This video is a 640×480 screencast tutorial showing you how to use vPIP to publish multiple versions of a video into your Blogger site, offering your viewers a choice of video formats hosted on Blip.tv.
I made it in response to demand from my videoblogging students, who had trouble writing notes from my live demo. The tutorial assumes you already know how to set up a blog with Blogger, compress video for the web, and upload it to Blip.tv’s hosting service. If you don’t, head over to Freevlog and hit the tutorial section.
A Windows Media version of this screencast is coming soon. Apologies, but right now the Flash version does something a little funky - you get a controller in the middle of the video. vPIP is being updated to accommodate larger video sizes, but right now it generates a wee little Flash player. I’ll update it when the new vPIP code is released.
Great tutorial for a great tool.
Well done teach. Well done….
Thanks for the additional information and keeping us “posted” on the latest for vPIP —
very nice screencast. very useful! - thanks!!!!
Great tip, I will be using this in the future. Thanks for sharing. Rock on…
Hi Cheryl:
Thanks for your site–and code methodology…but I’m a little confused…I publish my vids via Blip TV and I’m on a Mac…using Quicktime for the most part.
Question 1. You make it sound like once a user uses vPIP then their Blog uploading (HTML code) is basically finished…but the way I understand it is everytime I want to publish a video–I have to go and CREATE the CODE so that the user has a choice of viewing in several modes….QT or FLA…am I correct in this assumption?
Question 2. In your tutorial you are working with 3 formats–QT, FLA and Wind Med…from my perspective here I have the QT (mp4’s) and I THINK–but not sure–that I have the FLA (Blip gives me this code)….but I never have the Win Media…so then when I making HTML code (with your interface)…I obviously work with only the QT and the FLA–NOT the Wind Med…is this correct?
Question 3. Why is your vPIP site/interface better than simply using the FreeVlog POP-UP code maker?
I think I emailed you with this question before but never got a response…
Hi Steven,
For Question 1, you are correct. Every time you post a new video you have to go make the code that gives the different choices to your viewers. I didn’t mean to make it seem like you only do that once.
Question 2 - correct again. Only work with the media types that you wish to offer. Blip.tv creates the Flash version for you. I was offering Flash, QuickTime, and Windows Media for awhile. I have since dropped Windows Media because it was rarely accessed if at all.
Question 3- It’s not necessarily better, it’s just different. vPIP was designed to play multiple types of video while embedded in your page, and it also knows to stop playing one video if the user clicks to play another. Freevlog’s popup maker does not to that - it would just open another pop-up. But it basically comes down to which one you like better. I like vPIP because I can create the code all in one place and that one code snippet will play multiple video types. If you use Freevlog’s popup maker you would have to make separate popup code for each video type you want to offer.
I’m sorry if I appeared to ignore your question earlier, Steven. It must have gotten eaten by my spam filter, as I don’t recall seeing it. Let me know if you have other questions!
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