Podcasting Power Tools

To submit your podcast for inclusion in the CastRoller podcast database first head to:

http://www.castroller.com/

On the home page click on the “Register” link in the upper right corner:

On the sign in screen, you can login if you already have an account, or click the ”Sign up” link:

Now enter the information to create an account:

When you are finished, click “Create Account”:

Now click on the down arrow beside “Podcasts”:

And select “Add Podcast”:

Insert the podcast URL or URLs in the text box on the right:

And hit “Add Podcast(s)”:

Congratulations, you have successfully submitted your podcast to CastRoller.  You should see the following screen:

Do you want to email someone a link to a video, but don’t want them to have to watch the first 5 minutes.  You can edit the link to make the video start at a certain point.

Here is the URL of a YouTube video:

Here is the HTML we will add to the end:

#t=5m08s

The code above would start the video 5 minutes and 8 seconds in.  The “m” is for minutes and the “s” is for seconds.  If you want the video to start less than a minute into it, put a zero before the “m” and the appropriate amount of seconds before the “s”. 

To begin a video 30 seconds into it, use the following code:

#t=0m30s

After you edit the code, add it to the end of the original YouTube URL:

Here is the link.  Check it out!

You want to embed a video in your podcast show notes, but you don’t want to make viewers watch everything that leads up to the clip that makes your point.  You can set your embedded YouTube video to begin playing at a given time.

You see this video on YouTube and you decide to embed it:

Click the embed button:

Copy the embed code:

Paste it in your text editor and you should have:

How far into the video do you want it to start playing? 

Calculate how many seconds that is.  Less than a minute is easy, but if you want to start 2:10 into the video, that would be 130 seconds (2 minutes x 60 seconds + 10 seconds = 130 seconds) 

In the following code, replace “SECONDS” with the number you just calculated:

&start=SECONDS

the example would be “&start=130”

Now you get to edit the embed code.  Add the above code to the end of each URL in the embed code

The embed code should now look like this:(but with your seconds value)

(First change is highlighted and the second one is under the pointer.)

Now, use this code to embed the video.  It looks the same as any other embed, but when you press play, the video will skip to the point that you selected.  Try it below: