AngryAussie And NickosBlog On The Queensland Floods

Here's a couple of videos from two of the Australian youtubers that I follow, namely AngryAussie and NickosBlog and both are trying to raise more awareness for the massive flooding going on in the area of Queensland Australia.

If you've somehow missed this story, there has been a lot of damage done and more importantly the actual loss of lives. The last report I heard was that 10 people had been killed by the rising waters, but as many as 60-70 more people are still reported as missing. Australia is a huge continent and the water covers an area 2 times the size of the state of Texas and I also heard that it would also cover the entire country of France. And the rains continue.

there is something you can do to help if you want to lend a hand and are on the other side of the globe and that is donate to flood relief as well as send your good wishes and support to those working to bring relief to this terrible situation. AngryAussie himself announced he would be contributing a week's pay to flood relief. Which I think shows that Mr Angry for all his anger actually has a heart of gold (just don't tell anyone).



Another thing that AngryAussie brought up in the video is that there is going to be a Youtube Gathering in Melbourne on January 22, 2011 (checkout the Bradshaw's Blog post: Melbourne Youtube Gathering Saturday January 22nd for more info). You really should follow AngryAussie as he posts tons of great videos and skewers the idiots of the world who make him angry. He does not suffer fools gladly and will step up to tell them. He does get a little heated at times, but get past the decibal level of his very appropriately placed anger and you will likely agree with what he says.

Mr Angry has a ga-zillion different contact points (you can even call him if you want!) but other than his main Youtube channel (link above) be sure to follow him on Twitter (@angryaussie) and check out his blog Angry 365 Days a Year which is also linked on this blog - check way down the right hand side for other great blogs of youtubers that I recommend you follow. Give me a shout if you are on Youtube and also make a blog and I'll see if I can add it to the list.

And I can't forget about another Aussie youtuber who I follow that just posted a video about the Queensland flooding situation. NickosBlog, along with his wife Jess and the true star of his vlog, their daughter Immy, do a daily vlog and they also are pitching in to show their support in the following video:



I liked that: "Keep that Aussie spirit alive and burning". Australians are some of the toughest, most loyal people anywhere who even in difficulties such as this, keep their sense of humor and optimism. They just need a bit of support. Do whatever you can and show whatever support you can.

NickosBLOG Congratulates OnePotChefShow And BrizTube 2010

It's always a good idea to be prepared in case of fire, and Nicko of NickosBLOG does the smart thing and changes the battery in his fire detector - just before a fire breaks out in his house!



Great line: "Oh! I forgot my laptop!" lol. Never mind about his wife Jess, or their little girl Immy, as he elbows both out of the way when the alarm goes off.

He shows another Australian youtuber, OnePotChefShow hitting the 10,000 subscriber mark (he's actually now at 10,205 - 20K subs coming up!) and because he promised that he would dress in drag when OnePotChefShow hit the 10K mark, Nicko will have to don a frock which he promises to do in the next week.

He said the wrong thing to Jess when he asked her if she had anything he could wear lol. He's, shall we say, a wee bit bigger than his wife, and he's lucky she didn't get his butt kicked by her for thinking that he could fit into her clothes.

This is a video posted on his personal vlog channel - Nicko also has his robjnixon channel where he's been posting info about the upcoming BrizTube 2010 YouTube Gathering. You can find out more at the BrizTube2010 channel.



And congrats again to OnePotChefShow!

Basic Guide To Using YouTube's New Video Editor

In June 2010, YouTube finally released a browser-based video editor. This was something that youtubers had been clamouring for a long time. This tool requires no additional software, or browser plug-ins other than Adobe's Flash, and allows users to make minor edits to videos they've uploaded, and stitch several clips together into one longer video.

Drawbacks? It doesn't allow for many of the basic features of modern day consumer video editing software (like captioning, transitions, and image stabilization), but it is somewhat convenient. All your video files can enhanced by YouTube's servers, which means you will be able to do some complex HD video editing using older computers that might appear woefully inadequate.

There are five basic steps to using Youtube's Video Editor:

1. Upload
2. Arrange
3. Cut
4. Audio
5. Publish!

First off, shoot lots and lots of great video of your friend getting teabagged by a football or crashing after doing a skate board stunt. After you and your friend scoop up his teeth, you rush home to put it all on YouTube. So, step 1:

Upload Your Clips

One important point is that if you have several different clips that you want to string together into one video, you'll have to upload each clip individually to YouTube. Also, if you don't want to have each clip stand alone as separate videos, be sure to click the "private" or "unlisted" option. (What are these options about? Well, I'll do a seperate post about them later).

Arrange Your Clips

You can get to YouTube's Video editor by clicking that link - don't worry it rarely bites. It will open in a new window for you.

When you get there you'll see your video clips uploaded. To add videos to your time line just drag them down from from your "My Videos" list to the timeline below (the gray area). Another option is to click the plus sign in the top right hand corner of each video clip. If you want to add portions of one clip that you've already moved all you have to do is drag the clip a second time.

Cut, Baby, Cut!

Now is the fun part as far as I'm concerned and also sometimes the most difficult. Cutting each clip to show only that amount of film that you want displayed in your epic video. Maybe you don't want the part where your buddy states he was going to "own" that skateboard stunt before he does the faceplant, so you can cut that part out.

Also, if you want, rather than going through all the rigamarole (<- a fancy $2 word hassle/BS/etc) of actually "cutting up" your epic vid, you could just hit "Publish" and then tell your toothless friend and other buddies to check out your YouTube video, but where's the fun in that?! You need to become an editor, son! Cut and realign your clips into into something a little cooler. And music or a voice-over or show your buddy getting pwned by the concrete over in over in slow-mo. One thing about YouTube's editor is that it lets you trim a video, but not split it, so if you want to cut a single clip into two or more parts you need to drag more copies of that video down into your time line from the "My Videos" section.

Audio - You need music!

While you can't change the volume level or add an audio track of your own using YouTube's Video Editor, you can use another tool from the might 'Tube to add music to your creation. It's called the YouTube's AudioSwap feature and I'll add a link later to a review of that option.

You should know that using the YouTube Video Editor removes any audio that was already in your video and you can add only one audio track to your epic, so choose carefully. Actually that's the same problem encountered when using the Autoswap feature.

annnnd - PUBLISH!

When you're happy with the finished product, all you have to do is hit "Publish" and wait for YouTube to get your video uploaded. This can be fairly quick if it is a short clip, but if you are doing monstrously large videos like Shay Carl and other who upload longer videos, it can take a loooong time for your video to finish processing. One daily vlogger that I follow named NickosBLOG, lives in Australia and did a video (here's a link) where he complains about how long it takes him to upload from there.

So if you are trying to upload a longer video or something in HD, expect it to take longer.