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.
Sep 29
Placing informative or funny videos on website can be a attractive medium for attracting visitor for your website. You can easily grab attention and can convert all your website visitor to your loyal customers. If you have video presentation for your products/services which can describe your product/service in more clean and easy way then you have won your customer. Visual impact is most powerful as compare to other media forms. Video presentations are easy to digest and can last long in your memory thus your website visitor will never forget your website or your product. Before developing a video presentation you should check if your webhosting service provider allow videos to be hosted on your hosting account. Most webhost allow video hosting on their servers but its always suggested to crosscheck with your webhost to avoid frustration.
There are two different forms which can be used for hosting video on your site. HTTP streaming and Live Streaming. First of all you need to shoot/edit and create video file which you want to put on your website, then you need to upload it on your hosting account or on your server. when using http streaming method you need to embed your video file using some code within your webpages so that they can be displayed and view by your website visitors. If you are using Windows Media Files as your video files then you can use following code to embed your Video File in your webpage.
CODE : -
<OBJECT ID=?MediaPlayer? WIDTH=?192? HEIGHT=?190? CLASSID=?CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95?
STANDBY=?Loading Windows Media Player components?? TYPE=?application/x-oleobject?>
<PARAM NAME=?FileName? VALUE=?videofilename.wmv?>
<PARAM name=?ShowControls? VALUE=?true?>
<param name=?ShowStatusBar? value=?false?>
<PARAM name=?ShowDisplay? VALUE=?false?>
<PARAM name=?autostart? VALUE=?false?>
<EMBED TYPE=?application/x-mplayer2? src=?videofilename.wmv? NAME=?MediaPlayer?
WIDTH=?192? HEIGHT=?190? ShowControls=?1? ShowStatusBar=?0? ShowDisplay=?0? autostart=?0?> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>
Note : in the above code you will have to provide proper video file name which you have uploaded on your web hosting account in place of ?videofilename.wmv?
If you want you can also customized Windows Media player which would be appearing on your webpage. You can set option to show the playback controls, status indicator, size and dimension of player which would be on your webpage etc.
you should be sure that you have enough Diskspace and bandwidth, server resources allocated for your webhosting account so that all video files would be played smoothly.
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
Mar 22
Due to usage of advance technology and hardware in website hosting industry you can now easily put full length movies, video clips on your site as you use to put text/graphics for your site. Most webhosting service provider have started offering you with a facility for embedding videos on webpages which can be viewed worldwide.
You can consider video hosting services as one of the demanding & important service in webhosting industry. For sharing all your video files with your friends/family and rest of the world all you need to have is to get a domain name and a reliable website hosting package where you can host your video website. Most webhost will allow you to host videos on their server, its always suggested to check if video files are allowed and supported on webhost server before you pay for hosting package.
Usage of Video over internet/websites is considered as an big achievement for all webmasters. As video files are heavy files which consume lot of diskspace and bandwidth thus you will have to consider higher video hosting plans if you want host hundreds of videos, full length movies on your site. A VPS or Dedicated server would be a good option for your video sharing website.
Once you got your server you just need to upload all your video files on your server which can be access by your website visitors. You can restrict access for your video files and only allowed members would be able to access your video files you can have such restriction for your videos files, you need to get help of a programmer or can password protect the directory which you want to hide from general visitors. There are thousands of free video hosting service provider but for a commercial web video business you should not host your site with such free hosting service provider as they have limitation and are not much reliable.
Mar 20
Internet was meant for exchanging information [ text information ] around the net but today using latest technology you can use images, audio, video and all forms of multimedia on your website so that you can present exact and more accurate information in more professional way which can be digest by your visitor very easily. Thus webmaster have started providing you with most convenient form of media ‘VIDEO‘ so that they can present their concept in more accurate and easy to understand format. If you have video demonstration on your site for some technical process then it will surely help your website visitor and they will bookmark your site, thus you have confirmed returning visitor for your site. Video presentation plays an important role for attracting traffic thus can guarantee good revenue.
When you should plan to put video on your site :
Its not necessary to have video on every site, it depends on niche or market you are targeting for getting traffic also it depends on what you want to try to explain to your visitors. If text can do your work then there is no need for having a video for it. If you have something to publish for your website visitors which cant is very difficult to express into words and cant be explained in plain text then you can try to create a video for it explaining all details. If you are trying to explain certain topic/procedure which can be explained in very professional way using video then you should put it into video form. Also try to explain such procedure along with video in text form. This will clear all doubts which may your visitor may have for your topic.Usually its better to have a video explaining some technical installation for certain product or hardware, this will give more confidence for all user who are using your product or service. Videos can be used in any field, If you are trying to have a recipe site where you are planning to present your delicious dishes and want to get popularity for yourself and your site then you can just shoot video for the procedure and just embed it into your site. This will attract more visitors for your site and thus you will have excellent traffic for your site.
You need to have a hosting package from some reliable webhosting service provider who will allow you to host videos on your sit, make sure you have sufficient diskspace and bandwidth and good serve configuration with your hosting package / video streaming server. If you have hundreds of full length high quality videos then you will have to consider higher hosting plans such as VPS or a Dedicated server, as shared hosting package wont be sufficient for your video hosting requirements.
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.
