This piece of software helps embed a video into a web page; whether a standard page, a blog or a store front. You get a pop up on clicking to the video icon and the clip is played out.

Video LightBox JS is a free wizard program that embeds video to website, web page or blog, all it takes is a few clicks, there is no need to write a line of code or the related programming expertise. There are only three steps involved. Select a clip and ad to the program, select a template from a set of choices available and publish. To help you publish the clip to the net directly the program also supports FTP to your web site. Templates decide how the pop up would look and the appearance of the thumbnail. Video LightBox generates a nice image thumbnail for your clip. The thumbnail expands into a overlay window containing the video. No CSS, HTML, JavaScript coding is necessary.

When selecting the video you could cut and paste URL from You Tube, Google Video, Metacafe, Vimeo, MySpace etc. or choose a FLV, mp4, 3gp video files and you are ready to create the video viewer. The interface is tabbed into Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 to match with the process described. Simple control and straightforward layout makes it easy to operate. Adding video to a site could not be any easier. May be one could want a little more choice in templates. The code generated is XHTML compliant. The pro version which needs to be paid for will let you add your own watermark.