Streaming video software makes it possible for you to put all kinds of movies online on your site or blog – also the ones you’ve captured with a Flip cam. This article will give you a few tips to getting the most out of your personal videos.

If you’ve ever been on a bad connection to the Internet, you’ll know that pictures take a huge time to load. Videos consist of lots of pictures, so downloading a full film could take hours.

However, if the video is streamed, it means that you can watch it before it’s fully downloaded. You save a lot of time here. And so do your visitors, if you add streaming video to your site.

Instead of sending your videos to friends or family through email, which is, by the way, only possible with smaller videos, you could add them to your site as streaming video. You can do that easily with streaming video software.

Family Reunions

Did you videotape uncle Bob’s 70 year birthday? Or Britney’s and Paul’s wedding? Share those valuable clips by setting them online in a FLV player, so everybody can watch time and time again.

Family reunions are something we all value highly, and we can enjoy watching those old videos even years after.

Birthday Cards or Salutations

Use a Flip cam or video camera to record a birthday message to Grand-daddy, or send your best wishes to Aunt Audrey, who finally found a new house.

Newborn in the family? Show him or her to the world in a video on your home page.

Animals and Children

You don’t really need a special occasion to create a video with your children or pets. These always make fine subjects for a movie, and people — even strangers — love to watch funny or cute situations.

Gifts On a Secret Page

If you want to offer a special gift to somebody, but you don’t live near that person, you can create a very special gift with the help of streaming video.

Create your video with your own salutations on it. Find your gift online, or prepare a gift card from Amazon or another online store. You’ll get a number that should be used by the receiver of the gift card. Create a secret page with that number on, and another secret page to your video.

Setup your video with streaming video software, and make sure that the visitor is redirected to your special, secret gift page. Send the link to the person, you’re offering the gift to. He’ll watch the video, and afterwards, he’ll see his present.

By: Britt Malka

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