Oct 02
There are many tools available for recording video which are available on internet. Recently i have found one which is much more powerful and helpful. It’s “Camtasia” you can consider it as an “Online video Recorder” or a “video stream recorder” Camtasia is a product developed by the TechSmith Corporation
Camtasia is a video screen capture program using which you can easily capture and edit anything you see on your PC screen. You can grab videos and can save them in most popular video formats like AVI, streaming media formats (WMV, RM, MOV), and
animated GIF. Using its advance feature you can also pinpoint cursor movements with special visual effects, it also have wide range of effects such as highlighting, zooming, and panning, etc.
Basically Camtasia have two inbuilt programs, the Camtasia Recorder which is used to record Windows desktop activity into video format and Camtasia Producer which is a non-linear editor used for editing videos and for creating streaming videos and AVI files. Thus using above tools you can you can capture all screen activities and can save them in video format which can be of good quality and is highly compressed.
There are many advance features such as splitting/trimming/splitting AVI clips, AVI format conversion (e.g. frame rate, color depth, codecs), audio compression, smooth scaling (interpolation), hundreds of transition effects and many more which can be used with your video.
Such Online Video Recorder will save your precious time and thus you can concentrate more on building video website.
Oct 01
If you are planning to publish video on your website you first need to Encode your video file for Windows Media, Real Player or Apple Quicktime formats so that they can be played smoothly in web browser. Once you encode your video file you just need to upload these files on a server running streaming media software so that all your video files can be delivered to all webusers.
You can consider a streaming server as a special server which is responsible for ? true streaming ? True streaming have following advantages as :
- They are specially designed for handling large traffic for all video embedded sites.
- They can detect users internet connection speed and will accordingly send data at your user end.
- They are capable for broadcasting LIVE VIDEO events such as Live Sports Matches, Live Shows, Live Presentations etc?
You have two different ways for getting a Streaming server, either you purchase/lease your own dedicated server and set it for streaming video files by installing some video streaming software or you can signup with a host offering you video streaming hosting package for fixed rent.
If you are planning to get a standalone server which can be used as streaming server then you need to get and install some streaming server software on your server or on your existing server. You have range of Streaming softwares which can be installed on both Linux and Windows Hosting Server platforms.
Following are most common video streaming software which are widely used by all webmasters
*) Helix Universal Server from RealNetworks : This server supports a variety of formats, including RealMedia, Windows Media, Quicktime and MPEG-4.
*) Apple Quicktime Streaming Server : Support few video formats which includes MPEG-4 and 3GPP.
*) Macromedia Communication Server : Commonly used for all Flash-based video and interactive multimedia presentations.
Each of above streaming technologies have their own proprietary server and types of media files that they use. Each have their own corresponding server designed to stream files in a preferred formats.
Sep 24
Sometimes you may face issues with playing Flash embedded videos, either they will not play or they will play but without sound which can be very irritating. This may be due to your web browser settings or may be due to older version of Flash eg YouTube embedded videos does not play smoothly in Flash 9. So if you are facing such problem you may just try to update registry, update your Flash player settings and also sound settings of your computer. But if still your problem is not solved and you are not getting audio for your flash embedded videos then final solution would be by ditching Flash 9 and going straight to the Flash 10 Beta I am sure now you can get sound and video playing smoothly with the flash player from youtube videos, embedded videos for Firefox and Chrome webbrowsers.
Sep 20
If you have many flv flash video format video files which you want to convert to some other video format in one go then you can use following bash script developed by Jake Hilton
If you are using ffmpeg on your dedicated server then you can use below bash script for batch convert of flv files to other required video format.
#!/bin/sh
for f in *.flv;
do
echo “Processing $f”
ffmpeg -i “$f” -target ntsc-dvd “${f%.flv}.mpg”
done
Thus using above script all flash video files having flv extension will get converted into a ntsc dvd format with file extension mpg. You can tweak it for required video format you need.
Vote of thanks to Jake Hilton http://www.jakehilton.com/?q=node/41 for sharing such excellent script
Jan 21
If you are looking for adding Flash movies for your webpage which will attract attentions of your website visitors and hence more traffic then all you have to do is to follow the steps given blow !
Before getting started you should complete designing part of your movie, now you will have to save your movie as ? flashmovie.fla ? ( or whatever name you want )
Now for embedding flash movie within your HTML pages of your site you will have to get back to Flash application and will have to follow few steps :
Open your newly created Flash movie. Now you need to export this movie using File >> Export Movie
Provide the name for the your flash file as flashmovie.swf ( or whatever name you want ) Choose the location where this file would be stored and complete the process.
Now you need to open the HTML webpage where you want to publish this Flash movie and insert below code within your webpage. Using above code you can embed Flash movie within your webpage which can be viewed in webbrowser. If any webuser don?t have Flash plug-in installed on their computer then they wont be able to view this Flash movie and a broken icon would appear on the webpage for them. So its necessary to have Flash plug-in installed on computer of webuser.
Regarding code : You can see there are two tags used within code <embed> and <object> tag respectively. <object> tag is recognized by Internet Explorer while <embed> tag is for Netscape as Netscape webbrowser ignores <object> tag. Thus using both tags all webusers can view your Flash Video file non matter which webbrowser they are using ( Internet Explorer / Netscape )
Just upload your Flash Movie and Flash embedded HTML page on your dedicated server, that’s all you have successfully published Flash movie on your website. Make sure all website visitor should have Flash Player installed as addon plugin for their browser.
