Anatomy of a Blog Post - Embedding Videos Quickly

If you've been following this blog at all, you've probably guessed there's not much rhyme or reason to it. We're here to show off our video player and converter software and try to have fun with it. Coming up with new stuff every day can sometimes be a challenge. Sure it's easy when a theme is already established like with our political video of the day. We just find a video, update our playlist and it gets automatically added to the blog.

Inspiration

But finding something interesting, that shows off our products can sometimes be difficult. Like many bloggers, we often turn to the news to seek inspiration. Sometimes we look at other blogs. Sometimes it's as easy as looking out the window. Today it has snowed for most of the day. We're not talking about a little snowstorm. We're talking about inches of snow piling up in minutes with wind gusts blowing it everywhere. Streets are closed and the local canyons leading to the ski resorts are closed down because of avalanche danger. A quick glance online shows Utah isn't the only place in the world getting dumped with snow.

Theme

A very popular video last year showed car after car on a Portland street ricocheting down the road hitting everything in sight. It was sad and funny at the same time. A quick search on YouTube found the popular video. Now, we could have easily copied the YouTube embed code to show it off here. Or using CinemaForge we could copy it locally or post it to StageGold. We could have downloaded directly to StageGold and put a custom themed skin on it too.

Zoink Technology

We decided this would be a good time to show off our direct pointing or "zoinking" capability. We simply pasted the YouTube link and added a title. Now it shows up on YouTube and StageGold. We can also generate StageGold embed codes to show it off here.

Video Summary

Search for video
Copy selected video using Zoink
Paste embed code

Voila -