Demo Videos on web site

[Pat Bensky-2]

Folks,
Do any of you have any experience with displaying videos on your web sites?
I have spent DAYS trying to figure out the best way to do it and have become
quite frustrated with tit!

Consider this page:
http://www.catbase.com/video/index.html
Click on the QuickTime logo and it takes you to a page that should play a
Quicktime movie ... I would be surprised if it worked! It works when I play
it on the 'puter that it was created on but not on any others. I have
checked that the pathnames for the files are correct. If you enter the url
for the video alone it plays ok:
"http://www.catbase.co.uk/video/publish-catalog-brief-ref.mov

But not when it's embedded in a web page. I have carefully followed the
instructions provided by QuickTime Pro and used the code that it generated.
No luck.

If you click on the Google logo it goes to Google Videos and plays the movie
- this seems to work well on everything. Unfortunately the quality is
rubbish ... Very blurry.

Anybody got any helpful insights?

Thanks

PAt

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[Jeffrey Kain]

Pat,

We have some videos that we use internally which are on our web site.
The originals are in QuickTime format, but we used Flash to convert them
to Flash video, which was much smaller size and didn't have the
QuickTime requirement (Flash seems to be a lot more popular than QT in
the Windows world).

You might give that a try.

Jeff

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From: Pat Bensky
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:26 AM
To: 4D iNUG Business
Subject: Demo Videos on web site

Do any of you have any experience with displaying videos on your web
sites?
I have spent DAYS trying to figure out the best way to do it and have
become
quite frustrated with tit!


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[Wesley Rosner]

We do this on our site.  We start by using iShowYou on the Mac.  This  
is an incredibly easy way to make a screen cast in QuickTime.  Then  
using VisualHub you can convert to whatever formats you like.  The  
technology part ends up easy, and the not making mistakes part ends up  
being the challenge. ;-)

-Wes
On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Jeffrey Kain wrote:

> Pat,
>
> We have some videos that we use internally which are on our web site.
> The originals are in QuickTime format, but we used Flash to convert  
> them
> to Flash video, which was much smaller size and didn't have the
> QuickTime requirement (Flash seems to be a lot more popular than QT in
> the Windows world).
>
> You might give that a try.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Bensky
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:26 AM
> To: 4D iNUG Business
> Subject: Demo Videos on web site
>
> Do any of you have any experience with displaying videos on your web
> sites?
> I have spent DAYS trying to figure out the best way to do it and have
> become
> quite frustrated with tit!
>
>
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[Alexander Heintz]

I do have videos on my site as well (http://www.heads-sc.de/index.php?n=MEDIA.Video 
).
I create them using SnapzPro, then converting the resulting QT Movie  
to Flash Movie. HTese are only about 10% of the QT movie size.
BTW: for the movie settings:
10 fps is more than enought, as are medium quality settings.
I then embed a Flash player in my website (based on a wiki system) and  
thats it.
Quick and painless, at least for me.

Cheers

Alex

> Folks,
> Do any of you have any experience with displaying videos on your web  
> sites?
> I have spent DAYS trying to figure out the best way to do it and  
> have become
> quite frustrated with tit!
>
> Consider this page:
> http://www.catbase.com/video/index.html
> Click on the QuickTime logo and it takes you to a page that should  
> play a
> Quicktime movie ... I would be surprised if it worked! It works when  
> I play
> it on the 'puter that it was created on but not on any others. I have
> checked that the pathnames for the files are correct. If you enter  
> the url
> for the video alone it plays ok:
> "http://www.catbase.co.uk/video/publish-catalog-brief-ref.mov
>
> But not when it's embedded in a web page. I have carefully followed  
> the
> instructions provided by QuickTime Pro and used the code that it  
> generated.
> No luck.
>
> If you click on the Google logo it goes to Google Videos and plays  
> the movie
> - this seems to work well on everything. Unfortunately the quality is
> rubbish ... Very blurry.
>
> Anybody got any helpful insights?
>
> Thanks
>
> PAt
>
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[Pat Bensky-2]

Alex, Wes, Jeff,
Thanks for your replies. I guess I will have to go with Flash although the
quality isn't all that great. So, I create my movies using Snapz Pro and
convert them to flash movies (.swf).

Any of you guys using Dreamweaver? I can't quite figure out how to embed the
flash player. If I choose Insert media->Flash (or Shockwave) it inserts the
movie OK but with no controls. If I choose Inserte media->Flash Video it
appears to offer the controls but it won't accept ANY file I try to select -
it says I can't choose a filename with special characters embedded. The help
file says you have to create a .flv flash video file, so I did, but it won't
recognise that file at all when I try to select the video to include.
Anybody tried doing this with Dreamweaver?

Thanks!

Pat


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[Pat Bensky-2]

If anybody's interested ... I have found a cool solution called v2f. It
converts the file into flash, lets you define what your player will look
like, and generates the required code for your web page. The quality is very
good. Here's my test page:

http://www.catbase.com/video/indesign-publish-catalog-movie-sw.html

(the only drawback is that there's no Mac version)

PB
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