Having one heck of a time taking a Camtasia Video and putting it in a web page to automatically start when the page is loaded.
Camtasia can produce a wide variety of formats but does anyone have any idea of which one works best with Corel?
I do have a sample that I finally got to work and it's at http://algebramath.net but that was created with powerpoint and video recorded with Jing (produced by the same people that make Camtasia Studio, only free).
I tried to make a swf but the resulting file requires the preloader for an "index" page that is written in html by Camtasia.
Anyone have success with say an mp4 file?
Using MP4 format on the web would be your top choice, followed by swf.
If you use MP4 make sure your hosting environment has the mp4/video mime type enabled.
You can use <object> tags to serve the videos on your page. You can strip all of the code starting at <object> to the closing tag </object> out of the camtasia html code after that product finishes with the produce video wizard. Open the generated video html code in notepad, highlight and copy the block of object code, then insert that object block into web site creator x5 using the inline html insert method explained in this tutorial:
http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=4068#body
an easy way to embed your video into an existing webpage is to open a free screencast account and upload your produced video to screencast. It typically uploads mp4 for the web, better file compression and good quality. If you login to your screencast account you can simply cut and paste the embed code in any of your existing site pages.
Thank you very much for the information.
I did not think of editing the html code. Sometimes the most obvious is glossed over or forgotten.
I'll give it a try later and let you know what happened.
Thanks again for the info.
Wayne
stewartm:
Thanks for the suggestion.
I usually do not use screencast but opt to use YouTube simply because of the link-back juice. Then there is the space limitation, or at least that's what was a problem a couple of years ago. With YouTube I can produce a 20-30 minute video without a problem and not worry about the overall total of bytes used.
My problem is that I don't want to use either or any other service to host the video's, which are of an instructional nature. I would like the end user to either view the video online at my web site or be able to download after they have purchased.
This does bring up other questions regarding security and the database component of Corel such as, does the database component allow for relational database structures? So far from what I looked at, it only handles "flat" tables.
Anyway, sorry to go off course here and I appreciate all the suggestions.
StrnadExchange said:I usually do not use screencast but opt to use YouTube simply because of the link-back juice. Then there is the space limitation, or at least that's what was a problem a couple of years ago. With YouTube I can produce a 20-30 minute video without a problem and not worry about the overall total of bytes used. My problem is that I don't want to use either or any other service to host the video's, which are of an instructional nature. I would like the end user to either view the video online at my web site or be able to download after they have purchased.
If you wan to use youtube you can follow this tutorial to display the youtube video on your pages: http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=4063
StrnadExchange said:This does bring up other questions regarding security and the database component of Corel such as, does the database component allow for relational database structures? So far from what I looked at, it only handles "flat" tables.
You can insert any dynamic language code within the product using the methods explained in the first tutorial posted. This way you can create and manipulate external relational databases such as MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, even MS Access using PHP, ASP, or ColdFusion.