Streaming from web

Booker561 wrote on 10/7/2005, 9:43 AM

I've worked with Acid for a few years now, and this is my first foray into the video. I have Vegas Movie + DVD. I have several questions.

I have read the user agreement, but not sure if I missed something. This was purchased for my company, it is registered to me on my machine. As a multi channel company, we deal with web, phone, retail and mail orders.

I initially thought we could use Vegas to put together training sessions on products, procedures, etc., to use as a reinforcing training tool. Since then, my CIO has asked if we would be able to use this application from our website, where the end user at home could click on a link and view a product features/benefits video.

My first question, has anyone used Vegas to deliver over the web? Second, this is legal...right?

Thanks for any assistance, Booker561

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Spot|DSE wrote on 10/7/2005, 10:10 AM

First, of course it's legal, as long as your company owns the copyright to the media used on the web.

Vegas was originally created as a video for web tool, and in the early days had some of the best compression tools available.

I don't quite get what you mean by "use this application from our website as the app can't be used from a website, but certainly can be used to create media for the web.

Edit your video, then choose File> Render As, and choose one of the web encoding formats. The most popular is Windows Media, but Vegas can also encode to REAL and Quicktime.

Booker561 wrote on 10/10/2005, 6:37 AM

Thanks for the response.

We are a catalog company, all the images and graphics for our site are all in house, we own copyrights. I believe what my CIO is looking for is a way for one of our customers to have the ability to click on an icon on our site and the video that we have on a particular item would then play on their screen.

Is there a problem (if this would even work in the first place) with having multiple hits on the same file? Would more than one person be able to view simultaneously?

From the end of your response, I could literally load up 3 different formats for viewing, just would have to render in each of those formats...correct?

Chienworks wrote on 10/10/2005, 7:01 AM

To comment on your original post, you will use Vegas in your facility to produce the video files and the video files will go on your website. Vegas itself will not be used on your website, only the files output from Vegas will be.

The capacity for serving up multiple hits has nothing to do with Vegas. It depends on the web server and the connection speed it has to the internet. If you have a good solid 10Mbps connection (most commercial web hosts have better than this) you could probably stream your videos to 20 or 30 people simultaneously. Each video can be viewed an unlimited number of times, just as millions of visitors can view your website as often as they wish.

You can post as many different formats as you wish. I will often make 4 versions: WMV 80Kbps and Quicktime 100Kbps for dialup users and WMV 256Kbps and Quicktime 256Kbps for broadband users.

Booker561 wrote on 10/10/2005, 7:45 AM

Thanks, I was thinking that's how things would work. It's the same as if I created music using Acid Pro, anyone could click on the "play" button on screen and the video presentation from Vegas would now play on their pc.

We would like to use this both internally and on our web. We have a common drive that can be accessed and is shared by all in the company.