LESSON #41: How to Put a Video on Your Website
In the previous lesson, we talked about how to obtain and add graphics to your website.
Today we’re going to put your website into motion by adding video to it.
(Watch this video…)
Main points:
1) An embeddable video from a 3rd party source.
- Easiest way to put video on your website.
- Hundreds of sources, including niche sites with videos for syndication
- Free video hosts like Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, blip.tv, Revver, Tangle, Flickr, Facebook, etc.
-See video for demo of embedding a Youtube video on a WordPress blog.
2) Your own “live action” video.
- Most complicated method… you have to shoot it, transfer it, edit it, encode it, etc.
- Can be very expensive (ex. $4,000 HD camera, $1300 Final Cut Studio, $700 Adobe Flash, etc)
- Can be done very cheaply. Try the Flip Video camera ($50 - $200)
-Two ways to embed it:
a) Upload it to a video site like Youtube, and then embed it on your website.
Easy to do, but free video hosts have some downfalls including…
- Looks less professional
- Displays ads (overlay on video, or at the beginning/end)
- Links to the video host
b) Convert it to flash yourself, and then embed it on your website
- Free tool: FLV Producer Lite
- Free flash player included in the above tool, or you could try JW FLV Player
If you’re doing a lot of heavy video streaming (1000’s of viewers), I recommend upgrading to a dedicated server or else try Amazon S3 to host your video files.
3) Your own screen capture video.
- Great for teaching
- Effective for selling
- I use Camtasia Studio from Techsmith (Approx. $300)
- For Camtasia tutorials see: http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/default.asp
- (See video for walkthrough of my recommended Camtasia settings)
- Cool tool from Techsmith to make casual screen capture videos on the fly: http://www.jingproject.com
- Free screen capture software: http://www.CamStudio.org
- Better than the free version: http://www.CamStudioPro.org (only $29)
Recommended resource:
Click here for more information…
(A four part video series teaching exactly how to create your own screen capture videos for free.)
Action steps:
1) Think about how you can incorporate video into your online business.
Ideas: Blog content, teaching series, intro video, video sales letter, explain checkout process, give your guarantee, explain email opt-in process, testimonials, squeeze page video, exit pop video, etc.
2) Add a video to your website!
In the next lesson we’ll be looking at how to put audio onto your website.
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below.
Have a great day!
Video is truly INVALUABLE right now! Great lesson, Eric!
Alex
Thanks Alex
Thanks Eric…I’d been needing some training on video creation for sometime now. I purchased a micrphone and flip camera a few months back but still haven’t put it all together yet.This will diffently help
I had no ideal there was a Pro Version of Cam Studio by Dave Guindon for 29.95. His stuff is always helpful and a great price if you can’t afford Camtasia at the moment(like me).
Hint…close out the website and a pop up box will appear to offer you Camtasia Pro for $19.95…even better!
Turn any articles into live talking videos in one click!
http://budurl.com/TalkingArticles
Cool I’m glad to hear it!
GREAT GREAT GREAT!
Thanks Eric…excellent as always!
Matt
http://www.MyDietType.com
Hey Eric,
I’ve been procrastinating on the video thing. I’m just not comfortable about having my mug online. I like the screen capture idea and will take a look at Jing and the Cam Studio option. Just need to invest in a mike - or steal one from my kids.
I’ve actually been wanting to do a video on Push Button Marketer to show people what a great program it is.
As for posting videos on blogs I’ve come across Video Poster that looks kind of easy to use. What do you think? http://bit.ly/p72oG
Cool. Don’t be afraid to get a cheap microphone. It’ll probably do the job unless you’re creating a high end product.
The tool looks interesting. If you try it, let us know how it works for you.
I’ll let you know how it goes with the video review (scary) and the Video Posting software.
Hi Luca,
I beleive you can find a very good mic for as low as $20 or $30 dollars…I like the small ones that clip onto your shirt. I made the mistake of buying an expensive microphone due to someones recommendation. Even though it’s a great mic it was more than I needed to spend and diffently more of a mic than I really needed ;)Live & Learn
Gary
Thanks Gary.
I’ll do that soon and have fun with it before actually putting it on line
Hi Luca, I got a Logitech microohone on eBay for $20.00, I bought it for Skype, but I can use it for videos as well.
Thanks Eric.
I am mac user, your recommended softwares are for Windows. I have to use video to Flash converter for mac and then embed the converted video in my website.http://www.flashconverterformac.com/video-to-flash-converter-mac/.
Do you have another recommended one like it?
I personally use Adobe Flash converter when I need to do flash on my mac, but it’s pretty expensive… so if anyone else has any better solutions feel free to post them here.
A very informative video lesson.
I have often wanted to put videos into my blogs and websites but tend to keep it aside just because of the amount of work involved in it/ IN comparison to this, I could write a couple of articles in that same time.
But this video was informative and gave me an insight into how I can get a video created easily.
Hi Eric,
Good post and very explanatory how-to video. I’ve been working just today to get some video streaming from one of my sites, and it took a long time to understand the details. Like anything else, putting video on a website is difficult until you know how, then it’s a snap — right?
Thanks again Eric.
Right. It’s easy once you’ve done it a few times.
Sweet Eric,, nice content,like a month ago I’d purchased a Flip video camera, it’s really worth the investment. Like Luca was saying, You should make a screen capture video tutorial about the Push Button Marketer software, just to show people how powerful this software is,,, i need a little crash course myself on that software that i’d purchased from you a while back, eventhough i know the basics.
Good idea, I’ll try to work in a tutorial for PBM somewhere.
Great,,, I’ll be expecting it…
Hi! I subscribe to Ervin request, I have the software but the luck of enough time to dedicate to study documentation made me a slow learner.
thanks you in advance
Michaela
glad to have received your email about this post today, as i have just recently been thinking about video, this will surely help. keep up the good work
Hi Eric
As usual a great teaching video. I have lost count of how many people I refer to your site . I even won a top answer on yahoo answers. You have made things clearer. I never appreciated about FLV formats….which explains a lot. Just got a bit lost with the iframe part…might need to go over that again I am working with local businesses now helping them use the internet for lead generation so instructionial free video on the blog I have just set up will be really useful.Its great added value as well.
Giod bless and thanks again Eric
Best Wishes
Denise in the UK
Thank you much for the referrals
The IFrame is optional. I should have mentioned, I also add an additional HTML page to the folder containing the camtasia files before I upload them. The additional HTML page simply contains an image embedded (like this one: http://www.ericstips.com/LESSONS/images/lesson41.png ), and the image is hyperlinked to the actual video page. That way when the image is clicked, it opens the video page within the IFrame, and the video auto-plays (since that’s what I specified when I exported it from Camtasia).
The reason I do this is because it allows my website to load faster. Instead of loading a flash video, it is only loading the “click here to play” image.
I find that this is particularly helpful if I have multiple videos on a page. Otherwise some browsers will choke while trying to load all the videos at once.
Eric-
Congrats on another great post! Thanks for sharing your approach on the video embeds, very smart! I recently learned that slow page loads, in some cases, actually causes Google to penalize a site. Your approach here, done correctly, can alleviate that issue.
-Travis
Eric,
Thanks for great lesson.
You use iframe so the video loads faster, is that right? or I am mis-understanding it?
Is iframing needed if you are using amazon s3 service?
Thanks.
Actually the Iframe does not help the video load faster, but it helps the PAGE load faster by not loading the video. Instead of loading the video when the page loads, it just loads a simple JPG image which is in my Iframe.
Eric I have been trying to figure out how you do the Iframe and extra HTML page for days and have not been able to do it.
My request is to have you make a video how to do that or to send me to another source that explains it well.
Thanks Mark
The HTML page is generated by Camtasia when you export the video. You know how to do that part, right?
Or… if you’re not using Camtasia, you know how to embed a video onto an HTML page, right?
It should just be a plain HTML page with nothing on it except the video.
The html page is contained in the same directory as the video file(s) (ie. the SWF or FLV file).
By default, Camtasia will name the HTML page the same name as your video. Make sure there’s no spaces in the video name. For example, if your video is named ‘videolesson1′, Camtasia will generate a folder named videolesson1, and within that folder will be a file named videolesson1.html. You can keep it as that name, or you could rename it to index.html.
You would upload that folder to your website (into the public_html directory).
At that point, if you go directly to that HTML page, you should see the video. Like this:
http://www.ericstips.com/LESSONS/lesson41/lesson41.html
What you can then do is make an extra HTML page containing a hyperlink TO the video page, and put this HTML page within the same directory. In my case, I add an image that is hyperlinked to the video file, like this:
http://www.ericstips.com/LESSONS/lesson41/index1.html
At that point, you simply need to make an Iframe where you want the video to actually appear. And in that IFrame, you will put the URL of the extra HTML page that you created.
In my case, the IFrame is this code:
Thanks for all the input!
This video stuff is what I want but it is driving me nuts. I am trying to do this using Xsitepro and I have spent MANY hours attempting how to do this. When I am in Xsitepro and I am adding a page to my website and I am in the design tab and I right click to insert video I can get it to work if I just use an AVI file or just an FLV file but it does not have all the bells and whistles on it that I would like that I can create with Camstudiopro using the web wizard and page designer. When I use the web wizard in camstudiopro and convert the AVI file I get 4 files: Charcoal.swf, FLVVideo.FLV, index.htm and swfobject.js. I do not know how to get all of these files to upload to my website using xsitepro. If I just use the FLV file like I explained above I can get it to upload but not with all the changes that I did in Web Wizard and Page Designer in Camstudiopro.
I even tried using FileZilla and put the Charcoal.swf, FLVVideo.FLV, index.htm and swfobject.js files in the video and script folders but I could not get it to work. The one thing I found odd is when I was using Filezilla I had no public html file. All I have is a blog folder with my wordpress in it, a cgi-bin folder, images folder, script folder, video folder and a bunch of files from xsitepro. Also no www folder.
I know it is possible to get this to work but how I need to do it I can not figure it out for the life of me.
I would appreciate your help if possible.
Thanks Mark
Followup to what I wrote last. I did figure out how to up load the 4 files: Charcoal.swf, FLVVideo.FLV, test3.htm and swfobject.js using xsitepro and put them into their appropriate folders. My problem is now when I use camstudiopro page designer I created the source code for my test3.htm file and I pasted it in the souce area of new page I created in Xsitepro. The url for that is http://infrastructurehealing.com/test3.htm
You can see that the video is not present. I know I am missing a step but I need some direction.
Any help would be appreciated.
I had a previous post that I am not sure where it went put I want to let you know I did figure it out how to upload my video files from camstudiopro to XSP. The files had to go into just the root directory not the video or script folders. Took me for ever to figure it out. I new it was simple.In XSP pro you go to other tab and the resource manager and ten load files from there.
Mark
Cool, I’m glad you got it working!
thanks eric. you are generous in giving and i enjoyed your teachings on videos. they rocks. ken
I have yet to make and post a screen capture video, but I have created two videos about permanent unconditional freedom from unwanted conditions that I uploaded on youtube and then embedded on my site. It was a lot of fun when I made these, but it took me quite a while; now I just need to make more videos. Thanks for the info to make the process simpler.
I just found a way to embed youtube videos on my blog automatically (http://blogprofitz.newbacklinks.com). This is by far the quickest and simplest way I found.
Did you ever splittest a salesletter with and without video? Would be interesting, how many visitors, viewers and sales more or less you get.
How many potential buyers out there have ancient, slow computers or are not able to view videos for any reasons, or have no broadband and flatrate? Are there any statistics available?
On one of my German salespages (see up there) I embedded a video in October 2008 and its conversion is lousy compared to my others. Now why? Lousy video, lousy salescopy, lousy product, or what, or all together, or do visitors just click away when they see a black hole on screen and their downloadcounter groans?
Dan from Germany
Yes I have split tested it. Generally videos help sales letters, but not always… which is why you need to split test
(I’ll be covering split testing later in the lessons)
For a video on a sales letter to be effective, it needs to be a decent video. The placement of a video is a big variable too. Sometimes its best to put it at the top of a sales page because it causes visitors to initially stay on your site longer (and the longer they stay, the more likely they will buy). But other times, it’s better to put it a ways down into the sales letter, so that the visitor is engaged in the sales copy.
In some cases, I’ve found a video ONLY, with no sales copy, outperformed a written sales letter.
In other cases, I’ve found that removing a video from a written sales letter helped improve conversions, because it was more conducive of drawing people down into the sales copy (especially if you have VERY good sales copy).
Part of this depends on your niche too. For example, the BUYERS in my niche (Internet marketing) are most likely able to stream video. The ones who can’t afford high speed internet are probably not buyers anyway. So a lot of Internet marketers don’t worry about accomodating people on slow connections, because those people are probably not the target market.
This lesson was absolutely brilliant.There is no question that video would give a huge advantage to my website. This lesson has given me a push in he right direction.
Thanks again Eric
Hi Eric, you provide more free tips on how to create video as I don’t cam studio offers a pay version anyway thanks for your tips
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Ironic that I should get this post today–just uploaded a video last night for my gift site. Made slide show in Movie Maker, added music and loaded in to Revver. You made a good point about the ads on 3rd party server videos. Why would we want to show our competitor on sales pages? But I do like Revver’s ad revenue program for other purpose pages.
Thanks for the tips!
Yes revenue sharing programs like Revver can be a nice extra income stream, especially if you have a lot of traffic.
Excellent training, as always. Thanks! The helping hand is always welcome. I just bought a FLIP, but I also just tried my first free 30 sec. Animoto videos… trying it out and now I think I’ll go for the paid (low cost) version to do longer vids.
I really like Animoto’s animation effects. For a non-techie, this is super simple - just browse images on your hard drive and Animoto uploads them and creates the video, with all its effects. Upload your own music (haven’t learned how yet) or use clips on their site (I did).
I use Snag-It for screen capture and editing the screens (one time cost - I think $47), and so I used Snag-It to overlay a title/link on one of the videos. No other paint or graphics program required. That is NOT required for the videos, and Animoto will let you write a title (I think I did on one video). It’s just that I tried SnagIt to use a photo as the lead page on the Beach Wedding Ideas video (with a title I typed) and again at the end of the video - instead of watermarking the whole thing (which I haven’t learned yet, either). Really easy.
This is a fun exercise for a non-techie, as I know I MUST use video - not just for my site visitors and more hang time on the page, but to get more backlinks from high-ranking video sites to my landing page.
Here are the two quick Animoto videos to show how easy it is for a first-timer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NqRE3WrZqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEMiK_u3zNw
Hope this helps someone.
I wasn’t familiar with Animoto… it looks pretty cool, thanks for sharing
Thanks so much Margaret…Animoto looks great…and it’s Free!!
Eric I enjoy your lessons even though I am no longer into affiliate marketing as I have lost a lot of confidence in a lot of the products that are being pushed by everyone and their relatives these days. I guess it is because of information overload syndrome.
I have a very simple two step process that teaches people with minimal computer skills that actually works.
I am planning to do some vidblogs that explains the step by step process I use.
I Just wanted to say thanks for the info Eric keep up the great work you are the only one I know of that actually helps people to learn our business and this is business lest people forget.
I am looking forward to the next lesson.
Just got back from another trip ( not as exotic as your trips) and am catching up. Thanks again for the great presentation. You do have a natural teaching style. I’m plugging along with Camtasia 3 and am about to do some upgrading. Camstudio’s limitations regarding sound integration a frustrating ( maybe your buddy fixed that). Also, I was wondering if the combination of flash and iFrames was going to have problems with security filters. Sorry to sound cryptic, 1000 emails down and another 1000 to go. But you are always at the top of my list!
Colin
Yeah Camtasia is definitely better than Camstudio for sound integration, and a must if you want to do sound editing post-production.
I haven’t had any problems with putting flash in Iframes, but if you come across any I would certainly like to hear about it!
Eric, I have been following your tutorials only recently. Have a lot to catch up on. Thanks for the no hype approach.
I’ll follow your instructions and start with videos on my site too! As for bandwidth, coming from a country where broadband (and bandwidth) is still a “luxury”, I often close pages with video too.
Looking forward to next lesson.
hi eric
this is to say thank you eric for all these tips
so far, i always read this email without fail they are the best freebies help i have ever come to find on the net,thanks for giving back,i have already found a way to save these vids, to my own computer,but when you sell them in the future i will still want them,i hope you make these an affiliate option for us to offer,i would have no problem offering these to newbies,or any one else.you should be proud eric for a great product of the highest value for free, thanks again for all your hard work and time put in, i learn such a lot and thank your family for us also mal.
thanks Eric.
Hi Eric,
Great video!
Do you have a lesson where you discuss how to use Video to drive Traffic to sites OTHER than simply uploading videos manually or using Automated software such as Traffic Geyser?
Thanks
Tim
Yes I will have a lesson covering video for traffic. However, those ARE the two main ways of getting your videos out there: manually or automated.
However there’s more to it than simply uploading the videos, and I’ll be covering some of that stuff.
Hi Eric,
A year ago I was banging my head against the wall tring to embed flash games into a pages on a WP site. After trying 6-7 different solutions, I finally got Kimili Flash Embed plugin for Word Press to work.
http://www.kimili.com/plugins/kml_flashembed
It didn’t occur to me that iframes would work as well. I’ll have to give it a try. I especially liked the tip on embedding an image in the post, which links to the video.
Thanks for the good tips
Dale
Wow Eric, you are the best.
You not only nail it with each lesson, but you nail it three ways to sunday.
Congrats and Thank you for all the tips Eric.
Ralph
Wow! Thanks Eric - Great Information!
Kind Regards,
Jeri
Thanks Eric. I’ve always thought videos are more complicated to make. Your presentation leaves me no excuse for not putting one up in my website.
Eric,
My theme doesn’t have page tabs so I’m wondering how I can add some kind of badge or maybe a sticky post just below header on home page that will direct visitors to page called About This Dame’s Store. I want all links to all affiliates to be on that page. Any suggestions? Also, I don’t want to lose my readership but I also like the idea of adding a syndicated video to the page. I may have to change themes if I get much more stuff on this website.
I think you could just add it at the top of the sidebar. I see you put some other stuff on there, like the food buzz banner. So you could just put the link or banner above that one.
Another thing to think about with the syndicated videos… If you’re just using them as “supplementary” content, which comprise a small percentage of the overall posts that you’re making, then it shouldn’t be a problem. Your readers will keep coming abck if they enjoy the variety of content that you’re providing. But if the syndicated videos are the main feature, readers will start to wonder why they shouldn’t just go to the video creator’s website to get it directly.
[…] In the previous lesson, we talked about how to put video on your website. […]
Hi
I will like to thank you for your valuable information,youve being providing, it helps alot to grow my business,
Thank you
Hi Eric:
You have great info. I wanted to know how or rather what is the best way to embed a slide show presentation on to a website that will play automatically once the play button is pressed.
Thanks.
Clay Berry
Depends on what kind of slide show. If it’s a Powerpoint presentation, then Camtasia would be my top choice.
If it’s just a picture slideshow, there are several free online sites you could use (but they all do advertise for themselves somewhere on/in the slideshow).
For example: http://animoto.com/
Eric,
What would you suggest for converting my Flip Mino HD MP4 videos into flash so that I can maintain the HD aspect ratio while reducing the overall dimensions? FLV Producer doesn’t seem to support HD except for Step 2 “original resolution”.
Thanks for a great site, Bro.
-dave
Hmmm good question. I didn’t realize it wouldn’t accept MP4. If it was me, I would use Camtasia’s producer. But if you don’t have Camtasia…
I checked out Flip’s website and it said that their bundled software can down convert the HD videos to a shareable format. Maybe try the software that came with your flip to convert to MOV or WMV first?
Hi Eric,
I’m working on my sister’s missionary website and she has a Powerpoint presentation that would be nice to include. So is a screen capture video the best way to do that, or is there some other way to convert a Powerpoint to flash?
Yes screen capture video is a good way to do it. Camtasia actually has a built in powerpoint plugin, which is what I would use. But that might be a bit pricey if you just need to convert one powerpoint presentation.
I did see this:
http://www.powerpoint-to-flash.com/download/powerpoint-to-flash-download.html
there is a free trial… I’m not sure how badly it watermarks the video on the trial.
here is another possible solution:
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/09/embed-powerpoint-slides-as-flash.html
Thanks for the Tips Eric.
It is exactly what I was looking for.
Igor
how to put a video on your website please help me please i have been try for weeks now please
What is your question?
hi
thanks eric!recommend to other IM!
Hi Eric,
Your teaching is great. I have one question though. If I want people to also be able to download the video so they can watch it offline, how do I do that?
Good question. At this time I’m not making them available for download because I’m planning on selling them as a package at some time in the future.
I tried to install FLV producer lite and got nine error messages all with error code 1904. Has anyone else had this problem?
I have requested a help ticket form them but still have no answer.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ouch… I do not know about that one. Have you tried rebooting your computer after installing? Sometimes that helps. If not, it sounds like maybe there are windows registry file issues…
Yes, I tried to reboot and I reinstalled but still same problem. I have gotten some response back from help desk.
They said go to c:\Program Files\FLV Producer Lite\components then double click on the file called RepairVideoStudio.bat.
I did this still problem.
They said Sounds like you’re missing a codec.
They said they started using the MPG4 conversion on certain video files for a couple of reasons. Some files ended up having a higher quality and then we also wanted to be able to convert all file formats over to FLV. Some that didn’t require it before, require it now.
Go to:
c:\Program Files\FLV Producer Lite\components\mpeg4\
The double click on the app called runinf.exe
That will install the mpeg 4 codec on your system. You will probably get a warning about it not passing an inspection but you need to click on “Continue Anyway”.
After that, you’ll be creating a temp file that converts into mpg4 and then that file will get converted to flv.
I did this but they never told me how to creat a temp file that converts into mpg4 and then that file will get converted to flv.
I had an old mpeg4 file to test and the program worked but I do not know how to convert my AVI files to mpeg4
They have not gotten back to me so if you know how to do that, great and if not I will wait to see if they get back to me.
I really do not know how to do that. Hopefully they will be able to help you get it solved. If not, you might need to find another solution.
Eric,
I got camtasia 6.
I recorded 2min 9 sec and embed into HTML. I followed your other specifications like 590/442; 50% JPEG compression etc.
Still 2 min 9 sec video took 5.58mb.
I thought it is around 1mb per minute.
What else to compress the video.
another one: when we check embed video, it is giving html page. But if I want to place video on my blog, just the way you did, do we need to embed into html or just save and upload to server.?
Thanks.
There are other factors involved, one of the main ones being how much motion you have in your video. If there’s a lot of action, the size will be bigger. Also I’ve found that sometimes there’s a bit of a curve to the length of video vs. size of file ratio. For example if you tripled the length of your current video, it might only double in size.
Overall, 5.58 mb is not too bad for that length… it will stream fast for most people, but you can always do some trail and error to see if you can drop the size more without reducing quality too much.
You also might try exporting it as an MP4 instead of SWF, and see how that works for you.
As for embedding… it just depends on how you’re embedding it. I explained in a comment above that I export it with the HTML page, then I use an IFRAME to put it on my blog.
Embedding it directly on a blog without an Iframe can be a little more complicated. Here are some instructions:
http://knowledgeconstructs.com/embedding-camtasia-swf-videos-in-wordpress
http://www.screencast.com/t/neg7gAA5Tp
Thanks a lot Eric,
That screencast video is great.
Eric,
Thank you so much for this information!
You do a great job of delivering extremely
useful content.
Tim
Dear Eric,
very nice & thanks for the same.
So many information you provide in each of the video.
Thanks again.
Eric,
Thanks for all your videos. You are answering some questions I have had in my head for long time, on the technical stuff like how to create videos. This information is very helpful. Thank you so much.
Eric,
thanks for your info. More great information.
Valuable information and valuable lesson…and I don’t know which one coming from you is not :))
I really enjoy learning this way.
Thank you!
Great ad Eric but Y not use Microsoft media encoder ? for screen capture presentations .Microsoft also has help on how to use this software(FREE to download from Microsoft) and VLC does streaming etc…
Because I do not want to encode as a Windows file.. I want to encode as flash, which is faster and more universally compatible for the web.
Hi Eric, I am able to post videos on my website but I am missing the lower portion of the video options to play, pause and scroll back and forth, adjust volume ect. any suggestions?
That all depends on the flash player that you’re embedding. If you’re using camtasia, those are options that you can select during the export process. If you’re using a free 3rd party flash player, you may need to look at their help files to see which variables you need to include in the embed code in order to display the player controls.
can you also use this to install video into email?
Yes you can embed video in an HTML email, but I wouldn’t recommend it… not yet anyway. Most email clients won’t play it, and it may trigger virus alerts.
Hi Eric, I would love to have Camtasia in my tool box and will one day. I just so happen to have Camstudio Pro from Dave Guindon, (he is truly a gentleman amongst internet marketers , that goes for you too.) With that said I have an Acer laptop with built in webcam and microphone, however I seem to have no good audio with using Cam Studio Pro so I tried a $15 microphone which is not USB just plug in and Cam Studio Pro doesn’t register it. (I am not surprised what do you expect for $15 bucks, although the built in Mic is Realtek High Definition and its details register with Cam Studio Pro. Anyhow I will check out the next lesson about audio see what I can do in the meantime otherwise I might have to get a decent microphone (logic) or ask Dave. If you got any ideas let me know if not already covered in next lesson. Thanks
Hi Eric, I read all your lessons…it is very helpful for me….You are doing a great service
Thank u sooooooooooooo much.
Great information Eric.
I’m using some You Tube vids on Squidoo and Hubpages, but not on my site yet…for the reasons you outlined.
John
Hi Eric
Nice tutorial
TomC
Great information, but i need to find some idea on what sort of video to be created for mysite. Thanks again for the info.
It depends on the objective of your site and the particular page that you’re putting the video on. If it’s a squeeze page then the objective of the video is to grab their interest and compell them to opt-in. If it’s a sales page then the video should be complementary to your sales letter, or in place of your sales letter. If it’s a blog, then the objective is to provide good information and keep your readers coming back for more.
Eric,
I’ve been trying to catch up on the lessons - they’ve been really excellent, especially for newbies like me, so thank you very much.
I bought the video tutorials you’re offering to start using Camstudio and FLV Producer. I’ve managed to get to the point where I have the index.html, player.swf and ‘myvideo’.flv files and everything is working OK - I can see and hear the screen capture video I produced in a browser. However, I want to put the video onto my Wordpress site (self-hosted with Hostgator). I’ve pasted the html code into the page editor in the WP admin panel and uploaded the other two files to public_html folder on the site. When I look at the relevant page through the browser I can see a space where the video should be but nothing else. Have I put the .swf and .flv files in the correct directory? Do I need a plugin for WP? if so, which one etc? Or do you have any other ideas? As you are probably aware, the videos don’t mention WP.
First make sure that the visual editor is turned OFF. I show this in my WP settings lesson.
Next, I would suggest making a special folder for your videos, like example.com/videos/
That way your public_html won’t get too cluttered.
Next I would suggest switching all URL’s within your video code to “absolute URL’s” before embedding them.
For example, if the code calls for ‘video1.flv’ change it to ‘http://example.com/videos/video1/video1.flv’ (or wherever the file is actually located). Try that…
Thanks for the quick reply Eric,
I’ll give it a go
Eric,
As you suggested I created a ‘videos’ folder within public_html on my site and then went into WP editor (with visual editor ‘off’) and changed all .swf and .flv references to absolute URLs - http://mydomain.com/public_html/videos/file.swf. Now when the page loads on the site I can briefly see an outline which is approximately the size video pane but it quickly disappears. I’ll keep playing with it unless you have any other ideas
Stumbled on it! I removed the public_html from the absolute URLs and it works.
Thanks for the earlier pointer Eric - it was good to figure some of it out for myself as well
Cool!
I recommended tubemogul.com as it is an easier way to distribute one video to many sources.
I tried tubemogul a couple years ago and at the time I felt that Traffic Geyser was a much better platform. But I haven’t used it lately, and it does look better now than it used to be, so thanks for the heads up.
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