{"id":132,"date":"2008-11-10T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:37:16","slug":"how-to-add-user-interaction-to-your-videos-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/how-to-add-user-interaction-to-your-videos-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Add User Interaction To Your Videos &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short time ago <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/general-stuff\/2008\/10\/31\/how-to-add-user-interaction-to-youtube-videos-with-annotations\/\" target=\"_blank\">I did a post<\/a><\/strong> and demonstration video\u00a0about how to add user interaction to your videos in YouTube (by user interaction, I mean making objects within your video clickable by the viewer).<\/p>\n<p>But what if you don&#8217;t want to put your video on YouTube&#8230;yet you&#8217;d still like to take advantage of these new user interaction features?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there are actually a number of options available out there these days&#8230;some good, some not so good.\u00a0 One of the more interesting ones was recently brought to my attention by a student of mine (thanks Doug).<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s called Veeple<\/strong>.\u00a0 And it allows you to add all sorts of &#8220;clickable things&#8221; within your videos.\u00a0 Videos that you can host on your own site or blog.\u00a0 What&#8217;s more, until March 2009, the service is 100% free.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at all interested in adding some user interaction to your videos, Veeple is something you&#8217;ll definitely want to check out.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veeple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can visit their site here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One word of caution though<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0What you need to understand about &#8220;clickable areas&#8221; in your video is that your actual video file <em>is not being altered<\/em> (FLV files can&#8217;t be &#8220;programmed&#8221;).\u00a0 <strong>Rather, the player that your video appears in is providing all of these clickable actions<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That means your video must always be played inside that specific player (the Veeple player for example)&#8230;if you take the same video and upload it to a sharing site or use it with a different video player, you will not have any of the user interactivity options.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a point that often confuses people, so I wanted to clarify it; it&#8217;s not your video that has the interactivity, it&#8217;s the video player making it appear that way.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short time ago I did a post and demonstration video\u00a0about how to add user interaction to your videos in YouTube (by user interaction, I mean making objects within your video clickable by the viewer). But what if you don&#8217;t want to put your video on YouTube&#8230;yet you&#8217;d still like to take advantage of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[98,96,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}