How to Make An Inexpensive Video Blog Post for Your Blog

If you’ve ever doubted what a good video blog post can do for your blog all you have to do is take a tour of some of the web’s hottest weblogs. (Seriously-type “hottest blogs” or “most popular blogs” in your search engine, ignore the ones rated NC-17 or higher and see what you get.) All of these blogs have one thing in common-multimedia presentation and the occasional video blog!

These bloggers know that they’re working with an audience with a limited attention span and more to do than can reasonably be done in a 24 hour period. That means if they’re going to keep them coming back day after day they have to give them something that’s going to make it worth it. And the only way that’s going to happen is if they shake things up a little bit and make their blog a multi-media event!

For everyone who’s been shaking in their shoes at the thought of having to produce a video blog, relax. Making videos and posting them on the web isn’t nearly as hard as it used to be. As a matter of fact, with today’s software capabilities and the number of free tools and resources available on the web you can make a cheap video blog post for your blog without even breaking a sweat!

The first thing you need to do is put together a set of notecards or a piece of paper with the highlights from your presentation on them. You don’t want to get in front of the camera and sound like a sock puppet, but you don’t want your post to be chock full of “um” and “uh” either! It’s pretty safe to say that if you’re getting ready to put together a video blog post you already know your way around the information you want to put up there. From that point on it’s all about delivery.

Ingredient number two: A webcam or digital camcorder with audio capabilities. I say this because there are many digital cameras out there with incredibly inferior microphone capabilities that don’t translate to good video, even for a cheap video blog post! Remember, you want the cost of your blog to be cheap-not the quality. Once you’ve got your camera in place all you have to do is sit down and give the performance of your lifetime. Have some fun with it!

When you’re in front of that camera it’s all about you.

Once you’ve made your video it’s time to do some editing. There are a number of software programs out there like Avid and Adobe that give you professional editing tools, or you can take advantage of the ones offered by YouTube, Viddler or similar online programs.

Personally, I like Viddler-but I never was one to conform! Using these tools you can splice your videos, add audio background, play around with your color scheme and audio and essentially put together a professional quality, cheap video blog post at a fraction of the cost you’d have paid five or six years ago.

Ain’t technology grand?