How to Add Video to your Website
5 Steps to Follow
Adding / Uploading your video to a website is an effective as well as popular method of sharing your video to a huge audience.
Just log onto the internet and you will be amazed by the number of videos available on the net.
Though it is a great medium for videos, there are also certain limitations to it. So if you decide to add your video on web page, make sure you refer to the following suggestions.
1. Quality & Size
Though quality of the video is important, you also need to keep an eye on the size of the video. The size is an important factor when you are adding video on a website.
You don't want the visitors to your site to wait for ages before the video is ready to be viewed. They are not going to wait for so long.
So don't go for a full screen with the best resolution. Look for small, clear images that will still look good with compression.
2. Editing Software
You will need an editing software program to be able to process the video that you intend to add on a webpage. You will need just basic skills so learning should not be an issue.
The editing software will let you do all the changes that you wish to do with the video files. Add several clips, slice them, remove unwanted scenes, insert static images, use filters, add screen transitions, add a soundtrack, etc. Depending on the software you should be able to do much more.
3. Audio Processing
If you intend to use your videos to sell a product, you may want to edit the sound of your video using an audio-editing software program.
This will ensure that the sound quality stays top notch and it will add to the overall experience of the viewers.
4. Compressing the Video
Once you are happy with your edited video file and with the sound quality, it is time to compress your video!
This is the step before you add your final video on a website. Your editing software program should be able to provide this feature of compressing a video.
Here you make adjustments to balance the image and sound quality, along with some other parameters pertaining to quality and size.
5. Uploading the Video
This is the final step and the easiest of all the steps – uploading your video on the web server.
If you are adding videos to your own website, it may make sense to regularly keep a check on the available disk-space on the web server, as well as the traffic to your site.
More traffic would mean that you will need more bandwidth. For example, if your video size is 1 mb, you will need 100 visitors to exceed a 100 mb bandwidth limit.
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