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

Anyways, getting our attention back to ArticleVideoRobot let me share a quick workaround that should help you fix this issue with voice-over skipping text. As some of you might have noted and have already reported, the voice-overs skip the last word in the first paragraph of the video article. Sometimes you might experience this behavior in other slides (i.e. paragraphs) of the video as well. The fact that this happens only sometimes might somewhat take you by surprise when you least expect it. Thankfully, there is a workaround and the good part is that it was suggested by our customer named Veselin.

The fix is to add a space, a period and a space at the end of the paragraph where the voice-overs skip the last word. It should look like this (without quotes)

” . ”

Note that the quotes are shown only as a placeholder. In the image below, note that there is a space character before and after the period, however, it is visually not distinguishable due to the white background of the textbox. Nevertheless, it does exists.

Once you update your voice-over text with the above change, click the Turn Text to Speech button to have the voice-over regenerated for the new text. Once the re-generation is complete click the OK button to close the Voice Library window.  Click the Save Project button to save the project.

Hope this workaround is useful. Thanks once again to our customer Veselin for having shared this tip.

Till the next time,

Ganesh Sathyanathan
ArticleVideoRobot Support

Today, let me share a quick tip that should is particularly for users who publish their AritcleVideoRobot videos to their blog or to their markeitng websites. As a default setting, when you publish an ArticleVideoRobot video to your blog or to a website using the HTML code, the published video starts playing automatically when the page is viewed. This “auto-start” setting could be inconvenient when you regularly publish the videos to your blog  and you have possibly dozens of videos “loading” when a user visits the homepage of your blog (or the video page of your website). This is a potential bottleneck as there is an increased load time (of the blog or website)  resulting in inconvenience to users. To fix the issue, one could set their ArticleVideoRobot flash videos to not start automatically. This way, users could click the play button on the individual videos to start watching the video.  Here is how you do it:

1) In the Members Area, click Start Full Editor editor button available under the Full Article to Video Editor option. This would open the ArticleVideoRobot wizard

2) Click the Open Existing Projects button. The wizard will list all your videos

3) Select a video and on the right panel you’ll see the buttons Edit Selected movie and Distribute selected movie. Click Edit Selected movie option to continue editing the video.

4) Click Next until you reach the Select Your Movie Background page of the wizard.

5) Click Edit Player Settings button. This will open the Paused at Start radio button adjacent to the Movie Starts Playing and click OK

6) Re-publish the video by copying the HTML code and pasting it to your blog or website. You should now have the pause button on the video that should prevent the movie from playing automatically.

Hope this helps. Until my next post, wishing you all good luck and great success with your video marketing efforts

Ganesh Sathyanathan

1) Login to your ArticleVideoRobot account and navigate to the following URL:

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/videomarketing/articlereel_ftp_setup.html?dl=1

You would be prompted to download a zip file. The zip files contains the index.php and .htaccess files that you should upload to your website to setup ArticleReel. Make sure the zip file is fully downloaded.

2) Create a new folder named “articlereel” or “videos” under your website’s root directory (you could choose any name of your choice). Note that your website root directory usually is under a folder named public_html or www (based on your hosting provider).

3) Upload the index.php and .htaccess to the new folder that you just created in step 2.

3) Launch the ArticleReel page from your website by typing the URL http://www.yourwebsitename.com/articlereel/ or http://www.yourwebsitename.com/videos/ (depends on the folder name created. If the site does not load on using http://www.yourwebsitename.com/articlereel/ then try http://www.yourwebsitename.com/articlereel/index.php

4) That is all it takes to setup ArticleReel. The first time ArticleReel is launched from your website, a new folder named ar_cache is created in your ArticleReel directory. Ensure that the folder permission on the ar_cache folder is 777

Hope this helps.

Till the next time,

Ganesh

Why Redirect to a Squeeze Page?

The idea behind video marketing is to ensure that your target prospects (or viewers) get the maximum information to the prospect so that they turn into a successful buyer of the product or a service. With video marketing and with a compelling video as a marketing medium, you must ensure that you complete the sale or atleast make sure the customer is presented with the opportunity to buy the product or service when the impression about the product or service is fresh in the mind of customer.

Quick Steps

Below are quick steps that shows how you could enable the option to activate redirection. Note that this option would work only when you publish your video to your website using the embed HTML code. Refer the steps below that shows how you could do this:

1) Open your flash movie in the Full Article to Video Editor and click the Next button until you reach the Select Your Movie Background page

2) Click on the Edit Player Settings button

3) Click the Redirect my webpage once the movie is complete

4) Enter the URL that you wish to redirect to in the Redirection URL textbox

Hope this tip was useful. Though it is a very basic feature that goes unnoticed it can definitely help you improve your sales which gives you more reasons why you should consider using it.

When you find that the text to speech does not fully read a paragraph, simply open the video in the Full Article to Video Editor. Below are steps that show how to open a video in the Full Article to Video Editor

1) In the Members Area, click Start Full Editor editor button available under the Full Article to Video Editor option. This would open the ArticleVideoRobot wizard

2) Click the Open Existing Projects button. The wizard will list all your videos

3) Select a video and on the right panel you’ll see the buttons Edit Selected movie and Distribute selected movie. Click Edit Selected movie option.

With the video opened in the wizard, click Next until you reach the individual paragraphs and click the Select button next to the VoiceOver field. This will open the Voice Library window, with the Text to Speech tab selected. Replace characters such as … with . or remove them totally. Note that this wouldn’t affect the actual text you see on screen. Click Turn Text to Speech to re-generate the voice-over and click OK to exit out of the Voice Library window.

Note: The text that you edit in the Text to Speech window is not the text that is displayed on the screen. While both the text that is displayed on the video and that you see in the Voice Library are same to start with, one could fine tune the text in the Text to Speech window by removing addition characters (such as …) or removing ambiguous exclamations (e.g. ?!). This fixes the voice-over from skipping the rest of the paragraph and ensures a smooth voice-over. Infact, many issues related to paragraph continuity, word pronunciation and word clarity could be fixed by customizing the text in the Text to Speech window