Starting today, Howcast gives you the option to embed videos from other popular video sites — YouTube, Metacafe, Blip.tv, and Vimeo — onto your own Howcast.com guides.  While you can still upload your own videos, and take advantage of Howcast’s innovative instructional video player, the embedding feature allows you to include high-quality videos from other sites alongside your own step-by-step written guide.  Have an insanely good family recipe your Aunt Shelly has up on her YouTube page?  Now it’s easy as pie (no pun intended) to illustrate with video: Simply write out the recipe as a How-to guide, then embed her YouTube video on Howcast.

Sign into Howcast, click on the “Add a How-To Video or Guide” button at the top corner of Howcast’s main page, and choose  “embed a video.”  Go to to any of the Howcast-supported web sites, copy your video’s URL, paste the URL into the “embed a video” box on the How-To creation page, and click “Embed.”  Once you’ve finished writing your How-To guide, click “Save” to create your How-To, and we’ll magically import the video onto Howcast. Give it a try, and let us know what you think!