. I believe it's $8 a month or $7.99 for the basic level and if you've got less than a thousand subscribers then it's actually half price. So only $4 a month, but for me it is worth the price because it enables me to go through this process of uploading videos and just serves as my little coach and checklist to make sure that I am ticking all these boxes. Although I'll show you, I'm not quite ticking every box at the moment so I need to up my game a little bit there. And it also does have a really advanced keyword search which I've demonstrated on a video I did all about TubeBuddy itself. So I'll leave a link to that video up in the top corner and in the description as well. And so with all of that waffling complete let me get back to my screen sharing. So now here we have got the video details loaded up and you can actually see that TubeBuddy sits up in the top corner here. So we've got a whole set of menu items here but I'm not gonna go through all of these because as I say, I did cover those in another video but what I want to show you is the sort of best practices for actually the video upload itself. And here you can see we've got exactly the same information that we've just looked at the title and so on and what I did was purposely, purposefully didn't do this too well because down here you can see the TubeBuddy integration and it's telling us best practices. So this is the little checklist that you get with the TubeBuddy interface that will help you as you are uploading your videos. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just actually tell you what it's suggesting so that you can learn from this and then if you want to see more of this TubeBuddy goodness then you can go over to takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy and try it out for yourself. But this is, yeah, best practices as I say for uploading your videos. So here we can see the first one that we have on the list. Down here you can see I've got one of eight completed. So if I click on show completed it will show what I've done. So I've added it to a playlist. So that is one that is a best practice is to sort of be able to organize your videos as you start growing your channel to have more and more then being able to add them to a playlist. And in that other video I did about the YouTube Studio interface I covered all about playlists, how to set them up and how to have them featuring on your channel. So there we go. I've got one little green tick. We're obviously aiming for eight ticks here. But at the moment I've only got one. Now the next thing is the title should be between 20 and 70 characters long. Now if you come up to the top here it does actually tell you the character count and with YouTube the maximum you've got is a hundred characters. So at the moment I'm only using 14 of a hundred characters. So I suppose there is a thinking that obviously if you use the full amount of a hundred characters maybe it takes up a little bit too much space people aren't going to necessarily read it all. And so here they're recommending title between 20 and 70 characters. I tend to always aim for the higher end of that just to be able to get in as much of the information I want to get over about what's included in the video. So I tend to aim for 70 characters to be honest with you and that's just my personal preference. But here you can see that is a sort of best practice to go for. The next one is to add chapters. Now chapter marks is the one thing that I've been a bit lax on really. Well that and also cards. So we'll come into cards in a moment but cards are where I say I'll leave a link up in the top corner and that little bar appears up in the top corner with a link to another video. So but here we're talking about chapters and chapters are the markers that you get on a video along the bottom of the sort of, oops sorry for knocking the microphone, along the sort of bar at the bottom which mark different sections in the video. Now why is this important? Well it's important for a couple of reasons. First of all it is just generally a good navigation aid for people who are watching your videos that they can sort of skip forward to a particular chapter or if they are rewatching a video because you've got such great content in there and they keep going back for more than having those markers in so that they can easily find the section especially when it's things like the sort of things I'm doing which are sort of tutorials, people may want to go back to a specific point to watch them again. And especially so if you're making sort of longer form videos as well. So that's sort of one reason but also for search it is a very important factor in getting found on YouTube and also just in Google and let me just give you an example of this. So I've just done a quick Google search for Stream Deck Profiles. It's something that I did a video about recently and so if you do a search for Stream Deck Profiles in Google, not in YouTube, in Google you will get the usual results so how can I add Stream Deck Profiles, things like this and you'll get some links to some pages but given that Google owns YouTube surprisingly they do feature YouTube quite heavily and in fact it's right at the top here. You'll often see something like this and you may have often wondered as well how does it know where the little snippet of information that I'm looking for is in the video because you can see here we've got a video and it says six key moments in this video relate to profiles, how to create a Stream Deck Profile method one create a new profile in Stream Deck and so on and so on and so on. So here you can see the actual timestamp markers where these particular bits of information are and that's because there is actually two reasons going on here. The first and predominant one though is because the content creator has put in these timestamps these chapter markers. The other way is that Google's getting very clever at not that it ever wasn't but is getting very clever at actually listening to the audio and generating captions or you upload in your own captions and yeah just actually figuring out where in the videos this stuff is being mentioned but chapter markers certainly help and having them there in your descriptions, in your titles, in your headers and also in your chapter markers all add to the search engine optimization of your channel. So let me just show you how easy this is to do in theory. So if I wanted to add chapter markers in here let me just take you two to a video which I have done and I've purposely chosen a long video. This was my longest video to date actually at four hours, 24 minutes long and it was my, I called it the zero to hero tutorial which is a bit of a bold claim I suppose but it was all about how to use Ecum Live which is the software that I'm using to produce this video and it was all about how to basically go from almost a clean install of that all the way through to a fully built out live production environment which is what I'm using here and incidentally it's probably a good time to mention Ecum Live because for the whole month of July in 2021 which is where we are at the moment they have a 30% discount offer. So if you head over to takeonetech.io slash Ecum or Ecum Live either of those will get you there then that will take you over to the site where you can download a free trial and give it a go yourself. If you've heard about OBS, Open Broadcast Software then it's similar to that except far more user friendly and just a much nicer experience. In my humble opinion I've tried them both and I opted for the Ecum Roots myself and as I say it's what I used to do all of the sort of live production of this video and all my videos on the fly in one take. Highly recommend that piece of software but in any case so this was a four and a half hour video and yes I did that in one take. I sat down for four and a half hours and made this video. And so this video that I'm talking about here and so obviously having that broken up by chapter markers was pretty much essential if anyone was gonna watch it and get some value from it and be able to go back to the point where they were if they didn't wanna sit through four and a half hours of me which I doubt anybody really does. But the way that you add in the chapter markers is simply a case of just adding it into the description somewhere. You don't need any special formatting or anything like that. The only thing you need to do is just make sure that you put in timestamps and then the title of that particular chapter. And you always need to start with this zero zero colon zero zero and call that whatever you want. I've called it intro, you can call it whatever but that sort of signifies to YouTube that that is the start of your chapter markers. And then you just simply go down and just put it in this format of minutes and seconds, minutes and seconds all the way down. If you do actually get to long videos like this one of up mine then you just simply add on the hours in front of that as well. All the way down to, well where did we get to? Four hours something, four hours 19 was my summing up. So there you go. And just add in those titles. And then when you watch your video or somebody else hopefully watches your video they'll see all these little chapter markers on your video. And then when they hover over them they'll get these little snippets of information pop up so that they can see where to go to. And crucially Google and YouTube will be searching these particular titles that you've given them, the chapter titles and taking that into consideration when ranking your video. So it's definitely an important one to do. And this is where I've been a bit lax recently I'm afraid because it does involve for me because I do these videos in one take it does involve me going back and watching them to in order to figure out exactly what the time stamps are for these chapter markers. So imagine that I had to go back and watch my four hour video albeit at double speed to actually pull out these. Now you can obviously as somebody pointed out to me get a VA to do this if you really want to but not everybody is in a position necessarily to want to do that but that is one option. And it's probably one I'm gonna look at relatively soon actually because it doesn't take an awful lot of time for somebody to do and somebody who can probably do it for a hell of a lot cheaper than you could do it yourself if you were sitting down and having to watch all your videos back. Nevermind the mental scarring that you might get from watching your own videos. So in any case that is what that one is. So that is if I need to go back to my other video and that is what chapters are. So definitely a good thing to do if you are wanting more and more people to find your videos which presumably you are if you're putting your stuff out into the world in the first place. The next one, this is a best practice but it's not a huge amount that you can do about it except it says get a like on Facebook. So YouTube isn't the only place you should be sharing your video. Make sure you tell your connections on Facebook about it. So I suppose it is best practice because it's just about sharing your videos to other social platforms in the first place but then here it will, TubeBuddy will detect if you have actually got a like on the video on Facebook and it will mark that with a little tick. And incidentally, if you do want to know how to easily cross post your videos from YouTube to social media, I guess what, I did a video about it about how you can automate the process. So I'll leave a video to that up in the top corner as well. Bear in mind, all of these things that I'm telling you that I'm gonna leave a link in the top corner, I have to actually physically go back and do this. So that is part of this process is making sure that I do go back and do these things. And we'll come on to that in a little moment. The next one is adding more tags. So if I scroll down for a moment, a little bit further down, we've got an area here where you can add tags. So let me just say that this one is going to be about YouTube, for example. YouTube content creation, let me call it that. So you just simply type a tag in and press the comma and it will pop in like that. So you'll notice that that is now, it's got a sort of little box around it and a little cross next to it, so you can delete it that way as well. But that is now a tag that you've got. Another one of TubeBuddy's great little features is this window that comes underneath where it will actually suggest a whole load of other tags that it thinks are similar. I've mentioned this before, so I'm not gonna play on the TubeBuddy stuff too much in this video, it's more about the overall best practices, but it is worth a mention and you can sort these tags by relevance, by the keyword score. So TubeBuddy gives keywords a particular score based on a number of different factors. So you can search by that or you can just look at by search traffic, so which keywords are getting searched for most. But as I say, this is a TubeBuddy specific little feature down here. The best practice part that you want to remember if you're not gonna sign up for TubeBuddy is that in the keywords, you have up to 500 characters. So if you are only using a few of those, you're not really giving yourself the best possible chance to get found by keywords. Obviously, you don't wanna put things in there that are not related to your video. That certainly will be harmful rather than helpful. But if you can think of other ways to express what it is that is contained within your video in the content and how people might be searching in order to find your video, then do fill out this with as many as you can think of and ideally up to as close to 500 as you can get because it all helps with the, as I say, the search engine optimization. So the next one is it says add more tags, which we've just looked at, but the next one is add tags to your title. So what you are looking for is everything being a single sort of cohesive message that you're putting out there, bearing in mind that you will have captions that will come under captions in a moment as well on your either ones that you generate or auto-generated. So the YouTube algorithm, if you like, or the mind behind it, will be able to look at the content of your video. It will also be able to look at the content of your description and the information that you have in your tags, in your cards and also in your timestamps, I'm forgetting the word there, chapters is the word that I was scrambling around to try and find there in your chapters, but also in your title and you want all of this to seem relatable and relevant and all sort of a cohesive message. So we certainly don't want any tags, as I say, that aren't related to your video, but also if you have got tags in there, make sure those tags are also featuring in the title because presumably that is what you think people are gonna be searching for. So trying to work those into the title is certainly a best practice. So TubeBuddy is just noticing that we've got a title and we've got a couple of tags, but they don't actually match at the moment. So make sure that you do have those tags in your titles. Now, the next one down is info cards and that is, as I say, those little things where you say I'm gonna link to another video or whatever up in the top corner. I'll do a little demonstration of that afterwards. I'll just cover this last one because there's a few things to point out about that. The last one here is add an end screen and this is when your video is over. If you go to a screen, if I like I go to a screen a bit like this, where I say if you've enjoyed this video, I've got more videos coming up next, but don't go anywhere. It's not really the end. Those sorts of end screens where it pops up with a couple of videos and things like that and maybe a subscribe button, that is the end screen. So make sure that you do set one of those. Guess what, I made a video about it. I made a video about how to add in an end screen and also how to set this up with the ECAM Live to create the end screen in that as well. So I'll leave a link to that video. Now, one thing to bear in mind with info cards is you can only have five in a video. So I think I've used up my five. So I mustn't promise that I'm going to link to another video in the top corner now. If I've used all five, I'll have to watch the video back to see if I really have or if it's four. I can't quite remember. But yeah, add in that end screen. Now, the info cards, that is another one where you actually have to go in and add it manually. So I'll just come up to the top and here is where we add in the end screen. So as I say, I've made a separate video about that. So I shall, in fact, I'll just quickly show you because it is quite straightforward. Save you going and rooting around for another video somewhere in my channel. So the end screen, this can come on up to 20 seconds before the end of the video and it will automatically pull up some sort of previous end screens that you've got. So this one just here is the one that I've used last and it's actually the template that I've got for all of my videos really because what it's done here is over in this window it's just pulled up an example or rather the last 20 seconds, 20 seconds out from the end of my video. And you can see that I've timed everything so that I've got this little frame here and I can pop in a video in each of these two boxes. And the way you do that is by selecting an end screen and if I select that one, then you'll see what it'll do is it's loaded up these different elements. Now they don't have to all come in at the same time but I basically have a video coming in at the top right and then I usually have a playlist coming in at the bottom right which is relevant to whatever the topic is. I've only got say five or six different playlists that I generally have for the sort of content that I'm creating. So I just put the most relevant one down there and then the top one is a video. You can add elements here by clicking on this plus. You can have up to four sort of those larger elements and then also you can add your subscribe button. So I have my subscribe button coming up slightly later because I do my little outro and then for five seconds and then the last 15 seconds it shows the videos staying on there and also at 15 seconds out the subscribe button comes up. So that is what I do. As I say, I've explained this in a lot more depth and how to set all the timings up and everything like that in that other video but you can basically add either a video, a playlist or you can actually link to another channel if you want to do that. And when you get to a certain level in terms of subscribers in YouTube I think it's linked to that anyway. Then you can also put external links to websites and things like that. So that is how you add in the end scenes but as I say, there's a much more thorough video on that. So I'm just gonna come back out of this. In fact, let me click save. But the cards you just come into here and I'll click on this little pencil icon next to where it says cards. So this is where we're gonna add in these little info cards or the little links that come up partway through your videos. And here you have an option to add in either a video. So if you want to link to one of your own videos or you want to link to a playlist in fact, it doesn't have to be one of your own videos and also a channel if you want to link to an external channel and then also you've got this one to add a link to a website or whatever. But as I say, that needs to be, you need to be at a certain level in terms of number of subscribers in order for that to be active. But simply you click on, let's say I want to link to one of my other videos. You just simply click the button here. Notice also that we've got a little TubeBuddy thing that said apply a template. So once again, you can create templates and things like that in TubeBuddy to automatically add certain videos and certain links in at certain times. So that's something to bear in mind with TubeBuddy. But like I say, I'm going to show you how to do this manually. Now in terms of adding a specific video, you've basically got two search boxes at the top and then you've got a series of videos which is all of your videos underneath or a selection of them. And then you can search either search for your own video or you could search for any other video on YouTube. So if you want to link to somebody else's video you can do that as well. But let's say I just want to link to this one which is one idea to all about how you can do on-screen telestration using an iPad linked to Ecam Live. So you can see that I've selected that and it's dropped in the video there and that is how it would look on the screen. Suggested and then it's got the title of the video up at the top and then a little info button and people when they click on that it would take them through to that video. Now the timestamp has come up with a 000 to start with. But as you can see it says minutes, seconds and frames is the split there. So don't get fooled into thinking that's hours, minutes and seconds. If you know the timestamp because you've either in the editing you know where it comes or you've sadly had to sit through watching yourself like I'm going to have to do and you know the exact time that it is then you can just put the time in there. And as I say just remember it is in minutes and seconds and then that is frames. So the exact number of frames in that second. Whatever your frame rate is. Mine's 30 frames per second in case you're interested. So I could actually put it down to that level of granularity but I tend to just put it in roughly and approximately using the old minutes and seconds method and leave the frames alone. I'm never needing, feel the need to be quiet that precise with it. But rather than have it show the full title like that you can also add a custom message in. So you can put the custom message and the teaser text. The teaser text, although it comes second is the text that will appear here. So if I put in this bit, this is my video. That is what appears here. The custom message is what will appear in the actual information box. So hello, check out my video. There we go. I didn't really need to type all of that, did I? But there you go. As you can see, you've got a 30 character limit on the teaser text and also on the custom message as well. So the teaser text is the one that you'll see on screen or your viewers will see. And then the custom message is what will appear when they click on the little information box before they actually go over to view that video. And as you can see, if I put a time on here, so let me say I'll put this at 20 seconds. 20 seconds, if I can type the number two for a moment. It is not allowing me to type that for some reason, just one second. Well, there was me. I was trying to type in 20 minutes and I only uploaded a two minute video. So what I should probably try and do is actually type something that is within the time limit. So the video was about a minute long that I did as a sample. So if I just come in here and type 20 seconds in there, that's a bit better. I thought I was going mad for a moment. So what that's done is it's moved that little marker out there to 20 seconds along in the timeline just to give you a little visual of exactly where it appears in your overall timeline. And then as I say, you can just add more of these. You can collapse this one up by pressing the little arrow there. And then you can add another card. And as I say, you can add a link to a playlist as well if you want, and it's the exact same process. So you can link to a channel or a playlist. So just quickly show you this one. If I wanted to link to a particular playlist, it brings up a list of all your playlists. And let's say I'm going to link to my Stream Deck one or my YouTube channel tools maybe. And I'll add that one in there. And then there it's popped in. And again, I can just put the time in. You can also just drag the timestump as well. So that's fine, but obviously you do need to know where you're going to put it before you drag it. So then I'll click on save. So now we have got our cards in. Those are called cards. So now we've got our cards in. And we've got a few more of our best practices complete. And we've added our end screen. We've had our cards and so on. Now there are a couple of other best practices which aren't actually specifically named in here. So I just want to talk about those as well. So when you come down to the bottom a bit further down than the tags, then you'll have some other information. Now actually as a default, some of this might not show up. So what you'll notice is there will be a little show more. In fact, it's here at the moment says show less. So sometimes when you come in, it will say show more. And if I just come down, there we go. Click on it down there. Now in this one, we've got a little checkbox there. This video contains paid promotion like a product placement sponsorship or endorsement. So if you are taking sponsorships or things like that then that's where you would just toggle that one on or off. And then we've already covered the tags. This is the TubeBuddy interface. And now there is another section down here which is language for captions. So we've got the video language. So do make sure that you select that. You've also got some caption certification which is basically saying that it is never aired on US television. As you can see that there's a few different options in here when it finally appears. So the options are this content has never aired on television in the US or it has, one second, decided to shut itself down again. This content has only ever aired on television in the US without captions and so on and so on. So there's lots of different options there. I'm guessing that for most people their content will be new and unique and so it will just be that first option. The next option down is the, whoops, there we go. The next option down is for the language of the title and description. So again, do get into the habit of selecting these but if you recall, or maybe you don't because you maybe haven't watched it but in that video that I talked about earlier that I did all about the YouTube settings you can select defaults for these. So you would do that at that stage and have these default to whatever the language is that your videos were in and your descriptions. Next is recording date and location. So it says add when and where your video was recorded. Viewers can search for videos by location and also by date. So the date that they were recorded. So you may want to add those in as well. I actually do my recording date usually but because my videos are pretty sort of location agnostic if that is a word, it doesn't really matter where they were recorded for the sort of content that I'm producing. So I usually leave that one blank. Here you can change your license type either Creative Commons or the YouTube Standard License. I have mine as Creative Commons. You've got to allow embedding to allow other people or yourself to embed your videos. So I do embed my videos on my website which if you haven't already seen is takeonetech.io. So if you head over there, you will see up at the top there for example on my homepage then there is one of these videos up at the top and then I've also got a page of my videos where I feature some of the videos that I make and incidentally that is a great way if you do want to get in touch then you can head over to my website and there's a contact page there and then also if I'm online at the time there is a little chatbot which features in the bottom right hand corner of the website as well. So yeah, if you haven't been already then do go over and check that out and feel free to send me any feedback or anything like that you want to do through there. But this is where you would need to have this switched on if you did want to allow these videos to be embedded anywhere. So that's just one thing. Publish subscription feed and notify subscribers that is if you are actually taking subscriptions on your YouTube channel. Again, you have to have reached a certain number of subscribers to be open to that but you can select videos to be published just to your subscribers in that way. Allow people to sample the content. That means that people can take your videos and they can sample it and make shorts out of it and things like that. But it will always be linked back to your original content anyway. So I have that one switched on. You've got the category here so these are the standard YouTube categories that you can choose from. And so this is depending on obviously the sort of videos that you are producing will depend on the category that you've got them. And then here we've got some things about commenting. Again, these things can be selected as global settings. So do go back and watch that video about the general YouTube settings if you have not done already but this is just about whether you allow comments whether you hold them for a review or whatever. And then also you can show or hide how many viewers have liked or disliked this video. Personally, I don't see the point of hiding it because it is at the end of the day giving feedback on the video. So if you've, unless you're producing content that nobody's liking and you're getting lots of thumbs down then you may want to hide that but I don't know, personally I just leave that on all the time. But I mentioned all of these things because this one in particular about the language is one important one because when you come back up to the top you also have the option to add subtitles. So I'm sure you've seen videos that have popped up and maybe even some of your own videos that have popped up where they've got subtitles on them. Well, YouTube will add subtitles to your videos automatically but you do have the option to go in and edit them. And so here where it says subtitles assuming that you have got the text selected as the language has been selected then you can go in here and you can actually edit your subtitles. So that's what I'm gonna do now. Now, YouTube as I say will generate captions but as you can see it says it takes some time for this to happen because obviously I've just uploaded this video so it will take some time for the captions to be generated. And once they've uploaded you can go back in and edit them. And apparently, so I've heard a little birdie has told me, a birdie by the name of Mr. Rock that you will actually get credit for going back in and editing your captions even the ones that have been created by YouTube. So just going back in and editing them it will just make, it will assume that you have been through and checked everything. And even by making a few minor adjustments to it we'll just assume as I say that they are checked and are more accurate and more relevant. And so this will help your video in terms of the ratings that it gets I suppose by the algorithm. But there is another way to do it which is to actually upload your own captions. And there are a few different ways that you can do this but I'm going to dig into this in a little bit more detail and start using a service called Descript and then I'll leave a video about that because I have been using Descript already which is a really quite an interesting program where you can drop in videos or audios and it will create all the captions for you but then you can actually edit the video content or the audio content by simply editing the text. So it means you can go and remove filler words like oms and urs and things like that. Or you can even add in new bits of text and the AI artificial intelligence within the app will actually add in your voice to add in those extra sections. So not so sure how well that works for video but I have used it for my audio podcast to remove some filler words or just some gaps in the delivery just like I was doing there really. So it is something that I've used for that but I hadn't actually used it for creating captions so that's one of my missions for this week actually is to really dig into it and I will report back on my findings but yet adding in captions yourself is certainly from a search engine optimization point of view and a sort of YouTube algorithm if you believe in such things then it does certainly help with that so that is just something that I wanted to mention as another best practice. So that about covers all of the best practices that TubeBuddy's recommended. It also includes a couple of other best practices in terms of adding in those subtitles, those closed captions and then that is about it in terms of the upload process. There is also here you can obviously change the visibility from unlisted to private or whatever you can change that after the effect and if you have got any sort of content restrictions or anything like that copyright claims then just so that you know those will appear here. I did start out on my YouTube journey with an Adobe Stock subscription which I already had and that gave me access to some music through Epidemic but through Adobe but it meant that every time I'd uploaded a video I had to manually go in and enter my license code and that's why I ultimately ended up going with the full Epidemic subscription in the end instead because now I never have to worry about this box with my content being flagged for copyright infringement. So that is about all for this video but like I say do go ahead and check out those other videos that I've done about YouTube and if you found this useful then please do go ahead and give it a like and also subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications. It does help this channel and it also helps me knowing that I'm heading in the right direction because this is all just a learning process for me as much as it is for you I'm sure as well. And also if you know anybody else who might benefit from this content then do go ahead and share it with them as well. Now speaking of more videos as I say I do have a YouTube playlist as a by YouTube playlist I mean content on my YouTube channel related to YouTube channels so that's where you'll find all of the videos that I've mentioned here today as well anyway and I'll leave a link to that playlist over at the bottom right hand corner and another suitably good video up in the top right. So have a great day and I'll see you again soon.