Some of it depends on the host for the file. What are you trying to use to host the files? In the past you could use wmv or flv format. FLV is being replaced.

How are you planning to upload the files - ftp or thorough another commercial upload site (like YouTube)?

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Hi,
Thanks for your info.. I am looking for a hosting company that can do a "video on demand"for my customers. I am trying to reach a worldwide customer base that would not be able to attend a training if it was produced at a set time here on the east cosat of USA. I also would like the hosting company to handle all money collecting for a fee.

I have no knowledge about formats... still trying to figure that out

thanks again,
john

Quote: Hi,
Thanks for your info.. I am looking for a hosting company that can do a "video on demand"for my customers. I am trying to reach a worldwide customer base that would not be able to attend a training if it was produced at a set time here on the east cosat of USA. I also would like the hosting company to handle all money collecting for a fee.

I have no knowledge about formats... still trying to figure that out

thanks again,
john

John, How is your budget? My suggestion is to try to use Tech Smith's Camtasia Studio to put together your training. It sounds like you will have a combination of video from your seminar and some sides or other images from that seminar also. Use Power Director to edit the videos and to make videos of the slide show. Camtasia Studio will then allow you to put it together in lessons (and/screen captures) and to output it to a format that your hosting company will accept. They have to tell you what format.

I did this type of thing using Camtasia Studio to screen capture my demonstration of training and to arrange it into "chapters". I then used a video editor like Power Director to clean up/replace the audio narration and the hiccups and pauses. I then put the video back into Camtasia to output it to a format to upload. My version is not the newest one; I think they have much more functionality built in. Google for Camtasia Studio; there are some very good demo videos. Power Director will work well with it.

Using the combination will really be a time saver. .
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HI,

I will look into it. I checked online and it looks like it sells for around $300.00.. that not bad... so now I have two learning curves!!!! Thats alot expected of a HVAC guy!1

Thanks again... I will check it out

John

Hi John -

Don't be bothered by the learning curve. There are plenty of people in the forum who can offer you assistance.

You asked about emailing videos as attachments... for this purpose, absolutely the best format is WMV because of the greatly decreased file sizes. WMV is highly compressed.

For email, you'd typically use lower res profiles with lower bitrates. That's what keeps the file sizes down. I usually base my profile choice on the duration of the video.

As a quick guide to the difference your selection can make, here are the file sizes for a short 2 minute project - produced to a number of different WMV profiles. The first 3 are ones I most often use for emailing.

1. WMV9 464X320 @ 400Kbps - file size = 4.29MB
2. WMV9 640X360 @ 600Kbps - file size = 6.43MB
3. WMV9 960X540 @ 2000Kbps (2MBps) - file size = 13.2MB
4. WMV9 1280x720 @ 6000Kbps (6MBps) - file size = 29.3MB
5. WMV9 1920x1080 @ 8000Kbps (8MBps) - file size = 39.05MB

Other formats, like AVC H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, will produce far higher quality video but with bigger file sizes.

Cheers - Tony


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Thanks Tony!!

The fun video I make of my wife in St Maarten was small, about 3/4 mind=s, files size in one format was 44.2MB and I could not email it without errors. I sign on to a program called WeTransfer, but the ones I send it to had problems opening the file.

My concern is with my training videos.. they will go about 30 to 45 mins...Not sure what the finial file size will be, but I may need to email these file to whoever host my programs

thanks
john

John -

That will depend on what the format is required by the host. Another option you might consider (when you get up to that) is to use a file sharing site where you can upload video & simply email the link to the recipient. Many of these are free (for limited size uploads).

WMV is a universal windows video format. Users would have no trouble opening them. What format did you send the files in?

A 30+ minute video is going to be a considerable size! It's not something you'd be emailing. Most mail servers wouldn't cope anyway. e.g. 30 minute AVC H.264 (.m2ts) 1920x1080 @ 16MBps = nearly 4GB

Cheers - Tony
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you can email files that big if your email provider allows it. You can find an email service that suits your needs.

some people host their videos on Youtube or Vimeo. I think vimeo has a payment model but its more catered to selling the video itself I think. Canon HFM301 (+wide angle lens)
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