[thelist] Video on the web

[Todd Richards]

I guess my point in saying that is that I didn't want the only comments to
be "you should outsource your video to save bandwidth".  I STILL need to
create a good video presentation, and that's what I'm asking about.  Just by
outsourcing the hosting of our streaming video won't turn our videos from
crap to gold. 

If at a point our service isn't adequate enough, then we will look at
hosting the video elsewhere.  But if it's not very good quality, then nobody
is going to watch it anyway.

Todd


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Burns [mailto:martin at easyweb.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:36 PM
To: todd at promisingsites.com; thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Video on the web


On 30 Jan 2009, at 18:05, Todd Richards wrote:

> So my question(s) is/are:
> - what have you learned about putting recorded webinars/videos on  
> the web?
> - do you have idea settings in compression, size, format, etc?
> - when recording a presentation, is there a best case when it comes to
> screen resolution on the "presenting" PC?
> - any resources that you particular love that I could go and spend  
> some
> extra (haha) time looking at?
>
> I'm not overly concerned with the hardware / bandwidth requirements  
> at this
> point, as we are set up fairly well there.  So it won't help much if  
> you
> suggest using a video streaming service.


See, my question is why not? When a streaming service would solve most  
of your problems.

It's the classic outsourcing question - is hosting online video the  
thing you want to be famous for? If not, getting good enough to match  
people's expectations (which, let's face it, *is* the usability of  
YouTube) is going to be painful, and ultimately not that rewarding.

Cheers
Martin

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