TUTORIAL: HOW TO UPLOAD VIDEOS WITH D-TUBE

D-TUBE is short for decentralized tube. Its a web application built on the steem blockchain for uploading and managing internet videos. Like I discussed in my last article, it was created by @heimindanger in August, 2017.

Many people do not yet know how to use the platform so I will give you all a comprehensive tutorial on how to go about it here. First let's briefly discuss the ways its better than YOUtube.

1 ADS:

Many Youtube video-watchers complain about the ads interspersed with videos. Most times you have to wait 5-10secs or more before you start watching a video just to have them play ads.

2 CENSORSHIP:

A Youtube video producer will not be able to talk about sensitive topics like racism, religion, sexuality, pornography etc. However, these are all parts of humanity and must be talked about. The youtube adpocalypse that happened this year is a testimony to this.

3 NO/LOW EARNINGS:

Before you start earning on YOUtube, you must be upto 3-6months old, and get at least 10,000views. That means that a newbie is entirely relegated to the curse of low earning except he has endorsements.

4 CENTRALIZED:

That means that there's a central authority involved in its management.

FAST-FORWARD to D-TUBE and all those things have changed. Video upload and management is now decentralized, rid of ads, uncensored and providing an increased potential for more earnings.

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SO HOW DO YOU UPLOAD VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE?

• Its simple and straight-forward. Once you already own an account on Steemit.com then you are already more than 50% ready to ride the waves of D-Tube and start making money.

• Use the following processes to complete login and upload videos.

1 LOGIN using your STEEMIT username and private posting key

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2 SEE THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF YOUR D-TUBE ACCOUNT

• SUBSCRIBED VIDEO is for people that you follow who have made a video
  

• HOT VIDEOS is for videos gaining much upvotes /SBD in the first 1-4hrs
  

• TRENDING VIDEOS is for those highest earning videos
  

• NEW VIDEOS are just recently uploaded videos on Dtube
  

• WATCH AGAIN is for videos you have already watched before.
  

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3 SEE THE SETTINGS, USERNAME & FOLLOWINGS

• CLICK ON THE SETTINGS ICON to see this
  

• CLICK ON THE USERNAME ICON to see this
  

• CLICK ON THE BUTTON AT THE TOP LEFT CORNER to see this. Your followings...
  

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4 CLICK THE UPLOAD BUTTON AT THE TOP RIGHT CORNER, BESIDE SETTINGS:

• See image below:
• Click the center of the big red box to browse files and select the video for upload
  

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5 WAIT FOR THE VIDEO TO UPLOAD(The progress bar changes from red to green)

• The image is fully uploaded. GOOD!

• HERE'S MY UPLOADED VIDEO: ✓
  

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6 UPLOAD YOUR THUMBNAIL

• Thumbnail is the picture that identifies your video on the web.

• HERE'S MY THUMBNAIL (my video is about swimming)
  

• NOTICE THE THUMBNAIL BAR HAS BEEN TICKED ✓
  

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7 ADD VIDEO TITLE, DESCRIPTION, TAGS & OTHER ADVANCED SETTINGS

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• ADVANCED SETTINGS: They are not recommended for beginners. So ignore it
  

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8 REMEMBER TO "SUBMIT"--->> CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE

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9 FINAL VIDEO PRODUCT

• YOu can go ahead to share your video with your link:
  

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ENJOY D-TUBE!

IMAGE SOURCES ARE FROM D-TUBE

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CHEERS!!

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I remain me, my mouth and eye @nairadaddy aka SteemDaddy. My aim is to leave you better than I find you everyday!

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