How to Add Video to Your Website: Why It's Easier than You Think to Add Video to a Website

There are several ways to add a video to a website. Here is are some of the most commonly used ways, and the advantages and disadvantages of each:

1. Using YouTube or a similar site as the middle-man.

This requires that you first create a video and upload it to YouTube. Next, you take the object embed code from YouTube for your video, and place it within the code on your site.

The downside to this is that it does not look very professional, and can also cause you to lose visitors if they happen to click-out to YouTube, which happens quite often in the internet world.

Additionally, you have to deal with the issue of 'trolling', which refers to people leaving obscene, obnoxious, and damaging remarks on the videos. YouTube is clearly not the best choice as far as videos go.

2. Using complex Flash video software.

Adobe's Flash video format is the ideal web video choice because of its "common denominator" approach to web video. The seamless ease and availability of Flash format puts it above Windows Media, QuickTime, Real Media, and other popular format contenders.

The problem with Flash is that, up until recently, its software has been far from user-friendly. Most users agree that it is ridiculously over-priced and complex (even for myself, and I've been in the business for 21 years!).

3. Using a simple, low-cost Flash video encoder software program.

This is quickly becoming one of the most popular options these days, primarily because it is the easiest, fastest, and cheapest. It can easily help any web video novice look like a seasoned professional.

The user-friendly interface of most Flash encoders, as well as their ability to convert from all formats (including avi, wmv, mov and others) makes them the clear choice. Quick conversion and simple upload (FTP) of the video is also usually best with Flash encoders.

It goes without saying that it is very important to pick the right software when adding video to your website, because this has huge impact on the consistency and flexibility that is offered.

After years of trial and error, my conclusion for best quality, lowest cost, and ease of operation rests on one program: currently the best software in this field is Easy Web Video V2F.

Step 1: Choose a Video
The first thing you need to do is find a video that will help to generate traffic to your website. You can either shoot your own video, or choose one that already exists, assuming you have the rights to it of course.

Step 2: Convert the Video into Flash
There are many video to Flash converters, which usually range in price from $77-$1,500. Take the time to chose the right software to convert web video. Some may have more bells and whistles than others.

Step 3: Customize Your Video
Personal web video software will allow you to quickly edit, choose a template, and publish your video to the web. Where creating personal web video once took months and months, it can now be done in a matter of hours, and these are videos with catchy music, interesting transitions and written titles. What was once reserved only for the pros is now, thankfully, accessible to all.

Step 4: Publish Your Video to the Web
After you convert web video to the proper format, make sure to check that the compression allows for high quality video to be seen over the web. This step may take some trial and error. Once completed, you will be given some lines of code as well as a small file or two that get placed rather easily on your website. Then you can just sit back and watch the visitors roll in!

Make any existing videoclip file much smaller, so that it plays easily on your website or as a web video email. Without taking up a lot of space or losing its quality online, it still maintains the original quality level.

Add buttons to your webvideo, including Stop, Play, Fast Forward, and Rewind. You choose which ones to add, making V2F the ultimate personal web video factory!

Automatically generate the code that can be copied and pasted anywhere you want your webvideo to appear on any web page.

Automatically "Upload" your webvideo to any web page with just one click.

Make it simple for visitors to watch - just press play! That's it. There's no need to download a large file or run a big program like Media Player, QuickTime, or Real Player.

"We sell a product called the 'flexgoal,' and it is one of those products that, no matter how good you are at writing testimonials or product descriptions, you just can't do it justice. So I scoured the web for a piece of software that would help me add video to our website. I wanted it simple because although reasonably technical, I'm no webvideo pro or computer genius.

I came across the V2F package and I'm sure like many customers, I was skeptical of the claims. In most cases, you either get simplicity (meaning it has no features) or great functionality (meaning you need to be a rocket scientist to operate it). I was desperate so I gave it a try, and WOW! It really is simple and packed with functionality, and I also get free upgrades!"
- Craig Leverington of 4coaches.com"

"I just bought the software at the beginning of the year after trying to learn Macromedia Flash during a 30-day trial period. I was so relieved to find your software.

We put webvideo on a site each week and I was trying to do Windows and QuickTime versions before and the files were never compressed enough to view quickly.

You have made this so simple and easy to use and now I see from the new features with the built-in ftp option, it will go even faster. Thank you!"
- Connie Strickland

"After searching for an affordable, easy-to-use piece of software for creating videos to add to my Virtual Assistant "box of tools," I chose V2F. And indeed, it is easy to use, and has produced great results for my clients.

It took only a few minutes to get started - now I wish more of my clients had videos for me to add to their web sites because it is so much fun to use."
- Kathy Sparks of Your Virtual Resource

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