Make a YouTube Commercial for Your Podcast

One of my clients, Laura Howard West of the Center for Joyful Business was recently interviewed by Melanie O’Kane of MODCOM Radio.

Melanie did this really cool promo video for the interview and put it on YouTube. I think this is a very cool idea and an easy way to get a litte more exposure for your podcasts or your products. I might have even gone a step further and pulled out some audio from the actual interview

Here’s how you would put something like this together on a Mac using Keynote:

1. Create your slide show in keynote

2. Add your soundtrack to the slideshow

• Click Inspector in the toolbar, and then click the Document Inspector button.
• Click the Audio button.
• Drag an audio file or playlist from the Media Browser to the Audio well in the Document Inspector. If you change a playlist, the change won’t be reflected in your soundtrack until you add the playlist again.
• You can also drag a sound file from the Finder.

          To repeat the sound file as long as the presentation is playing, choose Loop from the pop-up menu in the Document Inspector.

3. Save as a quicktime video (or as flash)

4. Upload to YouTube.