pinkros Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hi all, I'm wanting to put 30-40 minute video recordings onto a website so that, well people can watch it! I have a Canon digital video camcorder (FS100) with an 8GB SD card. There's a camcorder to USB cable in the bag, but no software CD. Are there programmes in Open Office that could display the images on a website? It's been tried on windows movie maker, but the file type doesn't seem to convert to make it appear in the player. I also don'#t know how to display this on the website. Any ideas/ more info anyone has would be much valued!pinkros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wol Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Not sure whether this topic relates amazingly to technical theatre.... but if you want to put videos on a website for people to watch, have you tried youtube at all? VLC is usually a good start for being able to open most video files and being able to transcode them. If you need to know what a codec is in a media file, use a utility called gSpot. I doubt Open Office will have any programs to do this, especially as Open *OFFICE* is an office suite, not a video editing or website development suite (e.g. Adobe Premiere, Flash, Dreamweaver etc...). Flash as far as I know, has the video encoding wizard to generate videos for website publication, but as you are using a free office suite, I somehow doubt you've got any Adobe products available! Not knowing the actual size of the file ( and not the size of the SD card you've bought! ), filetype (you've said it won't convert, but not what you've tried so far), other software you have available, I can't think of much more to contribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_hughes Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 you could try http://handbrake.fr/ if it doesn't work it's a good bit of (free) software to have. It encodes to all sorts of formats. Haven't used it for ages so can't actually remember if its relevant at all....... Agreeing with Wol too, VLC is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkros Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Thanks - the videos are performance talks from some lecturers, we're trying to get everything'fully accessible' instead of people having to wait for us to post out dvds of talks. The videos when they do download (on different computers) seem to come out .mod or .moi if that makes any sense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnparrack Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 first of all u need to use a editing package...such as Adobe Premiere (Elements at £100 including Photoshop will do u a great job) Once edited..you will need to export as either wmv or realplayer or flash formats...these are the easiest to Embed in a web page.. You may have to play around with default settings to get the desired result. After this..use your web editing package (I use Namo Webeditor..which is a very easy to use but extremely versatile package, compared to some of the more complex apps available)...Import media (or whatever in the package u use...I'm guessing similar)..and select media format...this should embed into your webpage and then you can alter custom settings such as auto start, size, audio etc. hope this helps a little Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Some Bloke Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Thanks for all the good advice. However, it has to be said that this really doesn't relate to technical theatre whatsoever, so we're going to have to close it. Rather than delete the topic, I'll leave it visible for now so everyone can see the answers to the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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