again: video Clip onto homepage
Hello there,
I hope I can ask those questions here in this forum. I havn't receive enough information the first time. Thanks in advance for your help:
1) what's the best kind of video format for a video clip of a advertisement clip?
Info: I have to tell the person who creates the video, what kind of format I need for the Homepage.
2) is it enough to use the free (???) Microsoft Media Player?
3)how big is too big? I mean what's the best datasize to have someone look at the video?
4) do you have any idea, how to include (Code) a video clip onto my homepage?
Whow! thanks a lot for your help.
Nicoletta
Thanks for your help.
TheGraphicsExpe... posted this at 12:48 — 4th July 2000.
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[I love this new system. ;)]
Anyways...
1). Depends, really. There's .MOV, .AVI, .MPG, etc. All have their quirks. Weither it's the lose of quality with .AVI, big sizes with .MPG, doesn't really matter.
It's a kind of personal preference thing.
2). Microsoft Media Player is an automatic launch utility with its supported formats--any machine that has it installed uses it automatically.
3). Depends on what your targetted audience's modem is like.
I believe--nowadays--one could very safely assume that a lot of the users have High End modems, but there is always those people who aren't lucky enough to get access.
My suggestion is to make two versions. One for low end modems--which would be of a very small size--and one for high end modems--which would display superb quality and such.
4).
Go to HTMLgoodies.com or whatever place you whent to learn how to code HTML, they usually have a tutorial for that tag.
If not, contact me at [email protected] and I'll help you.
Mike Fisher
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Nicoletta posted this at 14:12 — 4th July 2000.
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Hallo Mike,
well, thank you very much for your information. It was very helpful.
Again: this is proof that I get my answers in the USA a lot faster than in the squareheaded GERMANY, where everything is "secret" and nobody really wants to help newcomers.
Thanks for your help.
Justin S posted this at 14:34 — 5th July 2000.
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As I said in your last thread, if the user can choose to download the video clip, then it can be up to 1Mb-2Mb. But if it's embedded into the page (which it looks like you'll do) then I wouldn't make it bigger then 100Kb-200Kb.
Justin Stayton - [email] [icq]
TheGraphicsExpe... posted this at 18:22 — 5th July 2000.
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I believe that's not quite true.
You could, verifibly, put a movie clip that was like.. 16 Megs on your homepage--provided you have fast servers supporting it.
[I say sixteen because I once did download a movie that was like fifty megs and it took me under a half an hour.]
Anyways, as I suggested it would be best if you use a 'High Bandwidth' and 'Low Bandwidth' version. The High Bandwidth wouldn't really matter about the size, but the Low Bandwidth would need to be, as you said, around 1,000-2,000 Kilobytes.
Of course, it all depends on the movie's size.
Mike Fisher
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Brian Farkas posted this at 18:43 — 5th July 2000.
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Fast servers do play a part, however the user's connection is even more important. You must have a fairly fast connection (e.g. cable, DSL, etc.) to download a 50 MB movie in 1/2 hour.
TheGraphicsExpe... posted this at 20:24 — 5th July 2000.
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Damn straight!
Cable jacked to the Max. Mooahahahhah!
Heh.
Brian Farkas posted this at 21:33 — 5th July 2000.
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Brian
Nicoletta posted this at 08:48 — 6th July 2000.
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Ok, guys, thanks a lot again for your help. I'll put a video clip onto the homepage that's small (about 2 MB) and one that one can download (up to ...MB, let's see what I get from the creator...).
Have a nice day.
Thanks for your help.
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