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1. Gary (aka Old dude)

   August 3rd, 2008 at 5:43 pm

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   Wayne, wow am I impressed with your knowledge of blogging and what ya can and can’t do. I don’t have highspeed, or dsl here, so unable to spend the two hours plus that it would take to download your instructional video—but I am sure it was concise and understandable to those who could do so. The video on you “test blog” was inspirational—-took me an hour to download that one.

   —Does a person have to have DSL to put video in their blog? (like if a person was mad enough to take the time not having DSL, could he do it?”

   Gary (aka old dude)
   http://threescoreplusten.blogspot.com/

2. Wayne

   August 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm

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   Well Gary, DSL is just a bigger pipe out. You have dial-up, consider that an 1″ copper pipe, and you can only send so much water through. With a bigger pipe (DSL) say an 8″ round, you can fit that much more water through your pipe.

   You can do it, watch the videos, you just need to wait for them to queue up. If the continually stop and buffer, hit pause for a while and allow it to collect up data without watching the video at the same time. Grab a cupcake and wait, or get some of that there cable or DSL. Either way, you can still watch the vids. One just takes longer.

   It’s a better experience for sure Gary. If you can flip for it, I’d say do it.

   I’ll leave some for Demeur to ring in on. lol

3. Gary (aka old dude)

   August 4th, 2008 at 8:21 am

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   —well see I learn something new everytime I talk with ya—I didn’t know one could hit pause and that the vid would continue to buffer up——.

   Gary (aka old dude)

4. Wayne

   August 4th, 2008 at 10:48 am

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   @Gary – Yeah, that’s what I’ll do sometimes when the video is just not streaming well. Even with DSL, you still sometimes have a video that doesn’t play nice with you, but for the most part, they just hum right along.

5. Adam

   August 4th, 2008 at 11:23 am

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   One problem I have had with embedding the videos is it has occasionally broken my template. With Viddler you can always alter the width of the player to make it fit. I am not sure if you can do that with Youtube. Another problem I had was when I put a photo in the same post it did all sorts of wonky things. I just learned to make sure that if I put a pic and video in a post, I need to separate them with some text which seemed to make them display fine.

6. Wayne

   August 4th, 2008 at 11:42 am

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   @Adam – Good point there. I usually try to provide enough space between those objects so that text flows between them and I don’t get any of my objects pushing each other into areas they don’t need to be. Too many objects in a small space just doesn’t work sometimes.

   I haven’t played with (modified) the embed tags from YouTube that much, but there are width and height properties. Perhaps modifying them would help?

   I’m currently debating between Viddler and YouTube for my video hosting, as well as Picassa and Flickr for my photos. I’m using both right now to help me reach a decision on that. Unfortunately, the French company I found for hosting my pics just won’t do anymore.

7. Demeur

   August 5th, 2008 at 9:22 am

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   Great post Wayne answers a lot of questions and why I couldn’t post vids the way I tried. I must say you have a great voice for instructional materials.
   Gary quit being so cheap and flip for the DSL you know you want to

8. Wayne

   August 5th, 2008 at 9:55 am

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   @Demeur – Thanks a bunch! I’ve been trying to determine if videos are the way to go for these instructional posts. To me, I would prefer a video, but other times, I like having the text to read. Doing both for each post would probably make me want to quit blogging altogether..lol. Not really perhaps.

   I’m thinking forward to the templates…I think they might be easier to express and relay the information people need/want in a video as opposed to text.

   Thoughts everyone?

   (I knew you wouldn’t let Gary get off so easily…hahaha)

9. Leslie

   September 26th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

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   me to gary

10. Blogger BlogMaster

    December 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

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    Blogger.com Help – Lesson 7 – Inserting video into a post is easy once you know how to do it. The first time for most things are the most challenging or time consuming. I agree with Demeur, Wayne, you have a great instructional voice. I think videos are the way to go for instructional or teaching posts because the viewer and learner can replay and watch the video as many times as they want… see and hear the action steps.

11. Fred

    February 14th, 2009 at 12:26 am

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    Thanks, this is a helpful post. I still have an unanswered question, though: What are the pros and cons of uploading videos into Blogger directly vs. uploading them into your own YouTube channel and then embedding that into your Blogger post? Especially since they’re both Google properties?

12. Wayne

    February 14th, 2009 at 11:43 am

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    Not a problem Fred, you got stuck on the wait prompt I bet. The one big difference that comes to mind is that if you upload to YouTube, you can easily embed that video anywhere else you want to. If you just upload to Blogger within a post, then you can’t really transfer it anywhere else (unless the Blogger and YouTube connection provide a method to do that, which I’m unsure of right now.)

    I would suspect, and of course you’d need to test to see if there are differences, that uploading to YouTube first is going to give you more flexibility with the video itself than just uploading to Blogger in a post.

    Any video I’ve ever uploaded to Blogger has been explicitly for the post itself, and never much more than that.

13. Deepak

    February 20th, 2009 at 4:07 am

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    This post was very useful for me and i will post a video in my blog post.And i have a blog i wanted to place a banner in my blog in exchange of my link.If you are interested.Thank you.

14. Wayne

    February 20th, 2009 at 10:11 am

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    Deepak, I’m glad you found it useful. Unfortunately, I don’t have any banners of my own. I’m not graphically inclined, and also very picky about what I think looks good, so I never make them.