Venturing into the World of YouTube

Hi Everyone,

Creating a YouTube channel in order to teach about Divine Love was never something I was thinking of doing, until suddenly the urge struck me last week!! I have enjoyed watching Catherine Kent's ministry, DTS sharing, but never saw myself doing anything of the sort. However, this path is FULL of surprises. And I found that perceived obstacles melted away. For instance:
-I learned I could do this on my smartphone, and mine is a cheap one, nothing fancy.
-The helpful equipment I needed--tripod, light and microphone--was right there in London Drugs as a kit, marked down from $269.99 to $49.99!!!
-Guided by a YouTube "how to" video I found free software for editing the video and for making the thumbnail, as well as tips on how to use it
-My recently repainted kitchen ended up being an ideal place to film

The hardest part was writing the script--deciding what I was going to talk about.
And although the edit is not perfect, and I need to figure out how to get rid of the fuzzy band above and below in the video, I am happy that I uploaded it today and excited for the next video, which I will hopefully do later this week.

So the unfathomable becomes possible in the flow of God's desire for us to share the truths. I don't know how to share the link here, but my channel is called "Divinely Loved & Blessed."

Jane, I really loved your first video. You are getting mad props on the FB group thanks to Catherine's sharing it there!

I agree with your thoughts re the edit. One thing ... it looks like perhaps what happened was you exported an Instagram version of the video that would work in a square orientation rather than the landscape one that works best on YouTube.

One other suggestion. When your videos have explicit tips or truths or whatever in them, you might consider pasting them into the video description to make it easy for people to remember them and/or share them.

I'm looking forward to more!

PS. The link for Jane's channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcYQyljhFvnilz1OyPC0HkA. Jane, once you get to 100 subscribers, you'll be able to create a short URL for it if you like.

Thanks for the tips, Beth!
I will check the settings on the phone camera before I film the next one. I know it's supposed to be a ratio of 16:9 for YouTube. I need to watch more "how to..." videos!

I think the settings on your camera were fine, as you can see that the actual video was in the right resolution. It's the bars at the top and bottom that make it square isn't ideal for YouTube (but would be great for Instagram). I'm thinking that's your editing program's export. Looks like that's InShot given the watermark they put on the file you actually uploaded.

Jane, the new video -- What is Divine Love? -- looks great!! Much better.