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.

Blip.tv on PBS,
originally uploaded by hummingcrow.

I photographed my TV screen. You gotta hand it to Bill Moyers – his producers are hip. Blip.tv showed up on this laptop screen for ten seconds about a half hour into the October 18, 2006 airing of Moyers on America: The Net at Risk. Go watch the episode at PBS.org (or go straight to Chapter 3 about 9 minutes 10 seconds in to see the Blip.tv logo on air). And then go tell your U.S. Senator and Representative and the FCC (fcc.gov) to protect Net Neutrality.