How To: Video Blog ?

Hi,

Love the Video Blog feature. It's one of my most anticipated features of CS 2.0 but where do I find it?

Is there a guide or some documentation on how to best video blog ?

How and where do you upload your videos, do they go into the Gallery or Files section?

There doesn't seem to be any easy way to specific to include Video in your blog. The Content Selector points at files and photos.

Can you specific a bit rate for the users to be able to choose?

Can it be published so that there is a stream and download option for the video in the blog?

Thanks

Jay

www.ehomedia.com

The video blogs you are seeing on CS.org that Rob & Ken have done are all done via Camtasia and a custom CS Module created by Scott W.  Camtasia creates a directory with an HTML file & the .swf file.  This directory is placed at a determined location within your web directory and the user just navigates to the .html page that Camtasia created.  For this site Scott W. created a custom CS Module to allow embedding of the created Camtasia .swf files withing a blog post.  I'm not sure if Scott is planing on releasing this module or not, but I bet he has plans to allow the community access to it.  Hope this helps.

~Jim

Thats great, thanks for the info.

It looks like the video feature is only exposed in the Forum posts on not on new Blog posts.

Is there a reason for this? Will it be changed by RTM so that we can add video to Blogs the same as Forum Posts?

Cheers

Jay

Just to clear this up.

• CS post beta 3 includes support for videos directly in blogs. This is the same functionality (player/etc) you see in the forums
• On CS.org we use a custom CSModule which makes it easier to include Camtasia videos.
  

We chose the camtasia videos because the quality was high, had small video sizes, and the flash player look really good.

I will release the module shortly.

-Scott

Hi Scott,

Thanks for replying. Yay and yay again.

We want to have 2 choices for most of the videos. For example, standard and high def.

Currently it automatically creates the player controls and a download button. Very nice and simple to use and view. But do you know if there will be a way to tweak the video insert code so that our bloggers can easily specify two bit rates to be played? What would you recommend as our approach to having two options there?

Cheers

Jay

The video player/etc is generated via a CSModule, so you could always change it to meet your needs.

-Scott

Scott,

PLEASE release something so I can show .swf files in Community Server by default. The site allows for .wmv, but not for .swf? Any reason you decided not to allow for this by default? When will this be available? People are uploading these files to my site and I can't show them...

I don't want to show the .html page Camtasia makes, I want them embedded into my video pages. Here is what a video page looks like that fails to process the .swf file...

http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/37/microsoft_office/entry535.aspx

Here is what a page should look like..

http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/37/windows_server/entry537.aspx

Any ideas????

 

Is there a way to get the Module that allows videos in my Forums? I have Camtasia so I am ready to go, just need a way to embed it.

In case anyone is interested, I found another way to make very high quality videos. I use VMware Workstation 5.5 and record to AVI. Since no Audio is recorded using VMware Workstation, I record the audio using the Windows recorder. Then I open up Camtasia and place each file in the timeline and encode to swf. The quality is spectacular compared to Camtasia's video capture, but you still get the controls included in the Camtasia swf.