Thursday, February 10, 2011

YouTube links to a portion within a video

Thanks to YouTube's Deep Links feature, you can e-mail a URL that takes the recipient directly to a specific time within the video.

To send a Deep Link, first copy the YouTube video?s URL into your e-mail message, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprjmoSMJ-o.

On the end of the address, add on the time code for the place you want to start in the clip. For example, if you want to direct your viewer to the section four minutes and 30 seconds into a clip, type #t=4m30s at
the end of the video?s

URL so the whole thing looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprjmoSMJ-o#t=4m30s.

When your recipient clicks on the link, the video loads and jumps to the spot you have indicated.

Google has more on using Deep Links with YouTube videos at bit.ly/1k0PVx.

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