I created a couple of tutorial videos based on embedding Twitter functionality in to Blogger.
For those that use Blogger you know that their gadget selection is woefully inadequate and Blogger is not third-party friendly. That said, Blogger is a great platform for SEO because Google seems to gives rank preference to Blogger content over other blog mediums.
The tutorials I created were around doing two things:
1) Embedding a retweet button at the end of any given blog post you make. This allows people who are reading your blog to tweet to their network the blog post they just read.
2) Embedding a 'follow me' function so that people visiting your blog can start to follow you on Twitter with one click.
I created the videos in Camtasia and let me tell you, that program is very frustrating. It's great (and simple) for capturing your screen, but outside of that it's a giant pain to work with. It also produces fairly small file sizes, which is fantastic as well
Their audio editing functionality is really bad though and perhaps the most annoying thing, they use proprietary video codecs so that the video you ultimately produce cannot be ported in to other video editing software programs. In addition, at least from what I read on the internet, if you are running on a 64-bit OS (like I am), this adds to the problem of outputting a video that can be ported to another program.
That's a huge negative because Camtasia sucks for video editing as well. Ideally what you'd want to do is screen capture in Camtasia and then edit the video and audio in a program like PowerDirector. But like I say, because of the codecs they use, you are forced to stay within Camtasia.
This lack of flexibility will definitely cause me to go try some other screen capturing programs and see if any of them allow me to port video in to other video editing programs - if they do, then I won't be using Camtasia in the future.
Anyway, here are the videos I created.
For those that use Blogger you know that their gadget selection is woefully inadequate and Blogger is not third-party friendly. That said, Blogger is a great platform for SEO because Google seems to gives rank preference to Blogger content over other blog mediums.
The tutorials I created were around doing two things:
1) Embedding a retweet button at the end of any given blog post you make. This allows people who are reading your blog to tweet to their network the blog post they just read.
2) Embedding a 'follow me' function so that people visiting your blog can start to follow you on Twitter with one click.
I created the videos in Camtasia and let me tell you, that program is very frustrating. It's great (and simple) for capturing your screen, but outside of that it's a giant pain to work with. It also produces fairly small file sizes, which is fantastic as well
Their audio editing functionality is really bad though and perhaps the most annoying thing, they use proprietary video codecs so that the video you ultimately produce cannot be ported in to other video editing software programs. In addition, at least from what I read on the internet, if you are running on a 64-bit OS (like I am), this adds to the problem of outputting a video that can be ported to another program.
That's a huge negative because Camtasia sucks for video editing as well. Ideally what you'd want to do is screen capture in Camtasia and then edit the video and audio in a program like PowerDirector. But like I say, because of the codecs they use, you are forced to stay within Camtasia.
This lack of flexibility will definitely cause me to go try some other screen capturing programs and see if any of them allow me to port video in to other video editing programs - if they do, then I won't be using Camtasia in the future.
Anyway, here are the videos I created.
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