Producing Your Own Vidcast for Video Sharing Part 3: Editing and Distribution (page 2)
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You've now got your vidcast edited and encoded into popular file type(s), now where will your new show live? Do you already have a Web site or blog dedicated to your show's topic? Perhaps you've opted to deliver your shows exclusively via RSS. And what about those free video sharing sites?
With the obvious exception of free hosting sites, be sure to check into a few details from your provider. The first is your monthly bandwidth allocation. If your show is lengthy, or if you've encoded using a high quality setting, you will likely have a large file that people will be downloading. And if your show becomes popular, you could easily exceed a modest monthly bandwidth limit. Early popular vidcasts like Diggnation found their initial bandwidth projections were way off...and excess bandwidth can cost a lot. The second detail is to confirm with your Web host that you'll have enough server storage space for all of your future vidcasts. You may find you'll need to increase this, but it is usually something you can do as it becomes needed.
What about uploading to popular free video sharing sites, like YouTube? While it won't hurt to use these additional free sites, they probably should not form the core of your distribution plan for episodic shows like a vidcast. This may change, but they are currently most popular for one-time videos rather than reoccurring …
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