Add Watermark to Web Player with Hyperlink

Do you remember my post about adding transparent watermark on video to credit your work? If you do not read it yet, you may refer to The Easy Way to Add PNG Image to Your Video with Hyperlink. Here is another solution to credit your work for the player creating. Moyea PlayerBox is a desktop product that enables you to add watermark on player, not video. It is an alternative solution as you may create flv player by yourself with the videos from others.

In terms of creating web player, do you have the experience of using Flash? ActionScript is needed to make the flash player work in motion. Here I would like to show you the steps of adding hyperlink using Moyea PlayerBox.

1. Run the program and choose one template when the program is launched.
2. Find Hyper Link from the Control Library on the right of the program UI.
3. Click on the hyperlink option and keep pressing the mouse. Move the mouse to the edit box on the left, and release the mouse.
4. Click Advancedtab under the edit box and empty the Caption as we don’t want characters to show on player, and type hyperlink to URL.



5. Find Image from the Control Library.
6. Drag the image option to the edit box and cover area we added the hyperlink.
7. Click Advanced tab under the edit box and click the browse button to load custom image in .jpg or .bmp format.
   PNG format is not supported, but the alpha of the entire image could be set under Basic Properties tab.

Well, when the player is ready, we shall publish it and assign video to player. Just click Publish button on the tool bar and browse video for player. Currently, FLV videos are supported. It would be better if other formats are supported too. It shall be a feature for future update.

With the easy steps, you will get .swf file to play flv videos.

Create Custom Play Button for Web Player

After the May Day, here comes the Labor Day (first Monday in September). I have the time of using the new desktop tool named Moyea PlayerBox for web player creating. Here is the image for the player control bar.

It is simple with only necessary controls like play button, progress bar, mute button and time display. Most of the controls are from the Control Library of Moyea PlayerBox. To show the player as personalized, the play button shows as a rectangle button with triangle shape and character for command to play, and shows as a rectangle button with two parallel lines and character for command to pause.

4 images are needed to show different status of the play button. It is easy to create with effects in PhotoShop. For the steps or creating this kind of player, please refer to the guide for creating player with custom image by Moyea PlayerBox on the official site.

Special Time Specail Thing

What are you doing at 12:34:56 August 7, 2009? Do you know what the time mean?

I got a SMS about the time, and was confused. She said that 12:34:56 7/8/9 is a special period for a life and the numbers come to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Generally, 12:34:56 August 7, 2009 is 12:34:56 8/7/9. But if you keep a look at the British expression, you will find 12:34:56 7/8/9 as 12:34:56 August 7, 2009.

On August 7, 2009, Moyea PlayerBox was released with full version. I got to the official site: http://www.player-box.com to have a look. There is an update, and information is added. More guides and demo were added. If you just start using web player, Moyea PlayerBox is a good choice as it offers drag and drop edit box, and the entire process of creating web flv player could be done within the simple program UI.

The program offers functions to custom skin with skin gallery, which facilitates the player personalization. Below is a picture after customization.

Play FLV on Web Page

Do you have any idea about playing FLV on web page? There is no need worrying about the process to be complicated. Indeed, it would only take you a few minutes with fast demonstration. Here is the text description about how to quickly get your web page ready with the FLV videos.

You shall have the video file into a popular web format, i.e. flash video (flv), before you begin embedding video to a web page. Flash video format is popular for internet entertainment because it is small in size and with 98% machines installed with Flash player. The FLV format also enables you to compress your initial movie with high quality, as the video codecs could be On2 VP6, H.264 (state-of-the-art codec) and Sorenson H.263.

This distinctive video format also allows you to display digital movie in streaming mode. That means there is not a long time of delay before the playing of FLV when your visitors click on the play button, as long as they are connected with network. Playing FLV on web page could be under two protocols: HTTP and RTMP. RTMP is a much professional protocol developed by Adobe. RTMP requires unique web server. We generally use HTTP, as it is common. Visitors no longer need to download or install Flash player when it is already on the machine.

However, FLV file could not be directly embedded on web page. A web player is needed to play FLV, so that the FLV file would play on web page. The web play is in SWF format. It is the format recognized by Flash player, so that FLV video could be displayed. The web-video player will connect FLV on web server and play FLV video.

Now that you understand this simple procedure, the simple way to get started is – transform your original video into FLV format, get a web-video player to play the FLV on web page, and embed video on web page with HTML code.

To get your custom FLV player, it is easy with only drags and drops. No special knowledge is required, no actionscript is necessary to build a fancy player.

Video Marketing Tips

Are you interested in online video marketing? You probably already understand how efficient web videos can be as a way to bring in customers. Whatever you be an online marketer, a plumber, or a travel agent, online videos are easy to get the right people to visit your blog or site. It means better conversions and easy profits… selling more products, getting more visitors to sign up, and a greater amount of time spent on your website.
Several things that you shall pay attention to: principles, methods, and special requirements. They are essential to learn about and understand in order for your business or interest to thrive with this excellent publicity-getting tool. For instance, you need to find out the technique for converting your digital video into a web format (most people haven’t got a clue…), the importance of using the right size and resolution settings for your video, how to embed your web video and especially how to find the most effective location for it on your webpage to attract the most attention.
If you think you’d like to know about online video marketing, doesn’t it appeal to you to get the facts on the extremely low cost way to create a single video which can send thousands or perhaps even millions of unique visitors your way? You have to understand, people have a preference for watching movies instead of always having to read, and this is an effective new technology that you shouldn’t miss out on.
It’s a very straightforward process, and it’s all the same whether you have advanced knowledge of computers or are more of a beginner, all you need is good instruction to show you the way to get going with this so you can watch your site grow in popularity. Even if you are only interested about <a href=”http://www.video-to-flash.com/video_to_flash/” target=”_blank” title=”video marketing” alt=”video marketing”>video marketing</a>, take a couple of moments to browse this unique and absolutely free guide; it provides everything you need to know about creating high-performing Webvideos including proven tips, unique techniques and special tools.

FLV Player on Website

Time is money. When it is time for you to find the right software that helps you accomplish the work to make your video with a fancy player on website, you shall think about the related materials you need. Otherwise, you will find it waste your time trying something not works.

Web movies are an effective tool once you find a suitable spot for them on your site; people have a preference for seeing videos in addition to having to read the usual boring text, of course, the content of your video(s) has to have appeal and suitability to your webpage’s content, but you need to be sure to show your movie(s) in a player that is state of the art and at the same time easy to use.

First of all, you must understand that in order for you to display videos on a webpage, you have to first ‘translate’ it to the prevailing flash video format (flv) and once this is done it can be displayed on an embedded flv player. Too much trouble? It’s actually a very simple process – there are many applications available on the internet that easily do the job of converting your movies to web format and will transfer an embedded video player into your desired webpage.

How it works is that by placing an flv player on website in the right spot and use the appropriate color palette and style, your movie(s) can indeed prompt many of your viewers to view it and understand what your site is about and what you want them to do. Now that you understand why you must make use of the best product for your web-video needs, allow me to tell you a fast way to locate one.

Before you get started looking for an flv player on website, I would give you some advices:
The software solution shall enable you to pick what you want from a wide range of styles and ’skins’
It shall allow you to choose the player’s size and display quality level.
Have the option to manipulate these variables on your own
Gives you control over the look of your site

How to Convert Video to F4V to Share Online with One Tool Only

With the introduction of why providing video for download in my previous post: Get Your Video Ready to Share with Easy Format. Here I would like to show you the way to get this format ready with only one conversion. Then you can show Flash video online with web player, and offer download link for MP4 video to watch on local machine.

The output of video conversion would be in .flv format, but this special kind of video could play on QuickTime even the file extension is changed to .mp4. F4V video could also be in .f4v extension, depending on your needs.

1. Download and install Flash Video MX Pro.
   This product handles the conversion and output Flash video with various codec. Videos from digital camera, DVD disc, etc. could be imported with simple clicks.
2. Import video.
   Click the browse button to add conventional video like wmv, avi, mov, or the drop-down button beside the browse button to load DVD.
3. Choose F4V as video codec.
   Click the Next button and you will face the interface to confirm video settings. Find the Include Video section on the right, and choose F4V as video codec. The Export section on the left will change to include Generate Flash video (FLV).
4. Start conversion.
   Click Next and you will get to the player skin settings interface. Choose the skin you want and click Next button to the export interface. Click Start to begin the conversion from video to F4V.

Wait for a while, and you will get files in output folder: .flv, .jpg, .html, .swf. Copy the FLV file to another folder, and rename the file with .mp4 extension. If you could not see the file extension, just choose Tools > Folder Options > View > Advanced settings, and find the option Hide extensions for known file types. Make sure the option is unchecked.

Get Your Video Ready to Share with Easy Format

While you provide videos on website, it would be better that there is link to download the video. You can of course add watermark on your original video, and make it easy for visitors with low bandwidth or for playback on portable devices.

If you get video by capturing with digital camera, you will in MPEG format, DVD, CD, or others. It is recommended that you get them into MP4 with H.264. For online Flash video, you can also use H.264 for FLV, however, it is not favorable for visitors who use old machine or low bandwidth. Let’s see the differences between using H.263 and H.264 from Adobe.

Sorenson Spark H.263

Introduced in Flash Player 6, the Sorenson Spark video codec can be used to publish Flash documents requiring backwards compatibility to Flash Player 6 and 7. If you anticipate a large user base that uses older computers, use FLV files encoded with the Sorenson Spark codec, as it is much less computationally demanding to play back than either On2 VP6 or F4V video.

H.264
Support for H.264 video was incorporated into Flash Player beginning with version 9.0.r115. F4V video is a container format for the H.264 video codec, also referred to as MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Encoding). The H.264 video codec provides higher quality video at lower bitrates than the Sorenson Spark and On2 VP6 video codecs used by earlier version of Flash Player, however, it is more computationally demanding than either of these codecs.
In addition to the F4V container format, Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and later versions support files derived from the standard MPEG-4 container format. These files include MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, and 3G2, if they contain H.264 video or HE-AAC v2 encoded audio, or both.
Note: If you need to use video with alpha channel support for compositing, use the On2 VP6 video codec; F4V does not support alpha video channels.

We can see that the F4V video is the new one that supported by Flash player and players like QuickTime. An F4V video is preferred as output as the extension could be changed into .flv and .mp4. Even though your visitor is in low bandwidth which influences the entertainment on watching the video, he can download directly to have better experience.

Here I recommend Flash Video MX Pro as a tool to get F4V video for online sharing and video download. You can then easily get your videos with watermark and prefer them to be shared among large audience.

Consider Video Marketing for Business

For business marketing, it is common to show presentation on DVD or CD. I remember receiving a CD about SamSung introduction. While you can include many videos on CD, you may bring more traffic to your website. Your video shall be in good quality, as it is could be the first impression for your company or service. Thus, make sure that your videos on video sharing sites, website, CD/DVD play smoothly or bring good experience.

If you are the one who take care of the marketing budgets, or related to marketing, you may notice that a top ten ranking in Google on certain competitive search keywords can easily run the cost in money and time to the six figures and beyond. Google would offer top ten rankings to those videos that have received enough user votes – no matter where the videos come from, or what they contain.

If you haven’t taken online video production into consideration for your business, you shall at least, submitting a small number of videos to the various video sharing sites such as YouTube will increase your website’s traffic because you can advertise that site’s URL in the videos and video page. Make sure you use the complete format for your link and viewers of your videos can be at your website in less than a second after seeing your videos.

Your videos could be in various formats, and video sharing sites will automatically convert video to FLV for online presentation.

Tips to Popularize Your Online Marketing Video

With the video boom brought by YouTube, which was acquired years ago by Google, do you still think that online video is not the part that would influence your business? The impact of online video and video marketing could be enormous, if you present videos as one of your resources.

You can get much more viewers and raise the attention to your profile, so as to bring more traffic to your site. Here are some tips for you.

1. Submit video to popular video website
   While popular video websites like YouTube, Dailymotion enjoy massive visits, you can make your video as a particular source on these websites. It is free to create an account with your profile including your website URL, and you will get viewers.
2. Submit video to your site
   While you get video URL on YouTube, you can use the HTML code embed your video to your site. But you could not get rid of YouTube style when copying the code. Use a useful video to flash tool to get your video with your brand and show your property.
3. Share your video as comment.
   Look into the popular or featured videos, and post the URL of your video as a Video Response to the high-traffic video. It will bring you high viewership.
4. Choose specific keywords
   Use Google keyword suggestion tool and enter the URL of a reference page, and you can put the suggestion to the title or description of your video page.
5. Watch reference video
   Know what others do and find out the tricks on making popular videos. Test their content, their description, and their titles, and consider what should be included to your next video production. You will get similar traffic when you keep examining.
6. Find new video sharing sites and start marketing
   Since Google owns YouTube, the entire web is indexed. Start your marketing on new sharing sites, and it is more likely to have your video indexed with long tail keyword or not so competitive keywords.