How to add video to a printed card by creating a QR code
Published: Sat, 12/24/22
Add video to printed material using a QR code
Last week we did our live show on the multitude of QR code types that you can create. See Episode 248 here. This week we will not do a live show and we want you to try making a QR code. Maybe you'll be hand delivering some Christmas cards tomorrow and you could include a surprise! A video they can watch by scanning your QR code.
If you have a video that you’d like to include with a card, I have good news. It is SO easy to create a QR code of the video, print it and put it inside the card!
In this example, I’m using a Christmas card and, if you scan the QR code in the picture above you can watch a cute little JibJab video of Chris and Jim singing a Merry Christmas song.
On beyond
Christmas
You could use this same technique to include a home video of your family in a birthday card, or a favorite YouTube music video to add to a Graduation card, or an Introduction to Our Business to print on a
business card. The only limit is your imagination.
Try it now
On a computer, using the Chrome browser, find a
favorite YouTube video.
Open the video to play it, then pause the playback
Click the Share button in the
address bar
in
the menu that appears, click the “Create QR code” button
That’s it! you have a QR code for that video. Scan the code with your phone to be sure it works as expected.
Note: if you're sharing a video from your Google Photos, you must share with a link first, then follow that link to see the video. Create the QR code from there.
Now you need to print that code on a piece of paper you can insert in the card
Click the Download button below the QR code to put it on your computer’s hard drive. It will be a .png image file. Hopefully, you have your browser settings so that you can specify what folder to put it in. If not, it
probably will be found in your Downloads folder.
Now you can open the file and print it, but it’s better to create a document and insert the QR code image. Then you can control the size and add some other text
Our next live show
What: Episode 249 What Does This Button Do?
Topic: Transferring photos from your phone to your computer
When: January 15, 2023 at 2pm Eastern time.
To add it to your Google Calendar, scan this QR Code!
