Every blogger wishes to find out his
blog attracting a larger audience. However, this cannot be achieved
without doing anything. You need to deliver interesting, eye-catching
content to stand out from a crowd of similar blogs. No matter what topic
you choose, so you have to fine tune your approach and develop a fresh
perspective on your topic. Here video may come to the aid and become a
clue how to attract more visitors to your blog.
If you’re thinking
about promoting your blog with video content, you might need some
special software which handles video-related tasks, e.g. screencasting,
quick editing, HTML integration, web distribution, etc. Here are five
popular video apps that will come in handy for every blogger dealing
with video.
YouTube
is a great place to host videos which you’d like to add to your blog.
Besides embed code and video promotion assistance, YouTube grants an
easy video editor with which you easily modify your video no matter when
it was uploaded. The features comprise video trimming, stabilization,
rotation, colour and contrast normalization and diverse effects. The
button “I’m Feeling Lucky” caters 1-click color correction. You can also
change an audio track and save multiple editing versions, any time you
may revert to the original video.
This is a Windows-based
free video
converting software which can be used to cope with a great variety of
video-related tasks. First, the app provides a wonderful possibility to
turn almost any desktop or
web video
into Flash FLV or SWF formats and get code for embedding together with
it. So bloggers who prefer to self-host videos can easily add new video
content to their blogs since the app provides a build-in video player
and a comprehensive guide on video embedding. Along with this, the video
converter can be used to cut off unnecessary video fragments and create
stylish
photo slideshows with background music.
Wink
is a free screencasting software that perfectly suits for making demos,
tutorials and animated Flash demonstrations for your blog. The tool
allows you to record desktop activity with audio and text annotations
laid over. You can easily change frames order, delete unnecessary
sections and add “Next/Previous”, “Go to frame” and “Go to URL” buttons
for convenient video navigation. Wink outputs to Macromedia Flash SWF,
standalone EXE with viewer, PDF, PostScript, HTML and some image
formats. The resulted Flash file can go together with a control bar and a
preloader. The app is available
for Windows and latest versions of
Linux OS.
This
is a powerful Windows-only application to add logos and digital
watermarks to video files. So you can easily brand you video creations
with your blog logo and link to protect their distribution. You may
impose watermark on a whole video file or a specified section, choose
the right position, font, opacity, etc. The app allows users to add text
or image stamps to
multiple files and re-encode them to AVI, MPEG, WMV,
Real Media. Watermark Factory is aslo remarkable for its
video editing abilities – it lets resize, split and add effects (blur, autocontrast,
old movie,
etc.) to your videos. Unfortunately, there’s drag’n'drop functionality
and to register the version you have to pay $49 for personal and $149
for
business license.
TubeMogul
is an awesome tool for video distribution and promotion. It makes your
video web-ready and lets seed it to like YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo,
Dailymotion, Metacafe, Photobucket, 5min, BlipTV, etc. You can even use
TubeMogul to upload your video to your FTP in the quality you specify
and create RSS feeds to syndicate your video elsewhere. The app uploads
video in a record time to save your time and efforts. Moreover, it
provides a handy analytics tools to measure the effectiveness of a
campaign, see views, viewed minutes and second-by-second engagement. You
can also figure out how viewers are finding your videos and see which
sites are embedding your content.
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