TFM Tube™ Video Tips
Making and Optimizing Your Videos
TFM Tube™ is designed to make delivering your videos to our viewer base of facility executives and buyers as easy as possible. You may already have the tools to make a video or have a video already created. Even if you don’t our team can come and produce a video at your location at competitive prices. TFM Tube™ supports .AVI or .MPG formats, and the video shot with them can be uploaded directly from the device or after being copied to your computer
Digital and Analog Camcorders
If you already have a digital camcorder (one that captures in Digital8, MiniDV, HDV, or any of the DVD formats), then you're ready to start shooting your video. Your camcorder will need some kind of direct connection to your computer, either to the USB or FireWire ports or by inserting the DVD you've recorded. Once you've downloaded the video from the camera, you can upload it the TFM Tube™ Upload Center online. Once you have purchased video advertising on TFM Tube™ you will be given the link to upload your video.
If you have an analog camcorder (one that uses VHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, 8mm, or Hi8 tape), you can still get your videos onto TFM Tube™. It will require an extra step and some additional equipment, though, since these camcorders are not usually equipped with computer connections. You will need to digitize the video with a converter box, which will convert the analog signal from the camcorder to a digital signal that the computer can understand. After the video has been digitized, you can manipulate it further or upload it.
Editing and Improving Your Videos
If you want to be a bit more hands-on with your video, most new computers come with basic video-editing software installed (like Apple's iMovie or Windows MovieMaker). Once you have copied the video from your phone, camera, or camcorder to your computer, you can bring the video into these programs. Most allow you to not only edit the video, but add effects, titles, and music to make your video look and sound more interesting.
Uploading Your Videos to TFM Tube™
Once you're happy with your final result, you'll need to save the video in a format that TFM Tube™ can accept in order to upload. Unless you're a professional video producer, we recommend that you save your videos as either QuickTime .MOV, Windows .AVI, or .MPG files— these are the most common formats and they work well within our system. We specifically recommend the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 640x480 resolution with MP3 audio. Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your clips look better on TFM Tube™. We request you keep your videos to five minutes or less and a maximum file size of 100MB before submission. If you are having difficulty meeting these requirements you should contact our technical team.
Making Your Video Easy to Find
When you upload your video, we require you to choose a category and enter at least one tag to describe the content in your video. Adding this information helps other TFM Tube™ viewers find your video easily, so if you want an audience, help them out! The more accurate the tags are on each video, the easier it is for everyone to find your video to watch.
Make your tags as descriptive as you can—like this: environmentally sound roofing treatments. Each tag is separated from the others by a space.
