I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting

Solution.
1) We tape the 2+ hours of music/sermon
2) I import into PowerDirector, an inexpensive, EASY editor, that will render to MP4 (ipod/PSP format)
3) Almost NO major editing (gives you that “you are there” feel)
4) After rendering I upload to Google video (they like MP4, since they convert it to that anyway, plus the compression is great for online)
5) After it’s LIVE, I embed the 2-line code back to the site for the most recent & provide Google video links for the rest!
6) Now we have a FREE archive of all sermons, no disc space or bandwidth issue, and Google video is the only show in town with FREE, unlimited file size & no time limits!

I won’t win any videography awards but we get the job done.

Feel free to contact me if you have an questions fa***********@ya***.com

Just wanted to leave a quick note that if you put video on your pages using the OCC Beacon sites / through your webmasters page you need to put [html] before all the code for your video and [/html] after all your video code and then save your changes.

In His Service,

Jon Harrison
OurChurch.Com

Just a quick word of thanks, and to say that my first attempts at video upload have been great fun and, from what people tell me, have been successful — thanks to you folks at OCC!

I first tried downloading “Windows Media Encoder” on my p.c., but didn’t like it. I think my husband will, though — user interface is kind of “left-brained” for me. 🙂
Then moved on to Windows MovieMaker 2.1, which was on his machine. REALLY liked that software! Wow! Just my style! Guess we’ll have to switch over the softwares OR p.c’.s! 🙂

Proceded to upload a couple of short videos for our Christmas newsletter using Windows MovieMaker and the Windows “web upload” companion service, “Mydeo.com” (first month free). Enjoy Mydeo very much, too. Great and easy.

Unfortunately, we live in the woods of Maine, where DSL is not offered, and cannot afford cable. So, only hitch I encountered was that I could not view what I had uploaded! (And the upload itself at 49.2 kps dialup was about 50 minutes for a video length of 1 min. 18 sec. — not ideal! But, my husband has bought a wireless card for his laptop, and the public library in town offers free wireless connection, so there’s hope!)

Would anyone like to check my work for me, and let me know what the video quality is like? It is about 5 MB heavy. Too much? Not enough? Maybe my bit rate is a little too high and cumbersome? The original video was taken with a digital camera — an .avi file — and weighed 142 MB. Here is the link to video #1:

http://www.mydeo.com/videorequest.asp?XID=5485&CID=62650

Also, our Christmas newsletter is web based this year, if anyone would like to see it:

http://www.roadmaptoheaven.net/view/?pageID=314202

Within our newsletter I put a link to the above video (where it sits at the Mydeo.com site), and embedded a video player (with Mydeo provided HTML code) for a second short video. You can see the second video at the VERY end of our (long!) newsletter.

Well, any suggestions welcomed.

God bless and Happy New Year!

Mary Tetreault
http://www.roadmaptoheaven.net

Your questions is very diffacult to answer because the length of the video can greatly change the size of the file.

At this time the Free Beacon Site do not support video. Upgrading your site is easy and can be done through your webmaster page. To do this login to your webmaster page and click on:

“Order & Renew Premium Options (Hosting options?)”

From there you can select which package you would like and click “Place Order” at the bottom.

In His Service,

Jon Harrison
OurChurch.Com

I would recommend changing your format to something like Windows Media Video (WMV) or and .avi because you will have fewer problems with that video. Even if you can’t change video format I would still recommend embedding your player into your page. Then you can do what is called pseudo-streaming. This will buffer ahead so the video will start playing automatically while still downloading. If you follow the link in the blog it will give you the html code to embed the player into the page. Since you do not have a free account you can have as many pages as you would like, so I would have the links that you have now go to a new page for each link with a player embedded into it. That way that is all there is, you can add a caption about the video and it starts playing when they go to the page.

Here is an example to what I mean:

http://www.petsincredible.com/Chewing_sample2.asp

In His Service,

Jon Harrison
OurChurch.Com