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Introducing Windows 7
I have been using Windows 7 Beta and RC since January and just a few days ago, I installed Windows 7 RTM. That’s the final version. It’s definitely a step up from both Vista and XP. I think it compares favorably to any other version of Windows and is a leap forward in terms of a quality user experience.
Anyways, take a look at this video introducing Windows 7.
Put A Text Watermark In Your Videos
If you are doing any kind of video marketing for your site, then you want to take every advantage you can of your videos. You want to get your web address in front of as many eyes as possible. You also want to keep other people from stealing your videos and getting traffic from them instead of you.
One way to get traffic is to put a title screen and a credits screen on your video where you can show your webpage. This works really well and helps you hone a message, but these screens can easily be take out of a video if someone wants to make it their own. In other words, someone else can benefit from your hard work.
Fortunately, there is a better way. A great to protect every single frame of your video is to use a watermark. Watermarks can’t easily be taken out of a video. They stay there, no matter how many times they are uploaded and downloaded, no matter if someone else tries to benefit from a video or not. You can make your watermark be your web address and you can benefit from your video marketing, day after day.
There are several commercial video editing programs that can help you put a watermark in your videos. I’m sure they work well, but these commercial video editing programs cost money. I am cheap so I always prefer to use open source programs. And yes, there is an open source alternative that can help you EASILY add a watermark to your videos before you upload them, it’s called ffmpeg.
There’s a Windows version for it, but I use the version that’s in the repos for Ubuntu. Just go to the command line and type:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
and you are set.
Once it’s installed, all you need to do to use it is go to a terminal and type this:
ffmpeg -i ~/Desktop/rawvideo.mpg
-vhook '/usr/lib/vhook/drawtext.so
-f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial.ttf
-x 5 -y 5 -t Visit TechGringo.Com' ~/Desktop/finished.avi
Important note: Those four lines are a single command and need to be entered on a single line.
That’s it. You now have a simple text watermark in the videos you upload to Youtube and other sites.