We all like to share what we see. It started with photos, slide shows on the computers and elsewhere, video cameras and so on. The internet opened up innumerable possibilities of sharing pictures and videos. You can share your travel experiences by sharing your personal videos online. There was one big problem earlier and that was bandwidt’ or ‘space’ to use a more simple word. Due to large file sizes and costly disc space and bandwidth it took a while for online videos to gain popularity. The coming of Youtube and a whole lot of similar sites addressed the question of bandwidth and space. You don’t have to spend now on buying space online for storing your photos and videos. You need a digital camera (who does not have one these days) to make short video clips. When you find something interesting you shoot and store it on the card memory. Of course these clips will be short but you can stitch the short video clips together with a video editing program. On the PC, programs such as Adobe Premiere, Roxio’s Easy Media Creator and Cyberlink’s Power Director are easy to learn and cost under Dollar 100. Macs come with iMovie, which simplifies

video editing for non-tech buffs. So now you want to upload. Youtube is the best one out there but it also gets hell lot of traffic so it can be slow quite often. YouTube gets over 10,000 clips and streams over 100 million clips every single day. There are dozens of other sites out there. A site called Travelistic.com focuses on travel content. The site is quite fast and focuses on travel videos. Travelvoyeur.com and Trip Films also gather the best travel video clips from the web. Motionbox.com, was built for sharing and searching. It lets you cut frames from your video into pictures. All these are free, they’re simple and they allow you to cut and paste a small piece of code so that you can share your video. And they bear the cost of storage of these videos. The important thing is to keep your videos no longer than 5 to 6 minutes. When shooting; keep your clips small so it does not take up too much of the memory on your digital camera. There is no need to invest in high-end video-editing software to create a fun movie. Once you shoot; optimize the videos for the web with a software program. Don’t worry about making very high quality video. Just aim and shoot what catches your attention and try adding some music if possible to make it interesting. So the next time you are on a holiday and see something interesting shoot first and share with the world what you enjoyed. You never know it could become popular to the point of giving you some monetary returns if it really catches the fancy of world wide web.

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