One problem that was noted was that the New One Click Ezine Wizard tends to revert to the “Headline with One Picture” paragraph instead of using the Heading Only paragraph style. When the paragraph is set to “Headline with One Picture”, ArticleVideoRobot use a default placeholder image that some customers felt was not needed. More importantly, they felt having to go through the regular Full Article to Video editor to change the paragraph style manually. While the technical team began work on the fix they also suggested a workaround. The suggestion is to use the Google Chrome plugin for ArticleVideoRobot that works correctly when using the Smart Summary option. The following blog article dicusses how to use the Google Chrome plugin:

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/blog/convert-articles-to-video-in-a-flash-with-the-new-google-chrome-plugin.html

I hope the tip was useful. Should you find any other workarounds or have any suggestions, please feel free to keep us posted through our Support Desk (http://www.articlevideorobot.com/support) and we’d be glad to assist.

Below are detailed steps that guide you to open your existing ArticleVideoRobot videos in the Advanced Editor and add the animated backgrounds:

1) Login to your ArticleVideoRobot.com account

2) Click on the Full AVR Editor button. This will open a new window. Click on Open Existing Projects button

3) Select the flash video project and click Distribute this movie button

4) In the following screen that opens up, click the Advanced Editor button.

5) Once your video is opened in the Advanced Editor, click the Backgrounds button on the right panel (with the Advanced Editor). The Backgrounds section would expand.

6) Click the Animated button. You will see a list of animated backgrounds. Simply drag a background and drop it over the filmstrip (below the stage). This action causes the animated background to be added to the entire video.

Assuming that the AVI download link that you receive is http://www.articlevideorobot.com/dlvideo/32251/52460/E6933807103e7 you’d simply have to append the .FLV, .MOV or .MP4 extension to the download link. The resulting urls would be typically be:

FLV:

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/dlvideo/32251/52460/E6933807103e7.flv

MOV:

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/dlvideo/32251/52460/E6933807103e7.mov

MP4:

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/dlvideo/32251/52460/E6933807103e7.mp4

While this is certainly a small feature, we’re sure this would be very handy for users that need to download in one of the above formats. We hope it helps. More updates are in the pipeline and we’re hopeful that it will improve your experience with ArticleVideoRobot.

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Once the plugin is installed, you’ll see the filmstrip icon in the top right corner of your Chrome address bar whenever you’re any one of the six article sites. When you’re reading any article, clicking the AVR One-Click icon converts the current article, shows the preview of the video article and let’s you download the AVI file or distribute to video sites almost instantly. Your newly converted video is saved in your AVR account automatically.

Initial Steps

The plugin requires very little setup. To get started, click the AVR One-Click icon when you’re reading any article.

The first time you use it, you’re prompted to login to your ArticleVideoRobot account. You’ll also see a notification about allowing the plugin to access your ArticleVideoRobot account.

This is a one-time setup, so once you’re done with it, its all click and convert any articles to video just like a wish! Below is what you’ll see when you click the AVR One Click icon in the address bar.

You’ll see the above screen only for a second or two while the plugin tries to communicate with ArticleVideoRobot server. Once the connection is established, you’ll see the plugin is already working to convert the video.

The conversion takes a few seconds and you’ll then see the video preview in the same page.

You can download or distribute the video from the same page. Click the Download this Video to queue the video for AVI download. As usual, you’ll receive the download link email within a few minutes.

Article Conversion Options

The plugin lets you configure some basic settings for the article conversion wizard. To open the options, click the AVR One Click icon on the top right and click the Options option from the dropdown menu.

Alternatively, you may click the Click here to edit Conversion Options button during the conversion page. The Options will open the Article to Video Conversion Options page. The following page shows the screenshot of the configuration page.

All the basic settings are self-explanatory if you are an ArticleVideoRobot user. For the sake of clarity, the Smart Summary option for the Video Style field is exactly the same as the Headline Only paragraph style. The Full Text option is equivalent to the Headline with Subheading paragraph style. The plugin also lets you configure Business Account level settings which are disabled if you are using a free trial or Power Account.

The VoiceOver field lets you configure the gender of the voice, something that’s new and which you’ll not see in the regular wizards (note though the backend voices are the same). The Mixed option picks multiple random voices – which includes a combination of male and female voices.

The settings configured in this page are applied at the global level – this means it takes effect on all videos that you convert thereafter using the plugin.

We hope that you find the plugin useful. We are working on some exciting updates and new features to ArticleVideoRobot so there’s lots in store this year for customers!

Where is the option

To access this feature, move your mouse over the Projects tab. This will reveal a dropout menu where you’ll find an option named Video Downloads. This will open the Recent Video Downloads page. The page lists all your Video Download requests that you’ve put in so far.  The below screenshot shows a sample report page that was taken from my ArticleVideoRobot account.

How it helps

One big problem that it addresses is that users may now re-submit their video download requests when they notice  a delay in receiving the download link. We’ve seen quite a few users report that download links are received very late (takes a few hours or even a day) that caused quite an inconvenience. Usually, it takes only 5-10 minutes for the AVR flash movies to be converted to a video file. So the next time you submit a AVI download request, go to your Video Downloads page and check the status. If you see the status as Pending for more than 10 minutes, then go ahead and re-submit the video again. Once you re-submit, check again to see the status of the newly submitted request. In most cases, the second request should get completed within 5-8 minutes and you’ll see the download link.

I hope a lot of customers will find this option very handy, more so that it would solve the delay with getting the AVI download links.

Well, I can safely guarantee you that millions of internet users have great video intentions. They’ve been planning for months or even years to begin making videos and submitting them to online video sites. Maybe you’re one of those soon to be famous filmmakers. Some want to make videos for fun, for family, or just for laughs. Others want to promote a cause, whether it be their own cause or some other charity or organization. Then, a third group have their own business or are online affiliates who want to push a product or service. But there are always terrific excuses for why you’ve never done it. You need a face lift first, or you want to take speech lessons from Adolf Hitler, you fired your last scriptwriter, or you need a new teleprompter. What’s your excuse, pal?

Well, I’ve got a solution that will wipe away all your excuses in one fell swoop. It’s called Article Video Robot. It’s the easiest and quickest way ever to make a video. You just copy and paste your words into a box, select a backdrop, choose a font, select some background music, and then choose a voice or voices that will read your text on the video.

That’s all there is to it. It’s so easy, a caveman could do it. Oops, sorry. You’re probably sick and tired of that line. Anyway, not only will the website produce your video, but it will automatically send it to multiple video sites online. I’m telling the truth, Ruth. This is for real, Neal. So, reach for the crank, Hank, and get up and go. Article Video Robot: the coolest video maker online.

What about you? I know you’ve been yearning to create videos since sometime immediately before the invention of color TV. And maybe you’ve given it a timid try here and there. But you expected to look like Elizabeth Taylor or Tom Cruise and, on screen, you looked more like an ordinary bumpkin stumbling through a poorly written script as if you just got home from a German beer fest. So now you’re considering acting lessons at one hundred and fifty dollars a shot. It ain’t rocket science, junior. You need more than a few acting lessons and a two thousand dollar face lift.

Have you ever heard of Article Video Robot? Well, if not, you must have been hiding under a rock somewhere. Article Video Robot is the coolest way to make your own videos. I’m serious as a heart attack, girlfriend. Using this service, you can actually place your best article content on video within minutes. Not only that, but you can select a musical background, and you can choose from a wide variety of actor’s voices. Now, my voice, the character named Heather, sounds incredibly natural. The words appear on screen with special effects.

Plus, Article Video Robot makes it possible for you to submit your video with one push of a button to up to 17 video websites as well as social networking sites. You need to get up off your hindquarters and sign up for Article Video Robot. Imagine the added promotion you could get if you transformed all your ezine articles into sharp, zippy videos.

What is the most difficult and intimidating aspect of making online videos? Well, of course, you must have some relevant content that people want or need to know. But is that really so hard to find? Out of the billions of pages of raw data on the internet, it is no longer very difficult to track down enough info to put together a pretty fine and informative article or script for a video. However, here is where we hit a roadblock because very few of us look like a million bucks or can be as casual and entertaining as, perhaps, a Regis Philbin. I mean, this guy could probably talk to a crowd about the benefits of acne and keep them thoroughly entertained for up to an hour.

But most of us have not spent much time in front of a camera and we look uncomfortable, the lighting might be inadequate, we keep saying things like ‘um’ and ‘ya know’, and we forget our speech halfway through and must start over again fifteen times. No, making good quality videos is not exactly a picnic. The challenges prevent most people from reaping the rich rewards that online videos can reap.

What if I told you that it is possible to place your top articles on video in a matter of minutes. Well, ArticleVideoRobot offers a solution and they do it very well. In fact, they do it so well that you can actually turn a key article into a great video within three to five minutes. No, I’m not kidding. And the video you make will offer a choice of custom backgrounds, you can select the background music, it places your copy on-screen using sharp special effects, and you can pick one or several professional voices to read your article aloud. What’s more, if you’d rather use your own voice, you can record that instead of using the actors’ voices.

I hear your next objection, “Fine, but I’m not familiar with the video sites where I can post my videos.” Maybe the only one you’ve heard of is YouTube and you’re not even registered on that one. Well, don’t worry. You can actually register for all the top video sites right on the ArticleVideoRobot website. Then you simply press a button, and your new video is submitted automatically to as many of them as you wish.

What is the Advanced Editor?

The Advanced Editor is a full-fledged flash editor developed by our subsidiary company Toufee. The Advanced Editor’s commercial name is Toufee as well. The Advanced Editor, as the name suggests is a comprehensive flash editor program that lets you customize the properties, effects and timings of every flash object to a high level of detail. The Advanced Editor comes with a truckload of effects, animated backgrounds, text styles, shapes and support for granular timing control that could help you tweak your ArticleVideoRobot to make sure you get the best of both worlds, i.e. the ease of use of ArticleVideoRobot to quickly create videos while using the Advanced Editor to add the finer details.

Behold though, the Advanced Editor is available only in the Business Account only. Ofcourse, it is a premium feature hence only available with the Business Account.

Opening a Video in Advanced Editor

You could open only existing ArticleVideoRobot videos in the Advanced Editor. What it means is that you cannot directly create a new video using the Advanced Editor – you need an existing ArticleVideoRobot video that you could work wit the Advanced Editor. To launch a AVR video in the Advanced Editor, follow the steps below:

1. Login to your ArticleVideoRobot.com account
2. Click on the Full AVR Editor button. This will open a new window. Click on Open Existing Projects button
3. Select the flash video project and click Distribute this movie button
4. In the following screen that opens up, click the Advanced Editor button.

An important point to note is that when an existing AVR video is opened in the Advanced Editor, a copy of the video is created. The Advanced Editor then works with this newly created copy. All changes that you make in the Advanced Editor are made to the copy of the video that was created when you opened the video in the Advanced Editor. Why is it designed that way? The Advanced Editor uses a different format and structure when compared with the regular ArticleVideoRobot wizards to store and work with videos. It is for this reason that a copy of the video is created the first time you edit a AVR video in the Advanced Editor. When you launch the Open Existing Projects, you will notice that ArticleVideoRobot appends the text (Advanced Version) to it.

Note: A word of caution – when you wish to open a video that is edited in the Advanced Editor, strictly follow the steps listed above. Do not click the Edit in Advanced Editor from the existing AVR video to open the video in the Advanced Editor – this overwrites any existing “Advanced Copy” of the same video and you risk losing your existing work done in the Advanced Editor for the selected video.

Previewing Advanced Editor videos

To preview a video that is edited with the Advanced Editor, you would have to use the Advanced Editor itself. Use the Movie -> Play option from the main menu or use the click blue eye-like button on the top right. This opens the preview window within.

How To Download Advanced Editor Videos

You would have to use the Advanced Editor again. Select Publish -> Export to YouTube (AVI, FLV, MOV) option from the main menu. Then click Add your movie to the queue button. You should then receive an email momentarily with the download link.

How Do You Distribute Advanced Editor Videos to Video Sites?

The next logical question, obviously. This is a two-phase process. You would have to first download the video using the Advanced Editor as described above. Once you have downloaded the video, you could use ArticleVideoRobot’s video submission wizard to submit the video to the video sites. The following KB article discusses this in detail:

http://www.webmarketingrobot.com/support/index.php?page=kb_view&id=45

More Resources on the Advanced Editor:

The buck doesn’t stop here. The Advanced Editor has numerous features that one could make use of.  We have useful video tutorials on the Advanced Editor which can be accessed below:

http://www.toufee.com/support/index.php?page=tuts_view&id=12

http://www.toufee.com/support/index.php?page=tuts_view&id=4

I would also recommend that you go through the official Toufee blog that has useful how-to articles on most of the features that are available in Advanced Editor. You could access the blog from the following URL:

http://www.toufee.com/moviemaker/

I hope that the above information helps. Should you have any more questions, you may raise a ticket to Support Desk (http://www.articlevideorobot.com/support) and I’d be glad to assist.

Ganesh Sathyanathan
ArticleVideoRobot Support