for tips on how to produce a movie from a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation, see tech tips
Once your presentation is ready to publish, go to your YouTube account, open up the STUDIO, and upload your video. You will almost immediately be assigned a link that you can circulate to those you want to see your show. You can add a description with keywords/tags so that any interested party can find your work, or keep the video private. My practice is to make a text file available on the internet and put the link to that file in the YouTube description.Creating a YouTube Account
To publish on Google’s YouTube platform you will need to set up an account.
- Go to YouTube.
- In the top right, click Sign in.
- Click Create Account.
- Choose For myself or To manage my business. (In most cases, the account will be for yourself).
With an account you will be able to use STUDIO to upload your .mov or .mp4 files which you have created when, after completing your presentation, you have used the EXPORT option in Keynote or PowerPoint. During the upload, you can add a description and keywords, adjust the settings, and get a LINK to use yourself and share with others. Don’t forget to set the video to PUBLIC and PUBLISH it. You can edit your video file after it is published.
For for more help to go:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/161805?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
The Big Advantages
With a pre-published accessible presentation, you will be able to skip presenting at the live session of a conference if guests have had the opportunity to see your work beforehand. Or, you can create a condensed version for the event and use the full version as a reference for those who want your arguments in more detail. Your YouTube video can be as long as you wish, although generally videos longer than an hour will be burdensome to produce and view.
The other advantage is that YouTube constitutes an archive. Those who have missed your conference presentation can still “see it” on the internet. You may have supplemental presentations. You can respond to comments made by viewers, or invite them to get in touch.
The collective benefit of presenters who do not need to present is that live sessions at conferences can be devoted to questions-and-answers and discussions. You can use panelists who have seen the materials in advance to add an element of critical review. You can still have visual materials available to share on-screen without having to take up limited time with a fixed presentation.
Conferences made up of live events of discussion and review, with presentation materials made available in advance, would be inherently more dynamic and interactive than the standard conference model of scheduled speakers making (usually boring) PowerPoint-style presentations, leaving only a short period for questions or discussion. Zoom sessions do not need to be scheduled concurrently. Attendees do not have to decide which session to attend, missing three or four others they would also like to see. AND, if any sessions must be missed, the presentations will still be available, and if the live session is recorded, even that can be made available.
This revolutionizes the way conferences are done. Normally, a program committee decides on topics, announces them to invite proposals, reviews and accepts or rejects proposals, and limits the number accepted based on the time–space resources available (at considerable cost). Work is wasted when proposals are rejected, and when attendees cannot see all the presentations that interest them. It is further and more tragically wasted when the presentations “vanish into thin air” because the live events have not been recorded. A zoom conference can be organized and produced from the ground up, beginning with small group interactions that produce tangible results that can be made public through YouTube. If the hoped-for conference doesn’t happen, nothing is lost. The conversations have been valuable and the products are now public. The only thing missing is the sense of event and chance to have collective discussions involving several group sessions. The expense is confined to the effort of each presenter in producing materials (a presentation video and/or supporting text). No conference costs = no conference fees. No conference “facility” = no travel expenses. The Big Business of conferences is effectively at an end, with the benefit of conferences not only remaining but enhanced, thanks to the archival and open scheduling benefits of virtual conferencing.