How to create a YouTube account YouTube is your very own video channel. Before you set up a YouTube account it is best to have a film to post. Visit www.youtube.com Click on the Create Account link in the top right of the scree. This will take you to the sign up page. Sign up to YouTube following the onscreen instructions. Now click the upload a video link and follow the on screen instructions. About Uploading Capture and Upload in High Definition! Upload up to 10 videos at a time Best video formats for YouTube Up to 2 GB in size. Up to 10 minutes in length. Video Resolution Recommended: Original resolution of your video - for HD, it is 1,920 x 1,080 (1,080 p) or 1,280 x 720. Bit rate Because bit rate is highly dependent on codec, there is no recommended or minimum value. Videos should be optimised for resolution, aspect ratio and frame rate, rather than bit rate. Frame rate The frame rate of the original video should be maintained without resampling. In particular, pull-down and other frame-rate resampling techniques are strongly discouraged. Codec H.264 or MPEG-2 preferred. Preferred containers FLV, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Audio Codec MP3 or AAC preferred Preferred containers FLV, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Sampling rate 44.1 kHz Channels 2 (stereo) http://www.youtube.com/user/socmedsg Now you have your very own film on your very own film channel it is time to import that film into your wordpress blog. Find your film using the search box within YouTube. This will give you the public view of your film. Embedding Visit a video page on YouTube. Copy the URL from the address bar. In your blog’s Dashboard, go to Posts->Add New or Pages->Add New. Click on the Add Video button on the Upload toolbar. Select the From URL tab. Paste the YouTube video’s URL into the URL field. Then click the Insert into Post button. The YouTube video shortcode will then be inserted into your post. Publish the post and the video will look like the one below. Alternatively visit http://socmedsg.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/how-to-embed-a-youtubevideo-into-wordpress-video/ to see a handy movie the lays this out neatly.