My version of You Tube for Dummies

It took me 1 1/2 months to post my first video on you tube. Keep in mind, I only had analog tapes, and that where the problem began for me. How to convert analog tapes to digital and upload them to your you tube channel. It was a long process, I've even asked some college students to help me out. Only to come away empty handed. The one thing about computers and how to work them, learning from your mistakes can help you out. I learned that you can't upload a dvd to you tube, the file is to large.
This was task #1, how to shrink the file. Looking for products for this task was a killer, but I found something that works great. Pinnacle makes this product call the digital converter. It converts any analog tape to digital. Cost around $129 at Best Buy. Getting that, and a USB external hard drive to load it and upload it on your you tube page is all you need. I shoud do a video on this because some of you are in the same situation, lots of vhs tapes, and vhs-c, and 8mm tapes that you want to convert. Quick lesson, get the digital converter, put your tape in your camcorder, or vhs tape deck. Get a audio-video patch cord with the rca plugs, and put in the outlets of the digital converter, match the color of the plugs with the outlet, that's very important. Then on the other end, plug the usb hard drive into the bottom end of your digital converter. Hit play on your tape player, and record on your converter to start converting your tapes to digital. When it's done, hit stop on both tape player and digital converter. You usb hard drive should have your video ready to upload to your you tube page.
Just wanted to share that with the folks. If you have any comments, would love to hear them. Oh yes, you can check out my you tube work on this blog page on the right side.