How to Convert Videos and Publish Them to the Website or Blog

After you finish reading this article, you may find that embedding videos into a web page will not be a challenge any more.

There are lots of Internet videos of different formats such as mpeg, avi and QuickTime (mov), while the most popular format currently is flash video (.flv). And the most commonly used method to embed video today is via a .flv file and a Flash player. In this article, we will discuss how to convert videos of different formats into .flv format and add them to your website or blog.

Well, it's still a process from creating your own videos to publishing them to your site or blog, but there are some excellent tools that don't require you to be a video expert in order to use them effectively! For creating videos, you may use Windows Movie Maker. For converting videos, right here I use Clone2Go Video Converter Free Version. For publishing videos, I recommend Socusoft Web Video Player. Simple steps are needed. You may find that embedding a video onto a web page is as easy as cutting and pasting.

(First Part: How to Convert Videos)

First Step: Check Video Format -- Convert Video into FLV

After installation of video converter, launch the program. Go to File -> Add Video Files. If you need to convert movies in batches, select “Batch Add Video Files”. You can also capture Video from DV by selecting “capture Video from DV” when necessary.

When the input video file is ready, turn to the profile at the bottom right of the main window for the options of output video formats and choose "Flash Video Movie (*.flv)". After that, click “Encode” to start video conversion. When finished, click "Folder" icon at the top shortcut menu to get the converted video.




(Second Part: How to Add Videos to Your Site or Blog)


Second Step: Download and Install Socusoft Web Video Player

Before we go any further, we need to a professional web video publishing tool -- Socusoft Web Video Player. Download it from http://www.web-video-player.com/


When installation is completed, launch Socusoft Web Video Player.


Third Step: Add Videos to Player


Go to "(1) Video" and click the button "Add" to add flash video (flv) files.





Fourth Step: Choose Themes for Player

Go to "Themes" and choose the template of web player for your video clips. There are lots of cool templates. Get one as you like or that matches the style of your website or blog. The program allows you to customize web player in advanced mode. Click to button "Customize Parameters" at the bottom right corner to find out more.





Fifth Step: Publish Video and Player

When finished the above steps, go to the sixth step "Publish". Click the button "Publish Now" to integrate your video with player. Your video has right now been embedded a cool player. You may click "View Web Page" to preview your web video.





Last Step: Upload Files – Add Video to Your Website or Blog


1) Add video to your website

Click "Open Output Folder" and use upload tools such as CuteFTP to upload all of the files in the folder of "output" to your web space. You may create a new folder on your web space first such as "video" for the output files. If the created folder is in the root directory, the URL of your web video should be:

http://www.*****.com/video/***(name of the published html file).html


2) Add web video to your blog or forum and more


You may also add your published web videos to your blog or forum and more. Here is an example of adding videos to google blog.


Click "Open Output Folder". Then, open the html file with FrontPage, Dreamweaver or Notepad. The html file is the same with the one uploaded.




Right here, I use Notepad to open the above-mentioned html file and switch to the code mode and change the paths like the following screenshot. Please note that you need to input your website URL instead of " *****.com" as shown below.





After that, copy the code between "object" as above. Go to your google blog and paste the code as shown below. After that, publish the post. You may now view your web video on google blog.




Sample: http://funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com

Some blogs may not support HTML well. If so, you may also use the following code, which is simple. That is, "iframe" plus "the path".





Support: http://www.web-video-player.com


Tutorial: http://funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com