(If You Have to Use Email Too)
Time: 4 minutes 59 s
In a Nutshell
You can create a video message fairly easily if you use programs and systems like iMovie and YouTube. You also have to keep it fairly short. I’m just going to talk about it for fun this time around – you can expect a screen cast later on in the future.
Video message played in QuickTime (Photo via Chelsea Peretti)
Transcript
Hey there, it’s me Sunny again. So you’re probably wondering how do you send a video message in five minutes or less? Well, it’s pretty easy to do already, you can use Facebook video, if it’s actually working. Sometimes when you set up the Facebook messages, for example, you can do the same.
If however, you are really, really wanting to do email and you are trying to go on this crazy video emails only like I’m trying to do right now (hard), then I decided to figure out how to make YouTube work for me.
And all I had to do was this: I went over to YouTube, I… well, before I went over to YouTube actually, I whipped open iMovie, my favourite Mac program for doing video messages and video blogging. And then I created a quick movie, about less than four, five, three minutes.
In fact I just created a two minute video right now to send to a former intern employee of mine and it took me about two minutes right there, two minutes and seven seconds actually.
Then I decided I would export it, it took about a few minutes there, and let’s just say we don’t count that part, so I’m cheating. And it’s already exporting, and then you decide, I’ll send out that message, but later.
So once you decide to do that, when finally later comes, you upload that video to YouTube and… yeah, that’s about four minutes, I should say. And then you upload that video to YouTube and of course, you’re still not counting the actual sending the video message, so just all the prep work, let’s just say you need 15 minutes so really I’m cheating.
And you upload that to YouTube, you can use your account which is personal, yada, yada, all that sort of stuff. And you send the message, all you have to do is go down, find the share button, press the share button, press the share button and find the email option.
(Photo of the YouTube Sharing Bars)
Click email and it should pop up this little box that will have a place for email, the message, some contacts you might have, of course you’re using a alternate YouTube account anyway that’s hidden, you probably won’t have any contacts.
So I use my good old friend Quicksilver (thank goodness Blacktree came back from Google exile). And using Quicksilver, I quickly bring up the contact, which is my intern, go to the contact, select your email, say copy to clipboard, paste into the email address section and then write in a quick message and then send it. And booyah! I sent that video message in less than five minutes, not counting of course all the prep time and uploads.
(Photo of the built in emailing system in the YouTube interface)
So in theory you could say I sent that video message in less than 15 minutes, which is pretty fast compared to the other messages I’ve done which included all of the music and what not, it’s fast and simple stuff.
So should this have been actually named as how to send a video email message in less than five minutes, well it could have been five minutes, it depends on whether you counted the video preparation time or not. Because as you’ve seen, you could have turned a business report into a pdf and then you decide to email later or it could be how to send a video message in less than 20 minutes or 15 or 21 minutes, that depends on you. Okay?
So if you decide that you’re going to promise yourself to send only video messages for the next week, try making use of YouTube, the share button, the email button and QuickSilver if you have a Mac or some other Windows application launcher to bring up the contact, quickly select the email address, paste into the– email address into the email entry box, press a new message and it sends, voila. You don’t have to open an email program like Apple Mail, you don’t have to open Google mail, or Gmail, and you don’t have to open Outlook.
So that’s how to send your video message in five minutes or less in a nutshell, or more aptly named it could be, how to send a video message in less than 21 minutes.
PS. Got any suggestions to make this process faster? Let everyone know about your clever idea!
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