Youtube and Google+

You post your YouTube to a specific group of people privately when you have Google+ through circles or individuals.

Just make the video private, and then choose which circle, or type email addresses.

Note: If you want to share it with a community but not exactly privately, you can make it unlisted and post it. Otherwise, if you want to make it private, share it with a circle that has the same membership as the group, and then post it to the community so it will appear on the community page.

Microsoft fixed PowerPoint 2013 (and 2010) to be able to insert YouTubes again

Microsoft said the problem happened when YouTube went HTML5.

As long as you keep Windows updated, or update PowerPoint manually, you can now add YouTubes.

Now you need to have a Google+ account in order to make a YouTube channel, in order to upload videos to YouTube

We tried to help someone who had an institutional Google account (that currently does not have Google+) and it just stalls on the page that gets you to choose your channel name!

Make custom YouTube thumbnail image

By default YouTube just picks some random point in the video to be the thumbnail. You can change this in the video manager. Edit the video you want, then Info and Settings

Then just click Custom thumbnail. It accepts jpegs or pngs.

Putting a title slide on a YouTube video

If you go to www.youtube.com/editor

You can choose a title slide (click "a")

Type a title, double click the small thumbnail to get to the place to type text. You may have to add spaces before it and make multiple lines to fit in the cropped edges of many videos. Make it white text and Blue (RGB 51, 102, 255) background.

Type a name for the project, go back to videos () choose on, then create video. It takes a while.

From Breeze to Youtube

We have lots of Narrated PowerPoints on Breeze, which will eventually be gone once the Breeze server is retired.

1. download both the PowerPoint source file and the output zip file from breeze.mtroyal.ca

2. Extract the zip output files












Go to each slide and insert Audio from the PC









Go into the upzipped output folder, data, then choose the middle number corresponding to the slide. 









Then go to each slide, click on the sound file within the slide and the Audio Tools ribbon will appear, PLAYBACK, Hide During Show, and Start Automatically










In Animations, open the Animation Pane, then on each slide move the sound file to the top of all the animations (if there are animations)








In Slide show, Rehearse Timings, to coordinate the sound files with the animations.












 Make sure you have Saved in pptx (not just ppt) format! When you're done File, export, Create a video












 Create video button. This make an mp4 file that can be shared in your Google drive, published to YouTube or uploaded in the upcoming Sharestream that integrates in Blackboard.



3. You may have media that needs to be upgraded. If so, click Upgrade and continue.