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After you’ve selected a file, you’ll immediately be taken to the video processing page.
The page shows a progress indicator that lets you know how long your video is going
to take to upload and enables you to enter information about the video you’ve uploaded.
Using the form, you can enter a title, description, category, and tags for your video, all of
which are important if you want YouTube users to be able to find your video.
As you can see from the screenshot, you can also choose a privacy setting for your video.
You can choose public, which allows people to find your video through YouTube, or
private, meaning that you can specify exactly who’s allowed to see it. The third option is
unlisted. This option makes the video publicly available, but only to people who know the
URL. It’s useful if you want to embed the video on your own website, but you don’t want
people to find it by browsing YouTube. The scheduled option lets you set a time when
you want the video to be made public on the YouTube servers.
YouTube provides the URL and embed code for your video before it’s even finished
uploading, so you can link to it immediately.
Customizing the Video Player
After you’ve uploaded your video, you can embed it in your own web pages. Embedding
videos of your own is just like embedding other videos found on YouTube; you can just click
the Embed button and copy the code for your own page. However, you can do some things to
customize the embedded playe r. You can see all the embedding options in Figure 14.4.
FIGURE 14.4
Customization
options for embed-
ded YouTube
videos.