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ArticleVideoRobot Tip: Use the Google Chrome plugin to remove placeholder images

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

The New One Click Ezine Wizard lets you turn articles to video fairly quickly however there is one gotcha when using the summary, there is an option which says I want to show paragraph summaries only. The following screenshot shows how you the option under the Video Style setting

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.

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How to create animated backgrounds for your ArticleVideoRobot video

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Yesterday, one of our customers was curious on how to use animated backgrounds with ArticleVideoRobot. The customer wanted to use one of her animated GIF graphics as a background. Though our system does not supported animated GIFs, ArticleVideoRobot does have the Advanced Editor feature that comes with it own set of animated backgrounds that you could use. The Advanced Editor is a feature of the Business Account, so that’s something you have to note. If you’re wondering what’s the Advanced Editor, then I’d recommend you read this article that should get you good dose of the basics.

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.

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Convert articles to video in a flash with the new Google Chrome plugin

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

It seems converting your articles to video couldn’t get easier than this. We’ve launched a new Google Chrome plugin that makes it much simpler to convert any article that’s on any of the six articles (EzineArticles, iSnare, ArticleBase, ArticleAlley, GoArticles or ArticleDashboard). Whilst the initial setup, its just a single point-and-click step to convert your article to an instant AVR video. Here is the download link to grab the plugin:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/loiclcncghakgfnjjkbpcfalkccdngbg

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!

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AVR Update: Get AVI video download links within your Members Area

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

We’ve been waiting to get this feature rolled out for long and finally its here. You can now view all your AVI video download requests within your ArticleVideoRobot Members Area.  With this feature, you’ll now be able to see the status of your video download request, and access all your previous AVI download links. This will also solve the problem users face in receiving download links to their emails as the same links are now available in their Members Area directly.

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.

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Automatically Create Video and publish to Internet in Three Minutes

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Have you checked out the videos on the internet lately? Give me a serious break, pal! A definite majority of them are pure junk with poor lighting, lousy script, embarrassingly amateurish acting, and regrettably boring content. Then another third of them are strictly average. The only reason people watch many of them is because the clips are weird, squirrely, or just pure sick. Then there are a few that are professionally made, with great info, slick engineering, and entertaining content.

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.

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The Fastest and Easiest Video Software Creator on the Web

Monday, November 21st, 2011

There are only so many effective ways of getting your message publicized online. You can sprint from one blog or forum to another, you can write and distribute articles, you can pursue that ever-elusive website traffic, or you can make videos. If you aren’t into making videos, then you’re missing a key element that could give your online venture a huge boost. Video marketing is rapidly becoming one of the most effective online marketing methods of all. YouTube alone is visited by thousands of times a day by literally millions of people. You can find entertaining videos about just about every topic imaginable. And some people are using it to leverage huge amounts of profit from people searching for solutions, products, or services that they desperately need. If you can begin harnessing the power of internet article writing and video production, you are a few giant steps ahead of 95% of online sellers.

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.

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Try the new “real” human-sounding voice-over of ArticleVideoRobot

Friday, April 29th, 2011

We’ve done quite a few changes to ArticleVideoRobot in the recent times, some which are visible on the interface and some on the backend which you may have experienced during the course of usage. One of the biggest improvement is the introduction of a new voice over character called “Heather” and she sounds so damn real. If you’ve used our earlier voice-overs then you may think I might be joking. Not really, atleast this time round. Go ahead and give our new voice-over a shot and you’ll see the differences yourself.  JUST remember to clear your browser cache though to make sure you see Heather listed in the voice-over drop down list.

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Demistifying the Advanced Editor – a quick primer

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

Time and again, there have been numerous questions about the Advanced Editor, its usage and the integration with ArticleVideoRobot which warrants a full-blown user guide itself. This article however is an attempt to quickly introduce the Advanced Editor and provide essential resources that would get one up to speed to fully use it.

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

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ArticleVideoRobot VoiceOver Update: Quick Tip to fix voice-overs skipping words

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Hello there, trust you’re all doing well. Its busy times at ArticleVideoRobot as we’re working on a number of new ways to improve our video creation and submission software to help your video marketing better, efficient and drive more results. We’ve also just launched StingerVideos, our new product that could help you easily create hot marketing videos in minutes. StingerVideos is getting rave feedback from our customers and we’ve overwhelmed by the response. And we have more stuff lined up in the pipeline for StingerVideos, the first being a series of new 11 video types that would be unveiled next week.

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

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ArticleVideoRobot Tip: How to add a “Paused at Start” option to your ArticleVideoRobot videos

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Its been a while since my last post, but I hope you’ve been seeing good results with video marketing. Though the blog has gone quite for a while, we are working on a number of enhancements to the software that should make video marketing with ArticleVideoRobot faster, easier and all the more effective.  One of the major improvement has been an improved AVI video conversion engine which now results in much faster turnaround of video submissions as well as the completion of video download requests. And you have ArticleReel, which still though in beta has already won the likes of internet marketers as the preferred choice to put your internet marketing in auto-pilot mode – not to forget the quality backlinks that ArticleReel generates.

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

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