Del's Video Blog

Delbert now has a blog, Del Reports. He is 5 years old and cannot write sentences yet, but he can talk. I have decided to have him do a video blog, until he can write. Kyle's blog has become more video orientated, but I now require him to write about the videos.

What do you need to make web videos and post them to blogger?

• RCA EZ205 Small Wonder Digital Camcorder : This very small camera is useful and simple to use. The kids can operate it themselves and you don't have to worry about external media, like tapes or DVDs.
• Windows Movie Maker: Useful for editing a video or putting clips together.
  
• Moyea Flash Video MX (or the free version, Moyea Video4Web Convertor): Converting the video to flash allows easier viewing within the website.
  
• Space on the Internet: As of now you can not store the videos on blogger, so I put them on another server and link to them. Google and YouTube accounts are free, and allow you to upload and store flash files.

These are the steps we follow.

1. We shoot the video.
2. We plug the camera into the usb port and copy the video onto the computer.
3. We check the video to see if we want to trim it or edit something out of it.
4. If we need to edit the video, we open it in windows movie maker.
5. Once we are happy with the video, we convert it to flash with the Moyea program. The video is originally saved as an avi file, but flash is more web friendly.
   
6. The program produces an html file and a .swf file. We load the .swf file on the server.
7. We open the html file, change the location of the .swf file (since we moved it to a different location), and then we copy all of the code in the html file.
8. We Create a new post on blogger.
   
9. We paste the code we copied from the html file into the new post.
10. We write something below the code.
    
11. We publish the post.