Adding video

[asirimarco]

I am thinking about adding video to my pages - especially for when we start traveling - I have tried 2 different methods (#1 and #2) and would like feed back - do they work, does it take forever, any problems, any suggestions for other ways? putting the media player right on the page makes publishing the page take forever.

they are at http://www.movingon1.com/movies.php

[bill2006]

Re: Adding video

Ann,
Long time loading, dial-ups willt ake forever.
I viewed in WinAmp and usually move the button forward to skip parts, couldn't do that here.
Perhaps shorter movies would work better.

[asirimarco]

Re: Adding video

the load time was one thing i wondered about - i have broadband and when i do add video for real they will be shorter - this was just something i had available
did both methods load very slow?

[SChajin]

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God Bless you, but doing what you guys did would scare me. I did have to keep hitting the play button. Not to sure about adding this. Sorry, my thoughts.

[asirimarco]

Re: Adding video

thats what i want to hear

[Collectors-info]

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Hi, bit to larger file for me (80+meg). As bill says! it will take ages on dial up.

[bill2006]

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The second movie loaded faster, freezes about 5 secs into it.

[asirimarco]

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thank you - back to the drawing board......

[asirimarco]

Re: Adding video

back again - have reduced size of clips and re-uploaded - working now - is there a way to reduce the size of a video besides cutting more of it out? what is the best way to add one to web page - is there another format besides wmv?

[Collectors-info]

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There is some good tips on this video. Not the greatest image, but the voice is easy to follow. Might help!.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/324725/how_to_reduce_video_file_size/

[asirimarco]

Re: Adding video

thank you for the info - i have reduced movie from 44mb to 11mb - does it still need to be smaller or will this work?

[choco777]

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AS everyone said too big a file, liked the video though..great fun in a beautiful place. Keep working on it.

[Collectors-info]

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This one loads quick #2 movie in iframe 907kb but sounds bad & the image shrunk??
NO: 1 is a lot quicker on the download & still a pretty good image & sound.

[asirimarco]

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i have reduced size of movie yet again to 6.6mb- will this work? which presentation is better 1 or 2 (both are same movie) is there a difference in the time they take to load/play what would be ideal size in MBs

[bill2006]

Re: Adding video

Yes it does work, Loads quickly. Both of them load quickly.