Want to upload videos to WordPress but need to convert them and resize them down for the web?  Here’s a great article about free resources available like “WinFF“.  The Nose Creek blog goes into details about the proper settings and even provides links to not only download the free software but the best presets that will be available in the WinFF preset pulldowns.

Click here to read the entire informative article.

– Aaron Belchamber


The newest version of WordPress is 4.1 and it keeps getting better and more convenient to upload and embed videos on your website.  Just a note of caution, however!

Be sure your .mpg/.mp4 video files have an audio track or it is likely your video will not be recognized or play in WordPress.

I’m not complaining, just hoping I will save others who may produce videos the trouble of having to rerender their video files with an audio track when they don’t have one.  This isn’t a deal breaker, but it’s also not efficient.  After all, if you have a video, say an animation that is without sound, you shouldn’t have to output an empty audio track, it’s just a little more work and makes the files just a little bigger.  Not a big deal in the whole scheme of things, but then again, in the aggregate, is still is wasteful and a bit annoying.

– Aaron Belchamber