Quite a few sites have sprung up over the last couple of years offering PLR videos.
Unfortunately, almost all of them target the internet marketing or computing "how-to" niches so their isn't as wide a range of options as with other private label products.
PLR videos are good, in the sense that the video format is fast becoming a favorite online. People love to watch videos, and most would rather watch and learn how to do something than read instructions and guides.
On the other hand, there's not actually a great deal you can do to edit the content in a PLR video, especially if you're a bit of a novice on the computer.
The problem is that video content is a contiguous stream of pictures known as frames, connected together in a fixed order. The words in a PLR ebooks on the other hand are discrete, independent bits of textual data that you can rearrange, delete or add to as you wish.
In video format, you can't simply rewrite sentences, add or delete paragraphs or do any of the usual PLR editing. Generally, all you can do is add or delete whole sections or "chapters." And even then, those sections will stand out as being totally different from the rest.
[Unless you have professional video production gear, if you add a section in the middle of a PLR video, what's most likely to happen is that the sound, lighting and image quality will suddenly change for the worse, the voiceover will be different and the viewer will be most unimpressed with the break in continuity and obvious edit].
As such, the amount of YOU that you can put into a PLR video is limited.
What you CAN do, is add your own introduction and closing frames. These can be as short as a splash screen displaying your website URL or an (affiliate offer), to additional video footage or a screen capture that you've either created yourself or sourced elsewhere.
Edit The PLR Voiceover
Another option for screen capture videos is to redo the voiceover yourself. This is the closest to real editing that you can get – you can leave out certain comments, and/or add in some of your own.
First you need to write or type out the commentary (or use a transcription service) and edit it as required. Then record yourself reading it back whilst watching the video to ensure your timing is correct. Next, use your video editing software to delete the original audio track in the video and replace it with the new one you've made (see using PLR For podcasts & Audio Books for software advice).
Since you've already got the video transcript sitting on your computer, you may as well get some more mileage out of it by including with the video as a bonus item. Another twist: sell the transcript as the front-end product at a low price point, and use the video as an up-sell / one time offer.
Tools To Edit PLR Videos
There are lots of different software tools you can use to edit PLR videos, more so because there are several different video formats. Most of the time, PLR video files are supplied in either the AVI or Flash (FLV) format, but you may also come across Camtasia or MOV formats.
The AVI (Audio Video Interleave) format created by Microsoft is most common and the best option for most people, since it can be edited with free tools. On a PC you can use Windows Movie Maker, and on a Mac you can use iMovie.
Flash files aren't as open to editing, but there is both free and paid software that you can use to add content to a FLV file.
Camtasia format files are created by Camtasia Studio screen recording software. At $299 it's pretty expensive, and probably not worth the investment unless you are doing a great deal of editing work or making your own videos as well.
Apple's QuickTime software creates and uses MOV format files. Mac users can edit these in QuickTime Pro or iMovie, and there are other free and paid options of varying capabilities for PC users, including Adobe Premiere.
