I think it’s less worrying to use your own pictures and video when adding them to blog posts. Why worry about copyright when there is YouTube to grab videos from. If it’s on YouTube and they provide an embed tag for the video, it’s yours to use, right? Absolutely! In this post we’ll take a look at inserting a video into a post on your Blogger.com blog.

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There are many times when you might want to insert a video. Perhaps a video you made on your new camera or even a video from YouTube that you thought was funny and want to share it with others. Whatever the reason, video helps a post come to life, and with the mess of video on YouTube and other sites, there are plenty to choose from.

Adding Video to your Post

Inserting a video into your post is very much the same as inserting a picture, except the part about it actually being a video.

In the video, I am modifying the ‘Do you live cautiously‘ post by including a video that is somewhat on the inspirational side.

I thought I would try my hand at creating a video that explains everything you need to know to include a video in your post. It’s the first one I’ve ever made that includes screen capture and an audio overlay. It was quite time-consuming and I think the next one I ever do will go a little faster.

I first show what you need to do to upload a video that you have on your local system. When you have a video local to your system, you will need to upload it to the Blogger.com servers. Once uploaded, Blogger will then process your video.

The second half of the video will then show you how to embed a video from a service such as YouTube or Viddler by using a provided EMBED tag.

Because this is the first video I’m using to show how to do something on the Blogger.com system, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this post. Is it better than the other posts? Does it help you more?