YouTube Channels For Dummies. Rob Ciampa
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Название: YouTube Channels For Dummies
Автор: Rob Ciampa
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Программы
isbn: 9781119687986
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Watching a video
The reason that most people visit YouTube is to watch videos. That should probably be one of the first things you do when you arrive. After familiarizing yourself with the home page, try clicking on a video. You’re taken to a Watch page, which should look a lot like the one shown in Figure 2-5.
FIGURE 2-5: The Watch page.
The Watch page is, first and foremost, for viewing videos, but it has a number of other functions as well. You’ll want to become familiar with a number of elements on this page:
Video Player: Front and center is the video player, which you use to watch the video.
Video Info: Tucked beneath the video player you’ll see the video info, including its title, view count, and description field.
Comments: Everybody has an opinion, right? What’s true about the world outside is equally true in the world of YouTube. Here’s where viewers can comment on and discuss the video, and where the uploader occasionally joins in the discussion.
Suggestions: Along the right side of the screen are the suggested videos, which are YouTube’s best guesses about what you might want to watch next, based on the video you’re watching and your overall watch history.
That’s the bird’s-eye view. The next few sections take a closer look at some of these features in a bit more detail.
The player
The most noticeable item on the Watch page is the video player. As with most video players, the YouTube version has a number of controls ranging along the bottom. Here’s an overview of what each control does:
The scrubber: This bar, which runs the length of the video player, allows the viewer to jump around in the video. Hover the mouse cursor over the bar, and then click on the red circle and drag it to the right to “scrub” forward in the video.
The Play/Pause button: This button stops and starts the video stream.
The Next button: This button allows the viewer to skip to the next video. Next can mean a recommended video from YouTube or the subsequent video if watching a playlist.
The mute/volume control: When you roll over the Speaker symbol, the volume bar appears. Click the speaker to mute the audio. Use the volume slider to adjust the volume.
The counter: This is the timer for the video. It shows you how much viewing time has elapsed as well as the total length of the video.
Closed Captions: This button, marked CC, toggles the captions (on-screen text of the dialogue and sounds) on and off. Not every video has good captions. (For more on captions — good, bad, and indifferent — check out Chapter 9.)
Settings: You have to click the little Gear icon to access the Settings menu, but that’s not too hard to do. For most videos, the available settings include toggling autoplay, turning annotations on and off (graphics superimposed on the video), changing the video speed, switching subtitles and captioning, and setting the resolution of the video. We’re big fans of watching the videos at normal speed and at the highest available resolution.
Display Controls: You can change the size of the default player to become smaller so that you can continue to browse the site (miniplayer), show across the width of the browser (theater mode), cast to a compatible television or device (play on TV), or take over the entire display (full screen). When it comes to resolution, most videos don’t default to 1080p or 720p HD. The default playback is often 480p or lower, which doesn’t look that great. If you want to watch videos in high definition, you have to become familiar with the Settings menu. Keep in mind that your Internet connection needs to be fast enough to stream HD video to avoid interruption.
The video info section
Directly below the video player, you’ll find a bunch of information about the video that we usually call the video info. You can see a lot of data about each video there, as you can see in Figure 2-6.
FIGURE 2-6: The video info section.
Here’s a list of the most important information to pay attention to in the video info:
Title: In large type just below the video player is the title of the video. If the video is trending, a small message denoting so appears above the title. (We talk more about titles — more effective titles, to be specific — in Chapter 9. For now, think “catchy and relevant.”)
Like or Dislike: The Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down buttons give you a quick, simple way to let your feelings about a video be known. Just to be clear, punch the Thumbs Up button if you like the video; punch the Thumbs Down if you don’t.
Share: Next up is the Share link. When you click the Share link, you’re shown a few different ways that you can share the video and entice the world to look at it. (You can see the various Share settings in Figure 2-7.) Don’t forget that YouTube is also a social media platform that’s quite capable of letting you easily share to Facebook, LinkedIn, reddit, and other sites. YouTube also lets you share video on a website with simple HTML embed code, and if that’s not your style, you can simply email a video link to your friends.FIGURE 2-7: Sharing videos.
Save: Over time, you’ll want to keep track and organize the video you’re viewing. If you’re using YouTube videos to help you with a kitchen renovation, you may want to keep all the videos about cabinet installation in one place. That place is the playlist, and you learn about it in Chapter 3. You can save a list of all the videos you want to watch later or videos that are your favorites.
More: This catch-all button — the one with the three dots (…) — lets you see more information about the video. This includes reading the transcript of the video or adding translations. You can also report this video to YouTube if you see inappropriate content. This last piece should be used only sparingly.
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