Streaming Video

ronniebuss wrote on 12/12/2007, 9:33 AM
I have a website for my company up temporarily until I can get a more pro version posted.

www.midatlanticpresentations.com

It has 2 examples of my work for clients to see. The first one is a vegas project that was originally a PowerPoint show. All stills. The second is my first project done completely in Vegas. The first is up and running in no time as it is all stills. The second takes forever to start playing in Windows Media Player. I know the term streaming means that the file/movie will start playing as soon as a portion is done. How do you accomplish this?
Thanks from a new guy,
Ron
P.S. Any and all constructive criticism would be appreciated

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/12/2007, 10:02 AM
Why don't you create a vimeo account? It is free. www.vimeo.com
You can then embed the streaming video on your site.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/12/2007, 10:09 AM
here is my feedback:
1) audio is great
2) do away Popeye (it's amateurish and there are copyright issues)
3) the firework is not in the right resolution. Try to find something better.
4) the track and motion effect towards the kitchen wall made me a bit seasick. A simple zoom without rotation would be better.

ronniebuss wrote on 12/12/2007, 10:53 AM
OK, is there another way? What exactly makes streaming video stream?
ronniebuss wrote on 12/12/2007, 10:54 AM
What do you mean by the right resolution? They are gifs I downloaded.
autopilot wrote on 12/12/2007, 11:29 AM
I agree with Ivan, even if Popeye and the fireworks weren't there, I wouldn't miss them. Nicer fireworks would work though, and what I mean by that is more real looking, or real videoed fireworks.

#2
I would fade out after 1 second when you Swirl the ladie's face. Too much swirling looks weird.

And please just buy Fraps, or crop it out. It just looks amateur with Fraps.com on your video.

Other than that, not bad.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/12/2007, 11:32 AM
About the firework gifs: it's blocky, because you or Vegas enlarged it to full screen. You should look for higher quality firework gifs/footage and use that, or perhaps create some 'climax' effect within Vegas. In fact, just the fireworks audio would have the same desired effect.

Second, about streaming. You need a webserver that allows streaming video. You can set up one yourself, which is rather complex, and your pc needs to be online all the time, or you can pay for a service which will do that for you.

It is much simpler to use a free, existing service like YouTube, vimeo or revver, which will do all the hard work for you.
Create an account, render your video with the appropriate settings, upload it to YouTube or similar, and then embed the video in your website.

If you are completely new to this, check out this http://www.vimeo.com/ivanlietaert to see some of my videos online.
Then check this link to see some of them embedded: http://strobomerkes.blogspot.com/

EDIT:
I looked at your videos again. They are in the wmv format, which is ideal for uploading them to http://www.vimeo.com. Why don't you give it a try? Be aware that uploading a 45 MB video file may take a while (more than an hour).
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/12/2007, 11:47 AM
I like the second video very much. Good timing with the music beat too. Well done.