How to Get Your Flip Video Embedded in a Blog Post (video)

If you're new to video, you may be wondering how you get the video you shot on your cool new Flip Video Camera onto your blog post.

Online video is fast becoming a must-have element on your blog, website and sales pages. In the last few years it's become easier and easier to shoot and add video to your sites, yet there are a few steps that you need to go through to make it all work and sometimes it's not so obvious what to do. I got a question about this the other day and thought a video could answer best.

Kymberly asked:

How do I move a Flip share video clip from Flip Share to my blog as a post? I tried uploading from Flip Share to a doc in movies, then pulling the file into my word press. org "new post" site via "insert video image." But the  video did not show up visually plus the loading was slow. Any tips on the best way to go from Flip to blog? Also, what do you use and do to add text to the Flip clip - convert to iMovie or some such with text editing? These basics are tough!

Here's my reply...[can't see the video in your reader? Click here.]

In the video I mentioned that you cannot edit your video on YouTube. That's not entirely correct. You can add annotations and captions. There are detailed instructions on how to do that on YouTube. Do you have a video tip or quicker, easier way to get your video from camera to blog? Please share it in the comments below. Vlog on!

Resources:

Online Video Made Easy (self-study course with me and Lou Bortone)

Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business

YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts

TubeMogul

Sony Vegas Studio (video editing software)

Related Posts:

3 Tips to Get More Out of the Videos You Post on YouTube (video)

Interview with Lou Bortone

Comments

[Kymberly]

Thank you Denise for again delivering more than I expected! At first the part about adding the wordpress.org plug-in viperquicktags sounding daunting. But it turned out to be so easy to find and install that I already did it and can now follow your advice. Whew! Any chance you have a video on how to get an edited iMovie from my Mac to my blog? Can't wait to share the Fun and Fit tip interviews I wangled at the recent IDEA Fitness Convention. THanks to your help I can now do that!

[Kymberly]

Hi again Denise! I figured out how to go from iMove to YouTube, then back to my blog as you instruct in your video. Basically I hit the "Share" with YouTibe in the iMovie menu then follow your other instructions from there. So much tolearn; too few brain cells left in my mental RAM!

[Denise Wakeman]

Hey Kymberly,

I'm glad you figured out the the imovie to YouTube situation since I'm not a MAC user and don't know imovie.

Whenever you have a video file on your hard drive, you'll need to get it to the web one way or another do it can be streamed on your blog or web site. Since YouTube is the best known and video platform, I recommend uploading videos there and then embedding on your site. Doesn't really matter where the video is edited, the file needs to get on the web.

Vlog on!

[Pam Perry]

Thank you Denise. YOU ARE so Thorough! Folks have to make sure that they put them on their FTP site incase youtube decides to take down all their videos. That's happened to friends of mine. LOST ALL THEIR VIDEO CONTENT because Youtube thought they were in 'violation' ...UGLY

[Dean Saliba]

I'm hoping to buy a flip video camera at the end of the month, depending on how much income I generate from my blog. I would probably have gone made trying to get the vids onto my blog so thanks for this. :)

[merck]

No tips but I appreciate the tip on Sony Vegas Movie Studio.

Even with only 3 little videos under my belt, I find Windows Movie Maker very limiting...and slow.

Looking forward to ramping up the videos with your tips.

Thanks,
merck

[Lynn Jordan]

Denise, thanks for this great information on getting Flip video embedded in blogs. I love my Flip, but getting the videos on a blog isn't intuitive.