| Once you have shot and edited your video,
you will either want to publish it to a website, upload it
to a video sharing website or email it.
A video file may be in any format, but the most common is
.avi file.
In this format, the video is generally too big to stream
effectively or to email. So you will need to use a video formatting
software to compress the video file and add other functionality
to support download and playing.
When a video is added to a webpage, you can either do so
that it requires Windows Media Player or Quicktime or RealPlayer
to launch to view the video, or as is most commonly used today,
embed the video in the webpage using Flash plug-in common
to most browsers. In this way, the video will play directly
in the webpage.
Setting The Video File Options
An example of this type of software is V2F
by EasyWebVideo. Using this software you would:
- Select your video file
- Select Video Settings
- Compression rate
- Play rate
- Enable Audio – Stereo / Mono
- Select Player Controls
- Select Video player window
- Select video player buttons
- Add FTP information for upload to website or embedding
in email
- Choose how to convert the video - Provide Streaming Rate
options – Dial up / DSL or Automatic
Converting the Video File
Convert the Video to a format suitable for use on the web
– .swf– FLASH. This conversion compresses the
video file from e.g 7.5MB to just under 1MB
Now that the file has been prepared, you can now do one of
three things: Publish it to your own website, Upload it to
a video sharing website or Email it.
Publish to webpage – creates two files:
- The flash file [swf]
- A paste .txt file with the HTML code to paste into webpage
wherever you want the video to appear
Upload to Video Sharing Site - A one click
process to create the webpage, adding the video to it
Email – up to 20 recipients.
For
more on V2F EasyWebVideo!
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