Guest Blogger: Bruce Walls
If you want to make videos to promote your products or services but only have a digital camera and no camcorder, here’s an easy solotion. By using Photo Story 3 from Microsoft and one or more pictures from your collection then it will only take you ten minutes to produce a good quality video to embed in your blog or website, upload to one of many video sharing sites or write to a DVD.
Once you have your pictures, import them into Photo Story 3 where you can edit them, add text, add effects, add transitions, add voice narration or add music. Once completed you will have a video in .wmv format which can easily be converted into .flv format for embedding in your blog. There are several video conversion programs available for doing this and plugins to use in WordPress to easily add the videos to your posts.
Imagine that you’re a realtor and you have a new property to promote. Photo Story is a real gem for you. Take photos as you walk through the property, return to your office and upload the photos onto your hard drive. Edit or resize them then import the pictures into Photo Story. Use the programs tools, add some nice relaxing background music and in a few minutes you have a video to upload to video sharing sites. Five minutes later you will be able to email all your potential purchasers with a link to the video. What could be easier?
This is just one example of using this useful program to promote your website, products and services. Take a look at Photo Story now and see for yourself.
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Check out Bruce’s video guide blog for more great tips!