Streaming Media Technical Support 9/9/9

Streaming Media Technical Support 9/9/9


Task: Downloading files from Archive.org:

1. You may want to download the smaller MPEG-4 files, in case your internet connection can’t quite handle the fuller-resolution MPEG-2 files.

2. Once you have chosen a file to download, click on the link for the file format of your choice. Allow the movie to load fully.

3. Click on the arrow at the lower right hand corner of the Quicktime window to drop down the menu, and select Save As Source. Save the movie to a specified folder on your harddrive.

4. In order to avoid any issues with your downloaded clip, it is a good idea to rep-process it, to be sure that you have not downloaded a “streaming” clip that requires an internet connection to play. Import the movie to Final Cut and re-export it before trying to edit with it. Use the same video codec that you downloaded, i.e., if you downloaded the MPEG-4 file, then re-export the clip as an MPEG-4 file, to maintain best quality. Re-name the clip when you export it to be sure not to mix it up with the original download.


Task: uploading a clip to YouTube:

1. Once you have signed up for an account on YouTube, sign in and click the UPLOAD button.

2. You can upload a high-resolution file to YouTube, as long as your internet connection can handle it. YouTube will re-process the clip to play smoothly online. So you don’t have to start with a low-resolution file.


Task: embedding the youTube video in your blog:

1. to embed the uploaded YouTube video in your blog, click the “share and embed options” in the upper right corner of the Video Upload Box, just under the word “success”.

2. Select and copy the embed code.

3. In the StreamingMedia2009 blog, click “NEW POST”. Paste the embed code into the body of the post, and publish.


Task: embedding a video file from your desktop directly to blog:

1. Click “NEW POST”. Click on the small “film clip” icon to embed a clip, and click the BROWSE button to find your video file. Then type a name into the next blank.

2. Uploading will begin. Don’t close the windoe or hit the “PUBLISH” button until the upload has finished. Then Publish.